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A talk delivered at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent's Street, London W1
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This is a recording of a lecture given at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, on 20 November 2025: ‘The Woman in the Rorschach Dress: Foucault at Münsterlingen'
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This is a recording of a lecture given at Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, on 6 November 2025: ‘Process Metaphysics and “Promiscuous Realism”: Reflections on John Dupré's Philosophy of Biology’
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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.
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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.
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This is a recording of Peter Osborne's plenary lecture at the CRMEP Graduate Conference 2024, 'Care, Commons, Reproduction', 23–24 May.
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This is a recording of a public lecture given by Judith Butler in the CRMEP research seminar series at Kingston University on 20 February 2024.
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A public lecture deloivered at the Swedenborg Hall in London on 26 January 2024.
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This is the the 4th annual Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, delivered in London on Thursday 19 October 2023. 'Over the past two decades, identity politics has exercised a startling influence within progressive circles in the Anglosphere both within the university and the broader public realm. Moreover, it has been taken up into the agendas of putatively liberal and nominally social democratic parties. During Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign, for example, she repeatedly used the term ‘intersectionality'. However, the concept of identity politics is still widely misconstrued. This lecture reflects on the origins and conceptual and political meanings of the idea. It poses the question, ‘Is identity politics best viewed as embodying a genuine dialectic of emancipation, or as what, in her 1996 collection Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose called an aporetic "paradox of empowerment"?' Put differently, does identity politics aim at fundamental social transformation or does it more simply represent a shift in what we might call the ‘organic composition' of elites within capitalist societies?' This event was generously supported by the Tom Vaswani Family Educational Trust.
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The fifth and final in the spring series of CRMEP public lectures, held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell, London. This lecture, delivered on 30 March 2023, is by Professor Peter Hallward - 'Stoics and Jacobins'.
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The fourth in the spring series of CRMEP public lectures, held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell, London. This lecture, delivered on 16 March 2023, is by Professor Simon Wortham - 'Walser in Berlin'.
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The third in the spring series of CRMEP public lectures, held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell, London. This lecture, delivered on 2 March 2023, is by Professor Stella Sandford - 'The Mother Tree and Other Animals'. In this lecture Stella discusses some of the main themes in her recently published book Vegetal Sex.
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The second in the spring series of CRMEP public lectures, held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell, London. This lecture, delivered on 16 February 2023, is by Professor Peter Osborne - 'Social, Political, Terrestrial'. In this lecture Peter takes recent work by Bruno Latour and Dipesh Chakrabarty critically to task.
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The first in the spring series of CRMEP public lectures, held at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in Clerkenwell, London. This lecture, delivered on 9 February 2023, is by Professor Howard Caygill - 'Climate Catastrophe and the Bomb'.
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CRMEP public lecture, Friday 25 November 2022, at the Swedenborg Hall, London.
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This is a recording of the public lecture delivered by Étienne Balibar, Visiting Professor at CRMEP, in The Town House (Penrhyn Road campus) on 13 May 2022, at the end of his week-long seminar for CRMEP students.
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This is a recording of the public lecture delivered by Catherine Malabou, Professor Emerita at CRMEP, at the Swedenborg Hall in London on 19 November 2021, at the end of her week-lomg seminar for CRMEP students. (Apologies for the low sound with questions from the audeince at the end; but Catherine's responses ring loud and clear.)Introduced by Stella Sandford.
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In this episode Catherine Malabou rereads the Myth of Er in Plato's Republic and asks: what is the life that Odysseus chooses? And what does it mean? Interpreting Odysseus and Odysseus' choice anew this espisode explains how 'the plasticity of his soul is the very site of phronesis.'
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In this episode Peter Hallward considers the apparent tension between deterministic and ‘voluntaristic’ aspects of Marx’s conception of class. But rather than being a contradiction, Peter argues that this shows that Marx's approach to class struggle incorporates material factors (like organisation and capacity) with psycho-political factors like collective purpose and commitment.
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Paul Celan's poetry has been in constant dialogue with philosophy: he was a passionate reader of philosophy and was passionately read by contemporary philosophers. In this podcast Howard Caygill reflects on the role of the question in Celan's poetry as a point of intersection between poetic and philosophical language – a point where both are exposed to the violence of Twentieth Century history.
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In this episode Stella Sandford reflects on Freud's use of the model of the mycelium and the mushroom in dream analysis. Pushing the model of the mycelium farther than Freud, she suggests how it helps us think about what Freud called 'telepathy' and about the transindividual basis of our psychic individuality.
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In this episode CRMEP's Peter Hallward revisits Nietzsche's famous claim that there is no 'doer' behind the 'deed'. Nietzsche's claim was taken up by a wide range of radical innovative thinkers in the 1960s and 70s - notably Michel Foucault. Acknowledging the importance of this appropriation, Peter nevertheless suggests why we need to rethink the claim if we are to be able to conceive of ourselves as active members of a political community.
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In this episode CRMEP's Peter Osborne reflects on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, 50 years after its first (posthumous) publication in 1970. He addresses the book, the history of its English-language reception and its significance today. (The names mentioned at the end of the podcast are: Asha Varadharajan, Fred Moten and Fumi Okiji.)
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In this episode CRMEP's Howard Caygill revisits the famous 1966 interview with Heidegger (published in Der Spiegel in 1976) in the light of Heidegger’s (catastophically mistaken) political and philosophical interpretation of the meaning of the Lunar Orbiter images of the earth.
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In this episode Stella Sandford asks: what is the history of philosophy? And what is its relation to the present? She suggests that the richest conception of the history of philosophy remains open to the analysis of any kind of material. It is 'an ever-evolving multiplicity of specific but interrelated histories oriented by the problematisations of contemporary thought', as the example of philosophical analysis of the concept of 'sex' shows.
Mohamed Amer-Meziane, Etienne Balibar, Jamila Mascat, Lucie Mercier, Hager Weslati
Recordings from a workshop addressing the possibility of conceptualising a geopolitics of philosophy.
Giorgio Agamben
Recording of a lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben concerning the genealogy of command.
