Scholarship Applications
Scholarship applications for The New Centre’s Certificate Programs are extended from August 27 to September 16 at 11:59pm. Applicants must complete the application form and submit a writing sample alongside a cover letter outlining their intellectual interests and financial need. Successful applicants from the Global South will receive a 50 percent scholarship on their tuition. In addition, half of our full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women. To learn more about our scholarship options and read testimonials, please visit our website.
Daniel Hölzl, soft cycles, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Berlinische Galerie. Photo: Clemens Poloczek
About the Fall/Winter 2025-26 Season
Over the last 11 years, The New Centre has consistently supported emerging and established philosophers, thinkers and artists, leading urgent conversations across academia and the arts, transcending orthodoxies and hype cycles while staying at the forefront of intellectual and cultural shifts.
The upcoming Fall/Winter 2025-26 Season will reexamine Western modernity through five Seminars: Reza Negarestani interrogates Enlightenment rationality, Nathan Brown explores the idea of modernity in Hölderlin’s thought, Ben Woodard investigates the foundational Western myths of lost geographies, Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo look at the alien essence of Western capitalism, while Jason Mohaghegh explores the epistemological consequences of our future libraries.
Our Seminars will also confront topics of relevance in geopolitics, looking at transformations of Chinese Communism with Josef Mahoney, Russian accelerationism with Marina Simakova, and an inquiry with guests titled “The Trials of Nick Land” debating the legacy and impact of the thinker together with Bruno Belém, Jason Moore will explore the overlapping of Nature and Capitalism, Carl Olsson takes a critical look at Planetarity, Rasmus Haukedal looks at how cognitive sciences and biology intersect and Harry Halpin focuses on philosophies of cryptography and decentralization, Vincent Lê will revisit Nitzsche’s concept of will to Power in light of AI, while Maks Valenčič analyzes the relationship between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Accelerationism.
Grappling with Aesthetics and material culture, Conrad Hamilton probes the place of video-games in between art & politics, Eva Husson’s workshop explores the relationship between war and storytelling and Daniel Young analyzes the political economy of contemporary construction. Our workshop “Reflexive Architecture” with Derek Hales & Neil Spiller focuses on a hands-on examination of post digital architecture. Sean Tatol and Domenic Hutchins provide a close reading of Michael Fried’s seminal essay “Art and Objecthood” and its stakes for contemporary art after minimalism while Boris Ondreička zeroes in on the history of contemporary Art’s ad hoc approach to its own formation.
Shadi Harouni, Unnamed Mountain v, 2017. C-print, 50 x 75 cm, courtesy of the artist
Memberships
During the Application period, we are offering Memberships (at special rates), and extend this offer to art schools, university departments, museums, and galleries with our Institutional Members for a flat annual fee of USD 500. Members access our Archive with more than 4000 hours of content and audit upcoming Seminars. We are also offering Seminar credits at reduced rates for a limited time. Credits can be used towards upcoming seminars until the end of our forthcoming Spring/Summer 2026 or in our last forthcoming Spring/Summer 2025 Seminar by Reza Negarestani, The Depthwise and the Diagonal.
Recent Activities & Collaborations
Last December, our Instructors J.-P. Caron, Conrad Hamilton, and our Researcher Rafael Moscardi were featured in “Marxism & Abstraction in the Digital Age” alongside Alberto Toscano, Harry Halpin, Jason Moore and Josef Mahoney. Organized by the School of Marxism in partnership with The New Centre for Research & Practice at Shanghai’s ECNU, the proceedings are available now on our YouTube channel.
In May, we joined BO (Association of Visual Artists Oslo) to co organize “Tehran Summit” with our researcher Erfan Ghiasi and Una Gjerde with proceedings available on our YouTube channel. We also covered the Venice Architecture Biennale through HYPER ANNOTATIONS 4.0, interviewing national-pavilion curators and architects and being present at “The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology,” organized by TNC Board Member Benjamin Bratton, launching Antikythera’s new journal.
This spring, our Researchers Klara Petrović, Luka Cvetković, and Luja Šimunović, alongside Vera Zalutskaya and Michalina Sablik, organized the Identity Crisis Network Conference in Zagreb. The following texts have been published through &&& Triple Ampersand: Darko Vukic’s “Masobaby & the Unborn Monument,” Boris Ondreička’s “Ad Hoc: The Second Contemporary,” and Mohammad Salemy’s “Category Theory & Differential Identities.”
Alona Rodeh, Slow Swan Social Club, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Volker Gehrmann
In September 2025, &&& will release the Farsi translation of Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia, joining a growing catalogue including Minor Bestiary (Eduarda Neves); Model Is the Message (ed. Mohammad Salemy), Phenomenon & Difference (François Laruelle trans. Lindsay Lerman), and Logiciel (AA Cavia, out of print).
We congratulate these members of our community for their recent achievements: Board Member Defne Ayas was appointed Director of the Van Abbemuseum; Instructor Mattin is now Professor at Tromsø Academy of Art; Instructor Manuel Correa received awards at Documenta Madrid 2025; and Organizer Mohammad Salemy and Board Member Eduarda Neves were named as curators of the Mayrit Biennale 2026. The Open Call for Mayrit’s Independent Program—titled (Super)Models—is still open! Submissions in all formats and artistic languages are welcome until September 15.
Cover Image: Abie Franklin and Daniel Hölzl, BYCATCH in Vejle, 2023. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Ard Jongsma
