The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths University of London

Research Centre run jointly between the Departments of Sociology and English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths University, London

Recent Doctoral Research

Germanos Al Hassan, Camille (English and Comparative Literature, 2025)
Thesis title: Places and Non-Places for Language

Murè, Federica (English and Comparative Literature, 2024)
Thesis title: Textures of the Liminal Image at the Crossroads of Modern German Aesthetics, Art History, and Contemporary Visual Cultures: A Comparative Study from Benjamin to Didi-Huberman (Funded by CHASE AHRC studentship)

Ursitti, Filippo (English and Comparative Literature / Critical Theory, 2023)
Thesis title: Reinterpreting Günther Anders’ Polemics with Adorno and Heidegger Through the Prism of Anders’ Musicology

Lanci, Yari (Sociology, 2022).
Thesis title: Governing Time: Temporality and the Marking of Exploitable Subjects in Marx and Foucault

Mozzachiodi, Roberto (MCCS, 2021)
Thesis title: The End of Philosophy in Marx: Henri Lefebvre, Louis Althusser, and Jacques Derrida

Law, Christopher (English and Comparative Literature, 2019)
Thesis title: The Life in Language: The Concept of Uncriticizability from Goethe to Benjamin (Funded by CHASE AHRC studentship)

Lagos, Felipe (Sociology, 2017).
Thesis title: The Misadventures of Latin American Marxism: Intellectual Journeys Towards the Deprovincialization of Marxist Thought

Vandeputte, Tom (English and Comparative Literature, 2017).
Thesis title: Critique of Journalistic Reason: Language and History in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.

Bromberg, Svenja (Sociology, 2016).
Thesis title: Thinking ‘emancipation’ after Marx: A conceptual analysis of emancipation between citizenship and revolution.

Truskolaski, Sebastian (Visual Cultures, 2016).
Thesis title: Bilderverbot: Adorno and the Ban on Images.

Krapivina, Ksenija (Visual Cultures)
Thesis title: ‘Madness in the Archive: Occupying the Gap between Reason and Non-reason’