Slavoj Žižek: Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction In 2018 we invited Slavoj Žižek from the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities to speak as part of the Evening Lecture Series, hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Mladen Dolar: Gossip’s Feast. Politics in the Time of …
We are pleased to announce three online events that are going to take place in this term’s philosophy speaker series. We will have Andrew Cutrofello from Loyola University, Chicago as our first speaker, giving a lecture on the 28th of October on “Was it for this?” Brandom, Hegel, Wordsworth, Zizek, and the Terror. We will continue with Peggy Kamuf from the University of Southern California on …
To mark the passing of French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler, Parrhesia journal has released a special issue collecting relevant previously published articles, introduced with a personal reflection by Arne de Boever: https://www.parrhesiajournal.org
by Amélie Berger Soraruff There is nothing more banal for a philosopher than to be dead. Doing philosophy often means walking down the aisle of a cemetery with your bouquet of chrysanthemums pressed against your chest, ready to be deposited on the grave of your beloved. If you are a student, you may even take …
Read more “Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020): Another Dead Philosopher”
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]We are delighted to announce the publication of the new journal issue of Crisis and Critique. Volume 7 issue 2 is fully free online here: https://crisiscritique.org/index.html Past issues can be found here: https://crisiscritique.org/past.html[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]
We are pleased to announce the publication of Parrhesia 33. This time the issue features work by Jean-Luc Nancy, Elie During and Paul-Antoine Miquel and essays on Rancière, Deleuze, Agamben and more. The journal is freely available here: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/sleep-mode Please see details of online events relating to the recent ’24/7′ Exhibition at Somerset House, to which Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy members Dominic Smith and Patrick Levy contributed work and expertise… Across the week of midsummer – which sees the longest day and shortest night of the year – we host a week …
Read more “Sleep Mode at Somerset House – a series of online events”
https://theconversation.com/why-lockdown-life-is-a-lot-like-insomnia-a-philosopher-of-sleep-explains-139156
by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg’s Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert Shaw does this better). The second is when we properly get to see …
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race who care only about power – in Andromeda,another sci-fi series by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. …