Benjamin Weil News Today

May was all about schools - graduations, performances, prep sports and protests.

Symposium: Reimagining Museums // June 8–9, 2024

HLT will introduce its cloud-based Hermes 5 SaaS CMS in two phases supported by a new, German-language version of the Hermes Learning Management System.

The 18-year-old senior from Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts made a short film about living with ADHD.

These 16 students were selected as semifinalists for their work in specialties such as directing, cinematography, special effects and sound design.

CAM—Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian will reopen to the public on September 20, 2024 following an extensive reimagining led by acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, marking the architect’s first completed project in Portugal.

The Harm Reduction Group welcomes Dr Benjamin Weil from The Love Tank CIC to discuss the use of Doxy PrEP/PEP (the use of doxycycline to avoid STIs) for chemsex. Doxy PrEP/PEP offers the same possibility as HIV PrEP/PEP, but for the sexual transmission of bacterial infections - yet there is a degree of hesitance about the tool. In this talk, the speaker will take this critical moment to appraise a technology-in-the-making and consider how and whether we might discursively or clinically intervene...

In addition to a global-north induced climate crisis, the scale of Pakistan’s floods has been exacerbated by hydrological infrastructures built over centuries by western imperialism and allied local elites.

The term “net.art” is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an anonymous e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make out just one legible term—“net.art”—which he began using to talk about online art and communications. Spreading like a virus among certain interconnected Internet communities, the term was quickly enlis...

In the spirit of Bourne’s “unscared ghost” (JDP again), we offer a slightly more prosaic riff to convey our motivating ire in Baffler no. 63: division among workers is the health of the capitalist class.