‘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 …
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 …
Documentary Film Screening: Chile’s Student Uprising
June 2, 2014
Film Screening with Director Q&A. June 3rd, 17:00-19:00, LG140 Hallward Library.
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 …
Review: ‘The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society’
May 25, 2014
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
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, …
