Research Group In Continental Philosophy
InC aims to foster an interdisciplinary interest and approach to Continental Philosophy, enhancing the study of the subject through engagement with a diverse range of research directions and initiatives, to allow the creation of a lasting platform of discussion in London and internationally. InC acts as a point of reference between different practitioners and research frameworks in order to establish a common and cooperative space of dialogue devoted to Continental Philosophy.
The group is formed of a diverse membership from across Goldsmiths’ Academic Departments, with events orgaised by representatives from Art, Cultural Studies, History, and Visual Cultures Departments. In the last three years the group has become the primary meeting point for philosophical discussion at Goldsmiths, holding more than 100 seminars, lectures, screenings and conversations.
Guest speakers have included Jean-Luc Nancy, Alain Badiou, Catherine Malabou, Ernesto Laclau, Bernard Stiegler, Gilbert Adair and Tom McCarthy. In the past year InC has established external working partnerships with the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Verso Books.
News and Events
Upcoming Events
13/01 RHB 137A: La Commune (dir. by Armand Guerra, 1914, 20 min.) and Toute Révolution Est un Coup de Dés (dir. by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1977, 11 min.) Guest speaker: Louis Henderson, filmmaker
20/01 RHB 137A: Novvy Babylon [New Babylon] (dir. Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev, 1929, 75 min.) Guest speaker: Dr. Adrian Rifkin
24/01 NAB 305: TJ Demos (UCL) 'Ecology before Economy: Art after Nature'
27/01 RHB 137A: 1871 (dir. Ken McMullen, 1990, 100 min.) Guest speaker: Ken McMullen, filmmaker
03/02 RHB 137A: La Commune (Paris, 1871) (dir. Peter Watkins, 2000, 300 min.) Guest speaker: Dr. Ros Gray
21/02 NAB 305: Mark Kelly (Middlesex): 'Foucault against prophecy and utopia'
28/02 NAB 305: Hammam Aldouri (CREMP, Kingston): 'The ‘End of History’ and the Beginning of Philosophy'
06/03 NAB 305: Phil Homburg (Sussex): 'Can a materialist dream? Marx and Benjamin on Fourier’s Utopianism'
13/03 NAB 305:Jon Shaw (Goldsmiths) 'Editorial Futurology: Fernando Pessoa and Tharg the Mighty'
20/03 Sebastian Truskolaski (Goldsmiths) 'Bilderverbot: Adorno, Benjamin and the ban on images of the future'
Recent Events
07/10 4.00-6.00 RHB 142, Howard Caygill 'The artist has left the building: Goya meets the Chapmans'
25/10 4.00-6.00 NAB 314, Alexander Düttmann 'Disobedience - Before the Law (Kafka, Thoreau)'
31/10 5.00-9.00 Small Hall, a screening of the film The Right to Philosophy, followed by discussion with Yusuke Miyazaki and Yuji Nishiyama
01/11 4.00-6.00 RHB 342A, John Mullarkey 'Art-Practice-Thought: The Case of Cinema'
15/11 4.00-6.00 RHB 342A, Mark Currie 'Narrative Tense and the Unexpected Event'
22/11 4.00-6.00 RHB 342A, Mark Riley 'The Cystic Operation of the non-ument - mourning in Two Architectural'
06/12 4.00-6.00 RHB 342A, Ian James 'Art - Technics'