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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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Jacques Lacan: The Desire of the Other
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the enigmatic teachings of Jacques Lacan, the daring Freudian psychoanalyst, in this captivating course that delves into his original readings of Freud's work. Uncover Lacan's influential concepts on the unconscious, desire, and the ethics of psychoanalysis, shedding light on the complex world of psychoanalytic theory. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into the mind of a true Freudian maverick.
John Maynard Keynes: Beyond Economics
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Explore the often-overlooked social and political theory of influential economist John Maynard Keynes in this thought-provoking course at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Discover the roots of Keynes's grand project to reshape society and analyze its legacy for radical politics today. Delve into the works of Keynes and other notable thinkers to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between economics and politics.
Modern Palestine: a Historical Introduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Perpetually in the news and commanding a tremendous amount of scholarly attention, Palestine remains a flashpoint in a number of contemporary debates: about war, colonization, and violence, religious and ethnic identity, nationalism and self-determination, modes of resistance, the role of international institutions, diasporic politics, academic freedom, and American foreign policy, among others. This course offers students an opportunity step back...
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Theory and Play: an Introduction to Video Game Studies
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As the highest grossing consumer product in the world, how should we understand video games: as substitutes for frustrated social existence, as methods for knowing and thinking, as machines for feeling, as models and visions of 21st century life—or as something else altogether? In 2007, game designer Clint Hocking coined the term “ludonarrative dissonance” in a blog post critiquing the critically acclaimed and popular video game, Bioshock....
Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
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Frantz Fanon—psychiatrist, political theorist, poet, and revolutionary—was one of the twentieth century’s foremost theorists of race, colonialism, and decolonization. His writings became a touchstone of the global anti-colonial struggle of the 1960s, and they continue to inspire scholars and activists to this day. To what extent do Fanon’s writings, produced largely during the 1950’s, continue to speak to our situation today? And...
Church and State: Law, Politics, and Religion
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In the United States, are religious rights supreme? Over the last two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have elevated religious rights over the claims of workers, women, LGBTQIA+ people, and public health, indicating a nascent intent to create and enforce a hierarchy of rights with a narrow swath of religion at the top. As Melinda Cooper has argued, the concept of religious freedom in America “encapsulates the ‘double...
Augustine: The City of God
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With the magisterial work City of God, the North African bishop Augstine of Hippo issues a defense of Christianity in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in 410. City of God addresses the intersection of history, politics, and theology a century after Christianity had become an imperial force with the conversion of Constantine. Drawing on his elite training in rhetoric as well as his ecclesial experience as bishop in what is current-day Algeria, Augustine...
Proust in Time: Swann’s Way
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Although Marcel Proust wrote much of the colossal In Search of Lost Time from the confines of a cork-lined room, it is a book that somehow seems to bridle with the energy and variety of an entire world set down in prose. In this course, centered on Swann’s Way, the first installment of Proust’s novel, we’ll study how In Search of Lost Time illuminates concerns both intimate and vast. What does it mean to know another person? How do we name...
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Reason, Freedom, and the Ground of Consciousness
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In the fevered aftermath of the French Revolution, Johann Gottlieb Fichte developed his philosophy as a “system of freedom” which “first establishes man as an independent being.” Taking his inspiration from Kant’s transcendental philosophy, Fichte’s philosophy is indeed the intellectual bridge between Enlightenment thought and both philosophical and literary Romanticism as well as the post-Kantian systems of Schelling and Hegel. He developed...
Images of War: Art and Violence in the Ancient World
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War is both historically common in human experience and yet often alien and strange. Hence its frequent depiction. Among the oldest surviving images of war is the ancient Egyptian “Battlefield Palette” (3,330 BCE). Across its several fragments we see a procession of prisoners, bound and stripped off their clothing; a centrally placed lion (possibly representing the conquering Pharaoh) feasting on corpses, along with birds of prey; and...
Architectural Experiments: Revolutions in Design
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“Architecture,” wrote the late critic Michael Sorkin, “is produced at the intersection of art and property, and this is one of the many reasons it so legibly records the history of communal life.” This drawing together of the aesthetic imagination and material relations is also, perhaps, why the radical tradition has looked to architecture to anticipate and dramatize a world that could be otherwise. If the bourgeois revolutions of the nineteenth...
Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism
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Simone de Beauvoir—activist, author, social critic, philosopher—is considered one of the pioneering figures of existentialist and feminist philosophy. Although her work spans multiple genres and address numerous modern social questions and classic philosophical dilemmas, it was the 1953 publication of The Second Sex that brought the “woman question” into plain and clear light and marked her entry into not only French, but also...
Artistic Realism: From Representation to Revolution
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The middle of the nineteenth century saw a vast transformation in art and aesthetics from the ideal values of polite bourgeois society to a revolutionary form of radical Realism. Leading the charge of the Realist movement was Gustav Courbet, who asked, “Whose lives are portrayed in art?” And “Whose life is worth depicting?” We might also ask: Whose life is worth looking at? When Courbet presented his now famous “A Burial at Ornans” in...
Samir Amin: Dependency, Development, and the Making of the Global South
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Uncover the roots of global inequality and the mechanisms that perpetuate it in this thought-provoking course, exploring the groundbreaking theories of Marxist economist Samir Amin. Gain insight into the formation of dependency, underdevelopment, and super-exploitation, as well as the contemporary social systems that shape our world today. Join us as we delve into the complex dynamics of wealth and power in a post-colonial era.
Philosophy, Ideology & Jokes: An Intro to Slavoj Žižek
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Discover the synthesis of Marxism, Kantian critique, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian dialectics, and cultural criticism in this thought-provoking course on Slavoj Žižek's philosophy. Uncover the ideology, capitalism, and fantasy that shape contemporary life. Delve into the serious, yet often humorous, teachings of one of Europe's most influential philosophers.
Reclaiming Utopia: an Introduction to Ernst Bloch
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Explore the enduring relevance of Ernst Bloch's vision of concrete utopia and its impact on Marxist praxis in this thought-provoking course. Discover how utopia, hope, and anticipation intersect with political transformation through the works of Bloch, Marx, Adorno, Benjamin, and more. Join us on a journey to reimagine the future.
Poetry and American Modernism: Reading William Carlos Williams
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Explore William Carlos Williams, the literary doctor who illuminated the essence of American modernism. Discover his blend of observation, vernaculars, and the haunting history of the nation, as well as his impact on the postwar avant-garde. Uncover his influence of Williams on writers and artists such as Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Steve Reich in this captivating course.
Capital, Colony, Core: an Introduction to World-Systems Analysis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the global dynamics of capitalism, as well as its roots and impact on societies with a study of Immanuel Wallerstein's World Systems Analysis at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Uncover the interconnectedness of core, semi-periphery, and periphery nations. Gain an understanding of global capitalism and its potential alternatives.
Literary Theory: a Critical Introduction
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Explore the meanings, uses, values, and histories of literature at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. This course will focus on psychoanalysis, Marxism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer and feminist theory, and postcolonial theory through the lens of a literary text of your choice. Discover the theorists who shaped our understanding in this thought-provoking course.
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Discover the profound impact of G.W.F. Hegel's groundbreaking philosophy on 19th-century European intellectual history in this ambitious course offered by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Explore the complexities of his "Absolute Idealism" and the transformative power of his logic, known as "dialectics," as you delve into the core concepts of Hegel's system and its influence on epistemology, metaphysics, morality, and political life. Unveil the depths of Hegel's philosophy in this thought-provoking journey through his renowned work.
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