What a year it has been… Almost exactly a year ago, Dr Dom Smith from the centre had a chance to sit down and do a podcast on two of his favourite things in life: Philosophy… and FOOTBALL!. Dom did this with Stuart and Simon from the ‘I Leeds Therefore I Am’ podcast – listen …
We are pleased to announce two online events that are going to take place in this term’s philosophy speaker series: “More Real Than Real: Truth and Authenticity in Psychoanalysis” by Patricia Gherovici, from the University of Philadelphia, is taking place on the 13th of January at 4PM. “The Mute Animal. Adorno’s Rhinoceros” by Alexander Garcia Dütmann, from the …
We are pleased to announce that the “Indeterminate Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy” online conference will take place on November 13-14-15. Click the following link for every detail, including day by day programme, speaking abstracts and instructions about registration: https://indeterminacy.ac.uk/indeterminate-futures/
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 …
Within the context of Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition “Ambiguous Becoming: Artists’ Moving Image from Canada”, we are delighted to host a talk by Professor Dany Nobus on “Arresting Masculinity: Anger, Hybridity and the Persistence of Patriarchy in the 21st Century”. The event will take place on the Wednesday 12 February 2020, at Cooper Gallery, from …
We are delighted to announce the publication of Parrhesia 32, a special issue on Spinoza, guest-edited by Dimitris Vardoulakis and Daniela Voss. Freely available online: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/index.html
TALK CANCELLED Within the context of Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition The Pleasure of Expense by Jasmina Cibic, we are delighted to host a talk by Professor Dany Nobus on “Arresting Masculinity: Anger, Hybridity and the Persistence of Patriarchy in the 21st Century”. The event will take place on the Wednesday 11 of December, at …
This week we have the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Bell who will be giving a talk on “Making Sense of Capital: Towards a Deleuzo-Humean Political Theory”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion. The event will take place in room 1G05 (Dalhousie) from 4 to 6 pm, on Wednesday the …
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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 …
Read more “Never mind truth and lies – ‘Trumpism’ rejects the very idea of making sense”
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