A non-profit pedagogical institute for rigorous research, committed to the relationships between intellectual inquiry, social reality, and concrete change.
BICAR is a non-profit, pedagogical and research para-academy. We promote critical thinking, teaching, research methods, reading, and writing in the humanities and social sciences, overlooked or beyond the scope of existing ‘university discourse’. https://t.co/jhmgaNTUDP
Upcoming Course
HISTORICITY | 2 – 26 Feb
Resurrecting the concept of ‘historicity’, BICAR’s new course pushes us to reorient the ways we think, speak, act, and create in a world steeped in catastrophe that feels inevitable but is not.
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read from Norman O. Brown’s 1981 lectures on The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll discuss Alain Badiou’s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism.
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read from Lorenzo Chiesa and
Adrian Johnston’s new book, God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers.
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read from Fethi Benslama’s Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read from Joan Copjec’s magisterial new book, Cloud: Between Paris and Tehran.
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read selections from Eric Santner’s On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig.
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PSYCHOTHEOLOGY | 9 September - 2 October 2025
We’ll read selections of Lacan’s analysis of God and monotheism from his Écrits and Seminar.
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The subject of this course is the psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan and his analyses of religion, staging a rigorous conversation between the Lacanian and Islamic critique of Judeo-Christianity.
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The Writing Academic Texts workshop (28-29 June) will teach concrete skills to students, long-form journalists, public intellectuals, and professors who get stuck honing and translating their critical thought in written form.
https://t.co/m9BgfYitHK
RUMORS, CAPITALISM, CONSPIRACY THEORIES | 10 June - 3 July 2025
This course centres on two of the most important analyses of capitalism recently published: Mladen Dolar’s Rumors (2025) and Alenka Zupančič’s Disavowal (2024).
https://t.co/t4Pwy3Wfo2
This course teaches writing with style: clearly, directly, and for diverse audiences, without compromising the complexity of ideas.Comprised of 8 interactive sessions, Write: Style is designed for anyone seeking to communicate effectively in written form
https://t.co/nSLjTDzg4T
Writing about Art:
Artist Statements, Curatorial Proposals, Portfolios, Art Critical Essays
31 May - 1 June
Over 2 days, we’ll redress the major afflictions often faced by artists, curators, and critics while writing about art in our contemporary.
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LARS VON TRIER | 5 - 30 May 2025
We’ll watch DANCER IN THE DARK alongside a guest lecture by philosopher, film theorist, and contemporary dancer Urvi Vora (Brown University).
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LARS VON TRIER | 5 - 30 May 2025
We’ll watch THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS alongside Rohit Goel’s lecture on how human failure is crucial to creation vis-à-vis Lacan’s re-elaboration of Freud’s theory of the Oedipus Complex.
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LARS VON TRIER | 5 - 30 May 2025
We’ll watch THE IDIOTS alongside Joan Copjec’s text, ‘May ’68, The Emotional Month’, analysing through both how well-intentioned activism can actually shore up what you’re activating against in capitalist society.
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The 3-day workshop starts this Friday!
We'll teach how you should style, argue, and logically organise your application to articulate why you are the right fit for what you are applying to in a persuasive way.
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