We’re pleased to announce the commencement of our Research Seminar this year, which is devoted to the topic ‘On Truth and Lies in the Extramoral University.’ Moreover, we’re holding this in a hybrid format this year so you can join us either in RHB 138 or online via Zoom. Please visit https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for more details, including a detailed seminar plan, links to the readings, and the Zoom registration link. Free and open to the public as per usual.
The recordings for the British Academy / CPCT Conference “Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World” (July 12-13, 2024) are now available on our YouTube channel:
For more information about the conference (programme, abstracts, speaker bios), please visit: https://daoismandcapitalism.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/public-event-3-futures-of-critique-in-a-pluricentric-world-july-12-and-13-2024/
Venue: Stewart House 2/3, Senate House London
Dates: 12 and 13 July, 2024 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm BST
Taking as its premise the notion that critical languages move multi-directionally between a plurality of centres rather than disseminate from a single, metropolitan axis of power, this conference considers the emergences, conflicts, suppressions, adaptations and mutations of concepts that take place at a distance from the loci traditionally associated with critical theory—metropolitan Europe, North America. The speakers explore, inter alia, cases of conceptual cross-pollinations across worlds and histories beyond the “Global North”; and the influence, facilitated by variously colonial and imperial conditions of linguistic and philosophical translation, of concepts from the “Global South” on the development of critical theory. Broadly construing critical theory to include not only Frankfurt School Critical Theory but also feminist and gender theory, eco-criticism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial and decolonial theory among others, the conference will have a dual aim: (i) to frame critical theory as a productively unstable entity that retains intelligible markers of its origins in sociopolitical and epistemological “crises”; and (ii) “map” the historical and contemporary diversity of critical keywords, their translations, and the tools they provide us for articulating the emancipatory potentials of vocabularies be they indigenous, hybrid, or global.
Free and open to the public, though registration is required. To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/futures-of-critique-in-a-pluricentric-world-tickets-805233253337.
This event is the third of three associated with Dr. Julia Ng’s British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship project Daoism and Capitalism: Early Critical Theory and the Global South (MCFSS23\230039). Thanks also go to the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought ** and Royal Holloway’s Centre for Continental Philosophy for their generous support.
** N.B. Due to the UCU boycott of Goldsmiths and in solidarity with the staff who are currently at risk of redundancy due to the restructure planned by Goldsmiths’ management, this conference has been moved from campus to an alternative location and dissociated from Goldsmiths. We thank you for your understanding and support.
Tentative Programme
(For updates and more information, including abstracts, please visit https://daoismandcapitalism.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/public-event-3-futures-of-critique-in-a-pluricentric-world-july-12-and-13-2024/.)
Friday, 12 July 2024
10:00 Welcome and Introductory remarks — Julia Ng
10:15-11:25 Pang Laikwan (Chinese University Hong Kong) — Sovereign Logic, Decolonial Politics, and The Problematic Logic of Unity
11:30-12:40 Dilip M. Menon (Witwatersrand) — After Decoloniality
12:40-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:10 Sumi Madhok (LSE) — Anti-Imperial Epistemic Justice
3:15-4:25 Carlos Oliva Mendoza (UNAM) — Critique, Baroque, and Capital
4:30-5:40 Nadia Bou Ali (American University Beirut) — Critique and Scansion
Saturday, 13 July 2024
10:00-11:10 Julia Ng — Critical Space-Times
11:15-12:25 Hourya Bentouhami (Toulouse) — The Language of the Future
12:30-1:30 Concluding roundtable / Q&A
About the speakers
Hourya Bentouhami is a French-Moroccan Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her work on political philosophy and phenomenology focuses on the sensorial dynamics of racialization and gender assignment and on forms of economic dispossession as well as on the ways of disobeying them to create new forms of seeing and feeling in a livable world.
Nadia Bou Ali is Associate Professor and Director of the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts (CHLA) at the American University of Beirut. She is the author of Hall of Mirrors: Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). She is co-editor (with Rohit Goel) of Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, Politics (Bloomsbury 2018) and of Extimacies: Encounters Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (co-edited with Surti Singh), forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. She is also editing the first English translation of Mehdi Amel’s Theoretical Prolegomenon on the Impact of Socialist Thought in the National Liberation Movement: On Contradiction and The Colonial Mode of Production for Brill’s Historical Materialism Book Series. Nadia is a practicing analyst and member of The Lacan School, Bay Area, San Francisco.
Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. Her work combines critical theory and ethnographic approaches with a focus on South Asia and is interested in social sciences focused on epistemic interventions from the Global South. Her latest book is Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggle for Justice (Cambridge, 2021), winner of the 2022 Susan Strange book award. It also received The International Studies Association’s Lee Ann Fujii Book Prize ‘Honorable Mention’.
Dilip M Menon is a Professor of History and International Relations and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand. He is primarily a social historian of South Asia concerned with questions of caste and inequality. For the past decade he has been concerned with epistemologies from the global south and oceanic histories, and this has resulted in a series of edited volumes on capitalism, oceans, concepts, and cinema. A recent interview with Professor Menon can be found here: https://brill.com/view/journals/phen/8/4/article-p375_3.xml.
Carlos Oliva Mendoza is a writer and a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s (UNAM) Faculty of Philosophy of Letters, as well as a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). Among other recognitions, he is the recipient of the International Narrative Award, Siglo XII; the National Award for Young Essay; and the National Award for Literary Essay. He is lead for the research projects “Critical Theory in Latin America” and “Baroque Modernity and Mexican Thought.” His latest published books are Cine mexicano y filosofía, Espacio y capital and Semiótica y capitalismo.
Pang Laikwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at Chinese University Hong Kong. Her research spans a broad spectrum of issues related to culture in Modern and Contemporary China and Hong Kong. Her central philosophical project is the exploration of the dynamics between “many” and “one,” manifested in the intersections between culture and politics, copies and models, plurality and unity, as well as democracy and sovereignty. She is the author of a few books, and her scholarship has been recognized internationally. Her books received American Library Association (ALA) Choice 2020 Outstanding Academic Title and Chiang King-Kuo Foundation Publication Award. She herself also received the Discovery International Award offered by Australia Research Council, Research Excellence Award as well as Young Research Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. She specialises in philosophical approaches to literature, modern German-Jewish thought, early 20th-century Germanophone literatures in their transnational contexts, and history of critical theory. Recent publications include her translation and critical edition of Walter Benjamin’s “Toward the Critique of Violence” (with P. Fenves; Stanford UP, 2021) and articles in Theory Culture & Society, Paragraph, CR: New Centennial Review, Modern Language Notes, diacritics, and Critical Times. Funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, she is currently completing a book on Daoism and Capitalism, which has also received support from the Leverhulme Trust, the Center for Jewish History (NYC), and the British Society for the History of Philosophy.
The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought and the Department of English and Creative Writing’s MA Literary Studies: Pathway in Critical Theory would like to cordially invite you to a private screening of Jake Chapman’s “Accelerate or Die!” (2022).
Where? RHB Cinema
When? Tuesday 18th June from 16:20 – 17:50 ** THIS SCREENING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
Event Description
Modernity is collapsing. Extinction is one turn away. The future is not our friend – and it isn’t ours to choose.
In this context, internationally acclaimed artist, Jake Chapman – of ‘The Chapman Brothers’ – asks the question: Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
This dynamic, distinctive film will address the current merging of technology, capitalism, and climate crisis through the lens of ‘Accelerationism’ – a loose set of philosophical ideas that in part emerged from Goldsmiths.
Featuring Maya B Kronic, Amy Ireland, Will Self, Jeanette Winterson, and Goldsmiths’ own Will Davies (Politics), this unique documentary invites its audience to ‘buckle up and enjoy the ride’ in a thrilling visual assault of art, generative AI, and fresh, thought-provoking perspectives.
Trailer: https://supercollider.global/our-work/accelerate-or-die/
Free and open to Goldsmiths students, staff, alumni/ae, and friends and affiliates of CPCT. Please RSVP to AOD@SPRCLDR.com.
Event Schedule
Short intro – 16:20 – 16:30
Screening – 16:30 – 17:30.
Q&A – 17:30-17:50.
The event will be introduced by and feature a Q&A with Mungo Dodd, a 2021 Goldsmiths alumnus of the Department of English and Creative Writing’s MA Literary Studies: Pathway in Critical Theory, who worked on the film and will be happy to talk with any students who are looking to get into film and television as a career path.
Contact: mungo.dodd [at] supercollider.global
The recordings for the British Academy symposium “Chinese Modernity in German Jewish Thought” (May 3, 2024) are now available on our YouTube channel here:
REGISTER HERE for the zoom link
Contact: s.bromberg[@] gold.ac.uk
This seminar is part of the 23/24 CPCT research seminar series on ‘What is Global Critical Theory? Pt.3’ [link].
