CCT Event: Professor Peter Osborne
May 8, 2014
Wednesday May 14th at 18:30, Nottingham Contemporary What Makes Contemporary Art Contemporary? Or, Other People’s Lives
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/
(Postponed) CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. David Cunningham
April 7, 2014
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)
March 11, 2014
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
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.
Is the Unconscious Historical?: Conversations on the Origin of Psychoanalysis and its Clinical and Political Relevance Today (Part 1)
February 13, 2014
This interview will appear in two parts. In Part 1, the discussion focused on the origins of psychoanalysis, its historical debt to hysteria, and the fall of the ‘Master’ … Samuel Grove: In my own work I am interested in the consilience between Darwin, Marx and Freud. Darwin and Marx were incontrovertibly historical thinkers. In what …
CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Dr. Cohen Tan
February 11, 2014
The Philosophy of Emptiness: On Buddhist Two-Truths. Dr. Cohen Tan, Assistant Professor at the School of International Communications (UNNC). 17:00 Wednesday 12th Feb., Room A39, Clive Granger Building.
Extended CFP: Friction!
January 24, 2014
Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology & resistance University of Nottingham Thursday 8th May & Friday 9th May, 2014 Keynote talks by Pollyanna Ruiz (LSE) and Kimberley Peters (Aberystwyth) With workshops led by: Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey; University of Leicester Technology Group; Jen Birks and John Downey; and Rachel Jacobs (Active Ingredient). Current …
Vital Theory Paper: Human Rights and Neoliberalism
December 27, 2013
One of the things that characterises the current era is the intensified involvement of global governmental institutions, such as the UN, the World Bank the IMF, in conflict and post-conflict situations particularly in what is, perhaps vulgarly, termed “the global south”. In other words, we live in an age of what Naomi Klein has called …
Vital Theory – Eva Giraud’s keynote
December 15, 2013
We promised we’d publish talks, so I thought I’d kick things off by putting my own up. Mine was less of a keynote, more of a discussion about what we were doing in the centre this year and my thoughts about theory more generally – so I thought I’d write it up in a more …
