Pleasure: Theory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy

Heidegger: Being and Time

Mental Health and the Law: Politics, Psychology, and Profit

The Madwoman in the Attic: Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Road Trips: Photography, Culture, and American Mythos

The Black Panther Party: Revolution, Repression, and Black Radical Politics

Theory and Play: an Introduction to Video Game Studies

The Paris Commune: Revolution and Utopia

Psychoanalysis and Politics (Tuesday Section)

Glenn Gould: Music, Genius, and Interpretation (Sunday Section)

Introduction to Marxist Economics

Stoicism: a Philosophical Introduction

Heidegger: Being and Time (Wednesday Section)

Theory, Fiction, and the Self: an Introduction to Autotheory

Lenin: Empire, Capital, and Revolution

Greek Mythology: Order and Chaos

Neoliberalism and Political Theory: an Introduction to Wendy Brown

Flannery O’Connor: Literature, Violence, and the American Gothic

Confessions: Philosophy, Literature, and Inner Life

Gothic Feminism: Repression, Transgression, and Rage

Introduction to Trauma

User Experience: Society, Technology, and Critical Design

Psychoanalysis and Politics

Race and Technology

Capital, Colony, Core: an Introduction to World-Systems Analysis

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Philosophy, Phenomenology, and the Body

Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Heresy, and Desire

Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project

War, Liberty, and Empire: the Fall of the Roman Republic

Social Reproduction Theory: Gender, Labor, and Capitalism

Simone Weil: Passion and Philosophy

Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man

Race, Class, and Solidarity: Robin D.G. Kelley’s Hammer and Hoe

Calculus: History and Concept

Crisis and the City: New York in the 1970s

Edward Said: Culture and Empire

The Sublime: Aesthetics, Terror, and Pleasure

What is Settler Colonialism? Land, Sovereignty, and Violence

The Making of the Soviet Union: Revolution, State, and Society

Émile Durkheim: Suicide, Structure, and Social Control

Food Sovereignty: Agriculture, Imperialism, and Climate Change

Surrealism: Art and the Unconscious

Gershom Scholem: Mysticism and the Philosophy of History

Is Sexual Liberation Possible? Freedom, Repression, and Capitalism

Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School

Reading the Qur’an: Law, Ethics, and Modernity

The Black Atlantic and Beyond: an Introduction to Paul Gilroy

Lauren Berlant: Cruel Optimism

Michel Foucault: Truth and Power (In-Person Section)

Michel Foucault: Truth and Power (Online Section)

Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Race, Ecology, and Literature

The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis and Self-Destruction

bell hooks: Race, Feminism, and Freedom

Downtown Music: Culture, Technology, and the American Avant-Garde

Portraits: Photography, Culture, and Theory

Mary Wollstonecraft: Feminism and Radical Philosophy

Aeschylus: Tragedy, Terror, and Justice

Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality

Courses Coming Soon!