Please join us for the following presentation and discussion with Christoph Sorg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on ‘Varieties of Democratic Planning: Shaping, Abolishing or Socializing Markets’: Economic planning is back. Resurgent industrial policy, public companies and sovereign wealth funds, asset managers holding stakes across entire economies, and intellectual monopolies that organise […]
For this joint CRITIQUE and Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network reading group, we’ll be discussing Lucas Pohl and Erik Swyngedouw’s short paper, ‘Enjoying Climate Change: Jouissance as a Political Factor’. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, the paper considers how enjoyment shapes people’s responses to climate change, including a psychic attachment to environmentally […]
We will be joined by Daniel Hartley (Durham) for a discussion of his new book project, Peasant Modernism: Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well. Rethinking the peasant as a figure through which to approach ecology, dispossession, and life beyond capitalism, the project asks what peasant thought […]
A.J.A. Woods joins us to discuss their new Verso book examining the history and political uses of “Cultural Marxism” — one of the contemporary right’s most pervasive conspiracy theories. Drawing on archival research, their presentation traces how the Frankfurt School came to be recast as the hidden authors of civilisational […]
We will be holding a reading group discussing Andrea Dworkin’s book Right-Wing Women in light of its recent reissue. Led by the global historian of feminism Rosa Campbell (KCL), we’ll explore what the book still offers for thinking about contemporary right-wing femininity, including the “trad wife”, and where its analysis is no […]
Quentin Belot Couloumies, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, CERAG, Grenoble, France Wednesday 22 April, 16:00-17:30, Practice Suite. The seminar will be introduced by Theo Bourgeron. Capital is back. Rethinking French capitalism through structures, power, and long-term dynamics of capital This paper presents my current work, that seeks to challenge dominant […]
Laleh Khalili will join us for a discussion of their new book, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy. Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that […]
In this semester’s Theory in Sociology series, we are aiming to promote discussion about theoretical issues in sociology through discussion of draft chapters or articles from PGRs and staff in SPS. At each session we will discuss a draft research paper, which those in attendance will have read in advance, […]
Miguel de Beistegui, ICREA, Barcelona 11 March 3pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Violet Laidlaw Room (6th Floor) CRITIQUE Lecture Crisis: A Critique The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies […]
Critique will be co-hosting a launch event for the CAHSS Network for the Study of Work With funding from the CAHSS Interdisciplinary Fund, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Network for the Study of Work (NSW). We’re an intentionally broad, interdisciplinary network that aims to connect researchers […]