The New Centre has opened applications for its certificate programs, with submission windows running from July 17 through August 25 at 11:59pm ET. The institution is offering a 50 percent tuition scholarship for applicants from the Global South, alongside new leadership appointments and a transition to a decentralized, AI-integrated digital platform. This new platform replaces the institution’s old website and signals the beginning of a shift toward becoming a more decentralized and polyphonic institution of higher learning, arriving at a moment when official academia is being eroded from within by stagnation and from outside by the market’s demand for quantifiable results.
The New Centre Application Deadlines and Global South Scholarship Policy
Application Timeline and Financial Support
Prospective students interested in the upcoming season at The New Centre must submit their applications between July 17 and August 25. The application process requires candidates to complete an application form and provide a writing sample and a cover letter that outlines their intellectual interests and their need for scholarship support.
The institution has structured its financial aid policy to prioritize inclusivity, particularly for international applicants. According to the school’s latest announcement, applicants from the Global South are automatically eligible for a 50 percent scholarship on tuition. Furthermore, the institution has committed to a parity model for its full scholarship recipients, ensuring that half of those awards are granted to individuals from the Global South and half to women.
Reza Negarestani and New Programming Committee Appointments
Leadership Changes and Institutional Restructuring
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The upcoming season was planned by a larger Programming Committee and organizational structure, as the breadth of the curriculum calls for more minds to shape it. The institution has announced several key appointments. Reza Negarestani now acts as the Dean of Academic Affairs in addition to his teaching duties. Roya Rastegar joins as the Transdisciplinary Studies Programmer, bringing experience as a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and cultural strategist. Sarah Amselem Felices, a designer, programmer, and digital strategist, joins Morgane Billuart as Information Architecture & Intelligence Design co-Programmers. J.P. Caron and Anna Longo bring their complementary strengths to the role of Critical Philosophy co-Programmers, and Khares Tokatlidis has been welcomed as the Alumni Affairs Coordinator to strengthen the connection with researchers and students.
Seminars and Workshops by Anna Beria and Mohammad Salemy
Curriculum Focus and Public Programming
The new season’s seminars cover a vast array of topics. Anna Beria examines the concept of life across philosophy, biology and psychoanalysis; Morgane Billuart models the disembodied female body; Conrad Hamilton revisits Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity; J.P. Caron and Rafael Pedroso take up the concept of social synthesis in Sohn-Rethel; Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reads Deleuze with Marx; Marcello Musto traces the critical genealogies of the critiques of capitalism; and Daniel Tutt surveys the later Lukács on social ontology. On art and criticism, Domenic Hutchins and Sean Tatol diagnose the symptoms of the October journal, while Boris Ondreička furthers the idea of intercentric curatorial studies. Further seminars include Anna Longo on the ramifications of informational war, Vincent Lê on new rationalisms in the age of artificial intelligence, Nathaniel Wooding on the relationship between philosophy and strategy, Romulo Moraes on Brazilian music collectionism, and Roya Rastegar on the legacy of Marjane Satrapi.
New workshops comprise Mischa Dols and Onty on Internet Cinema and the Crisis of Modernism, Rafael de Toledo Pedroso on mapping the “Ghostweb,” Simon Schirren on Sheaves and Category Theory, and Fernando Wirtz on Nostalgia as Method in Japanese Media Archaeology. The institution also recently held the fifth edition of Hyperannotations, its Public Program at the 61st Venice Biennale of Art, and saw its organizer Mohammad Salemy and Board Member Eduarda Neves co-curate (Super)Models, the central exhibition of the Mayrit Biennial 2026.
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e-flux Education Subscriber Membership Incentives and Bartolome Mix
Membership and Digital Initiatives
To mark the new platform, the institution is offering an exclusive Membership Special during the application period to e-flux Education subscribers. This incentive allows for the purchase of a one-year or two-year Membership at a reduced rate with an additional year provided for free. The institution is also sharing POPY SEEDS, a raw and rough dancefloor session for the summer, mixed by the Berlin-based producer Bartolome.
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