UPDATE: Event cancelled. Our sincere apologies. This week, we have the pleasure to welcome Lorenzo Chiesa (Genoa School of Humanities, Italy / Kent, UK) who will be speaking about “Anthrophie: The Human Animal between Discourse, Entropy, and Knowledge”. Date and Time January 23th, 4-6pm Location: 1G05 Dalhousie building Abstract: In what is arguably …
This Wednesday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) who will be giving a talk on “Gossip’s Feast: Politics in the time of rumours”. Don’t hesitate to come along ! Date and time: January 16th from 4 to 6pm. Room 1G05 Dalhousie Building. Abstract: Rumours, gossip, yellow press, ‘fake news’ etc. …
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The university of Dundee had the pleasure to welcome Alexander Galloway, major media theorist based in New York, who ran a series of seminars on the concept of the digital and the analog. If you missed it, here is your chance to catch up! First Masterclass: the concept of the Digital Second Masterclass: the …
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The lecture will return to a concept which seems fairly out of fashion today: courage. It will start revisiting this concept from the analysis of a simple problem: There seems to be almost no reference made or value assigned to courage today in most of contemporary philosophy, yet, as a quick glance through the …
Dear all, it is our pleasure to invite you to a collaborative ‘Widdershins’ urban walking event, organised by one of our PhD students, Gareth Jones (please note: this event is open to all, but there are a restricted number of places; please contact: g.h.m.jones@dundee.ac.uk regarding availability) Widdershins walks aim to disrupt our habituated encounters with everyday places and …
The Scottish Center For Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce the publication of Dr Oisin Keohane’s new book, titled Cosmo-nationalism: American, French and German Philosophy. The book interrogates the rise of national philosophies and their impact on cosmopolitanism and nationalism. The idea of national philosophy carries in it a strange contradiction. We talk …
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by Dr Dominic Smith Originally published in The Conversation magazine (March 2, 2017) A colleague recently asked me how I would define “Trumpism”. Where do you start? Is it a new political ideology, or a revival of dangerous old populisms? A flash in the pan, or a draining of the swamp? Are we seeing the …
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The editors of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 25. FEATURES ‘(Neuro)plasticity, Epigenesis and the Void’ by Ian James ‘From “L’inexistance divine”‘ by Quentin Meillassoux (transl. Nathan Brown) ‘What is a Diagram (for a Sign)?’ by James Williams ESSAYS ‘Polemic as Logic in the Work of Alain Badiou’ by Justin Clemens and …