Audrey Nicolaides
@continentaldrifts.bsky.social
Core Faculty and Chicago Coordinator at @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social | history and theory of left internationalism
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Modern Art: An Introduction (In-Person) | Winter-Spring Courses 2026 | BISR Chicago | buff.ly/BfPhz9H
January 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Modern Art: An Introduction (In-Person) | Winter-Spring Courses 2026 | BISR Chicago | buff.ly/BfPhz9H
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November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School (In-Person) | Fall Courses | BISR Chicago | buff.ly/WVM5eO0
Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School (Chicago) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
This course is an intro to some of the key works and concepts of the Frankfurt School, including thinkers like Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin..
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November 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Critical Theory and the Now: a Contemporary Introduction to the Frankfurt School (In-Person) | Fall Courses | BISR Chicago | buff.ly/WVM5eO0
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Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/iWYznOQ
September 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks | Fall Courses | BISR Online | buff.ly/iWYznOQ
Heartbreak! at the socialism conference. Somebody has better guillotine earrings than mine
July 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Heartbreak! at the socialism conference. Somebody has better guillotine earrings than mine
CPUSA keeps stealing my chairs at the socialism conference and I'm starting to see virtues of capitalism
July 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
CPUSA keeps stealing my chairs at the socialism conference and I'm starting to see virtues of capitalism
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Call for Partners: Bring BISR to Your Space! | Expand your existing programming, reach new audiences, provide BISR-style learning for colleagues and your community | To learn more: buff.ly/4fGJa42
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Call for Partners: Bring BISR to Your Space! | Expand your existing programming, reach new audiences, provide BISR-style learning for colleagues and your community | To learn more: buff.ly/4fGJa42
Come read Lenin with me this July! @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
What is to Be Done? an Introduction to Lenin - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
A ruthless pragmatist, sharp-tongued polemicist, gifted theoretician, consummate revolutionary, and among the most brilliant political minds in modern history, Lenin was the first revolutionary Marxis...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Come read Lenin with me this July! @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
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next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Spinoza's Ethics (Chicago) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
In Baruch Spinoza’s magnum opus, the Ethics, he writes: “That eternal and infinite being we call God, or Nature, acts from the same necessity from which he exists.” This formula—Deus sive Natura, God ...
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June 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
next month I am teaching a course on Spinoza's Ethics here in Chicago through BISR. this is an extremely good opportunity to learn to grasp the absolutely infinite divine nature sub specie æternitatis I'm just saying thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Chicago) | June BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/cfbGDoH
May 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (Chicago) | June BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/cfbGDoH
Taught Rosa Luxemburg on women's suffrage earlier this week and no punches were pulled:
May 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Taught Rosa Luxemburg on women's suffrage earlier this week and no punches were pulled:
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Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/WDka8kz
April 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/WDka8kz
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Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/6FbZWA6
April 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/6FbZWA6
A propos of nothing, i will be teaching this class in June for @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social based on a syllabus put together by @materialistjew.bsky.social
What is Fascism? Economy, Society, and State (Chicago)
The word “fascism” is used frequently to describe intensely militaristic, racist, xenophobic, or repressive politics. Almost as often, fascism is used as a shorthand for a form of “totalitarian” gover...
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April 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A propos of nothing, i will be teaching this class in June for @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social based on a syllabus put together by @materialistjew.bsky.social
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/awZ9SLw
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/awZ9SLw
This feels so inconsequential given current events, but I finally finished my last dissertation chapter, a 38K words monster in which I read History and Class Consciousness against the history of the early Comintern. I've been at it for two years and I honestly didn't think I would ever get it done
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This feels so inconsequential given current events, but I finally finished my last dissertation chapter, a 38K words monster in which I read History and Class Consciousness against the history of the early Comintern. I've been at it for two years and I honestly didn't think I would ever get it done
This is exactly right. The terrifying power of MAGA as a political slogan is that it offers meaning without burden to one group while imposing burden without meaning on everyone else-- and straight up anhilitation to specific groups it constructs as alien
April 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is exactly right. The terrifying power of MAGA as a political slogan is that it offers meaning without burden to one group while imposing burden without meaning on everyone else-- and straight up anhilitation to specific groups it constructs as alien
BISR Chicago is hiring Associate Faculty to start teaching in Fall 2025. More information below. Please share broadly with your networks!
Open Call for Chicago Faculty | BISR is seeking scholars who are interested in joining our Associate Faculty in Chicago | buff.ly/1HfoGVw
April 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
BISR Chicago is hiring Associate Faculty to start teaching in Fall 2025. More information below. Please share broadly with your networks!
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Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution (Chicago) | April BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/PMRiZuc
April 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution (Chicago) | April BISR Courses at Twelve Ten Gallery | buff.ly/PMRiZuc
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ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
April 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.
Getting ready for my upcoming course on Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, starting next week at the @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
Lukács is well known in critical theory circles and virtually unknown everywhere else
So, who was he and why read him?
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Lukács is well known in critical theory circles and virtually unknown everywhere else
So, who was he and why read him?
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March 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Getting ready for my upcoming course on Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, starting next week at the @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
Lukács is well known in critical theory circles and virtually unknown everywhere else
So, who was he and why read him?
🧵🧵🧵
Lukács is well known in critical theory circles and virtually unknown everywhere else
So, who was he and why read him?
🧵🧵🧵
Resurfacing from my social media break to share some of the exciting stuff we've got coming up at BISR Chicago @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
In April, we'll be offering two classes on Emily Dickinson taught by @zachtavlin.bsky.social and Georg Lukács taught by myself. See link for more info:
In April, we'll be offering two classes on Emily Dickinson taught by @zachtavlin.bsky.social and Georg Lukács taught by myself. See link for more info:
Chicago
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March 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Resurfacing from my social media break to share some of the exciting stuff we've got coming up at BISR Chicago @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social
In April, we'll be offering two classes on Emily Dickinson taught by @zachtavlin.bsky.social and Georg Lukács taught by myself. See link for more info:
In April, we'll be offering two classes on Emily Dickinson taught by @zachtavlin.bsky.social and Georg Lukács taught by myself. See link for more info:
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Socialism or Barbarism: an Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg | May BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/arY8YSY
March 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Socialism or Barbarism: an Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg | May BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/arY8YSY