Centre for Cultural Studies PhD seminar 2010-2011
4 Oct - John Hutnyk – introductory and organizational discussion (no pre-reading)
11 Oct - John Hutnyk –
Mussell: Three pages from “Social and Political Thought”
Adorno: ‘What National Socialism Has Done to the Arts’ from “Essays on Music”
Adorno ‘Critique’ – a 1969 radio address, From “Critical Models”
18 Oct – John Hutnyk
Ronell: ‘The Question of Stupidity: Why We Remain in the Provinces’ from “Stupidity”
Ronell: ‘On Television: the feminization of the World’ from “Fighting Theory”
25 Oct – Scott Lash
Sloterdijk: From “Terror From the Air”
1 Nov – Scott Lash
Badiou: ‘Mathematics and Philosophy/Philosophy and Mathematics’
15 Nov – Matt Fuller
Agre: ‘Towards a Critical Technical Practice’
22 Nov – Matt Fuller
Guattari ‘The New Aesthetic Paradigm’
29 Nov – Alison Hulme
Lefebvre: from “Critique of Everyday Life” vol 1.
6 Dec – Richard Iveson
Derrida: from ‘The Beast and the Sovereign’ and
A.Benjamin: ‘Particularity and Exceptions: On jews and Animals’
24 Jan – Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
Tarde/Durkheim: ‘The Debate’ from “The Social After Gabriel Tarde”
31 Jan – Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay
Joyce: ‘The Social in Question’
7 Feb – Luciana Parisi
James: ‘The Stream of Thought’ from “Principles of Psychology”
Whitehead: ‘Expression’ from ‘Modes of Thought’
14 Feb – Luciana Parisi
Clarke: ‘Meat machines’ from ‘Mindware’
Bateson: ‘Criteria of Mental Processes’ from “Mind and Nature”
Churchland: ‘Introduction’ to “The Engine of Reason”
28 Feb - Bernard Stiegler
7 March – Bernard Stiegler
14 – March – from this date on - PhD student presentations each monday including into summer term….
