CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group, a student-led group exploring the intersection of political theory and environmental issues, present a 30-minute ‘story’ as part of University of Edinburgh’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference, “Shaping Our Futures”. Grace Garland, Talia Shoval, and Joseph Conrad share their emergent understanding of what it might mean […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 7 June 2022, at 3pm. For this meeting, we tackle chapters 5 and 6. Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via […]
Dr Oliver Escobar, CRITIQUE’s Co-Director, is part of the team organising a Summer School course under the aegis of the Edinburgh Futures Institute: “Skills for democratic innovation and the governance of the future”. This short course, comprising two half-day sessions, will focus on skills for governance that can address systemic […]
Virtual lecture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Their work work draws on the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, histories of activism and activist thinkers. In this lecture, Olúfemi O. Táíwò will discuss […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 24 May 2022, at 2pm. For this meeting, we tackle the introduction to part 2 and and chapter 4. Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 5 May 2022, at 2:30pm. For this meeting, we tackle the second and third chapters (“The Materiality of Praxis” and “The Connections Between Practices”). Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts […]
We begin our reading Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on April 21 2022, at 3pm. For this first meeting, we tackle the Introduction and chapter 1, “The Rules of Praxis”. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take […]
Wrapping up our reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), we will be discussing the remainder of the chapters, from chapter 6 to the end of the book, including the conversation with Bruno Latour. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read […]
Proceeding with our reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), we will be discussing chapters 4 and 5. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email […]
We are reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), Introduction and Chapter 1. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
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