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 …
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, …
Centre for Critical Theory Workshop: Neoliberalism, Criticism and Crisis (November 20th)
November 6, 2014
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 …
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 …
Thinking with Animals Workshop
June 16, 2014
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 …
Seminar: ‘The Line, The Symbol and Lacan’
May 26, 2014
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 …
What is Psychology? Badiou Interviews Foucault in 1965
May 22, 2014
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, …
Friction Registration!
April 17, 2014
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/
CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Dr Olga Goriunova
March 4, 2014
The Ragged Manifold of the Subject: Databaseness and the Generic in Curating YouTube. Wednesday March 19th, 16:30, A39 Sir Clive Granger Building.