About the talk
In the last pages of Orientalism, under the subheading “The Personal Dimension,” Edward Said borrows Antonio Gramsci’s words about the imperative to compile an inventory of the historical processes that have deposited in someone an infinity of traces as a starting point for a critical elaboration. Orientalism, Said then notes, is an attempt to “inventory the traces upon me, the Oriental subject, of the culture whose domination has been so powerful a factor in the life of all Orientals.” This talk takes as its starting point Said’s observation to investigate how his own Metropolitan Palestinian exilic experience informed his early conceptualization of the relation between knowledge and power, which will be further developed in his trilogy Orientalism (1978), The Question of Palestine (1979) and Covering Islam (1981).
About the speaker
Fadi A. Bardawil, is visiting research scholar in the department of Near Eastern Studies and visiting Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology at Princeton.
His work investigates the traditions of intellectual inquiry and modalities of political engagement of contemporary Arab thinkers at home and in the diaspora, and their friction with the different genealogies of critical theory (Frankfurt school, anti-colonial and post-colonial). In doing so, his research explores how the different relationships to cultural production (creating and thinking), political practice (acting) and generational dwelling (living) in different sites (Global North/South), can help us reckon with questions of power, emancipation and solidarity in an increasingly interconnected, yet fragmented world.
His recent Arabic and English writings have appeared in American Ethnologist, boundary 2; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; The Journal for Palestine Studies (Arabic edition); al-Jumhuriya; The Immanent Frame; Megaphone; Political and Legal Anthropology Review Online; South Atlantic Quarterly; and World Records Journal.
He is the author of Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Duke UP, 2020).
A British Academy symposium on the circulation of images of China in German Jewish letters of the early 20th century.
Venue: Stewart House 2/3, Senate House London
Date: May 3, 2024 from 3:30-6:40 pm
Too often, critical discussions around antisemitism and anticolonialism seem completely at odds with one another. This workshop asks whether a consideration of the images of ‘China’ that circulated amongst German Jewish thinkers might help complicate or resolve this impasse by suggesting a different orientation to both the Christian-colonial project and the racialisation of work. How were these images of China used to imagine different ways of organising social, political, and economic life in a context of intensifying antisemitism, capital-critical sentiment, and ambivalence towards the European legacies of imperialism and colonialism in the ‘Orient’?
Free and open to the public, though registration is required.
To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinese-modernity-in-german-jewish-thought-tickets-805024077687
For more information, please visit https://daoismandcapitalism.wordpress.com/.
This event is the second of three associated with Dr. Julia Ng’s British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship project Daoism and Capitalism: Early Critical Theory and the Global South (MCFSS23\230039). Thanks also go to Goldsmiths’ Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought and Royal Holloway’s Centre for Continental Philosophy for their generous support.
Programme
3:30-3:45 pm
Welcome and Introduction: Daoism, Capitalism, and German Jewish Thought
Dr. Julia Ng (Goldsmiths)
Ideas circulated from a modernizing China in the 1910s and 1920s amongst major German Jewish thinkers as they grappled with their own modernity and contemporaneity. How useful or limited is “Orientalism” as an interpretive framework for grasping the career of these ideas, and might competing “Orientalisms”—that of Buber, for instance, referring to quite a different “Orient” altogether, or Marx, which points towards China as a historical entity—complicate the picture in illuminating ways?
3:45-4:25 pm
Rosenzweig, Hegel, and ‘Oriental Messianism’
Dr. Daniel Weiss (Cambridge)
Hegel famously portrayed Jewish messianism as characterized by an ‘Oriental’ orientation that fails to produce effective agency in history. By contrast, Franz Rosenzweig reaffirmed key elements of Jewish messianism criticized by Hegel, including elements that could outwardly appear linked to passivity or non-action. However, Rosenzweig treats the Jewish orientation not as weak or ineffective, but as a committed stance that will lead the world to messianic redemption and to the overthrow of ‘illusory’ power-claims. We will see that, although Rosenzweig himself criticizes various aspects of Daoism, his account of Judaism shares elements in common with various nineteenth and early-twentieth German portrayals of Daoism. As such, we can understand him as calling into question dominant Christian portrayals of both Judaism and Daoism, and seeking to reclaim the supposedly ‘Oriental’ characteristics criticized by others. Rosenzweig’s development of a modern, challenging account of Judaism can thus be understood parallelling the ways in which European writers contended with ways in which China’s modernizing developments likewise presented a challenge to dominant Western preconceptions.
