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Discover the rich tapestry of human culture through online humanities classes, where you can delve into subjects like history, literature, philosophy, and art to broaden your knowledge and deepen your understanding of the world around you.

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Solarpunk: Theory, Fiction, and Radical Futures

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Explore a radical vision of the future where nature and technology align, challenging the pessimistic outlook on climate change. Immerse yourself in the art, theory, and speculative fiction of solarpunk to reimagine a world of decommodified energy and human liberation. Join us on this intellectual journey towards a harmonious coexistence of technology, nature, and human life.

(29) All levels 21 and older
$335

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Theorizing Repression: From Psychoanalysis to Counterinsurgency Theory

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

Uncover the entwined history of psychoanalysis and state power in a captivating exploration of repression tactics. Join us at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research as we delve into the intersections of Freudian theory with military strategy, urban policing, and guerrilla warfare. Through an array of diverse readings, we'll analyze how psychoanalytic concepts have been utilized to pathologize dissent and justify both state and revolutionary violence, raising critical questions about power, resistance, and the psyche.

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Being Asian and Jewish in America: Embracing Liminality

92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom

In this two-part talk, Jared Chiang-Zeizel will explore the transitional space Asian American Jews often find themselves while growing up in America. Patrons will gain a deeper understanding of the mixed experience in America, a broadening view of Asian and Jewish communities in the American diaspora, and how one can embrace the liminal experience they find themselves in.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Literature

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Julia Kristeva: Feminism, Abjection, and Theory

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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Pornography: Aesthetics, Politics, and Pleasure

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

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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Jorge Luis Borges: Mysticism, Fiction, and Politics

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

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...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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$315

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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...

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What is Conservatism?

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom

While contemporary political discourse is often characterized by heated discussions of liberalism or fascism, socialism or “populism”, the broad category of “conservative” thought seems to take a back seat. This despite its enduring relevance not only for understanding political history and the history of political thought, but also as an analytical tool today. What exactly is conservatism? How can we understand a category so capacious as...

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How to Advocate for Transformative & Intersectional

Be Social Change

Full Course Title: How to Advocate for Transformative & Intersectional Policy Solutions to Prevent Hate Crimes In this workshop, participants will learn about transformative and intersectional policy solutions to prevent hate crimes. Within this workshop, we will discuss cross-sector policy solutions that can work to prevent violence and create culture change for a long-term prevention framework. We know that transformative solutions will...

(245) All levels 18 and older
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The Gilded Age Palaces of Newport, RI

Bronxville Adult School @ Virtual Classroom

When Edith Wharton purchased her “Lands’ End” cottage in Newport, RI, she found it “incurably ugly” and immediately renovated it into a comfortable vacation home. But surrounding her, the small resort town of eclectic, shingle cottages developed into a row of American palaces, each outdoing the next. See nearly one hundred vintage and contemporary photographs and learn how Gilded Age “old” money–like the Astors and Goelets–tried...

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