Thicket

Every week, Thicket hosts live online humanities classes led by PhDs from top universities. Philosophy. Literature. History. Art. No grades. No tests. No pressure. Just engaging (and fun) conversations.

We just opened enrollment for this amazing live class, taught by Kay Barrett (PhD Candidate, Stanford) Prophetess of Afrofuturism: Reading Octavia Butler thicket.com/courses/1915-p…

Many educators want to keep AI out of education. But then it’d just be educton.

It’s pretty wild how good seminar discussions can be, when there are no grades.

There still time to enroll in this fascinating live class on the history of medicine: thicket.com/courses/1684-a…

If you enjoy gothic and horror literature, you should be reading Mariana Enríquez: shortstoryproject.com/stories/the-li…

Excited for our next class, "Reading the New Latin American Weird," to kick off tomorrow. We'll be discussing Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow" and other great stories.

Happy 4th!

More to come!

Session 3: "The birth of gods and monsters" "Is chaos necessarily fearsome, or can it be comforting?" "Is the cycle of fear and violence in Hesiod's Theogony or the Enuma Elish common in other cultures?" "What, if anything, do these origin stories tell us about the cultures that created them?"

Highlights of questions from our first class: "Gods and Monsters: Understanding our Hopes and Fears" 🧵

This is such a fun idea for a class: "In this course, we will be reading out loud Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1928) and discussing them together. We will discuss how we understand the different dynamic between characters, how lines (should) sound, and how we imagine putting them on stage." thicket.com/courses/1290-t…

New Class: Rogue Code: Thinking With Robots and AI In this course, we will explore different works of science fiction that deal with this trope of "rogue code" and also draw parallel on how these imaginations have entered popular imaginations of technology in real-life. thicket.com/courses/1289-r…

Pretty stoked about my class schedule this summer.

We're super excited to announce our new live course on Stoicism, taught by Prof. Jennifer Baker. Join us in July to discuss Stoics' views on virtue, emotions, and their bearing upon a good life. thicket.com/courses/1816-s…

@inazarova @valbelaziorau @_senkovskiy That's such a good idea! 🤩

@valbelaziorau @_senkovskiy Thank you, gentlemen! The softbox is kindly provided by our friends at @thicket 💚

Current home office situation 🐈

In this course we'll engage with different texts from Russian thinkers and writers from the 19th century (the "Century of Nationalism") to try to understand some of the main questions, debates, and ideas which gave rise to Russia's national identity, or rather, identities. thicket.com/courses/1717-r…