4:30-5:10 pm
Ex Oriente Lux: Martin Buber’s Dao-Hasidic Mysticism of the Worldly
Professor Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham)
Martin Buber’s interest in Chinese Daoism begins very early in his intellectual career and coincides – not at all accidentally – with his interest in Hasidism: both are treated by him as the cases of “spiritually rich” Orientalism which he opposes to the disenchanted West. Between 1906-1909, he writes The Tales of Rabbi Nachman, The Legend of the Baal Shem, and the Hasidism inspired Ecstatic Confessions, but he also, under the influence of Wang Qingdao, the visiting lecturer at the Berlin Seminar for Oriental Languages, publishes Talks and Parables of Zhuangzi (1910) and Chinese Ghost and Love Stories (1911) which offer a partial translation of Liaozhai Zhiyu, an early eighteenth century compilation of folktales done by Pu Songling. From this time on, Daoism – interpreted in close comparative relation to Hasidism – will never leave Buber, although he will modify his attitude towards its main concept, the Dao, over time. While in Buber’s early phase, Dao is most of all a notion of a “mystical unity” connecting the sage with the essential oneness of the world, in the later dialogic phase (beginning with his 1923 I and Thou), Dao emerges rather as the Path: the dynamic way into and through the world appreciated in its concreteness and multiplicity. Thus, in his Ascona lecture on Daoism, delivered in 1924, Buber repudiates his earlier “escapist” mysticism of the One, which now transforms into a “intraworldly” mysticism of the Two, strongly focused on the ultimate realness of the particulars, never again to be considered as an ontological “illusion.” Just as before Dao represented for him a transcendental oneness underlying all, closely corresponding with the Hasidic understanding of God as the ehad, the One pervading all creation – now it represents for him a Path into the World, where creation is to be conceived as “individuation of all things,” this time corresponding with the other meaning of ehad: not simply one, but strictly singular and unique. In my paper, I will present this trajectory in close parallel with Buber’s changing views on Hassidism, but will also juxtapose Buber’s use of the Chinese motifs with Martin Heidegger’s turn towards Daoism as instrumental for his post-war Kehre which redefined the relation between Being and beings in favour of the latter. In both thinkers, the Dao conceived as a Path into (and of) the World plays an important role in their turn towards the worldly.
5:15-5:55 pm
Kafka’s Dao and the Reverse of Possession
Dr. Julia Ng (Goldsmiths)
Reading, inter alia, Kafka’s Zürauer Aphorisms and the fragment “Workforce without Possession” alongside works of Daoism and on contemporaneous China that were consulted by Kafka, this paper explores how Kafka’s treatment of figures of ancestrality, nonhuman animation, and reversion opens up questions of ‘race,’ community, and political-economic organisation.
6:00-6:30 pm
Roundtable
6:30-6:40 pm
Q&A
About the speakers
Agata Bielik-Robson is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on all areas of Jewish philosophy with special emphasis paid on modern Jewish thought, from Spinoza to Derrida. She is the author of Another Finitude: Messianic Vitalism and Philosophy (Bloomsbury 2019), Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos (Routledge 2014), and co-editor of Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influences (Routledge 2014) and Tsimtsum and Modernity (2021).
Daniel H. Weiss is is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012) and Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (2023), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020) and Tsimtsum and Modernity (2021). Actively involved in the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, he is a recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. She specialises in philosophical approaches to literature, modern German-Jewish thought, early 20th-century Germanophone literatures in their transnational contexts, and history of critical theory. Recent publications include her translation and critical edition of Walter Benjamin’s “Toward the Critique of Violence” (with P. Fenves; Stanford UP, 2021) and articles in Theory Culture & Society, Paragraph, CR: New Centennial Review, Modern Language Notes, diacritics, and Critical Times. Funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, she is currently completing a book on Daoism and Capitalism, which has also received support from the Leverhulme Trust, the Center for Jewish History (NYC), and the British Society for the History of Philosophy.
The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London cordially invites you to the 5th Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lectures 2024
Respondent: Professor Sumi Madhok (LSE)
Tuesday, 7 May 2024
4-7pm
Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre G06, Roberts Building, UCL
(https://www.accessable.co.uk/venues/roberts-building-sir-ambrose-fleming-lecture-theatre-g06)
REGISTER FOR FREE: https://bit.ly/49uxCgB
Extractivist epistemologies work analogously to extractivist capitalism by extracting something of value, transferring it to another location, and then making use of its value. Sometimes, the item being extracted is knowledge, or an object that is thought to contain knowledge. Thus, in this case extractivists seek an epistemic resource of some sort—such as a piece of pharmacological knowledge held by an indigenous community or a rural healer concerning the medicinal potential of a given plant, or an artifact from an indigenous funeral site that can help them understand the nature of that particular culture. I argue that extractivist epistemologies developed in the modern era in a way that was marked by this practice and its implicit assumptions about how value (epistemic or otherwise) can be identified, can be made portable, and can be made use of. The extractivist epistemic approach treats this epistemic resource as separable from its origin, and then renders it into a knowledge commodity with exchange value over which exclusive rights can be contractually defined, protected and enforced. But to do this involves a whole series of metaphysical and epistemological assumptions about the nature of knowing as well as the norms of good knowing. This paper will also offer corrective epistemic norms to address the problems I have identified in extractivist epistemologies.
