A Thought of/from the Outside Étienne Balibar (CRMEP) 21 February 2013, Central Saint Martins To listen click here A well-known essay published by Foucault in 1966 on the work of Maurice Blanchot, La pensée du dehors, was translated into English in two different ways: ‘The thought of the outside’, and ‘The thought from outside’. This […]

An AHRC-funded PhD studentship is available with Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), the leading centre for postgraduate level study and doctoral research in Continental Philosophy in the UK. This award is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Capacity Building programme and is available to start from […]

Listen to Samuel Weber’s lecture on ‘The Singularity of Literary Cognition’, presented at Central Saint Martins on 7th February 2013, as part of the public lecture series on philosophy, politics and the arts held jointly by LGS and CRMEP in conjunction with CSM: click here to listen

Coming soon from the London Graduate School: “Debt”, a half-day symposium at Bolivar Hall, Grafton Way, 1-5pm, Thursday 14th March, featuring Etienne Balibar on “Debt Capitalism”, Samuel Weber on “Debt, Guilt, Anxiety”, Howard Caygill on “Debt and the Origins of Obedience” and Martin McQuillan on “False Economy”. Free and open to the public. Put it […]

The Ontology of an Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity (Polity, 2012) Go to: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745652603 In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no […]

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida’s texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida. The book’s principal theme is an attention […]

Listen to the first in ten lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts, offered jointly by The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in conjunction with Central Saint Martins – click here to listen: Howard Caygill – Philosophy and The Black Panthers Howard Caygill  reflects on the role played by […]