Intoxication, Addiction & Art [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 5 Weeks | Mondays February 24 - March 24 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
When does pleasurable intoxication turn to debilitating addiction? Why are some writers and artists drawn to drugs and alcohol as a creative stimulant, while others find in them their demise? This seminar covers visual art, music, film, and literature that draws from, depicts, or expresses the experiences of intoxication and addiction. We will read philosophical explorations of intoxication, as well as theoretical, scientific, and historical accounts of addiction. We will use art to consider both the pleasures and perils of drugs and alcohol (and other “addictive substances”) and our own and loved ones’ experience(s) of them. Expect the course to consider intoxication and addiction in their broadest possible uses, and also to put pressure on the romanticization of intoxication, as well as on dominant theories and practices around addiction. Central to our inquiry will be concerns about how race, class, and gender have determined our understandings of what count as “healthy pleasures” versus incapacitating “vices.” We will also pay attention to how both state and market forces determine our experience of drugs and alcohol, and how artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers have engaged with and critiqued these structures. Writers and artists considered: Derrida, Klee, Burroughs, Acker, Aronofsky, Foucault, Ward, Preciado, Jamison, van Gogh, Deleuze, and Wilde.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 5 Weeks | Mondays February 24 - March 24 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
When does pleasurable intoxication turn to debilitating addiction? Why are some writers and artists drawn to drugs and alcohol as a creative stimulant, while others find in them their demise? This seminar covers visual art, music, film, and literature that draws from, depicts, or expresses the experiences of intoxication and addiction. We will read philosophical explorations of intoxication, as well as theoretical, scientific, and historical accounts of addiction. We will use art to consider both the pleasures and perils of drugs and alcohol (and other “addictive substances”) and our own and loved ones’ experience(s) of them. Expect the course to consider intoxication and addiction in their broadest possible uses, and also to put pressure on the romanticization of intoxication, as well as on dominant theories and practices around addiction. Central to our inquiry will be concerns about how race, class, and gender have determined our understandings of what count as “healthy pleasures” versus incapacitating “vices.” We will also pay attention to how both state and market forces determine our experience of drugs and alcohol, and how artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers have engaged with and critiqued these structures. Writers and artists considered: Derrida, Klee, Burroughs, Acker, Aronofsky, Foucault, Ward, Preciado, Jamison, van Gogh, Deleuze, and Wilde.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Lindsey Andrews | 5 Weeks | Mondays February 24 - March 24 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
When does pleasurable intoxication turn to debilitating addiction? Why are some writers and artists drawn to drugs and alcohol as a creative stimulant, while others find in them their demise? This seminar covers visual art, music, film, and literature that draws from, depicts, or expresses the experiences of intoxication and addiction. We will read philosophical explorations of intoxication, as well as theoretical, scientific, and historical accounts of addiction. We will use art to consider both the pleasures and perils of drugs and alcohol (and other “addictive substances”) and our own and loved ones’ experience(s) of them. Expect the course to consider intoxication and addiction in their broadest possible uses, and also to put pressure on the romanticization of intoxication, as well as on dominant theories and practices around addiction. Central to our inquiry will be concerns about how race, class, and gender have determined our understandings of what count as “healthy pleasures” versus incapacitating “vices.” We will also pay attention to how both state and market forces determine our experience of drugs and alcohol, and how artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers have engaged with and critiqued these structures. Writers and artists considered: Derrida, Klee, Burroughs, Acker, Aronofsky, Foucault, Ward, Preciado, Jamison, van Gogh, Deleuze, and Wilde.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.