LGS and CRMEP in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Scott Wilson (Kingston) – Spider Universe: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy To listen click here. ‘Let us recognise the subject’s efficacy in the gnomon he erects, a gnomon that constantly indicates truth’s site to him.’ Lacan, Ecrits. This […]

The last in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Vitalism or Voluntarism? Peter Hallward Over much of the modern period, social criticism has been associated with forms of emancipatory political theory, and has helped clarify what is at stake in various struggles to escape from forms of ‘enslavement to […]

CRMEP and LGS in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Éric Alliez (Kingston) – Duchamp à Calcutta Recorded 2nd May 2013 To listen click here No, Duchamp didn’t go to Calcutta and it is a terribly bad pun, used here to refresh the tautological inquiry into Duchamp’s ‘meta-eroticism’ (a tautology since Duchamp, readymade included, is […]

The next in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Scott Wilson Spider Universe: Lars Von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy Thursday, 23rd May 2013 6-8PM at Central Saint Martins ‘Let us recognise the subject’s efficacy in the gnomon he erects, a gnomon that constantly indicates truth’s site to […]

The next in the LGS/CRMEP series ‘Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts’: Éric Alliez Duchamp à Calcutta Thursday, 16 May 2013 6-8PM at Central Saint Martins No, Duchamp didn’t go to Calcutta and it is a terribly bad pun, used here to refresh the tautological inquiry into Duchamp’s ‘meta-eroticism’ (a tautology since […]

In the latest in our series exploring film through a philosophical lens, Pierre Lauret considers the troubling absence of ‘home’ in John Ford’s Western masterpiece. May 20, 2013 6:20 PM Get Tickets Here USA 1956 Directed by John Ford With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood Running time 119 mins In […]

  CRMEP and LGS in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central St Martins present: Professor Catherine Malabou (Kingston) – Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin Recorded 2nd May 2013 To listen click here In an important shift in materialism announced in his late writings, Althusser affirms the necessity of moving from a teleological dialectical materialism (Hegel and Marx) to a “materialism of the […]