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Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution" starts Sunday, March 7th! | BISR London Online Courses | Enroll here:
What is socialism? Today the word usually describes national electoral projects encouraging states to redistribute wealth. A century ago, though, socialist politics included ... 5 Likes

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Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution" starts Sunday, March 7th! | BISR London Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
What is socialism? Today the word usually describes national electoral projects encouraging states to redistribute wealth. A century ago, ... 2 Likes

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What is World Literature? Culture, Canon, and Criticism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "What is World Literature? Culture, Canon, and Criticism" starts Tuesday, February 23rd! | BISR London Online Courses | Enroll here:
Is literature a transhistorical and transnational art? Is translation a blessing or a curse? Judging by the existence of the ... 8 Likes

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What is World Literature? Culture, Canon, and Criticism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "What is World Literature? Culture, Canon, and Criticism" starts Tuesday, February 23rd! | BISR London Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
Is literature a transhistorical and transnational art? Is translation a blessing or a curse? Judging by ...

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Faculty Writing: Anti-Utopian Feminism, Against Optimism, and the Fed’s “Magic Money” - Brooklyn Institute for... For The Baffler, BISR Director Ajay Singh Chaudhary details the effervescent and rapidly shifting fixation on political optimism. On the bipolarity of the present moment, Chaudhary writes, “Perhaps what we suffer from, then, is not left melancholy at all but ... 3 Likes

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International Political Economy: an Introduction - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "International Political Economy: an Introduction" starts Thursday, March 4th! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
Talk of the global economy today often turns on questions of globalization and financialization. Twenty-first century capitalism is simultaneously highly concentrated and internationally far-flung. ... 3 Likes

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International Political Economy: an Introduction - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "International Political Economy: an Introduction" starts Thursday, March 4th! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
Talk of the global economy today often turns on questions of globalization and financialization. Twenty-first century capitalism is simultaneously highly ... 24 Likes

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Ingeborg Bachmann: Literature and Anti-Fascism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Ingeborg Bachmann: Literature and Anti-Fascism" starts Wednesday, March 3rd! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
Living through and beyond the calamities of the mid-20th century, the Austrian novelist and poet Ingeborg Bachmann raised questions that disrupt and traverse the ... 19 Likes

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Ingeborg Bachmann: Literature and Anti-Fascism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Ingeborg Bachmann: Literature and Anti-Fascism" starts Wednesday, March 3rd! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
Living through and beyond the calamities of the mid-20th century, the Austrian novelist and poet Ingeborg Bachmann raised questions that ...

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Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality" starts Wednesday, March 3rd! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.” So began Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract, one of the first modern meditations on ... 7 Likes

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Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality" starts Wednesday, March 3rd! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.” So began Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract, one of the ... 4 Comments

Ah my old boy Jean-Jacques!As an animal I like inequality and as a human I like equalityWhen you have to go to Wikipedia to check funders. They seem legit no mentions of Kochs, Olins, Melon-Scaifes or ...

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Reading Sianne Ngai: Aesthetics, Emotions, and Capitalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Reading Sianne Ngai: Aesthetics, Emotions, and Capitalism" starts Monday, March 1st! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
What kinds of aesthetic forms and judgements are particular to capitalism? The literary theorist Sianne Ngai has been pursuing some version of ... 2 Likes

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Reading Sianne Ngai: Aesthetics, Emotions, and Capitalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Reading Sianne Ngai: Aesthetics, Emotions, and Capitalism" starts Monday, March 1st! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
What kinds of aesthetic forms and judgements are particular to capitalism? The literary theorist Sianne Ngai has been ... 1 Comments

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الcapitalism بتاعتكوا رفعانا هنا😂

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Revolution and the Modern Middle East: From Post-Colonialism to Fundamentalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social... "Revolution and the Modern Middle East: From Post-Colonialism to Fundamentalism" starts Tuesday, March 2nd! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
The last decade has seen revolutionary movements take place throughout the Middle East and North Africa. From Tunisia and ... 3 Likes

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Revolution and the Modern Middle East: From Post-Colonialism to Fundamentalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social... "Revolution and the Modern Middle East: From Post-Colonialism to Fundamentalism" starts Tuesday, March 2nd! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
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Lucretius' On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure - Brooklyn Institute for Social... "Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure" starts Tuesday, March 2nd! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
Wildly ambitious, Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) offers one of the fullest—and more prescient—classical accounts ... 2 Likes

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Lucretius' On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure - Brooklyn Institute for Social... "Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things: Poetry, Materialism, and Pleasure" starts Tuesday, March 2nd! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
Wildly ambitious, Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) offers one of the ... 2 Comments

Poor choice of image. Epicureanism put pleasure at the center, but not like this. Simple pleasures were prescribed, and readers ...Love this book

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The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization" starts Sunday, March 7th! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
By 1914, institutional psychoanalysis had collapsed, riven by theoretical disagreement, political maneuvering, and personal betrayal. Once united in its adherence to Freud’s initial ... 3 Likes

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The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "The Late Freud: Psychoanalysis and Civilization" starts Sunday, March 7th! | BISR Online Courses | For more information and to enroll:
By 1914, institutional psychoanalysis had collapsed, riven by theoretical disagreement, political maneuvering, and personal betrayal. Once united in its ... 22 Likes

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Feminist Economics: an Introduction - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research "Feminist Economics: an Introduction" starts Monday, March 1st! | BISR Online Courses | Enroll here:
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 ... 1 Comments

Hurray for feminist economy! Oh, wait, there is COVID-19 out there and so many people (mostly women) have lost their ...

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"Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project" If you want to understand and critically engage with life in twenty-first century New York, there is no better place to begin than with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, the sprawling, ambitious, unparalleled examination of "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century."
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