Dear all,
A notice of the next meeting of the CSD convened Materialisms Reading Group:
Thursday 5 March, Phil Hammond (London South Bank University) will introduce Joanna Zylinska's book Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene - available here: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/minimal-ethics.html
Future dates:
16 April, Tudor Vilcan (University of Southampton) will introduce Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice - available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Multiple-Ontology-Practice-Cultural/dp/0822329174/ref=sr_1_1
We have some great books lined up for further sessions, which we will be organising after the summer break:
Miriam Tedeschi (University IUAV, Venice) will introduce Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy - available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spinoza-Practical-Philosophy-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0872862186/ref=sr_1_1
Graham Jones will introduce John Protevi's Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic - available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Political-Affect-Connecting-Somatic-Posthumanities/dp/0816665109/ref=sr_1_1
Elisabetta Brighi (University of Westminster) will introduce Deborah Cowen's The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade - available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Life-Logistics-Mapping-Violence/dp/0816680884/ref=sr_1_1
Nick Srnicek (TBC) will introduce Graham Harman's Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political - available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruno-Latour-Reassembling-Political-European/dp/0745333990/ref=sr_1_1
We are also organising a series of workshops 'Living in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the Nature/Culture Divide' (which are a spin-off of the reading group) further information is available here: http://rethinkingtheanthropocene.blogspot.co.uk/ - the first workshop
is Critical Approaches to Big Data, 5th June at London South Bank (further information here: http://rethinkingtheanthropocene.blogspot.co.uk/p/big-data.html).
As before, meetings are open to all and take place Thursdays 6.30-8.00pm, Westminster Forum, Department of Politics and International Relations, 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW (5 minutes from Oxford Circus tube).
Wine and nibbles will be provided.
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Best wishes,
David
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