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 […]