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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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Aesthetic Production in the Ancient World
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Art Before Art: Aesthetic Production in the Ancient World How can we think or speak about “art” in the ancient world—long before it was ever designated as such? Art history in the modern European tradition is deeply attached to the hand of the artist, to the mark of individual genius, to the authentication of provenance, and to a narrative of evolving styles, techniques, and forms. But, looking at the ancient world, how can we account for human...
The Ancient Novel? Magic, Myth, and Metamorphosis
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Is the novel an intrinsically modern form? Are prose works like Satyricon, Daphnis and Chloe, and The Golden Ass actually ancient novels? These narratives of ancient Greece and Rome offer a kaleidoscopic array of fictions: pastoral tales of erotic exploration; fierce satires of urban life and aristocratic rapacity; fantastical accounts of metamorphosis, abjection, and (maybe) redemption. With their mix of pirates and brigands,...
Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure
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Pornography is one of humanity’s oldest, and most enduring artifacts. Variously celebrated and demonized, it has decorated sumptuous palaces and been furtively sold under pain of arrest. In the modern United States, it is kept studiously out of sight, and yet is simultaneously omnipresent and accessible in its most explicit forms with a simple click of the mouse. What is pornography? What does it do? Why do we treat it so inconsistently? Why is...
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Julia Kristeva: Feminism, Abjection, and Theory
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Emigrating from the European periphery to its intellectual center, Julia Kristeva exploded like a bomb onto the insular world of French theory. Her first book, Revolution in Poetic Language, put forth a wholly new understanding of human communication—insisting on the non-linguistic rhythmic dimension that undergirds all language. Her emphasis on the body in turn centered the formative significance of the maternal, which, she argues, is repressed...
Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction
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Society and the Spirit of Capitalism: an Introduction to Max Weber Max Weber sought to explain nothing less than the emergence of the modern world and the direction in which it was headed. A trailblazer (along with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim) of the modern discipline of sociology, Weber brought to bear empirically driven methods of comparative analysis to identify and analyze the individual attitudes and social structures that shape and determine...
Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism, Fiction, and Politics
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Jorge Luis Borges’ fiction is uniquely powerful for its captivating amalgam of political, mystical, and metaphysical themes. In this course, an introduction to Borges’ most canonical works, we’ll read his great short story collections Ficciones and The Aleph, as well as the essay collection Other Inquisitions—bearing in mind, as we proceed, the literary themes and social concerns that pervade the most formative decade...
Transgender Marxism: an Introduction
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In recent years, there has been unprecedented growth in the visibility and sheer number of people who identify with a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth. Trans life and, with it, a whole world of trans culture—aesthetics, style, taste—has broken from the margins into the mainstream. This new generation of “gender subversives” is, at the same time, inordinately active in left-wing politics and radical movements, vigorously...
Giovanni Arrighi: The Long 20th Century
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Do recurring economic crises suggest that capitalism itself is in terminal decline? For the sociologist and world-systems theorist Giovanni Arrighi, “capitalist history is indeed at a turning point,” but the moment of crisis “is not as unprecedented as it may appear at first sight.” As he argues in The Long Twentieth Century, his classic analysis of world capitalism from the 16th century to the present day, contemporary instability repeats...
Culture, Affect, and Politics
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Culture, Affect, and Politics: an Introduction to Raymond Williams Activist, critic, and key figure in the development of cultural studies, Raymond Williams was among the most influential radical intellectuals of the 20th century. The concepts and approaches he developed or helped to popularize—“structures of feeling,” “cultural materialism,” “keywords,” “dominant, residual, and emergent”—continue to shape new work in cultural...
Sexual Reproduction and the Law: Autonomy and Control
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Although shocking to many, the majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson County Women’s Health, overturning Roe v. Wade, is just the latest in a long history of legal regulation of sexual reproduction and bodily autonomy generally. The roots of U.S. abortion and sexual reproduction law can arguably be traced to a range of historical antecedents, including the Elizabethan Poor Laws, colonial laws regulating sex, marriage, and inheritance,...
