CRMEP is an independent educational association based in London. We organize events, publications and study groups. We provide open access to a wide range of writing and lectures in post-Kantian philosophy and critical theory, including Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and the critique of the European tradition. Support the CRMEP
Events & Lectures
Lectures and seminars are free but registration is required.
CRMEP Public Lecture 6 – Catherine Malabou (NYU & UC Irvine), 'Of Another Nihilism'
On Jacques Rancière's Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov and Beyond.
Setting out from Jacques Rancière’s Au loin la liberté, this talk examines nihilism both in its metaphysical sense of destiny and in its political sense of servitude and revolution. I suggest new ways of approaching nihilism not as pure despair or stasis, but as a dynamic space of interruption and transformation where freedom can emerge.
Philosophy and Law: Contemporary Challenges
A two-day symposium exploring contemporary challenges at the intersection of philosophy and law.
Books & Pamphlets
Conjunctions: humanatures reproduction disjunctions
We have called this volume Conjunctions because the various themes which run through it – social and biological reproduction, the relationship between organic, social and technological life, the relations of all of these to sexuality and the relations between disciplines – do not form a unified picture, but they do reflect a particular state of relations between various fields in and adjacent to CRMEP as a historical project.
Articles in this volume
Recordings
'Means of immediate Ends' (Peter Hallward)
This is a recording of a lecture delivered on 25 October 2025, as part of the CRMEP autumn events series. These evenst include question and answer sessions but we do not record these.
'Freedom as Unfreedom' (Peter Osborne)
This is a recording of the first public lecture of the newly relaunched independent CRMEP, delivered at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster on 9 October 2025.
'Temporalities of Reproduction' (Peter Osborne)
This is a recording of Peter Osborne's plenary lecture at the CRMEP Graduate Conference 2024, 'Care, Commons, Reproduction', 23–24 May.