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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In the latest in our series exploring film through a philosophical lens, Pierre Lauret considers the troubling absence of ‘home’ in John Ford’s Western masterpiece. May 20, 2013 6:20 PM Get Tickets Here USA 1956 Directed by John Ford With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood Running time 119 mins In [...]

  CRMEP and LGS in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Catherine Malabou (Kingston) – Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin Recorded 2nd May 2013 To listen click here In an important shift in materialism announced in his late writings, Althusser affirms the necessity of moving from a teleological dialectical materialism (Hegel and Marx) to a “materialism of the [...]

Listen to Talks at Unruly Creatures 3 here   Unruly Creatures 3 London Graduate School, Kingston University and the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research, Natural History Museum, London Programme Robert McKay (University of Sheffield) ‘Humane Conditions: Animal Killing and the Limits of Political Liberalism in Post-war Culture’ Respondent: Laura McMahon (University of Cambridge) Lunch [...]

François Laruelle Public Lecture ‘In-the-Last-Humanity: On the “Speculative” Ecology of Man, Animal and Plant’ June 3, 5pm, 2013 Central Saint Martins Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London. This is the 3rd in a series of lectures Professor François Laruelle is giving at the London Graduate School, London. This talk is presented with the support of [...]

PhD Scholarships The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University invites applications for 8 part-funded PhD scholarships commencing 2013/14. Each scholarship will include a full fee waiver and an additional guaranteed stipend of £5,000 per annum, for a three year period. Successful applicants may be expected to undertake duties within their department over the course [...]

Event Date: 18 April 2013 Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present: Professor Peter Osborne (CRMEP) – The Postconceptual Condition: A Report on Art It is nearly 35 years [...]