radical philosophy

Benjamin’s International Reception

Gudrun Schwarz, the main organizer of the recent symposium of the Walter Benjamin Archive in the Akademie der Künste, has been thinking about it – she says – for eight years, talking about it for six, and savouring its practical organization for the last four. Cai-Yong Wang from Fudan University, Shangai, opened by giving a summary of Benjamin’s reception in China. The first translation (his own, of the Artwork essay) […]

‘For a New Europe: University Struggles Against Austerity’, École des hautes études en sciences sociales/Université Paris VIII, February 2011

This three-day meeting, hosted by the Italian activist collective Edu-factory, attracted 300–400 university students, faculty, community leaders and activists from across Europe, as well as from Tunisia, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, the United States and Chile. It sought to provide a forum for groups to meet and share strategies of resistance against the current sweep of pan- European austerity measures, with particular attention paid to the attacks on the public university. […]

World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 19–22 April 2010

Fuad Rahmat reports from the ‘World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth’ in Cochabamba, Bolivia (19-22 April 2010).

‘On the Idea of Communism’, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, 13–15 March 2009

The Substance of Thought, Cornell University, NY, 10–12 April 2008

International Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies, Changshu, November 2006

The World Social Forum in Chávez’s Venezuela; The Critical Legacies of Manfredo Tafuri, Columbia University, New York, 20–21 April 2006

Antonio Negri in Iran, 4–6 January 2005, House of Artists and Centre for Dialogue Among Civilizations, Tehran; 7 January 2005, Isfahan

7th International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Heidelberg, 23–26 September 2004

Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CATH) Congress, National Museum, of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, 9–11 July 2004

Politics, Subjectivity, Event: A Workshop with Antonio Negri on his book Time for Revolution, Birkbeck College, University of London, 25 June; Antonio Negri in Conversation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 26 June

NOISETHEORYNOISE#1, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, 6 March 2004

Indeterminate! Communism, Goethe University of Frankfurt, 7–9 November 2003

‘Questioning Religion’, British Society for Phenomenology, University of Greenwich, 11–13 July 2003

[Anti-]Globalica: Conceptual and Artistic Tensions in the New Global, Disorder, Wroclaw, Poland, 1 May 2003

‘Philosophy As…’ Philosophy Programme of the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, and the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, Senate House, University of London, 28–30 November 2002

‘Siegfried Kracauer’, University of Birmingham, 13–14 September 2002

Return(s) to Marx? Institut français and Tate Modern, London, 31 May–1 June 2002

Marxism and the Visual Arts Now, University College London, 8–10 April 2002

Deleuze and Neo-aesthetics,Tate Modern, 21–22 September 2001