Thinking with Animals Workshop

Tracey Potts and Eva Giraud are doing a workshop around Animal Studies this Friday (20th June, Trent B38a, 1:30-5pm). If you do want to attend, email Eva (Eva.Giraud@nottingham.ac.uk) and she will reply with some short readings. Here’s the description … Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh my! : Thinking with Animals The idea of thinking …

Documentary Film Screening: Chile’s Student Uprising

Film Screening with Director Q&A. June 3rd, 17:00-19:00, LG140 Hallward Library.

Seminar: ‘The Line, The Symbol and Lacan’

You are all cordially invited to this seminar which will be led by Associate Professor Matthew Del Nevo who is senior lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, Australia. It will take place in room A46 of the Trent Building, 5-7, on Thursday the 26th of June. It will be relevant to staff …

Review: ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’

By way of whetting your appetite for next week’s workshop on neoliberalism – and also to encourage the use of this blog as a repository for short reviews of recent critical theory publications we’d all benefit from knowing about – I thought it worth taking a moment to heartily recommend Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval’s …

What is Psychology? Badiou Interviews Foucault in 1965

For all the interviews of Michel Foucault that are available in English there are still some that are not available while others are only partially available. An abbreviated and edited version of Alain Badiou’s interview with Foucault on the origins and status of psychology (“Philosophy and Psychology.”) is available in The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume 2, …

CCT Event: Professor Peter Osborne

Wednesday May 14th at 18:30, Nottingham Contemporary What Makes Contemporary Art Contemporary? Or, Other People’s Lives

Friction Registration!

Registration for Friction will close in just over a week (on the 28th April). If you would like to come along, or read more about the event, then please take a look at our conference website, here: http://frictionconference.wordpress.com/

(Postponed) CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. David Cunningham

Realism and Abstraction: Representation and Media After Adorno. This event has been postponed. We will announce a new date and time in the near future.

Is The Unconscious Historical? (Part 2)

This interview is published in two parts. In Part 1 discussion focused on the origins of psychoanalysis, its historical debt to hysteria and the fall of the ‘Master’. In this second part, the discussion moved onto the symptoms of neoliberalism and the challenges faced by the clinician and the activist. SG: If hysteria is a symptom of …

CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Dr Olga Goriunova

The Ragged Manifold of the Subject: Databaseness and the Generic in Curating YouTube. Wednesday March 19th, 16:30, A39 Sir Clive Granger Building.