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Primitivism Now – a workshop (29.10)
in collaboration with The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
29 October 2019
10.30-17.30
Deptford Town Hall Council Chamber
[please note the venue change from a previous announcement]
PRIMITIVISM NOW is a one-day workshop featuring speakers from a range of disciplines, from literary theory to philosophy, politics to art history. They will consider whether it is possible to think anew about primitivism, a field whose theoretical underpinnings have largely lain dormant since the poststructural and postcolonial critiques of primitivism in the 1980s and 90s. Continue reading
Recording of 2nd Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture: Christoph Menke (Frankfurt), “The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique” (29 May 2019)
Report: Two CHASE-funded events celebrating the work of Walter Benjamin at Goldsmiths — 10-11 May, 2019
Screenshot from ‘A Berlin Childhood around 1900—A Project in Progress.’ © ‘A Christmas Angel’ (2016), Aura Rosenberg
On May 10-11th 2019, PhD Candidates Sofia Cumming (University of East Anglia, 2017 Cohort) and Federica Murè (Goldsmiths, 2018 Cohort) put together a programme of events centred on the work of Walter Benjamin (1892–1940). Continue reading
Under Representation – David Lloyd with Lucie Mercier (21 June)
Under Representation: A Conversation between David Lloyd and Lucie Mercier on race and aesthetics
June 21
5-7
Margaret McMillan Building Room 220
Baudelaire and Philosophy—A British Society of Aesthetics Conference, 5-6 June 2019
Baudelaire and Philosophy
An international conference supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and organised by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Goldsmiths, University of London, 5-6 June 2019
Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal reference for debates on modernity, criticism and poetics, though in the domains of philosophy and critical theory his work is often approached solely through the prism of contemporary commentary. Taking Baudelaire’s own references to philosophy seriously, this conference will also explore the complexity of the relation between the received understanding of Baudelaire as a prophet of modernity and his opposition to any idea of progress that would reduce poetic beauty to a vehicle for social and moral development. Baudelaire and Philosophy aims to do justice to the richness, complexity and ambiguity of Baudelaire’s critical and poetic writing, to explore his relation to philosophy and the philosophical, and to interrogate his place as a synonym for a certain idea of modernity.
PROGRAMME Continue reading
Kevin McLaughlin (Brown) — Philology of Life: Benjamin’s Literary Critical Program (10 June 2019)
