Theme ’21-’22: Thinking through Nature & the Climate Crisis with Non-Western Philosophies
The Goldsmiths Undergraduate Philosophy Circle is open to all Goldsmiths students interested in reading and discussing philosophical texts together.
The first two terms will be devoted to exploring key readings on this year’s topic, while the third term will be reserved for participants to self-organise an event related to the theme. The format of the meetings is an open discussion for around 2 hours with a break in the middle. The discussion is usually introduced by a volunteer who speaks on the text and the author for around 5-10 minutes. Conceived as an informal gathering, everyone should feel free to contribute as much as they like.
To join the group and receive the materials in advance (shared via Google Drive), please email s.bromberg@gold.ac.uk.
Meetings: on Fridays, 4-6pm; 3 x Autumn Term; 4 x Spring Term (see dates below)
Location: TBD
Convenor: Svenja Bromberg (Lecturer in Sociology), s.bromberg [at] gold.ac.uk
Please join us for Singularity’s -abilities: In Celebration of Samuel Weber’s 80th Birthday this Tuesday December 1st at 9am CST. Speakers, agenda, and registration info below.
Presentations will be in English and German. All times are local to Chicago, USA.
Speakers:
9:00am – 10:00am — Singularity’s Inscriptions
Isabelle Alfandary – Learning to Read with Sam Weber Julia Ng – Whistling Lillabullero Hans-Jörg Rheinberger – Schreiben und Experimentieren Bernard Geoghegan – Theatricality and AI (Moderator: James Martel)
10:15am – 11:15am — Singularity’s Philosophy
Peter Fenves – Singularity, Again Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky – The Ever New Angel Diego Rosello – The Task of Thanking: Thanking as Thinking with Samuel Weber Laura Chiesa – tba (Moderators: James Martel, Julia Ng)
11:45am-12:45pm — Singularity’s Politics
Marian Hobson – How can classification be violent? Weber and Derrida Javier Burdman – Sam Weber’s Response to Lyotard’s Just Gaming and the Elusive Link between Deconstruction and Politics James Martel – Singularity and the Commandment: another form of law Héctor Castaño – Singularity in Translation and the Economy of Cultural Difference (Moderator: Julia Ng)
1:00pm – 1:30pm Response by Samuel Weber
Organized by Jörg Kreienbrock, James Martel, Julia Ng, and generously co-sponsored by Northwestern University, San Francisco State University, and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Julia Ng
Robert Nichols – Dispossession: A Conceptual Reconstruction
Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano – Race, Real Estate and Real Abstraction
Eyal Weizman – The Conflict Shoreline