Welcome to LGS
The London Graduate School is a doctoral programme, postgraduate seminar and series of events in contemporary critical theory offered in central London and Kingston University. The London Graduate School offers accredited PhD, MPhil and MA by Research degrees, in a richly stimulating and closely supportive environment that brings together world-leading scholars in literature, culture, media, theory, and philosophy, major figures in contemporary art practice, film-making and writing, and ambitious and creative students working at the forefront of their disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. Students of the London Graduate School enjoy unprecedented access in London to a programme of cutting-edge academic and cultural events.
Events
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May 2013
Peter Hallward, 'Vitalism or Voluntarism?', Thursday 30th May 6-8pm at Central Saint MartinsCentral Saint Martins
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May 2013
Scott Wilson, ‘Spider Universe: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy’, Thursday 23rd May 6-8pm at Central Saint MartinsCentral Saint Martins
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In a guest blog for the London Graduate School, the editors of the Open Library of the Humanities, Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, outline some of the issues surrounding Open Access, and explain how their project is responding to them.
Listen to Scott Wilson, ‘Spider Universe: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy'
LGS and CRMEP in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Scott Wilson (Kingston) – Spider Universe: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy To listen click here. ‘Let us recognise the subject’s efficacy in the gnomon he erects, a gnomon that constantly indicates truth’s site to him.’ Lacan, Ecrits. This [...]
Peter Hallward, 'Vitalism or Voluntarism?', Thursday 30th May 6-8pm at Central Saint Martins
The last in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Vitalism or Voluntarism? Peter Hallward Over much of the modern period, social criticism has been associated with forms of emancipatory political theory, and has helped clarify what is at stake in various struggles to escape from forms of ‘enslavement to [...]
Listen to Éric Alliez, ‘Duchamp à Calcutta’
CRMEP and LGS in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Éric Alliez (Kingston) – Duchamp à Calcutta Recorded 2nd May 2013 To listen click here No, Duchamp didn’t go to Calcutta and it is a terribly bad pun, used here to refresh the tautological inquiry into Duchamp’s ‘meta-eroticism’ (a tautology since Duchamp, readymade included, is [...]
Scott Wilson, ‘Spider Universe: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy’, Thursday 23rd May 6-8pm at Central Saint Martins
The next in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Scott Wilson Spider Universe: Lars Von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy Thursday, 23rd May 2013 6-8PM at Central Saint Martins ‘Let us recognise the subject’s efficacy in the gnomon he erects, a gnomon that constantly indicates truth’s site to [...]
Éric Alliez, ‘Duchamp à Calcutta’, Thursday 16th May 6-8pm at Central Saint Martins
The next in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Éric Alliez Duchamp à Calcutta Thursday, 16 May 2013 6-8PM at Central Saint Martins No, Duchamp didn’t go to Calcutta and it is a terribly bad pun, used here to refresh the tautological inquiry into Duchamp’s ‘meta-eroticism’ (a tautology since [...]
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Library additions
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