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What is Deconstruction? Philosophy and Literary Theory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
What is Deconstruction? The critical term, coined by Jacques Derrida, is notoriously hard to define. Derrida himself insisted that “deconstruction” is not a method of reading, nor an analytical approach, nor even stable in its own meaning. And yet, deconstruction became the cri de coeur of literary theory in the United States: to its proponents, a necessary excavation of the foundational concepts of the Western tradition; to its critics,...
Friday Nov 17th, 7–10pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
The Algorithmic Sublime: Technology, Infinity, and Transcendence
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
The sublime as a philosophical concept refers to that which exceeds rationality: the incomprehensible beauty and horror of the spirit and the natural world. But if the sublime is irrational (literally, cannot be subjected to logic) how can we make sense of the various ways that it is mediated by the rigidly logical systems of computational machinery? From Alan Turing’s foundational thought experiment that imagined a machine making inscriptions...
Wednesday Nov 15th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
The Task of the Critic: an Introduction to Rosalind Krauss
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Rosalind Krauss is among the most formidable and incisive voices in art criticism today. When she left Artforum in 1976—following a dust-up over “vulgar” images and artworld economics sparked by the magazine’s publication of the now infamous “Benglis ad”—she would go on to found October, a progressive, politically engaged journal of contemporary art that, throughout the 1980s, transformed the way art objects and movements were seen...
Wednesday Nov 15th, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
Reading Fiction
Alaa Al Aswany Creative Writing Workshop
This workshop teaches the tools to appreciate literary works and learn from accomplished writers from around the world. Students learn to interpret fiction, recognize underlying themes, decipher writing techniques, and analyze the human content of each story. Through readings, writing exercises, and class discussions, we examine works by such diverse authors as Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez, Kate Chopin, Fyodor Dostoevsky,...
Monday Oct 23rd, 6:30–9:30pm Eastern Time
(5 sessions)
Reading Fiction in Arabic
Alaa Al Aswany Creative Writing Workshop
In this class, students learn the rules of literary appreciation and study a range of classical and modern literary works by great writers. Students will learn the different methods of literary analysis with its five elements (story - characters - style - plot - human content) and they will practice critical reading comparing different texts...This chapter is an essential preparation for anyone who wants to study creative writing.
Wednesday Oct 25th, 3:30–6:30pm Eastern Time
(5 sessions)
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Video Game Writing I: Conception (3-Week Intensive)
Video games have exploded into our culture (sometimes literally), earning double the annual revenue of movies. They have also become wondrously diverse, ranging from shoot em’ ups like Call of Duty to sophisticated stories like Bioshock Infinite to offbeat indie games. Simple ideas like “avoid ghosts” have evolved into complex storytelling not unlike what you find in literature and drama. Video games require writers, but they must understand...
Tuesday Oct 17th, 12am–11:45pm Eastern Time
(4 sessions)
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Creative Writing Weekly via Zoom
The Writing Studio @ Live Online via Zoom
In this class, you will learn first and foremost that you can write—and write well! In fact you will surprise yourself by the work you’ll be producing. The class is designed to enhance your creativity, imagination and personal voice while also teaching the skills of creative writing—memoir and fiction. This is an ongoing class geared toward those who are committed to writing and will continue this practice overtime....
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Wednesday Oct 4th, 10am–1pm Pacific Time
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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