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  • Degenerate!: Art and the State

    Degenerate!: Art and the State

    ...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.

    $75 – $95
  • The Universe: Past, Present, Future

    The Universe: Past, Present, Future

    This class is for all who desire to explore together the mysteries and fascinations of our universe. No prior knowledge of astrophysics or mathematics is required. Together we will get to the bottom of a number of concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood.

    $95 – $125
  • Revolution in China: 1911-1949

    Revolution in China: 1911-1949

    Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.

    $85 – $115
  • Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

    Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

    This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others.

    $85 – $115
  • B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

    B. Traven’s Jungle Novels

    Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for change, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

    $95 – $125
  • Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, Part 2

    Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, Part 2

    From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).

    $30 – $60
  • A People’s History of the World

    A People’s History of the World

    Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United States

    Convened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of ... Read more

    $60 – $80
  • Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions

    Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions

    New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United States

    We will look at the images of the mental patients in the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. In light of day one, during the following Sunday, over a Surrealist Brunch,

    $15 – $35
  • Degenerate!: Art and the State

    Degenerate!: Art and the State

    ...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.

    $75 – $95
  • The Universe: Past, Present, Future

    The Universe: Past, Present, Future

    This class is for all who desire to explore together the mysteries and fascinations of our universe. No prior knowledge of astrophysics or mathematics is required. Together we will get to the bottom of a number of concepts that are widely discussed but poorly understood.

    $95 – $125
  • Revolution in China: 1911-1949

    Revolution in China: 1911-1949

    Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.

    $85 – $115
  • Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

    Climate Crisis, Climate Justice, Climate Fiction

    This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others.

    $85 – $115