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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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Freedom, Politics, and the Individual
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Introduction to Liberalism: Freedom, Politics, and the Individual This is an online course. What are we talking about when we talk about liberalism? Ubiquitous in political discourse, liberalism is nevertheless difficult to straightforwardly define—not least because it seems to mean different things to different people in different places. Is liberalism a doctrine of private property? Of social contract? Of market economies? Of individualism, self-determination,...
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Don DeLillo: Underworld
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Don DeLillo’s Underworld is a novel of ends: of the Cold War; of the 20th century; of the millennium; of history; of metanarratives; of humanism; of the American Century. It is, at the same time, a novel of the new—of the underworlds that might give rise to other worlds. The story of Nick Shay, a waste management executive living in Arizona, spans the period from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War, and maps the United...
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Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
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Can a woman “suffice to herself and be happy”? This is one of the questions at the heart of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881), which tells the story of Isabel Archer, an American navigating the constraints of European society in the late 19th century. First serialized in The Atlantic Monthly and MacMillan’s Magazine, this novel of James’s middle period displays an exhilarating combination of high style and psychological...
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Proust in Time: The Prisoner
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The Prisoner, the fifth volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and the opening passage of le roman Albertine, “the Albertine cycle,” is a portrait of obsessive love. Albertine, the prisoner of the title, prowls the golden cage of the narrator’s house, swathed in luxury, the object of his jealous, possessive fixation. How does romantic love work? And what does Proust’s picture of the tragicomedy of romantic love in belle époque France...
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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
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This is an online course. “I fear that the opera will be forbidden,” Richard Wagner wrote to a correspondent as he was completing the last act of Tristan und Isolde. “Only mediocre performances can save me! Absolutely perfect ones will make people insane.” Wagner, not known for his modesty, could be suspected of exaggerating. Yet Tristan, in its reception, has borne him out, inspiring in its listeners an erotic devotion (and at...
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Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics
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Transfeminine lives are often seen as having, in and of themselves, political consequences, theoretical limits, and some kind of relation to a ‘beyond’ of gender. While former sports celebrity Caitlyn Jenner has come to stand for the notion that ‘transgender’ is now a “respectable” identity, Olympic gold-star medalist Caster Semenya, despite not being transgender, is now caught up in a fraught and ugly fracas over the question of “what...
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Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis
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Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis: an Introduction to Freud 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...
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Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology
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Statistics and Disease: An Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic placed a spotlight on the statistical model's mathematical epidemiologists were devised to measure the extent of the disease and predict its spread, globally and locally. Often serving as the basis for determining policy, the accuracy of the models took on the stakes of life and death. Esoterica quickly became common currency: R0, exponential...
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On Decadence: Aesthetics, Culture, and Decline
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From stories of Roman emperors drowning their dinner guests in roses to the reveries of Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, tropes of decadence—decay, decline, decomposition—have flourished in modern times. Decadence has played a vital role in narratives of culture, history, and political economy. On the one hand, decadence can indicate a sense of historical or cultural loss in the face of swift-moving technological progress. On the other, it...
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Theorizing Repression
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Theorizing Repression: From Psychoanalysis to Counterinsurgency Theory “The individual’s dangerous desire for aggression,” theorized Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents, can only be “disarmed” by the establishment of “an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.” For some, Freud’s invocation of surveillance and military occupation were no mere metaphors: they entailed concrete approaches...
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Jacques Lacan: The Desire of the Other
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Jacques Lacan always insisted that he was a thoroughgoing Freudian—perhaps the most orthodox Freudian of them all. A larger-than-life provocateur, Lacan’s oracular lectures and clinical innovations (including the notorious “short session”) ultimately led to his excommunication from the International Psychoanalytic Association. Yet, despite these departures from analytic orthodoxy, Lacan remained preoccupied with Freud’s writings, calling...
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Reviews of Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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James Joyce: Ulysses
It was not easy, but I didn't expect it to be. I got some very useful insight into the book, which will help in my second reading. I will be looking for more classes taught by Professor Porte. -
Proust in Time: The Prisoner
pretentious, and unwelcoming professor -
God or Nature: Spinoza’s Ethics
This was a great class. I'm excited to continue to take BISR classes every month for the rest of my life! LOL I'm serious. -
The Singularity: AI & the Post-Human Future
Required more structure. Seemed more of a reading review club, than an instructional class. -
Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism, Fiction, and Politics
Teacher was knowledgeable, good readings, active participants. -
Signal and Noise: An Introduction to Statistics
Excellent class. Excellent instructor. Raphaële breathed life into stats. Very fun class! -
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina (In-Person)
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The Subway: Urbanism, Infrastructure, and Social Life
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Vergil’s Aeneid: Myth, Empire, and Ruin
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Mining: Industry, Ecology, and Capitalism
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Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
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Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
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Don DeLillo: Underworld
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Freedom, Politics, and the Individual
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The Mahabharata: From Exile to Apocalypse
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Feminist Science Fiction
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The Good, the Bad, and the Evil
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An Introduction to Schopenhauer
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Kant’s Critical Aesthetics
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Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
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