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Transgender Marxism: an Introduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
Queering Fanon: Colonialism, Gender, and Sexuality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
Bollywood: Art, Culture, and Hegemony
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
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Feminist Economics: An Introduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
Heidegger/Arendt: Philosophy, Influence, and Being
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s love affair is perhaps the most well-known, if not notorious, in modern Western letters. But, putting the more intimate aspects aside, how can we understand the intellectual connection, sometimes ardent, sometimes ambivalent, sometimes hostile that tied the two together for the majority of their adult lives—even after Heidegger’s turn to Nazism? In this course we will explore the affinities and differences...
Weekly Torah Portion, Gleanings from the Torah
92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom
Back by popular demand! Join Abby Eisenberg for a weekly exploration of community, character and sanctity — elemental themes of the Torah. Throughout the year, we’ll consider texts that both challenge and inspire us as we read our sacred ancient words while gleaning modern meaning and relevance for our lives today.
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Full Course Title: Jürgen Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Is a public sphere possible? Our social and political life is marked by deep divisions: The social fabric is fraying. Economic and political polarization are on the rise. Many citizens feel their voices are not heard in arenas from the government to the marketplace. Yet many of our public institutions depend on a space in which we come together as equals to...
Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Does history have a direction, a purpose, or an end goal? Can we deduce general historical patterns from studying the past? Is it naïve to hope and work for a better future? From the Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, liberal, Marxist, positivist, and post-structuralist thinkers have offered radically different responses to these fundamental questions related to the philosophy of history. This course will survey these attempts to grapple...
Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
At Antonio Gramsci’s 1928 trial, the prosecutor famously demanded, “we must stop this brain working for twenty years!” Despite being imprisoned in rather brutal conditions by Mussolini’s fascist government, this goal was not achieved. Gramsci would produce, in the notes, scraps, fragments, commentaries, and essays, that constitute his so-called prison notebooks, his most famous thinking. Although the work covers tremendous ground—from...
What it Means to See: Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Fascinated by its uncanny power and difference, both Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag dealt continuously with the nature and meaning of photography throughout their writing lives. Their engagement culminated in two works, published just a few years apart, which continue to tower over contemporary photographic theory: Sontag’s On Photography and Barthes’s Camera Lucida. Beyond their immersion in post-war French theory, both writers shared a view...
Jean Paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
For Jean-Paul Sartre, the fundamental philosophical problem of the modern age was how to respond to Friedrich Nietzsche’s dictum: god is dead, and so is, as a consequence, traditional western conceptions of morality, justice, and truth itself. In the cafes of occupied and post-war Paris, Sartre and his cohort of fellow existentialists attempted to meet Nietzsche’s challenge: to reimagine the basis of morality and value in a godless world. Very...
Feeling the Atmosphere: Climate, Affect, and Politics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Have you felt the weather lately? While not synonymous with weather, climate and our experience of it can’t be wholly captured by concepts, facts, and measures. Climate also has to do with affect, something that’s “in the air” alongside carbon emissions and other particulate matter. Although ordinarily, and vitally, addressed through frameworks of natural and social scientific inquiry—measures of ecological transformations, probabilities...
Introduction to Feminist Theory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
What does it mean to be a “feminist”? To whom does the designation belong? And what does it entail—in political, economic, and social terms? For ways of experiencing, knowing, and acting in the world? And as a theoretical position in and of itself? Feminism, now broadly deployed in every imaginable sphere of discourse, has accrued over time a remarkable diversity of meanings—epistemological, political, economic, and social—in...
Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the enigmatic world of Walter Benjamin's "The Arcades Project" and delve into his philosophy of historical materialism in this thought-provoking course at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Unravel the complexities of social phenomena, interpretation, and criticism as Benjamin takes you on a journey through the Parisian Arcades of the early 19th century while offering insights into our own time.
The Ramayana: Myth, Morality, and Conflict
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the profound influence of the epic Ramayana on art, thought, and politics, and unravel the timeless questions of morality, duty, and individuality. Delve into the diverse retellings of the Ramayana and discover how it challenges dominant assumptions, shaping the imaginations of South Asians today. A captivating journey into the heart of ancient wisdom awaits at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Delve into the transformative power of Rosalind Krauss's eclectic theoretical vocabulary and its influence on contemporary art criticism. Explore her break from formalism and her writings on modernism and postmodernism, as well as her personal connection to art in the aftermath of her memory loss and recovery. Gain new insights into aesthetic experience and interpretation through a rigorous examination of representative artworks.
Sophocles: Tragedy and the Limits of Knowledge
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the profound and unsettling world of Sophocles's tragedies as this course delves into the limits of knowledge, the human condition, and the enduring impact of his works. Uncover the border between life and death, nature and civilization, and freedom and taboo, as plays like Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone raise timeless questions that continue to resonate with philosophers, psychoanalysts, and artists. Journey through the powerful realm of tragedy and discover why Sophocles's works remain artistically and emotionally compelling to this day.
Welfare: Law, Poverty, and Social Reproduction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Uncover the hidden truth behind welfare as a system of social and labor discipline. Join this thought-provoking course to explore the history, present, and future of family regulation and understand its construction of gender, race, and kinship. Discover how welfare has shaped, and been shaped by, racial hierarchy and anxiety to envision a more humane system focused on success.
On the Heights of Despair: an Introduction to E.M. Cioran
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The son of an orthodox priest, Emil Cioran reflected obsessively on the condition of humanity in a universe without God. Outstripping even Schopenhauer in his relentless pessimism, Cioran developed an aphoristic style, arguably to literary perfection, by which he delivered piercing insights into the “inconvenience of existence” (“which neither death nor even poetry succeeds in correcting”). Despair, doubt, melancholy, failure, skepticism,...
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