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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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Shulamith Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex
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Family abolition, love revolution, children’s liberation, the elimination of biological sex: such were the demands of the New York militant “Shulie” Firestone. In 1970, at the age of 25, Firestone published her utopian manifesto The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution before disappearing forever from the scene of politics. With its rejection of the nuclear family, its observation that giving birth is “like shitting a pumpkin,”...
Economics and the Value of Everything
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Economics and the Value of Everything: an Introduction to Mariana Mazzucato In a field dominated by neoclassical orthodoxy, Mariana Mazzucato has upended conventional understandings of the private sector, the state, and even economic value itself to produce work that has seized the attention not only of fellow economists, but also of policy makers across the world—and across the political spectrum. In her first major work, The Entrepreneurial...
Art and the Unthinkable: an Introduction to Dada
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Born in the wake of World War I, Dada survived only a few brief years. Yet, with its deliberate embrace of the nonsensical, and its resolute rejection of bourgeois individualism, Dada (named at random after the French word for “hobby horse”) helped pave the way for artistic modernism–and even, arguably, postmodernism. For Dadaists, art was inseparable from the contingent experiences of everyday life. In their work, they sought to capture...
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Future Queer: an Introduction to Jose Muñoz
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“Queerness is not yet here,” José Esteban Muñoz declares. And yet, his work is animated by sympathetic, often exuberant explorations and nuanced analyses of queer performance and queer activism—from the evanescent installations of Felix Gonzales-Torres to the reparative performances of Nao Bustamante. What does it mean, then, to propose that queerness has yet to arrive? What are the dimensions of normativity—political, aesthetic, temporal—that...
Chávez and Chavismo: Revolution in the Barrio
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The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was many things—baseball player, soldier, coup-leader, elected revolutionary, political symbol. So too Chavismo, which first surfaced as an epithet slung at the poor by a wealthy, white Venezuelan opposition, before coming to embody many of the hopes and aspirations of the poor in Venezuela and beyond. Powered by the “Bolivarian” revolutionary social movements that pre-existed its titular leader, Chavismo...
Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics
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Full Course Name: Introduction to Gun Studies: History, Politics, and American Violence Few objects loom larger in American history, media, and politics than guns. Americans own more firearms than citizens of any other country on Earth. The United States is the largest manufacturer, importer, and exporter of guns on the planet. Alongside currency, guns are the only manufactured object mentioned in the U.S. Constitution; and the question and...
Anarchism: an Introduction
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Anarchism comes to us from the Greek anarkhos—“without a ruler.” “To be governed,” wrote the famous French anarchist Pierre Proudhon, “is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.” But anarchists are concerned with...
Social Reproduction Theory: Gender, Labor, & Capitalism
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“If workers produce commodities,” the feminist theorist Tithi Bhattacharya asked, “who produces the workers?” It’s a question that lies at the heart of Social Reproduction Theory, a body of Marxist-feminist critique that seeks to identify and describe the labor that’s required to reproduce workers and, as such, capitalist society as a whole. First enunciated in the demand for “Wages for Housework,” Social Reproduction Theory explodes...
Fredric Jameson: What is Postmodernism?
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“The postmodern,” writes Marxist literary and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson, “is the force field in which very different kinds of cultural impulses . . . must make their way.” Adapted from a New Left Review essay of the same name, Jameson’s Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is an ambitious account of how the postmodern has replaced modernism as the “cultural dominant” of late capitalism. In conversation with...
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
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What does it mean to be human in the world today? Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a provocative treatise on what it means to live on earth and share the world in common. Her study, originally intended to be titled Amor Mundi (Love of the World), investigates the central activities of human life—labor, work, action—and their corresponding realms—private, social, public. For Arendt, The Human Condition is about protecting spaces...
Slavery and Social Death: From the Plantation
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Slavery and Social Death: From the Plantation to the 21st Century What does it mean to experience social death? And how has this experience impacted the legacies of slavery in the 21st century? Beyond legal categories of ownership and personal status and structures of economic exploitation, how did personal power and authority operate in that “peculiar institution”? What were, and perhaps continue to be, the cultural and symbolic instruments...
The Trial and the Castle: Franz Kafka and Theory
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The Trial and the Castle: Franz Kafka and Theory The works of Franz Kafka have provoked an almost unparalleled range of social theoretical, philosophical, and creative responses in the near century since his untimely death in 1924. “The Castle and The Trial seem to bear the mark of philosophical theorems,” Theodor Adorno wrote from his Los Angeles exile, even while their “brittle prose functions like music.” Although Kafka published relatively...
A Genealogy of Eros: Plato, Sappho, Foucault
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Sexual desire—ancient Greek eros—is fundamental to the philosophical dialogues of Plato and the lyric poetry of Sappho, as well as to Michel Foucault’s genealogy of the modern self. Both Plato and Sappho begin with contemporary ideas of eros as madness, even as they also argue for the centrality of eros to new forms of self-knowledge and self-making; Foucault, too, moved from studies of madness to studies of sexuality. In our course...
Saints, Witches, Hysterics: Christianity
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Saints, Witches, Hysterics: Christianity and Female Mysticism From the medieval period to the present, a small group of Christian women have fallen into trances, had erotic visions, heard voices, foresworn food, and claimed to have direct contact with God. This course asks two questions about these women. First, why have women who testified to similar spiritual experiences been alternately venerated as saints, burned as witches, and finally medicated...
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: History, Proofs
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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: History, Proofs, Implications In 1931, a 25-year-old Kurt Gödel published a paper in mathematical logic titled “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems.” This paper contained the proofs of two remarkable “incompleteness theorems,” which state: For any consistent axiomatic formal system that can express facts about basic arithmetic, 1. there are true statements...
A Science of the State? a Critical Intro to Pol Science
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A Science of the State? a Critical Introduction to Political Science Politics is often called an “art.” So how can it also be a science? Is a science of politics possible—or even desirable? First emerging out of the late nineteenth century confluence of Western nationalism, imperialism, racism, and capitalism, political science was initiated as a science of, and for, the modern state. After World War II, as the United States...
Nathanael West: America and Acid Satire
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The novels of Nathanael West—acerbic, mordantly comic satires of the emerging culture industries of 1930s: newspapers and motion pictures, in New York and Hollywood, respectively—lampoon in earnest and scathing fashion the intellectual pieties that prevailed in the radical politics of the era. Combining elements borrowed from the European avant-gardes, including Dada, Surrealism, and German Expressionism, with the tendencies of American proletarian...
Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy in the Face of the Other
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If Emmanuel Levinas had a single credo, it was this: “Ethics as First Philosophy”! For Levinas, what’s essential about human beings—beyond our rational and practical capacities—is the fact that we find ourselves infinitely responsible in the face of the “Other.” The root of ethics is to be found in the immediate face-to-face encounter with those to whom we find ourselves responsible, prior to any reflection on or consideration...
Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery(n)
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Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” So observed the “father” of political economy, Adam Smith, in his classic The Wealth of Nations. Nearly 250 years later, Smith’s self-appointed children, secure in economics departments, central banks, and government agencies, are quick to insist that, in absolute terms,...
What is Poetry? Poetics, Language, and Feeling
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What is poetry, and what is it good for? Today, poetry is often pronounced dead. Yet at the same time, we remain, to cite the New York Times, “poetry curious.” We sense, as Aimé Césaire sensed, that poetry encompasses some “greater feeling” that goes uncaptured by scientific classification and explanation. For Audre Lorde, poetry is that “illumination,” which is “already felt,” and yet “formless, about to be birthed.” But...
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