Tzeitung (Blog)
Event Video: The New York City Mayoral Election: the Stakes and the Spectacle
New York City—the most populous and diverse megalopolis in the US, a nerve center of national and international commerce, finance, media, and culture—always has an outsized presence in local, national, and even international attention. Like perhaps no other mayoral election in NYC history, this one—with a Democratic Socialist candidate holding a nearly incontestable lead—has put […]
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Event Videos: Radical Re-Imaginings: Classics for the 21st Century — a Symposium
On Friday, September 5, and Saturday, September 6, BISR hosted Radical Re-Imaginings: Classics for the 21st Century, a two-day symposium made possible by grants from the Society for Classical Studies and the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. An interdisciplinary group of scholars from within and beyond academia convened for a lively, contentious, and generative […]
Faculty Writing: On Climate Writing, The Right-Wing Hunger for Pain, and Race Science
In a conversation for The Baffler, Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Thea Riofrancos discussed Thea’s new book, the nature of democracy, extraction, and the pitfalls of writing about the climate crisis. Meanwhile, in two new faculty book reviews, Hannah Leffingwell catalogued, for Jacobin Magazine, how the right delights in inflicting pain; while Suzanne Schneider uncovered, in […]
Faculty Writing: On Video Games, Climate Change, and State Repression
Ajay Singh Chaudhary joined Luis Aguavivas of Unwinnable Monthly to discuss the video game industry and the politics of climate change. Meanwhile, Alberto Toscano sat down with Daniel Denvir of The Dig Radio for a wide-ranging conversation about the intensification of police, ICE, and military repression during Trump’s second term. Finally, n+1 has published a […]
Faculty Writing: On Mourning in The Iliad, and the Inescapability of Israeli Violence
In Dilettante Army, Bruce goes long on loss, mourning, and queerness in The Iliad. Then, in Mondoweiss, Abdaljawad takes heed of Israel’s preparations for military isolationism, before turning inward, in Communis Press, to weigh the immense toll of all-encompassing Israeli violence on his own fraying spirit: “I live with tears already stationed at the edges […]
Faculty in the Media: On Fascist Feminisms, and Israel’s Plans to Control Gaza City
In an interview with Haymarket Books, Sophie Lewis emphasizes the need to grapple with fascist strains of feminism. Such strains, whether corporate, neoliberal, carceral, or otherwise, are not merely misguided worldviews in need of minor tweaks, but rather internally coherent ideologies which left-feminists must actively oppose. Spotlighting the anti-fascist alternatives gathering momentum today, Lewis notes […]
Faculty Writing: On Lula’s Third Term, Partition Workshops in Stockholm, and Pokémon
In Public Seminar, Nara Roberta Silva discusses Lula da Silva’s third term and the many obstacles to his Keynesian agenda. Meanwhile, Amrita Ghosh, writing in The Wire with Farooq Sulehria, offers reflections from a workshop on Partition, in Stockholm. Then, Joseph Earl Thomas makes sense of video game culture—first in Virginia Quarterly Review, on his […]
Radical Re-Imaginings: Classics for the 21st Century — Symposium Schedule and Participants
On Friday and Saturday, September 5th and 6th, renowned scholars of the ancient world will join Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for Radical Re-Imaginings: Classics for the 21st Century — a Symposium. Across a series of four panels, we will ask: how can we understand the various violences—epistemic, political, and material—in which the history of […]
Faculty Writing: On Anti-Zionist Comics, Counters to Eco-Pessimism, and Abortion Narratives
The latest issue of Lux Magazine is a veritable BISR faculty showcase: Sophie Lewis reviews the comic-artist Solomon Brager’s rigorously self-situating work; Alyssa Battistoni builds the case for pragmatic counters to eco-pessimism; and Jessie Kindig surveys abortion narratives—across place, form, and time.
Faculty Writing: On Big Tech, and the Neoliberal Management of Mental Health
In The New York Times, Samantha Hill takes account of the loneliness that Big Tech has wrought; while, writing in Abolitionist Futures, Jenny Logan (and co-author Lizzie Hughes) critiques the pervasive “carceral management of ‘difficult’ mental health” in the UK and the United States. “‘Community care’ in the era of neoliberal politics,” as they assess, […]