the new everyday

The New Everyday coordinating editor Nick Mirzoeff leads off the latest cluster in the project, focusing on the cultural implications of last Tuesday’s election. Join in the discussion there, by reading, commenting, and adding your own piece!

The New Everyday is a MediaCommons project designed to be a reflection space on how everyday life has (and has not) been transformed since the theorizing of the 1980s by Stuart Hall and Michel de Certeau. It’s purpose is to serve as a space of public reflection before (or instead of) the print/refereed publication. You can read more about The New Everyday on the project site.

Hall’s impulse to this project was what he called “The Great Moving Right Show,” or more academically put, Thatcherism’s hegemonic project. It’s easily forgotten now but the analysis of Thatcherism was widely derided at the time, with people on the left insisting that this was simply old fashioned class politics in a slightly dressed up format; that Thatcher was stupid and by extension people were being stupid to vote for her.

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Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article considering the new cluster on “Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions” at The New Everyday. Congratulations to coordinating editor Nicholas Mirzoeff and cluster editor Shannon Mattern on putting together such excellent fodder for discussion!... read more »

We’re thrilled today to announce the relaunch of The New Everyday, an experiment in “middle-state publishing” being undertaken here at MediaCommons. This relaunch brings together an exciting cluster edited by Shannon Mattern focused around Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions, with an amazing site redesign by the NYU Libraries Digital Library Technology Services group.... read more »

We are thrilled today to unveil The New Everyday, an experiment in “middle-state publishing” being undertaken here at MediaCommons as part of a two-year project undertaken by the New York Visual Culture Working Group, housed at NYU and funded by its Humanities Initiative. The project is launching with a cluster edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff considering the murder of Jorge Steven López Mercado; the pieces that form this cluster are open for discussion, and are intended to be seen, both collectively and individually, as remaining somewhat “in process.” We hope that you’ll join the discussion within this cluster, and that you’ll consider curating a future cluster as well.... read more »