After 4+ years of publishing, we now have an archive of more than 160,000 pieces. Articles, podcasts, essays: they are all there. And now, after some significant technical improvements, we have made it even easier to search and find them. 

Results can now be filtered based on an article's author, publication, or release date. Starting today, it will be possible to search for particular words or phrases (e.g. "algorithmic management") as well as for a combination of terms (e.g. populism AND democracy). Moreover, we now prioritize materials that our own curators have judged to be most interesting and relevant.  

Finding content in our archive is now much easier than before

We are also launching a few cool new features. You'll find them in our redesigned Cabinet. With a cleaner interface, it provides for more granular personalisation. You can learn more by checking out our guide to the new Cabinet.

Our new website

Welcome to our fresh new website. If you’re a subscriber or frequent reader, you’ll notice that we have revamped our whole look and feel. If this is your first time here, we hope you’ll be enjoying everything The Syllabus has to offer. This is exactly what we wanted to simplify

The Feed is where you get personalised selections. These can now be customized in far greater detail. As before, The Feed allows you to indicate topics, media types, and languages you’re interested in. But now there's a cool extra feature: you can also indicate specific authors and publications you would like us to track. And if we feature anything from them, you'll be alerted! 

To enable this, we ask both our new and existing subscribers to reset their preferences and settings. And to make sure that our true gems don't get lost, we have limited the Feed down to the 10 best pieces. But don’t worry – by clicking ‘Read all’, you can still access the extras. 

We have also added a bookmark feature for the pieces you'd like to revisit later.






Our new Curated Editions are getting more discerning, too. We have tightened them to the 10 best items. A new collapsable dashboard view will help you navigate all this curation goodness. 





The Library Stacks section is our latest experiment in the serendipity department. When you enter the Stacks, we will greet you with pieces randomly drawn from a pool of our curators’ zany favourites. Our hope is you stumble on hidden gems there. Just like you might in the library stacks. Here is also where you can access our Archive. The one with 150,000 pieces in it. 





All in all, we hope that the Cabinet provides a far more personable and functional experience. We eagerly await your feedback!

And there are more features and improvements to come. Next on our list is the Archive. Soon, its search will be as good as its contents! Stay tuned for more news in the coming months.

Introducing the new Cabinet

Along with our new website, we are thrilled to present a revamped Cabinet. Our subscribers will recognise improved versions of our core service, plus some exciting new features. The Cabinet now consists of three sections: the Feed, our Curated Editions, and the Library Stacks.

Since our inception in 2019, The Syllabus has had two interconnected goals. The first is to serve as a guide to the digital public sphere for our readers. The second is to spark a conversation about the technological alternatives that exist beyond the usual narrow visions. As of December 2022, we are pursuing these goals as a fully not-for-profit organisation.

Our new parent foundation, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination (CAII), was established in the Netherlands in January of last year. CAII’s mission is to build on what we have learned at The Syllabus. This will include creating freely accessible infrastructures based on our curatorial methodologies, and intervening in public debates around other critical social issues. 2023 has already been an auspicious year for both The Syllabus and CAII, and we look forward to sharing more news as it arrives. 

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