Money and Dreams is a course that guides students through a rigorous investigation of the impact of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud on artistic practice. Marx and Freud, as well as the schools of thought and practice associated with them both (historical materialism and psychoanalysis, respectively), have been profoundly influential to how artists think about what art can be and do. For this course, students will put central works by Marx and Freud in conversation with works created by artists (such as Félix González-Torres and Adrienne Kennedy) and theorists (such as Sianne Ngai and Alenka Zupančič) working in their wake in the 20th and 21st centuries. The goal of the course will be for students to use all of this material as an occasion to think new thoughts and make new work about the relationship between desire and politics, class struggle and the unconscious, money and dreams, art and world. Assignments will be both creative and critical and students from all disciplines and departments are welcome to register.