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A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: An Introduction to Marx
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
In the mid-nineteenth century, a young Karl Marx wrote, in the form of a published open letter to Arnold Ruge: “But if the designing of the future and the proclamation of ready-made solutions for all time is not our affair, then we realize all the more clearly what we have to accomplish in the present—I am speaking of a ruthless criticism of everything existing, ruthless in two senses: The criticism must not be afraid of its own conclusions,...
Thursday Feb 1st, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
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Reading the Iliad
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature, even as it remains enduringly strange—often, it seems, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In our course, we will attempt to recapture some of the strangeness and some of the continuing relevance of the Iliad. We will closely read and discuss the entirety of the poem, with especial attention to the following themes: the...
Wednesday Jan 31st, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
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Video Game Writing I: Conception (3-Week Intensive)
Unlock the secrets of crafting captivating narratives for video games in this immersive course. Dive into the world of game writing and learn how to build intricate stories, develop compelling characters, and create immersive worlds that will keep players engaged for hours. Whether you're a seasoned writer or a gaming enthusiast looking to turn your passion into a career, this course is your ticket to unlocking the power of storytelling in the gaming industry.
Tuesday Jan 16th, 12am–11:45pm Eastern Time
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Creative Writing Weekly via Zoom
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Unleash your creativity and find your unique voice through the power of writing. Join a supportive community of writers as you explore the art of storytelling and unlock your hidden potential. Whether you're a seasoned writer or new to the craft, this class will guide you on an inspiring journey of self-expression and literary discovery.
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Wednesday Dec 6th, 2–5pm Pacific Time
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Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Feminism
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
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...
Sunday Feb 4th, 2–5pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Understanding Loneliness: Literature, Philosophy,Theory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
How are we to understand loneliness today? It appears that we are facing a mass epidemic of loneliness—one perhaps exacerbated by virological pandemic of COVID-19. Britain has appointed a Minister of Loneliness to counter rising rates of isolation. Approximately 20-43 percent of American adults over the age of 60 experience “frequent or intense loneliness.” And, it is clear from medical research that loneliness has significant health impacts:...
$315
4 sessions
Friendship: Ethics, Politics, and Literature
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
What does it mean to be friends? What makes the deep affection found in friendship distinct from other intimacies, like marriage and kinship? How does this peculiar form of attachment give rise to ethics, to politics, to the good life—or not? In Homer, Achilles loved Patroclus as if he were his own life. Aristotle, echoing this sentiment in his Nicomachean Ethics, describes a friend as a second self, as integral to a life well lived—he even...
$315
4 sessions
Love, Literature & Destruction
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Love, Literature, and Destruction: an Introduction to Marguerite Duras Novelist, playwright, and experimental filmmaker, Marguerite Duras resists easy categorization. Despite endless attempts by critics and scholars to claim her for emerging genres and movements, it may be easier to say what she was not: she was not part of the nouveau roman (new novel) movement in France, she was not a forerunner of autofiction, she did not write autobiography,...
$315
4 sessions
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Literature
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Literature: an Introduction to Hélène Cixous How can psychoanalysis be used to understand literature—not as an object of study, but as a mode of experiencing life through reading and writing? For Hélène Cixous, the “French Feminist” perhaps best known for the controversial practice of “feminine writing” (écriture feminine), literature offers a means of engaging and subverting systems of sexual hierarchy...
$315
4 sessions
James Joyce: Ulysses
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The archetypal novel of high modernism, James Joyce’s Ulysses attempts to synthesize the life of a city, the afterlives of previous literary styles, and the entirety of the Western canon as it stood in the early twentieth century. Since its original publication when it was serialized in the Little Review from March 1918 to March 1920, Ulysses has churned up debates about obscenity, obscurity, gender, sexuality, censorship,...
$315
4 sessions
Proust in Time: The Fugitive
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Marcel Proust’s The Fugitive, the sixth and penultimate volume of In Search of Lost Time, reckons with obsessive love and its aftermath. In it, Albertine, the narrator’s erstwhile lover, is a spectre. But she is far from the only ghostly thing about the tail end of Proust’s epic, whose specters include Alfred Agostinelli (Proust’s secretary and chauffeur and the lost object of his desire), queer desire, the self-consuming ruin of...
$315
4 sessions
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Ovid begins his Metamorphoses, “My soul would speak of bodies changed into new forms,” and it is the great theme of physical transformation that unites the poem’s many myths: humans becomes animals and plants, and vice versa; humans becomes stones and constellations; and humans change their sex. No poem from antiquity has so influenced Western European literature and art. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Dante creatively raided Ovid’s tales...
$335
4 sessions
Ethnopornography: Race, Erotics, and Domination
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Early anthropology had a sex problem. By day it studied kinship—how legitimately procreative sex produces a society—collected intimate items, and photographed naked subjects; by night, it hung around corners, pestered and menaced its way into intimate spaces. These early anthropologists were not alone. Their settler peers developed obsessions in schoolgirls and purchased wives, in erotic genres of parlor photography, in romantic rape literature,...
$335
4 sessions
Gershom Scholem: Mysticism & the Philosophy of History
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Friend to Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, and Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem may be the best known scholar of Jewish Studies in the 20th century. Above all he is associated with launching the modern academic study of Jewish mysticism. However, Scholem’s study of mysticism was only part of his much broader, and far more engaged and systematic thinking, about questions of contemporary politics and the Jewish historical condition. An...
$335
4 sessions
Reading the Qur’an: Law, Ethics, and Modernity
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Reading the Qur’an: Law, Ethics, and Modernity “Read!” This is the very first word, the first injunction of the Qur’an. Although if one were to “read” (iqra) the Qur’an, as one reads any other book, you’d discover that the word appears, perhaps puzzlingly, in the 96th surah or “chapter” of the “book.” Traditionally understood as revealed to Muhammed, an illiterate and not particularly well-off merchant from Mecca, the Qur’an...
$315
4 sessions
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