Discover our upcoming and past events, including symposiums, lectures, and workshops.
Over the past decade, the concept of fascism has returned with a vengeance in attempts to understand the planetary shift to the far-right. As several commentators have rightly indicated, the fascism of the 1920s and 1930s is considerably different from the fascism that appears to be shaping the politics of the contemporary global order. The latter has been understood along two distinct axes. The first holds that it is a species of authoritarian populism in which movements purporting to embody or personify the will of the “people” are driven to transgress every moral, epistemic and aesthetic limit in manifesting sovereign power. The second mainatins that contemporary fascism is a form of what has been referred to as “technofascism,” which has been given politico-philosophical shape by “Dark Enlightenment” thinkers such as Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin who articulate starkly anti-democratic positions. While the first form could be said to undermine liberal democracy from within by pushing it in an increasingly “illiberal” direction, the second form brazenly attacks the very idea of democracy from without, by explicitly stating its incompatibility with capitalist social relations. In this lecture, I will pose the question as to which explanation best grasps the contemporary authoritarian turn and how can it be opposed.
Join us to celebrate the publication of CRMEP Books Volume 8: Peter Osborne and Howard Caygill, eds, Promise & Perdition in the Thought of Gillian Rose. Also launching two books on Robert Walser: Simon Wortham, Robert Walser and the Politics of Neglect – with an Introduction by CRMEP's Howard Caygill (Palgrave Macmillan) and Simon Wortham, Robert Walser: Criticism, Creativity, Correspondence (UCL Press).
Billie Cashmore, ‘The Materialist Theatre?’
Aleksei Zinuik, ‘Byt and Time: Futurism of the Left Front of the Arts’
Time: 5.30–7.30pm
Venue: Room JG 1007, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE
Fin Worrall, 'Problematising the Oikos'
Tiger Liu, ‘The Melancholy of Extinction’
Time: 5.30–7.30pm
Venue: Room JG 1007, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE
Anna Beria, ‘'Marx and the Absolute'
Katrine Hoghoj, ‘The Empirical-transcendental Doublet and the Geopolitical Differentiation of the Subject’
Time: 5.30–7.30 pm
Venue: Room JG 1007, Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University, KT1 2EE
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.
Master and slave
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
Reflections on John Dupré's philosophy of biology
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
Abolishing slavery, preventing genocide.
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
Political contradictions between autonomy and freedom in Adorno’s critical theory.
Sponsored by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster.
A celebration of the relaunch of CRMEP as an independent educational association based in London and for the launch of the paperback edition of CRMEP BOOKS Volume 7: Stella Sandford, ed., Conjunctions: Humanatures, Reproduction, Disjunctions.
