# Rudderless Cultural Production Great hall sold out every night Imitating Davos and TED Some people actually benefit from drivel but we are just imitating it in the name of keeping up Lowest common denominator politics Is anyone here going to actually take a stand? Push the boundary? Partnerships "Programming" The [Mission](Mission%20e35f2c75ed5447c398625895d16ac45c.md) is to continue on an infinite time horizon. Systemantocs Interdiscplinarity, ruins again New page on website 2040 How many times she’s mentioned It didn’t originally have to do with the integration of disciplines Grant competition pitting everyone against eachother [Ozyfest](Rudderless%20Cultural%20Production%204fd3503106d54dc08f56f929466c8c8a/Ozyfest%2070e6e02d24fd49f0a123bcc361b88b82.md) - "Under the Plan To Free, Cooper Union will never **be free. Never free as in without a price, or free as in freedom of thought — the expansive freedom of thought which inspired the protests, and in turn influenced the national conversation on higher education. Cooper — a canary in the coal mine, a holdout — will become yet another zombie institution, on a path to indefinitely sustained mediocrity, and endless, unstoppable, rudderless cultural production. A risk-free financial instrument, like so many other cultural institutions under the influence of technocratic austerity measures. A nostalgic, hegemonic, cover band of what some art students once called "free"." -