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


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RECORDING of Babette Babich: Apocalyptic Thinking after Günther Anders (19 June 2023, 4pm, Senate House)

A recording of Babette Babich’s lecture on “Apocalyptic Thinking after Günther Anders” (19 June 2023), which was co-hosted by Royal Holloway University of London’s Centre for Continental Philosophy, is now available via RHUL’s Youtube channel.


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Recordings of Monique David-Ménard’s 2021 Annual Lectures


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Recording of 2nd Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture: Christoph Menke (Frankfurt), “The Critique of Law and the Law of Critique” (29 May 2019)

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Recording of Alenka Zupančič — Love thy neighbour as you love thyself!?(Nov 8, 2018)

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Alenka Zupančič

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Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture – Alienation & Freedom: Frantz Fanon’s Lost and Last Works

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Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young give the first Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture, on the hitherto unpublished and unavailable works of Frantz Fanon.

4-7pm

1 June 2018

LG02, Professor Stuart Hall Building

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals, philosophers and activists seeking to radically interrogate our understandings of violence, race, political subjectivity, mental illness and the challenges of decolonization. In CPCT’s first annual lecture, we are joined by the editors of the landmark collection Alienation and Freedom. This volume collects together unpublished and unavailable works comprising around half of Fanon’s entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. Khalfa and Young will explore how these writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon’s entire oeuvre, revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. The talk will shed new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, and on newly available texts which oblige us to take a fresh look at the intellectual history of anti-colonial and post-colonial thought, as well as to address with Fanon some of the most pressing theoretical issues of our time.

The lecture will be followed by a response by Jane Hiddleston and will also feature a performance-reading of excerpts from the two plays by Fanon included in Alienation & Freedom: The Drowning Eye and Parallel Hands. Continue reading


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Recording of Powers and Limits of Property workshop (11 June 2015) – Part 2

Powers and Limits of Property Workshop – Session 2

Chair: Alain Pottage
José Bellido and Kathy Bowrey – Licensing Gone Wrong
Hyo Yoon Kang – When Intellectual Property Becomes Speculative: A Study of Patents as Financial Instruments
[NB: unfortunately Bellido and Bowrey’s paper was not recorded]

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8799


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Recording of Powers and Limits of Property workshop (11 June 2015) – Part 1

Powers and Limits of Property – Session 1

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

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8799


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Recording of ‘Dictionary of Untranslatables’ (with Balibar, Campos, Cassin, Lezra)

A discussion and launch of Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, edited by Barbara Cassin (Princeton University Press, 2014), with:

Barbara Cassin
Étienne Balibar (Kingston)
Lucie Campos (Institut Français)
Jacques Lezra (NYU, co-editor of the English translation)

Organised by Filippo Del Lucchese (Brunel) & Alberto Toscano (Co-Director, CPCT).

Co-Chair: Julia Ng (Co-Director, CPCT)

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=9335


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Recording of ‘Deprovincialising Marxism’, a workshop with Harry Harootunian (1 July 2016)

A Workshop on Harry Harootunian’s Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism

In the author’s own words, Harootunian’s new book presents us with “a Marx who was able to expand his own angle of vision from the 1860s on and widen his perspective to envisage a global arena marked by the formation of the world market.

We can perceive in this epochal shift that Marx had moved toward envisioning the multiple possibilities for radical transformation among the world’s societies that no longer depended on their capacity to replicate a singular model offered by a European nation-state or bypass the colonial experience, and which, as his views on Russia showed, could utilize the residues of a prior modes of production to create either a new register of formal subsumption or bypass capital altogether”.

This workshop will explore the challenge that Marx After Marx poses to Western Marxisms and postcolonial theories alike, in its critical recovery of Marx’s notion of formal subsumption and its attention to the temporal unevenness that has marked capitalism from its origins, as well as to the non-Western Marxist theorists – from José Carlos Mariátegui to Uno Kozo – who forged the tools to think the capital-labour relation beyond Eurocentric and stageist imaginaries.

With Harry Harootunian, Svenja Bromberg, Michael Dutton and Alberto Toscano
Chaired by Rajyashree Pandey