An Outline of Two of Tiqqun’s Concepts: ‘Civil War’ and ‘Bloom’
December 19, 2014
The following was just one of the presentations given during the ‘Anti-Market’ section of the Vital Theory symposium that took place at the Nottingham Contemporary on the 12th of December 2014. Our very own David Eckersley (former MA and now PhD student in the Centre for Critical Theory) offers a quick take on two key …
Vital Theory Paper: Re-membering, human rights and neoliberalism
The human rights project, ostensibly hegemonic since the collapse of communism, has gained most traction in so- called transitional societies, a term which does not describe an anomaly, so much as it does a practice designed to manage the global order of things. It describes the ever more frequent process in which the end of …
Call for Papers – Time Served: Discipline and Punish 40 years on (11-12 September 2015, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, UK)
December 16, 2014
40 years after it was first published in French, the impact of Michel Foucault’s seminal text Discipline and Punish on theories of incarceration, discipline and power remains largely unchallenged. The aim of this conference is to revisit the text in light of the past four decades of penal developments, public debate and social consciousness on …
Debord is dead, long live Debord!
December 4, 2014
Twenty years ago, Guy Debord, the French thinker responsible for The Society of the Spectacle (a book, a ‘sequel’, and a film) and figurehead of the Situationist movement, took his own life. It seems an appropriate moment to reflect. Rather than sentimentally recalling his ‘finest moments’ and sycophantically inventorying his ‘greatest ideas’ – which would, …
Youtube Link for Stuart Elden’s Talk at the Nottingham Contemporary
November 16, 2014
For those of you who couldn’t make it, or for those of you who simply want to see it again, the Youtube link for Professor Stuart Elden’s talk at the Nottingham Contemporary last week is here: Happy Viewing! Best, Colin Wright
‘Other Voices’ – Nottingham Autism Film Screening with Director Q&A – 29 November
November 6, 2014
‘Other Voices: A Different Outlook on Autism’ – Film Screening with Director Q&A – Nottingham Lakeside Arts – 29 November, 18:15
Centre for Critical Theory Workshop: Neoliberalism, Criticism and Crisis (November 20th)
In this second workshop in an intermittent series devoted to exploring relations between neoliberalism, criticism, and crisis, we propose to adopt a more detailed focus on issues to do with neoliberal subjects and with law (and/or the lack of it) in contemporary politics. We will be exploring a number of key readings and there will …
Stuart Elden – ‘Foucault, Subjectivity, and Truth’ – 12 November
November 5, 2014
Nottingham Contemporary, Wednesday 12 November, 18:30.
Writing Around Contemporary Art: 6th November
November 1, 2014
As many of you will know, several of us involved in the Centre for Critical Theory have a keen interest in art practice and art theory as well as the links between aesthetics and politics. We’re happy therefore to announce that on Thursday the 6th of November at 7:30, the well-known artist, TV art critic and …
Conference: The Subject of Addiction (8-9th September)
August 10, 2014
Dear All, I am delighted to be able to alert you to The Centre for Critical Theory’s upcoming conference entitled The Subject of Addiction: Culture and Clinic which is taking place in Highfields House on the 8th and 9th of September. This interdisciplinary event brings together critical and cultural theorists with clinical practitioners in order to interrogate …
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