Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies

Frankensteinism begins July 16

Brook Farm Institute is in the semiquincentennial issue of Harper’s this July — with upcoming courses on AI, Mary Shelley, Thucydides, and Fascism.

May 15 is Nakba Day | Reading List Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.

Opinion | What Will Be Left of Higher Ed in Four Years? The Trump administration’s moves are impoverishing the sector.

Sappho in session...

Sad to learn that the great Virginia Held has passed, a monumental figure of 20th century moral and political philosophy. Rest in power.

Virginia Held (1929-2026) - Daily Nous Virginia Held, professor emerita of philosophy at the City University of New York and an influential figure in ethics and social and political philosophy, has died. Professor Held is especially well known for her work on the ethics of care and feminist philosophy. She is the author of several books,...

Apropos of our upcoming seminar, "Artificial Intelligence: Labor, Machinery, and Capital."

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Belongs to the People, Not to Billionaires (Gift Article) All Americans should have a stake in the future of this technology.

Tonight's talk with Alex Gourevitch will be in person at the Cambridge Public Library, 6:30 PM EST. We're also streaming live. Register here for the link.

The Right to Unsettle – Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies In the past few years, we have seen many new constraints imposed on freedom of speech. Some of these express a new hostility to political criticism. But in other cases, they involve a magnification of longer-standing trends. Past decades have seen a growing tendency to classify various kinds of spee...

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After Auschwitz: Adorno's Political Thought - Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies Theodor Adorno is often thought of as an aloof aesthete, an inscrutable ivory-tower theorist, and a political pessimist. This course seeks to challenge these

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