Respondent: Professor Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck)
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
3-6pm
A V Hill Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences, UCL
(https://www.accessable.co.uk/ucl/access-guides/medical-sciences-a-v-hill-lecture-theatre-131)
REGISTER FOR FREE: https://bit.ly/49uxCgB
My focus here will be primarily on archaeological museums that house cultural artifacts from many cultures: these are what I call “imperial museums”. I will focus on the knowledge claims made by such museums, which are used to justify their retention of their collections. The primary way museums legitimate their right of ownership and of display is on the basis of protecting a universal cultural knowledge which has unlimited reach into the future. I will explore and analyze the debates over this claim, looking especially at the issue of human remains of indigenous peoples in the Americas and the effort to repatriate these remains. I will also look at some current options for transforming such museums as developed by Dan Hicks, Ariella Azoulay and Philip Deloria. The principal issue this paper is concerned with is not the right to retain objects but the ideological effect of such museums in the legitimation of Imperialism, both past and present.
Linda Martín Alcoff is professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Co-Director of the Mellon Public Humanities and Social Justice Program. Her work bridges political and philosophical topics, on epistemology, Latin American philosophy, feminism, critical race theory and continental philosophy. As well as writing numerous academic and public facing pieces in philosophy, her books include Rape and Resistance (Polity 2018), The Future of Whiteness (Polity 2015), and Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (Oxford 2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award. She has also edited eleven books and published over 100 articles and book chapters. She is past president of the American Philosophical Association, and is originally from Panama.
Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. Her work combines critical theory and ethnographic approaches with a focus on South Asia and is interested in social sciences focused on epistemic interventions from the Global South. Her latest book is Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggle for Justice (Cambridge, 2021), winner of the 2022 Susan Strange book award.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is Professor of Human Rights and Political Philosophy at Birkbeck Law School. His work covers decolonial and anti-colonial approaches to philosophy, law, art practice, and education, with a focus on the Americas and Atlanticism, emphasising decolonial and visual methodologies, political economy, and racial justice. His What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) won the Frantz Fanon Award.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, UCL.
Free and open to all; register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goldsmiths-annual-philosophy-lectures-2024-linda-martin-alcoff-cuny-tickets-815560662897.
Contact: j.ng [at] gold.ac.uk or s.bromberg [at] gold.ac.uk
The recordings for the British Academy symposium “Translating China in the Changing Political Economy, 1920s-2020s” (March 25, 2024) are now available on our YouTube channel here:
REGISTER HERE for the zoom link
Contact: s.bromberg [@] gold.ac.uk
This seminar is part of the 23/24 CPCT research seminar series on ‘What is Global Critical Theory? Pt.3’ [link].
About the talk
Within a critical history of philosophy, Frantz Fanon is a paradoxical figure. Though he has become a symbol of a fundamental epistemological turn and a paramount figure in new narratives of the history of philosophy, Fanon didn’t subject his own use of the Modern European canon to much questioning. How are we to interpret the disjunction between these two facets of his writing? How is Fanon’s thought connected to the contemporary project of a critical history of philosophy?
To answer this question, I will discuss Fanon’s philosophical practice and the specific ways in which he took up the task of « critique ». I will also draw on a number of contemporary readings of Fanon in order to contrast the philosophical meaning each of them gives to Fanon’s epistemological rupture. This interpretation, I will claim, depends on how we think of the relationship between the critical philosophy of race on the one hand, and the critical history of philosophy on the other – i.e. it depends on the divergent, and somewhat contradictory, meanings imparted to critique at this historical juncture.
About the speaker
Lucie K. Mercier is Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She was previously Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, London, as well as Visiting Fellow at the University of Paris 8 and at the Program in Critical Theory of UC Berkeley. She recently published ‘The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle’ (Critical Times 6(1), 2023) and ‘Warding Off the Ghosts in the Historiography of Philosophy’, (Critical Philosophy of Race 10(1), 2022).She is a member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective and is currently working on a book-length project on Fanon’s philosophy.
The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University of London 