Call for Applications for The New Centre’s Certificate Programs/Scholarships
Application deadline: March 3rd at 11:59pm
Applications for The New Centre’s Certificate Programs are open until March 3rd at 11:59pm. Applicants must complete the online form and submit both a writing sample and a cover letter outlining their intellectual interests and need for scholarship. Successful applicants from the Global South will be considered for at least a 50 percent scholarship on tuition. Half of our full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women. To learn more about our Certificate Students and Researchers and their experiences at The New Centre, you can explore our testimonials.
Following our first Open Call for Seminar and Workshop proposals last fall, this Season’s selections are shaped by the volume and quality of submissions and the efforts of our Programming Committee in bringing together emerging and established thinkers addressing a wide range of urgent and evolving topics.
In 2026, we offer our largest selection of Seminars and Workshops to date, revisiting key diagnostic and methodological threads for approaching pressing contemporary issues in philosophy, aesthetics, literature, art, theory, and politics. These offerings include J.-P. Caron on left accelerationism and global futurity, Daniel Sacilotto on the limits of decolonial reason and universality, Matt McManus on right-wing thought today, Borna Radnik on Hegel, freedom and necessity, Ben Burgis’s contemporary take on Marx’s Capital, Mirian Kussumi on world-systems theory, Zeyad El Nabolsy on African philosophy, Anna Longo on Lyotard after Large Language Models, Joseph C. Russo on conspiracy theory, Ben Woodard on autism and biopolitics, Will Scarlett on microclimates and imagination, Reza Negarestani on intelligence and collective organization; Peter Wolfendale on inference and neorationalist reason; Joel White on aether, field, and manifold after Kant; Pavel Arsenev on fiction as a historical technology; Farshid Kazemi on the magical genealogy of media; Thomas Mical on diagrams and philosophy; Angelos Evangelidis on the idea of the void of writing; and a highly anticipated mathematics Workshop on category theory by Édgar A. Valenzuela Nuncio.
The New Centre is reigniting its Sociopolitical Thought Program and welcoming Conrad Hamilton as its new Programmer. We are also pleased to introduce Boris Ondreička, who will lead our Intercentric Art & Curatorial Practice, and Cassandra Spiral & Morgane Billuart who will co-program our new Information Architecture & Intelligence Design Program.
Meanwhile, we thank our previous Programmers, Cécile Malaspina and Thomas Moynihan, for their outstanding work in research, teaching and the further development of The New Centre, and we wish them the very best in their future endeavors.
Last fall, we introduced a new educational format called Roundtables which includes two live sessions led by an invited Instructor or Researcher from our network, bringing participants into focused, research-driven dialogue that connects individual projects to our core concerns, serving as a platform for Alumni and Members to join the ranks of our instructors and gain teaching experience, continuing a cycle of shared growth and collective learning. Our upcoming Roundtables are: “Accelerationism as a Philosophy of Energy” by Lucas Surjus; “The Essence of Analytical Philosophy” by Lika Kareva; “Jerusalem Syndrome: Symbolic overload & The Architecture of Belief” by Alicia Kamien Kazhdan; “How to Fix Brainrot” by Maxim Miroshnichenko; “Art & Theory Industrial Complex” by Jack Segbars; “What Is Democratic Economic Planning?” by Raphael Arar & Eric Meier and “The Road to Neofeudalism: Technology, the Left, and the Politics of Defeat” by Korinna Patelis
In April 2026, our Organizer Mohammad Salemy and Eduarda Neves will be presenting “(Super)Models,” the central exhibition of Mayrit Biennale 2026 which explores models as generative agents that mediate complexity, balancing theoretical fidelity with the constraints of application. Stay tuned to our Social Media to learn more about this.
Our &&& Platform continues to publish original texts and translations of important works in philosophy, art, technology, and social thought every week, with submissions open on a rolling basis through our email editors@thenewcentre.org. Following requests from our community, we have made the three latest published books by &&& Books (Model Is the Message Edited by Mohammad Salemy, Phenomenon & Difference by François Laruelle and Minor Bestiary by Eduarda Neves) available as a bundle for the promotional price of 45 USD during our Application period.
For those interested in accessing our Archive of 4,000+ hours of content and auditing ongoing and upcoming Seminars, we are currently offering Memberships at special rates. We are also extending this offer to art schools, university departments, museums, and galleries through Institutional Membership for a flat annual fee of USD 500. For a limited time, we are also offering Seminar Credits at reduced rates which can then be applied to our current fall/winter 2025–26 Seminars and Workshops, or used toward upcoming Courses through the end of fall/winter 2026–27.
Lastly, we congratulate Members of our community on their recent achievements. Rolien Sandelowsky on the opening of the gallery and project space Tender Prospects in Lisbon; Rob Rodak on his exhibition Unearthed at Filet Space in London; Erfan Ghiasi for successfully conducting the fourth edition of the Tehran Summit and the second edition of the Tehran Biennale; and Parham Ghalamdar on the publication of “SIAHKAL 2.0: an A.I. resurrected discourse on Marxism & Islam” by Becoming Press, with an afterword by Parsa Esmaeilzadeh. We congratulate our Instructor Manuel Correa on receiving the Primo Corte Final and Agencia Freak Distribution awards at Documenta Madrid #PalmaresDM2025; our Board Member Defne Ayas on her appointment as Director of the Van Abbemuseum; and Jason Mohaghegh for the publication of “Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques” with Scarlet Imprint.
