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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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Robert Moses: Power, Urban Planning, and Inequality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
From urban parks to the interstate highway system and suburban developments (and the racial redlining that went along with them) Robert Moses definitively shaped the way Americans live. Equal parts city planner and social engineer—visionary and, according to many, despot—Moses became a household name with the 1974 publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker. In it we read not only of Moses the urban planner, but also of the political...
Hysteria, Dreams, and Psychoanalysis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
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...
Rousseau: Reason, Desire, and Inequality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
“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 democracy, autonomy, and self-government, and the rampant inequality found in human society. Standing uneasily amongst his Enlightenment peers, Rousseau disagreed vociferously with his fellow philosophes that reason was a ready tool for human emancipation and justice. Rather, man...
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Introduction to Mathematical Epidemiology
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
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...
On Decadence: Aesthetics, Culture, and Decline
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
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...
Theorizing Repression
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
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...
Jacques Lacan: The Desire of the Other
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
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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