You can now register to attend this year's social ecology summer intensive course, hosted in Lexington, KY! Our program theme revolves around the role of the arts and cultural organizing in our movement work. Open to all!

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Week 4: Dialectics applied to understand history (Marx & historical materialism) .Week 5: Dialectics applied to understand nature (Bookchin & social ecology) .Week 6: Dialectics as a social practice, for those w/ different views to approach truth through dialogue with each other.

The syllabus is structured around the following themes: Week 1: Introduction to dialectical thinking, in contrast to category thinking .Week 2: Ancient and premodern roots of dialectics, in Heraclitus, Taoism, Buddhism, and Aztec philosophy .Week 3: Beginner's guide to Hegel.

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Join us this fall for our online course Our Being Is Becoming: An Introduction to Thinking Dialectically - a beginner's guide to dialectics, from the ancients Heraclitus and Lao Tzu on through Hegel, Marx, Bookchin, Mao, and beyond. No philosophy background required, open to all!

RT @defendrojava: We're proud to be co-sponsoring this year's summer intensive hosted by our friends @InstSocEco. Register today to reserve….

If you're not able to come in person but would like to watch the sessions live, you can participate virtually! Register for that here:

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The program is designed to stack the foundational sessions on Saturday and Sunday, so you should still join us even if you're only able to attend over the weekend -- reduced cost weekend-only tickets are available.

Check out the program for this year's social ecology summer intensive course in Lexington, KY! We'll be joined by speakers from @CooperationJXN, @SolarpunkClub, @CommunityMvt, @CoopDayton, @FightXPrisons, @KYTenants, and other radical community organizations.

We have to reiterate again and again, among our neighbors & fellow workers & at the bus stop, everywhere our people are gathered: no matter what the capitalist press says, the people of Iran are our brothers and sisters, and the regime in DC is the greatest threat to humanity.

RT @InstSocEco: This summer, we are running a brand new course offering: Home/lessness, taught by Kurdish philosopher and longtime associat….

While the focus will be mainly on homelessness in the United States, these questions are essential to wrestle with elsewhere around the world. The syllabus is available on the course page if you want to take a preview!. Register here to attend:

We will discuss the root causes of the housing crisis, the link between housing and the ability to participate meaningfully in the public sphere, homelessness and othering, and the relationship between these and the exercise of biopower in contemporary nation-states.

This course will investigate homelessness as a political problem from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on the political economy of housing and homelessness in relation to democratic citizenship, biopolitics, governmentality, and social justice.

This summer, we are running a brand new course offering: Home/lessness, taught by Kurdish philosopher and longtime associate of the ISE Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde. Start date July 9! Register today to join.

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You can also watch our book talk with the author:.

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