Past Events
Autumn 2010
Force and the Worst Seminar Series
Cinema and Sculpture Screening Series
12, 19 and 26 September:The Future of Pedagogy: The Concept and the Disaster
InC, Continental Philosophy research group, hosts a programme of three weekend seminars, each followed by public talks by leading philosophers including Dr Alberto Toscano and Prof. Alexander Garcia Duttmann. These events - conveyed by R.Cavallini, D.Rugo, S.McAuliffe and D.Smith - will address the future of pedagogy and question whether teaching can still serve as a site for critical thinking. The seminars will function as focused events built around a set reading list, with the subsequent talks intended for a larger audience.
27 October: Philosophy: Where Are We Now? A talk by Alain Badiou
A talk by Alain Badiou in conversation with Alberto Toscano and Alex Duttmann at the ICA
Philosopher Alain Badiou has spearheaded the notion of the 'communist hypothesis'; in the wake of the financial crisis a truly egalitarian radical politics is now back on the agenda. This is a subject that other prominent thinkers such as Terry Eagleton and Slavoj Zizek are also grappling with. Badiou has also famously said that 'Marxism does not exist', which prompts the question: Can you have communism without Marxism?
Such debate takes place against the backdrop of an increasing marginalization of philosophy in academia. Within this context, is it possible for philosophy to claim a meaningful impact on today’s society however insightful its ideas? What are the conditions for the realisation, as Badiou puts it, of a philosophy ‘which helps existence to be changed’? What does it mean to ask from within philosophy: where are we now?
29 and 30 October 10: InC Conference "On Error" click here for more details
8 December 10: Nick Couldry and Alex Duttman, 'The Death of the University: The Life of the University' a debate on the implications of the Government's education cuts: RHB 137 17.00-19.00
10 December 10: Blog Theory by Jodi Dean, book launch and discussion (Chair Matthew Dean, Respondants: Owen Hartlerley, Nina Power): NAB LG01, 2.00-4.00
Spring/Summer 2010
On Derrida - Questioning the Feminine Seminar Series
On Revolution Screening Series
9 April 10: Dimitris Vardoulaki 'The Quintessence of Dust: Sovereignty and Creaturely Life'
19 May 10: Who's Afraid of Philosophy - InC @ ICA in support of Middlesex Philosophy
May-August 10: Reading group of Jacques Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 (University of Chicago, 2009)
Autumn 2009
13 October 09: Screening of Daniele Rugo’s short film As if Alive and accompanying paper by Dr Josh Cohen 'Reading: Blanchot and psychoanalytic reading'
17 November 09: Screening of Glauber Rocha's Terra em Transe, followed by a discussion with Professor Alex Duttmann and Dr Rodrigo Nunes
24 November 09: A Screening of "Invasion" (1969), a film by Hugo Santiago, with an original screenplay by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Followed by a discussion with Ernesto Laclau, Professor Alex Duttmann, Professor Howard Caygill and Dr Alberto Toscano.
Spring/Summer 2009
10 February 09: Dr Josh Cohen, 'Helpless Incomprehension: Bruce Nauman and Jean Laplance'.
6 March 09: Brian Smith, 'Freedom and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Badiou and Deleuze'.
17th of March, Ian Gulland Theatre: Screening of Luchino Visconti: "La Cadutt Degi Dei / The Damned" followed by a conversation between: Gilbert Adair, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Alex Duttmann, Howard Caygill
7th of May 09: Dr Peter Dews (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex) "'The Infinite is Losing its Charm': Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Religion".
27 of May 09: Dr Alberto Toscano: "A Critique of the Critique of Critique: Quentin Meillassoux, Lucio Colletti and the Spectre of Fanaticism"
9 June 09: Screening of Pier Paolo Polini: "Salo' or the 120 Days of Sodom" Followed by a conversation between:Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (Queen Mary), Alex Duttmann (Goldsmiths), Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths), Rachel Moore (Goldsmiths)
Autumn 2008
21 October 08: Screening of ‘Notre Musique’ by Jean-Luc Godard.
28 October 08: Dr. Saul Newman: '"What you want is another Master!": Lacan and Radical Politics' "
2 December 08: Professor Alexander Garcia Duttmann: “Adorno - Urgency and Postponement of the Revolution“.
9 of December 09: Professor Howard Caygill: "On Plotinus' Fifth Ennead, first tractate (V,1) "On the Hypostases".
Spring 2008
22 January 08: Professor Alexander Garcia Duttmann: "Arendt and poverty".
2 February 08: Screening event: "Violence and the State: projection and discussion of film and documentaries". Organized by SofA (Society of Autonomy, Goldsmiths), Hosted by InC
20 February 08: Dr Lorenzo Chiesa; 'Subjectivity and Otherness: a philosophical reading of Lacan'Book launch chaired by Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths). Respondents: Peter Hallward (Middlesex), Kirsten Campbell (Goldsmiths), Benjamin Noys (Chichester).
26 February 08:Professor Howard Caygill: " On Plato's Parmenides".
24 April 08: Professor Catherine Malabou (Université Paris-X Nanterre) "On Wonder : From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain : a New Deconstruction of Auto-affection" A Visual Culture Guest Lecture in collaboration with the Dept. of History and InC
Autumn 2007
26 October 07: Professor Alexander Garcia Düttmann introduces the work of French Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.
26 October 07: ‘Drawing Pleasure’: a talk by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy with Professor Alexander Garcia Düttmann.
16 November 07: Dr Jean-Paul Martinon: “To Await One Another: An extract from On Futurity”.
7 December 07: Dr Alberto Toscano: "The A Priori in Cash: Philosophy, Capitalism and ‘Real Abstraction’".