Free Book! Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict
June 26, 2013
As promised in an earlier post, here I am blowing my own trumpet! My book, Badiou in Jamaica: The Politics of Conflict is finally out. I went with Re.Press because they are an Open Access publisher committed to enabling intellectual work at a distance from the market logics increasingly dominating even academic publishing. In other words, …
Critical Theory Meets Science & Technology Studies
June 17, 2013
Last week I got invited to give a talk by the University of Nottingham Institute for Science and Society. As well as really enjoying it and meeting some great people, I got asked some interesting questions that made me think about different elements of my research: particularly issues surrounding potential incompatibilities between policy and activism. …
Refugee Week 14-29th June
June 10, 2013
As anyone who reads a mainstream paper every now and again cannot fail to notice, the issues posed by refugees, assylum seekers and immigration are regularly caricatured to produce a political football useful for point-scoring between political parties. However, behind the partisan rhetoric is a complex, culturally diverse and very urgent human reality that Refugee Week 2013 helps to bring to …
‘On Theory’ interviews for the New Left Project
May 15, 2013
Readers of this blog will be interested in the series of interviews on particular critical theorists one of our current PhD students, Sam Grove, is doing for the New Left Project . Called simply ‘On Theory’, these interviews represent a valuable attempt to render often obtuse and problematically academic critical theory relevant to, and urgent for, the activist community. Several people involved …
In Formation: Reading Group on the Kilburn Manifesto
May 2, 2013
Hi All, I’m forwarding a message from Professor Stephen Legg over in Geography who, with others, is organising a reading group in response to the ‘Kilburn Manifesto‘ you may have seen mentioned in the Guardian. It’s a timely and much-needed attempt to think through and take seriously alternatives to the neoliberal consensus that is allowing …
CCT Visiting Speaker Series: Peter Hallward, ‘The Dictatorship of the People’, Wednesday 24 April 17:00 in Trent B40
April 19, 2013
“The will of the people involves collective action and direct participation. A democratic political will depends on the power and practice of inclusive assembly, the power to sustain a common commitment.” – Peter Hallward, The Will of the People¹
The Study Sessions: From Animism to the Internet
A new reading group exploring debates within the philosophy of technology is starting at the Nottingham Contemporary, from 08 May to 26 June. Find out more and sign up here.
Falling outside of the biopolitical frame: horse-meat and austerity
April 2, 2013
From global panics over outbreaks of bird and swine ‘flu, to the recent European horse-meat scandal; or from on-going controversies about the role of animals in scientific research, to pressing debates about biodiversity and environmental conservation: we are within a cultural context where questions surrounding human-animal relations are politically vital. Despite this, discourses that should …
Professor Jodi Dean Study Day :: 21/03/2013
March 20, 2013
In recent years, big claims have been made about the political potential of new media and social networking, from Obama’s use of Facebook in his 2008 election campaign to the alleged role of smartphones in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. We hear constantly about the ‘digital revolution’ and the ‘democratizing’ effects it can have. But can …
The SRU seeks critique.
Hello! Posted below is the first draft of a piece of collective writing coming from the Sitting Room University (a project co-coordinated by a current and ex MA Critical Theory student amongst others) and destined for a publication accompanying a show we are contributing to called Landmark Seizure, taking place in the Aid+Abet contemporary art …
