Vital Theory: thanks and a few words…
December 15, 2013
Two days after our postgraduate symposium, Vital Theory, and I’m still feeling enthusiastic about the discussions we had and people we met. It’s easy to end (what can often be) a long and tiring term, feeling a little deflated – and I certainly felt that VT was the antidote to that. In the days to …
Centre for Critical Theory Visiting Speaker Series
December 3, 2013
Modality and Difference. Dr. Kevin Love, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Social Theory at Nottingham Trent University. 17:00 Wednesday December 4th. A39 Sir Clive Granger Building. All welcome.
Vital Theory 2013
November 14, 2013
We are pleased to announce the third annual Vital Theory symposium will take place on Friday the 13th of December 2013 at the University of Nottingham. Vital Theory is an academic symposium organised by postgraduate students at the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Critical Theory. The first of these took place in 2011, and it …
Friction!
November 13, 2013
Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology & resistance University of Nottingham Thursday 8th May & Friday 9th May, 2014 Friction: noun [mass noun] The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another: the action of one surface or object rubbing against another conflict or animosity caused by a clash of …
The Politics and Poetics of Disgust
November 11, 2013
As it is already at the half way point, I thought it worth sharing a brief write up of the study group the Centre for Critical Theory is currently offering at the Nottingham Contemporary. We’ve called it ‘The Politics and Poetics of Disgust’, although ‘Analysing All Things Icky’ would have worked too. Disgust is a …
Centre for Critical Theory Visiting Speaker Series
November 7, 2013
Biopolitics and Aesthetics. Josephine Berry-Slater, Lecturer in the Centre for Cultural Studies and editor of Mute Magazine. 17:00 Wednesday November 20th. A39 Sir Clive Granger Building. All welcome.
Stuart Hall Project Screening
October 11, 2013
The way we teach and practice critical theory here in the Centre for Critical Theory is utterly entangled with cultural studies. For both fields as well as for the British Left of that last thirty years or so, Stuart Hall has undoubtedly been a key figure. You will be pleased to know then, that the Broadway Cinema is screening …
Call for Papers: The Subject of Addiction – Culture and Clinic
September 25, 2013
Please find below a call for papers inviting you to get involved in a two-day conference I’m organising around the theme of addiction. It should a be a good event and I’ve secured a special issue of the journal Subjectivity for the proceedings, so it’s also a potential publishing opportunity. Do drop me a line …
Deconstructing Transitional Justice: Opening a New Space for Critique?
September 11, 2013
In her article titled simply Deconstructing Transitional Justice, Catherine Turner notes ‘the rise of transitional justice has been stellar, but it is a field in which theory has failed to keep pace… while there has been significant critical engagement with the requirements of transition… this critique has focused on the need to ensure a more …
The Psychology of Resilience
July 25, 2013
Readers of Radical Philosophy will have noticed over the last couple of issues the heated spat between Mark Neocleous and David Chandler regarding the politics of ‘resilience’.[1] Readers of this blog will also have noticed our own Sitting Room University (SRU) pondering the possibility of a more militant conception of resilience, one compatible with anti-capitalist …
