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 […]

What makes an academic article a classic? By metrics, it’s citations. And while what’s considered acceptable and what might be accepted in top journals – as well as the sheer number of journals – has changed, the theoretical contributions of these articles have important and in some cases problematic legacies […]

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 […]

We will meet at 2pm on the 29th of May 2023 to discuss Sylvia Wynter’s essay ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument’. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts […]

We will meet at 3pm on the 5th of May 2023 to discuss Chapters 4 and 5 from Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. […]

We will meet at 4pm on the 28th of March 2023 to discuss the Introduction of Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. To join […]

We will meet at 3pm on the 3rd of March 2023 to discuss chapters 4, 5 and the Conclusion of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T. Huber. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets […]

We will meet at 4 pm on the 13th of February 2023 to discuss Section II of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T. Huber. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss […]