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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Laura Cull: Opening the Circle, Toward a Radical Equality: Performance, Philosophy & Animals

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  This week, we have the pleasure of welcoming Laura Cull from the University of Surrey! She will be giving a talk on “Opening the Circle, Toward a Radical Equality: Performance, Philosophy & Animals” DATE AND LOCATION 29.11. 4-6 pm: Dalhousie Building, Room 2G13 Abstract: Today, I would like to consider the relationships between performance, …

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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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Dr Connal Parsley: “The authority of the artist”

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    When: Wednesday, 25th April. Where: Dalhousie Building, 2F14 Abstract:  Hannah Arendt famously declared the “breakdown of all traditional authorities”, later going even further to say that “practically as well as theoretically, we are no longer in a position to know what authority really is”. Is authority in the Western tradition condemned to be …

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Belief as Emotion in Cinema

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David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh) Philosophy Seminar this Wednesday 22nd November, 3-5pm (NOTE the earlier start) Dalhousie Building, Room 2F11, University of Dundee All welcome! In his most developed discussion of film, the interview “Cinema and Its Ghosts” in 2001, Jacques Derrida says that, “There is an altogether singular mode of believing in cinema: a century ago, …

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