29th November 2019, 2.00-6.30pmLondon Bridge Hive1 Melior Place London SE1 3SZ In the course of the first two After Progress symposia it has become apparent that, rather than an idea to be criticised, “progress” names instead an entire array of capitalist, colonial and extractivist operations. It is a world-ploughing machine that suffuses the very modern […]
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After Progress: Modernity in Ruins
Wed 5th June 2019 | 13.30-18.30pmProfessor Stuart Hall Building (PSH) 326Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London, SE14 6NW The event is free, but registration is required due to limited capacity. To register, please go here. A small number of BURSARIES for unfunded PhD students/ECRs are available. Deadline for applications is APRIL 30. For further […]
After Progress | Symposium Series
After Progress | Symposium Series 2019 In this forthcoming symposium series, we propose to experiment, from an interdisciplinary and global perspective, with a pressing question for our troubled times: can we reimagine human and more-than-human arts of living and flourishing from the ruins of the modern idea of progress? The notion of “progress” is arguably the defining […]
Theory of Metamorphosis
13th March 2019 | 5.00-7.00 pm Margaret Macmillan Building (MMB) 220 Goldsmiths, University of London London SE14 6NW Part of the Pluralistic Variations Lecture SeriesOrganised by Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology) Theory of Metamorphosis Since Darwin, we know that every biological identity is the result of a metamorphosis: every species is only a transformation of the […]
Around the Pluriverse in 9 Objects
Around the Pluriverse in 9 Objects: Cosmological Compositions for Critical Zones Wed 13th February 2019 | 4.30-6.30pm Margaret Macmillan Building (MMB) 220 Goldsmiths, University of London London SE14 6NW Part of the Pluralistic Variations Lecture SeriesOrganised by Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology) This talk presents brief episodes of a history of the cosmos. Its immediate prompt […]
Truth Practices
24th January 2019 | 4.30-6.30 pm Professor Stuart Hall Building (PSH) 314Goldsmiths, University of London London SE14 6NW Part of the Pluralistic Variations Lecture SeriesOrganised by Dr Martin Savransky (Sociology) TRUTH PRACTICES Prof Michael Hampe (ETH Zürich) Practices of truth play an important role in every day life and in many legal and political […]