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The New School for Social Research is a graduate institution in New York City. We generate progressive scholarship in the social sciences and philosophy. Our 75+ full-time faculty members in nine departments offer masters and doctoral degrees to 800 graduate students.
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Faculty

Eugene Thacker

Professor of Media Studies

Email
thackere@newschool.edu

Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue

Eugene Thacker

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View Eugene Thacker's website here.

Degrees Held

PhD, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University.

Recent Publications

Books

Sad Planets. Co-authored with Dominic Pettman. Polity, 2024.

Editor, Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World. Repeater/Penguin Random House, 2020.

Infinite Resignation. Repeater Books/Penguin Random House, 2018.

Cosmic Pessimism. Univocal, 2015.

Excommunication. Co-authored with Alexander Galloway and McKenzie Wark. University of Chicago, 2013.

In The Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1. Zero Books, 2011.

Current Courses

Independent Study
GLIB 6990 - Fall 2026
Sad Planets
NMDS 5152 - Fall 2026
Dark Entries: Notebook, Journa
NMDS 5351 - Fall 2026
Thesis Supervision
NMDS 5960 - Fall 2026
Dark Entries:Notebook, Journal
NWRG 5351 - Fall 2026

Future Courses

Melancholy
GLIB 5200 - Spring 2027
Independent Study
GLIB 6990 - Spring 2027
Media Theory
NMDS 5006 - Spring 2027
The Sublime
NMDS 5460 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

Melancholy
GLIB 5200 - Spring 2026
The Sublime
GLIB 5460 - Spring 2026
Independent Study
GLIB 6990 - Spring 2026
Media Theory
NMDS 5006 - Spring 2026
The Sublime
NMDS 5460 - Spring 2026
Thesis Supervision
NMDS 5960 - Spring 2026
Melancholy
NWRG 5355 - Spring 2026

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