![Phillip Lopate, Margo Jefferson: Essay is Both Noun and Verb](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The essay, a term derived from the French infinitive essayer, or to attempt, was first used in the sixteenth century by Michel de Montaigne to…
![Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: On Witnessing](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The School of Art’s Spring 2013 Menschel Visiting Professor, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, acclaimed curator and artistic director of dOCUMENTA (13), will present a free public lecture…
![Studying Whiteness: The Only White Woman in the Village](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
http://platformed.org/2013/04/studying-whiteness-the-only-white-woman-in-the-village
![Why and How to Apply for a PhD:](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
A candid panel discussion of applying to Ph.D. programs. Are you interested in applying for a PhD and want to learn more about this process?…
![Peggy Ahwesh on the Art of PixelVision](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
In this lecture and screening, artist Peggy Ahwesh will discuss the technology and aesthetics of PixelVision, a black-and-white video camera that recorded and played images…
![The Passion of Bradley Manning](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Presented by The New Inquiry, Verso Books and Brooklyn Voices. Sarah Leonard and Chase Madar explore why whistleblowers are usually less popular than war criminals…
![Artist’s Lecture with Alice Aycock](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating,” on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery (100 Washington Square East)…
![Financial Crisis As Conversion Experience: Did Wall Street Journalists Change Their Views?](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Please join us for a conversation with James Stewart of The New York Times, Chrystia Freeland of Reuters, Megan McArdle of The Newsbeast, and Jesse…
![Neoliberal Reproductive Governance in the Americas: Bodies, Race, and Politics](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
A talk with Laura Briggs, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
![What, Ultimately, for?](http://fakepretty.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
It is often observed that although cultural critics may be good at denouncing the instrumentalism and reductivism they identify as corroding the public discourse of…