Workshop Description In this session we discuss and learn to think of scholars as writers and to think of writing as a craft that must be practiced and perfected in community. The session will start by reading short pieces and discussing the writing experiences of participants, the question of accountability, […]
In this pre-red seminar, Prof Inés Valdez (John’s Hopkins) will discuss her paper ‘Dependent Capitalism and the Paradox of Democratic Founding’. Abstract: This paper presents a novel account of the paradox of postcolonial founding. Building upon Marxist dependency theorists Vania Bambirra, Ruy Mauro Marini, and Alvaro López, I diagnose a […]
Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge UP) theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez (Johns Hopkins) expands on racial capitalism by […]
What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? In Resisting Racial Capitalism: an Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press 2024), political theorist Ida Danewid (Sussex), argues that state power is central to racial capitalism’s violent regimes of extraction and accumulation. Tracing the global histories of four technologies of […]
This CRITIQUE Special Seminar Series is dedicated to the political thought of James Tully. ‘Series A’ runs Thursdays (October 5, 12, 19). It will focus on Prof Tully’s forthcoming book, Dialogue and Decolonization. ‘Series B’ runs Fridays (October 6, 13, 20). For these sessions, we will be joined by guest […]
You are invited to the talk The Fight for Democracy: Journey of a Political Scientist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong, featuring Nathan Law, a prominent activist and former legislator from Hong Kong and recently sought asylum in the U.K. At the talk, co-badged by IRRG and CRITIQUE, he will share […]
Our new ‘Theory in Sociology’ seminar series will be launched on Friday the 13th of October (11:00 -12:45), with a Panel discussion on ‘Theorising the Digital’, featuring Liz McFall, Karen Gregory and Ben Collier. The panel will present and discuss the theories which each of the speakers respectively draws on […]
CRITIQUE welcomes James Tully for a hybrid dialogue focusing on the themes of his forthcoming Dialogue and Decolonization, along with the book’s editor Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (Amsterdam). Dialogue and Decolonization is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought today. By bringing […]
CRITIQUE-PTRG Lecture w Professor Danielle Celermajer (Sydney University) In a 1964 interview, Hannah Arendt reflected on the moment she turned from being a ‘philosopher’ to being ‘political’ and feeling responsible: bearing witness to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and people being “taken to Gestapo cellars or to concentration […]
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