In this chapter the author provides a summary of Colin Wilson’s new existentialism as distinguished from historical existential philosophies. Wilson’s “Outsider” becomes a prototype for freedom, in a heroic and individualistic vein. Next, the author examines Wilson’s emphasis on self-preoccupation and consciousness as a symptom of existentialism in general. Using the work of important Black existentialists, the author offers a relational rather than an individualist interpretation of new existentialism. By being concerned with social justice, the chapter utilizes what are known as pedagogies of discomfort and calls for critical action. In the third section, the chapter presents Whitehead’s rhythms of learning and radical empiricism of “style” as an alternative to Wilson’s outsider, who advances a mistaken Husserlian interpretation of Whitehead’s philosophy. Whitehead, alternatively, holds that experience is richer than consciousness achieved and accrued. Finally, in the last section, the author offers new existentialism’s revolutionary vision for a new university.

Describes the logic behind Sesame Street interventions’ design and goals, through the performance of concise encoding and production studies of the text of Israeli and Palestinian versions. Compares how the producers intended, negotiated, and expressed the text’s encoding with how the child audience decoded the series after broadcast, thereby revealing how the PeaceComm interventions may have “worked” on the children. The glocalized hybrid series—produced in the euphoric period of the Oslo Peace Accords in the mid-1990s by separate but intertwined Israeli, Palestinian and American teams, later joined by a Jordanian crew, in multiple zones—interpreted and negotiated the American team’s, Sesame Workshop’s, global concept to fit local concerns, incorporating original Sesame Street segments dubbed into Hebrew or Arabic during both optimistic and crisis conflict phases. They created two separate street-state sets and series, privileging the intersection of the axis of ethnopolitical “group” identity and state-based citizenship rights to populate each street-state. The closed text of a “mediated contact effects” PeaceComm model illustrating pro-social interactions between and within the two streets operated in tandem with television’s open text that allowed children to read it on different levels. This inherent contradiction complicated the series’ potential to effectively build and make peace.