An audio recording of Martin Hägglund’s lecture for the London Graduate School/Centre for Modern European Philosophy, “Dying for Time: From Plato to T.S. Eliot” (25 October 2012) is now available. To listen click here Martin Hägglund is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and the Humanities at Yale University and the author of Radical Atheism: Derrida and [...]

The London Graduate School Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities In conjunction with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts 24-27 June 201 The London Graduate School is pleased to announce the launch of its Summer Academy, an intensive week-long programme offered annually for postgraduate students of any institutional affiliation. The inaugural Summer Academy is [...]

Philosophical Screens: The Passion of Anna, Oct 24, 2012 6:30 PM Buy Ticket here Synopsis Masquerading as the story of emotionally damaged sculptor Andreas and his love for grieving widow Anna, Bergman’s intense psychological drama weaves cinematographic, narrative and, indeed, criminal enigmas, ones that involve violence done to both humans and to animals. This is [...]

The next workshop with François Laruelle will be held on December 11, 2012 from 2-5pm, on the topic of ‘The Vectorial Analysis of Philosophy’. The venue is the Conservatory, Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. There will also be a book launch for Anti-Badiou (Continuum 2013) that afternoon. This workshop follows the evening [...]

François Laruelle, Public Lecture at the London Graduate School: ‘Is the Degrowth of Philosophy an Ecological Imperative?’ December 10, 2012, 18:00, Swedenborg Hall, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London. You can listen to Laruelle’s lecture ‘The Degrowth of Philosophy: Towards a Generic Ecology’ here. ‘Is the Degrowth of Philosophy an Ecological Imperative?’December 10, 2012, 18:00, Swedenborg Hall, 20 [...]

Autumn Programme 2012/13 Some highlights for your diary (full programme to be announced soon): 4th October 2012: Roberto Esposito (University of Naples), ‘The Difference of Italian Thought’ Clattern Lecture Theatre, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus, 6pm. (CRMEP Seminar) 11th October 2012: Inaugural Lecture by Andrew Benjamin (Kingston University, London/Monash University), ‘On Hands: Philosophy and Art’s [...]

The whole point of universities, compared to say opinionated journalism, is that the thinking that takes place in them does so over long, considered periods of time. So why should thinking about universities be so make-shift? We need a thinking that is not based upon a polarized debate about who gets to go to Oxbridge or around silly ephemera such as the ‘student premium’ and social mobility. Rather, it must be a mature evaluation of the role of Higher Education in the world today (and tomorrow) and how it is to be paid for given all the other competing demands on the public purse in that complex world. It cannot start out exclusively from the set of assumptions we have at the moment around the infallibility of markets, the light touch regulation of self-declared elites, and the vocational employability of graduates. If we are to give our universities a future, this alternative thinking of policy must embrace the ‘who knows’ of the changing global tomorrow.

Free public seminar (all welcome): Branka Arsic (SUNY Albany), “Memorial Life: Thoreau, Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning” and David Wills (SUNY Albany), “Bloodless Coup: Love in the Heart of Technology”, at the Swedenborg , Wynter Room, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, 6-8pm on Tuesday 22nd May. Branka Arsic specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, [...]

Laruelle lecture, May 9, 2012: Towards a Philosophy Deemed ‘Contemporary’ http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/?p=667

The Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference 2012 (and in association with the London Graduate School) Manchester Metropolitan University 5th-7th September 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University) Catherine Malabou (Kingston University) CALL FOR PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS The Society for European Philosophy (SEP) aims to [...]