About the Course
Why do we make images, whether they’re still or moving, whether we’re awake or dreaming? This course will interest academics, curators, and artists whose theory and practice begins and ends with a desire to justify why you’ve imaged something in the first place. We’ll read Lacanian film theory – e.g. Joan Copjec, Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič – and watch film noir, comedy, Westerns, horror, melodrama, both ‘popular’ and ‘avant-garde’, alongside photographic and painting practices.
About the Professor
Rohit Goel is Director/Professor of the Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). He is the editor of Future Perfect: Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary (Kaph 2023) and the co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics (Bloomsbury 2019). Rohit has taught courses in critical theory, historiography, and politics at the University of Chicago, Sciences Po Paris, the American University of Beirut, and Jnanapravaha Mumbai. He received the Fulbright IIE and Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellowships to pursue years of Arabic language study in Syria and was awarded the Fulbright DDRA and Andrew C. Mellon Fellowship for PhD dissertation research in primary sources in Lebanon. He completed his BA from Harvard College and, as Harvard University’s Paul Williams Fellow to Emmanuel College, was granted an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
Certificate
Students will receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful attendance of a course or a Certificate of Completion and Letter of Evaluation if they successfully attend and complete the final assignment. Those who complete three courses (attendance and writing) in the Praxis track over two calendar years are eligible for a BICAR Diploma in Praxis.
Refund Policy
We will refund your mode of payment — minus a 25% processing fee — if you choose not to take this course after the first session. Or, you can ‘roll over’ your balance to another or future BICAR course without a fee deduction.
Register
To register, we can facilitate two modes of payment — either a direct bank transfer to our Indian account or we also have a PayPal link: