CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network will be hosting a special reading group session on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s new book, Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). This will take place on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 from 3pm to 4.30 pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15. We will discuss Chapter […]
Critique and the Political Theory Research Group will be hosting a pre-read seminar with Alex Freer on ‘Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form’: Under what conditions is form political? The question has become pressing for literary theory in light of what we might call political formalism, a family of approaches to […]
During the Cold War, many large-scale research projects were funded by US academic and state institutions in an attempt to better understand the ‘Communist mind’, often relying on in-person interviews with emigres from the Soviet Union, Korea and China. I’m interested in a specific genre of publication that emerged from […]
3pm-4:30pm on Wednesday 30th October in Chrystal Macmillan room 3.15. This is a pre-read seminar. For a copy of the paper, please contact tom.oshea@ed.ac.uk.
Typically, anarchy is considered the opposite of a constitutional order. But the reality is more complex. This talk reveals that anarchists constitutionalise: they develop declarations, rules, institutions, and democratic decision-making procedures to transform in the world in which they act. It also shows how anarchists theorise war to address the […]
Our next session of Critique Reads will take place on Wednesday 20th March at 3pm-4pm in Chrsytal Macmillan Building room 2.15. We are reading James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State, and this session will cover pages 53-146 (chapters 2, 3, and 4), which discuss language, authoritarian high modernism, and urban design respectively. […]
CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network will be hosting a special reading group session on the theme of environmental domination. This will take place on Wednesday 7th February 2024 between 3pm-4pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15. We’ll be discussing Sharon Krause’s 2020 article ‘Environmental Domination’ from the journal […]
Our reading group Critique Reads will be meeting on Wednesday 31st January at 3pm-4pm in room 3.15 of the Chrystal Macmillan Building for our first session of the semester. We’ll be reading a classic book by the anthropologist and political scientist James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain […]
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