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The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, established in 2011, offers liberal arts education and research opportunities to local communities while supporting young scholars. With a mission to engage various intellectual traditions, the institute aims to provide accessible education and foster active, engaged citizens.
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Kathi Weeks: Feminism and the Problem with Work
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Discover radical philosopher Kathi Weeks as she challenges traditional notions of work and family. In this course, delve into topics like Universal Basic Income and postwork possibilities, drawing insights from canonical philosophers and contemporary thinkers. Explore the intersection of feminism, antiwork politics, and social reproduction in this eye-opening journey of reimagining work.
Solarpunk: Theory, Fiction, and Radical Futures
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.
The Soviet Avant-Garde: Culture, Politics, Aesthetics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore Russian and Soviet avant-gardes during the first three decades of the 20th century. Discover how artists grappled with finding "communistic expression of material structures" and the shifting status of the arts in the early Soviet state. Dive into the works of Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Sergei Eisenstein, and more.
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Saidiya Hartman: Scenes of Subjection
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Delve into the transformative insights of Saidiya Hartman's groundbreaking works on Black life and history. Join us as we explore Hartman's profound reimagining of freedom, agency, and the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.
The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Self-Destruction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the controversial and ominous concept of the Death Drive in this thought-provoking course, offered by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Delve into Freud's theory and its impact on psychoanalysis, philosophy, art, and society. Discover whether the Death Drive can shed light on our present moment and uncover possibilities beyond pessimism.
Bell Hooks: Race, Feminism, and Freedom
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
For much of its early history, feminism centered a female subject based almost exclusively on the experiences of a particular sort of woman: white and middle-class. “When women are talked about,” noted a Stanford undergraduate named Gloria Watkins, “the focus tends to be on white women.” In response, Watkins, writing under the pen name bell hooks, published Ain’t I a Woman—a landmark text that permanently altered the terms of feminist...
Love, Literature & Destruction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Love, Literature, and Destruction: an Introduction to Marguerite Duras Novelist, playwright, and experimental filmmaker, Marguerite Duras resists easy categorization. Despite endless attempts by critics and scholars to claim her for emerging genres and movements, it may be easier to say what she was not: she was not part of the nouveau roman (new novel) movement in France, she was not a forerunner of autofiction, she did not write autobiography,...
Life in a Dish: an Introduction to Cellular Biology
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
When Robert Hooke discovered the cell in 1665, modern science acquired an enduring metaphor: the cell as the building block of life. Since then, cell theory has evolved three central tenets: the cell is the basic unit of life, all living organisms are composed of cells, and all cells come from other cells. But cells themselves have also come to be thought of in terms exceeding, if not opposed to, the biological: cellular biology is premised on our...
What is Conservatism?
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
While contemporary political discourse is often characterized by heated discussions of liberalism or fascism, socialism or “populism”, the broad category of “conservative” thought seems to take a back seat. This despite its enduring relevance not only for understanding political history and the history of political thought, but also as an analytical tool today. What exactly is conservatism? How can we understand a category so capacious as...
Sex, Gender, and the Avant-Garde
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The early 20th century avant-gardes—from Futurism to Dada, Constructivism to Surrealism—hailed and aimed to generate, via new aesthetic experience, new forms of social and political consciousness. Gender norms and sexual hierarchies, as relics of a past imaginary no longer apropos of the present, came under fire by an eclectic, international generation of artists. Hannah Höch dissected and montaged the aspirational image of the era’s vaunted...
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
In 1876, an aspiring young Austrian scientist named Sigmund Freud spent several thankless months in a lab in Trieste, trying to develop a technique for determining sexual differences among eels. In this, he failed, but by the time of his death in 1939, Freud had become world-famous for something else entirely: the founding of psychoanalysis, a sprawling body of knowledge that encompasses therapeutic practices, psychological theory, philosophical...
Psychoanalysis and Politics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the intersection of psychoanalysis and politics in this course that delves into the political history and potential of psychoanalysis. From its association with political projects to its links with Marxism and critiques within that tradition, this course examines the impact of psychoanalysis on social order and political solidarity. Join this survey course and discover the insights into desire, nationalism, trauma, and more through a curated selection of psychoanalytic theorists.
What is Deconstruction? Philosophy and Literary Theory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the provocative emergence of deconstruction and its impact on literary theory, philosophy, and politics. Uncover the motivations, debates, and ethical dilemmas surrounding this influential movement, from its origins with the Yale School to its relevance in our post-modern world. Delve into readings by Derrida, de Man, Fish, and more to gain insight into the elusive nature of deconstruction.
Feminist Sex Wars: the Politics of Pleasure
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the explosive conflicts that shaped the US feminist movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, delving into debates over pornography, prostitution, and other matters of sex and power. Uncover the entanglements with capitalist development and the ongoing relevance of these issues in contemporary sexual representation and conduct. Dive into the history and theory of this contentious era, examining the roots of conflict, the impact on women's studies and queer advocacy, and the ongoing legacy of these debates.
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