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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

BOOK LAUNCH: Peter Osborne (CRMEP) launches his new book, ‘Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art’, after his talk on ‘The Postconceptual Condition: A Report on Art’ this Thursday at Central Saint Martins. As part of the CRMEP/LGS public lecture series on politics, philosophy and the arts, this talk will take place at [...]

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 [...]

Call For Papers History, Postcolonialism and Tradition The Postcolonial Studies Association Conference The organisers of the 2013 Postcolonial Studies Association would like to invite proposals for papers on this year’s theme: ‘History, Postcolonialism and Tradition’. The theme is designed to facilitate the opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly (but not exclusively) between the spheres of literature, [...]

Philosophical Screens: Catherine Wheatley on ‘Playable Reality’ in Haneke’s Benny’s Video In the latest in our series exploring the dialogue between film and philosophy, Catherine Wheatley examines Michael Haneke’s unsettling tale of teenage alienation and disturbance. Get tickets here Feb 6, 2013 6:30 PM Austria-Switzerland 1992 Directed by Michael Haneke With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, [...]

Unruly Creatures 3 London Graduate School, Kingston University and the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research, Natural History Museum, London April 23 2013 http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=2372 Confirmed speakers: Robert McKay (University of Sheffield) Andrew Dodds Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (University of Roehampton) Giovanni Aloi (Editor of Antennae) This is the third in a series of one-day conferences that analyse [...]