Gianlluca Simi
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Planning the Aesthetics and Politics Workshop
December 4, 2012
I thought it might be a useful exercise (as both a potential ‘helping hand’ and a metaphorical scream!) to share my present experience of preparing a workshop for Friday’s symposium. With very little experience of facilitating a theoretical workshop it is certainly a daunting affair – as the clock ticks my nails are nearing the …
Securing Funding
November 30, 2012
It is a widely recognised feature of the contemporary academic landscape – especially in the Arts and Humanities – that there is less money than there used to be. Yet – perhaps not entirely coincidentally – things seem to cost a good deal more than they used to. That includes symposia such as ours, and …
Welcome to the Vital Theory Blog
November 21, 2012
Welcome to our Vital Theory Blog. After the success of last year, we’re busy ferreting away to put on this year’s Vital Theory symposium: The Politics of Hope. At this stage our interests include: locating hope within the Marxist tradition; exploring the (mis)appropriation of hope and “hope politics” in mainstream political discourse, and, perhaps most ambitiously, looking …
