Christoph Menke : In the Shadow of the Constitution: The Crisis of Liberalism

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This Thursday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Christoph Menke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), who will be giving a talk on “the Shadow of the Constitution: The Crisis of Liberalism”. Date and Location: March 7th,  4-6pm 2F15, Dalhousie Building   Abstract:  Liberalism is a theory and practice of public order which puts it on a completely …

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Lorenzo Chiesa (Genoa School of Humanities, Italy / Kent, UK): Anthrophie: The Human Animal between Discourse, Entropy, and Knowledge

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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 …

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Mladen Dolar on Gossip’s Feast : Politics in the time of rumours

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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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Alexander R. Galloway on the digital and the analog: pictures and audio

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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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Seminar : Frank Ruda on Courage

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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 …

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‘Widdershins Dundee’

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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 …

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New publication: Oisin Keohane on Cosmo-nationalism

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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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Never mind truth and lies – ‘Trumpism’ rejects the very idea of making sense

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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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Issue 25 of Parrhesia Journal

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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 …

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