The Centre for Modern Thought

The Centre for Modern Thought

CMT Spring Term 2013 Seminar, Tuesdays, 12.30-2.30pm, Taylor A08, “The Image”

CMT Winter Term 2012 Seminar, Tuesdays, 12.30-3.30pm, Taylor A08, “Finitude”

CMT Summer Term 2012 seminar, Tuesdays, McRobert 265, 12-2 pm: “Kant and the Question of Form”

This term, we will focus on the topic of form, with particular focus on Kant and two responses to his 3rd Critique (from Heidegger and Lyotard)

The course will continue in two parts for the coming few weeks, with the first section devoted to Heidegger’s reading of Kant (via The Basic Problems of Phenomenology and Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. The second session will continue to be devoted to Kant’s 3rd Critique. Once we have finished the latter text, we will move to “The Origin of the Work of Art”.

Seminar: ‘The State(s) of Knowledge: Reading between Hegel and Schelling on Art and History’, Professor Tilottama Rajan

Monday 7th March 2011, 4pm, Humanities Manse

The Centre for Modern Thought is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Tilottama Rajan entitled ‘The State(s) of Knowledge: Reading between Hegel and Schelling on Art and History’. Professor Rajan is Canada Research Chair in English and Theory and a distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Read more ...

Film and Capitalism Series [Film and Visual Culture / Centre for Modern Thought]

Monday 25th May, 5 pm, Taylor Building A31

Geoffrey Kantaris (Centre for Latin American Studies, University fo Cambridge) will deliver a lecture on:

“The primal (mise en) scène of capital”: Argentine, Colombian and Brazilian urban film

Geoffrey Kantaris is the Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research currently focuses on contemporary urban cinema from Latin America, particularly Argentine, Colombian and Mexican cinema. Related interests include questions of modernity, postmodernity and transnational processes in Latin American culture. Read more ...

Literature and Mathematics: Figures, Topoi and Transferences across the Disciplines

11-12 June 2010, Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen

Further Information: m.wickman@abdn.ac.uk

When Alain Badiou divulges not only the numerical basis of modern ontology but also the reasons for the latter’s purported incoherence, he implicitly makes a more general case for the literary turn of mathematics—that is, for its implication in a system of slippery, philosophically-indeterminate tropes. Of course, we might come at this situation from the opposite direction. Read more ...

The Archigram Archival Project is run by a team from EXP, the Research Centre for Experimental Practice at the University of Westminster and was funded by a Resource Enhancement Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Collaborative help was kindly provided by the surviving members of Archigram or their heirs who retain copyright of all images.

Archigram Began Life as a Magazine produced at home by the members of the group, showing experimental work to a growing, global audience. Nine (and a half) seminal, individually designed, hugely influential, and now very rare magazines were produced between 1961 and 1974. Read more ...

PROJECT OVERVIEW

This website provides an electronic annotated edition of the French philosophical journal Les Cahiers pour l’Analyse. Edited by a small group of Louis Althusser’s students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969 – arguably the most fertile and productive years in French philosophy during the whole of the twentieth century. Read more ...

A two-day postgraduate conference at the University of Aberdeen sponsored by the Beyond Text Programme, AHRC

Call for Papers

The long contested issue of the relationship between art and politics has lately re-emerged in critical debate, in conjunction with an explosion of interest in political theory and the exhaustion of the postmodernist model. Recent technological developments have radically transformed modes of creation, circulation, assimilation and dispersion of images, reframing perception and making the investigation of the interdependency of visual arts and politics an urgent ethical necessity. Read more ...

‘Cruel Weather’ and the exhibition ‘Identities in Motion’ by Ayah Bdeir at Peacock Visual Arts, aim to encourage a broader and incisive involvement in, and discussion of artistic responses to crisis, the place of the moving image, and the state of the Middle East today.

The festival is composed largely of documentary, experimental and mixed genre works that have never before been screened in Scotland. Read more ...