Critical Theory Seminar

Series dates:

Thursdays, 5.00 - 6.30 pm

Series venues:

Old Library, All Souls College

Please note:

The Week 4 session will be held on Monday, Feb. 4 instead of on the usual Thursday.
The Week 8 session will be held in the New Powell Room at Somerville College instead of at All Souls.

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Events in this series

Critical Theory Seminar - Bleak dreams, not nightmares: critical dystopias and the necessity of melancholic hope

17th January 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

What kind of stories are most effective for envisioning a hopeful future when alternatives to the status quo are sorely needed? Few would turn to dystopian fiction for this specific purpo...

Critical Theory Seminar - War beyond the human: robots, race, and reproduction

24th January 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

In this talk, I draw from my manuscript in progress, tentatively titled “War Beyond the Human”. This work argues that category of ‘the human’ haunts our very capacity to understand, compr...

Critical Theory Seminar - Towards a materialist theory of ideological propaganda

31st January 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Critical Theory Seminar - Solidarity as critical methodology in mapping a multi-layered colonial present

4th February 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Critical Theory Seminar - Horkheimer, Adorno and societal transformation

14th February 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Critical Theory Seminar - Objective reason and irrational society: the ‘linguistic turn’ in Horkheimer and Adorno

21st February 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Critical Theory Seminar - The real political contradiction of Adorno’s Critical Theory

28th February 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Critical Theory Seminar - Critical Theory, Ideology, and Common Sense

7th March 2019 5:00pm-6:30pm

Please note: This week's session will be held in the New Powell Room at Somerville College instead of at All Souls.