Led by 3CT fellows, these multi-year thematic projects enable conversation and collaboration across disciplines on contemporary problems and current issues in contemporary theory.
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Worlding, Writing
PI: Lauren Berlant
This module explores new modes of writing and reading—not in an effort to affirm expertise but to imagine productive idioms for critical engagement and assemble novel ways of attending to socio-political phenomena.
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Conspiracy/Theory
PI: Joseph P. Masco and Lisa Wedeen
Understanding the elective affinities between conspiracy and theory while appreciating the seductions of each, this project grapples with the ways in which suspicion, opacity, networks, uncertainty, and mass mediation function today.
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New Global Authoritarianisms
PI: Andreas Glaeser and Lisa Wedeen
This project facilitates ongoing conversations on the fate of liberal democracy, attending to the role that new authoritarianisms are playing in reversing the global trend towards inclusive and democratic forms of government.
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Materializing the Future
PI: Bill Brown and Shannon Lee Dawdy
How is the future being shaped by designers in the present? Having passed through a period of postmodern disenchantment, designers now seem ready again to take on the challenge of the future.
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Global Crowds
PI: William Mazzarella
This project explores the resurgence of crowds across the world today: what can a close and comparative exploration of crowds around the world tell us about the very substance of contemporary politics?
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Object Cultures Project
PI: Bill Brown and Shannon Lee Dawdy
Most generally the task of this module is to formulate new ways of understanding how people transform the physical object world and how that world in turn transforms them. We are concerned with the mutual constitution of subject and object, the animate and inanimate, person and thing, and with the ways objects mediate individual and group identities.
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Past projects
| Date | Project Title | Principal Investigator(s) |
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| 2014-2019 | History, Social Theory, and Capitalism | Moishe Postone & William H. Sewell, Jr. |
| 2014–2016 | Neoliberalism + Empire | Lisa Wedeen |
| 2011–2014 | Climate Change | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| 2012–2014 | Generational Change | Lisa Wedeen and Hussein Agrama |
| 2014 | Public, Life | William Mazzarella |