Flirting

July 22 - August 5 2025

Perhaps no realm of our lives has been as instrumental in the implementation of attentional capitalism as the erotic and the interpersonal. Facebook began as a platform meant to rank women according to the libidinal urges of undergraduate boys and has served as the model for a host of platforms that coercively rearrange desire for heedless commercial gain. In 2025, these platforms facilitate a huge portion of our platonic and erotic lives. At the same time, we report loneliness and social alienation at unprecedented rates.

In this course, we’ll practice paying explicit attention to what we like about each other (i.e. flirtation) as a form of attentional solidarity in the face of systemic digital isolation. How does attentional capitalism co-opt our longing for connection with each other, and where else can we send those feelings? Can our structures of identity, desire, and kinship constitute meaningful resistances to surveillance capitalism? 

To answer these questions we’ll explore the (infra)structures informing how we conceptualize our own and each other’s desire, the power of the erotic to drive our individual and collective flourishing, and the performance of gesture, looking, and touch. Class is open to good flirters, bad flirters, new and old flirters alike. 

Led by Lily Hearne Morrey, a poet and teacher currently based in New York City

Classes on Tuesdays, 6:45 - 9:15pm EST
July 22 - August 5
55 Washington St. in DUMBO

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