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Call & Response occupies that open, inquisitive, generous place when pronouncements are offered, but conclusions not yet drawn. It usually entails participation by New School faculty and for a set period invites commentaries by visitors to the site.

Still from No Matter (2008) by Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott

CALL: Changing Labor Value / RESPONSE: Paolo Carpignano

CALL: Changing Labor Value
Changing Labor Value, a panel discussion on September 29, 2009, examined the nature of work in the digital era, focusing on the relationship between invisible labor, play, exploitation, pleasure, and the production of value. The speakers, Andrew Ross and Tiziana Terranova, considered the impact of corporate expropriation of value from millions of net users and offered some…

RESPONSE: Paolo Carpignano

It might be useful to start with differences. Had Richard Sennett not fallen ill and participated, as intended, it would have been easier. After all his work is representative of a very learned but moderately progressive critique of the current problems of labor and it would have provided a more clear-cut counterpart to the more radical and transformative approaches of…

Posted on November 11, 2009

Roee Rosen, Men in Israeli Culture (Bearded), 2004. Color photograph, featuring a drawing by the artist's son illustrating the Israel Defense Forces' operation Rainbow in a Cloud in Raffiah.

CALL: Roee Rosen / RESPONSE: Vyjayanthi Rao

Roee Rosen, The Law is Laughing: Fragments Following the War in Gaza / Vyjayanthi Rao

Prompted by Israel’s invasion of Gaza in January 2009, the following text by artist Roee Rosen and the response by anthropologist Vyjayanthi Rao examine the public articulation of conflict, specifically the military acts in the current Israeli Palestinian conflict. Rosen posits that the comedic mode, which has yielded innocuous names for aggressive military actions, is a core trait of Israeli…

Posted on September 20, 2009

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