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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