Neoliberalism and Identity
- All levels
- 21 and older
- $335
- Online Classroom
- 12 hours over 4 sessions
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore a radical vision of the future where nature and technology align, challenging the pessimistic outlook on climate change. Immerse yourself in the art, theory, and speculative fiction of solarpunk to reimagine a world of decommodified energy and human liberation. Join us on this intellectual journey towards a harmonious coexistence of technology, nature, and human life.
Apr 14th
2–5pm EDT
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From the Black Lives Matter movement to the push for Trans-inclusive language, the claim to visibility, recognition, and protection by marginalized groups is at the forefront of our contemporary understandings of politics and culture. At the level of representation, a once lily-white and heteronormative cultural and political field is now populated by a wide diversity of peoples. And contrary to the dismissals of more simple-minded critics, increased recognition can indeed encourage a re-valuation of Black, female, and queer life—extending to marginalized groups not merely opportunity for individuals, but also the assumption of basic dignity and a right to rights. Yet, if the horizons of representation, as a force for emancipation, can seem frustratingly limited, we might ask about the nature of the broader system within which representation takes place: capitalism. How can we understand the status and power of identity within a system that, in addition to being historically racialized, engineers inequality as a matter of reproductive necessity? If neoliberal capitalism seemingly assimilates all things to itself, how can identity stand apart as a basis for both empowerment and resistance?
In this course, we will study the relationship between how one conceptualizes their individual identity and the larger socio-politico-economic frameworks that work to recognize, suppress, or commodify how one thinks of the self. Can we imagine, and articulate, a distinction between identity politics as a project of solidarity, and identitarianism as a reductive and essentializing position—and to what ends? Readings will include work by Olúfemi O. Táíwò, Linda Martín Alcoff, Jodi Dean, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Wendy Brown, Asad Haider, David Graeber, and others.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
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The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research was established in 2011 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Its mission is to extend liberal arts education and research far beyond the borders of the traditional university, supporting community education needs and opening up new possibilities for scholarship in the...
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