Abortion and the Law
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Although shocking to many, the majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson County Women’s Health, overturning Roe v. Wade, is just the latest in a long history of legal regulation of sexual reproduction and bodily autonomy generally. The roots of U.S. abortion and sexual reproduction law can arguably be traced to a range of historical antecedents, including the Elizabethan Poor Laws, colonial laws regulating sex, marriage, and inheritance,...
What is Settler Colonialism? Land, Sovereignty
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How and in what ways is settler colonialism a distinct form of political control? The displacement and destruction of Native peoples by invading outsiders is a constant of political history. So, what does it mean to call a particular state—the U.S., for example—a settler colony? And, why is settler colonialism a useful, perhaps necessary, framework for rethinking not only U.S. history (and the history of other settler colonial states), but also...
The Political Economy of Climate Change
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The Political Economy of Climate Change: From Green Planning to Climate Colonialism Climate is now on everyone’s agenda: in the minds of some, the cause of all causes, and the movement of all movements. As it has burst across public attention, we have everywhere Green New Deals, eco-socialists, great transformations, just transitions—a constellation of concepts and plans for moving to a different world. Yet, what are the origins of the climate...
Bollywood: Art, Culture, and Hegemony
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The largest film industry in the world is located not in Hollywood but in “Bollywood,” its yearly film output nearly doubling that of the United States. As it increasingly encroaches on the Western cultural imaginary, Bollywood plays an already titanic role in India—as a site of creative ferment, economic power, and nationalist and ideological myth-making. If Bollywood once emphasized Indian cultural pluralism, today Indian national cinema...
Gayl Jones: Mosquito
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Though Gayl Jones is one of the most important writers of the 20th Century, with work that spans prose and poetic examinations of Black women’s lives all across the world, the publication of her 1999 novel Mosquito was met with significant ambivalence. Henry Louis Gates refers to Mosquito as Gayl Jones’ “dissertation”—an imitation of actual oral storytelling, rather than “a linear narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end.”...
Queering Fanon: Colonialism, Gender, and Sexuality
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The writings of Martiniquean-born psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon have been central to many treatments of the problem of decolonization, whether approached through anti-colonial liberation, or through his related analysis of psychological racialization. Fanon’s formation in psychoanalysis, his political critique of mental illness and his approach to the practice of psychiatry—as well as his creative interpellation of Freudian ideas...
Late-Capitalist Architecture
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Today, it seems scarcely possible to speak of late capitalism without citing baneful examples of its spatial manifestations—the soullessness of Hudson Yards; the Grenfell Tower disaster; the (lethal to build) Qatari World Cup stadiums; aestheticized server farms and data centers. But how, precisely, does architecture register, reproduce, and respond to the logic of global, financialized capital—materially, formally, ideologically, and in its...
Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution
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Written at the crest of the revolutionary wave sparked by the cataclysm of World War I and the 1917 Russian Revolution, Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness stands as one of the most influential Marxist texts of the 20th century. Though suffused with the revolutionary spirit of its time, History and Class Consciousness nevertheless attempts to take stock of the failure of revolutions in Germany (both in Berlin and...
Collections and Curation: Objects, Knowledge
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Collections and Curation: Objects, Knowledge, and Desire Collected objects tell a story. But who establishes the narrative? Commanding vast private or institutional resources, many collectors are also vested with the power of knowledge production. What they collect, and how they organize, display, and contextualize their collections, all serve to set the terms of historical and aesthetic discourse, making meaning and ascribing value to not only...
Feminist Economics: An Introduction
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Traditional economic thinking posits a frictionless universe of rational actors, profit-pursuing firms, and the harmonious equilibrium of supply and demand. What’s lost in this sanitized picture of economy is any recognition of the hierarchies that not only shape economic behavior and opportunity, but also, at the root, make capitalist economy exploitative and unequal—chief among these, gender relations. Often falling upon women are the tasks...
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