London Critical Theory School

The 2010 Summer School took place at Birkbeck 28th June - 9th July

Programme Overview pdf format

Monday 28th June – Thursday 1st July Teaching

9.30 – 11.00 Drucilla Cornell Socialist Futures

11.30 – 13.00 Jacqueline Rose Psychoanalysis & the Polis

15.00 – 16.30 Etienne Balibar Concepts of the Transindividual:

18.00 - 20.00 Welcome Reception Council Room, Main Building

Friday 2nd July Public Debate/Discussion Room B36 14.30

Saturday 3rd July Jean-Luc Nancy Public lecture Room B33 15.00 (available as a podcast)

Monday 5th July - Thursday 8th July Teaching

9.30 – 11.00 Slavoj Zizek Hegel as a Critical Theorist

11.30 – 13.00 Stephen Frosh Relational ethics:

15.00 – 16.30 Esther Leslie (Mon & Tues) Politics & the Arts

Costas Douzinas (Wed & Thurs) The Left & Rights

Friday 9th July Teaching

9.30 – 11.00 Esther Leslie Politics & the Arts

11.30 – 13.00 Costas Douzinas The Left & Rights

15.00 – 17.00 Public Debate/Discussion Room B35 (available as a podcast)

17.00 – 19.00 Wine Reception Room B04

Timetable pdf format Reading Materials

Week 1 28^th June – 2^nd July

Monday 28^th June Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
08.45 onwards	Registration and Welcome
09.30 – 11.00	Drucilla Cornell Module: Socialist Futures	Rethinking ethical feminism through Ubuntu
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Jacqueline Rose Module: *Psychoanalysis and the Polis*	Psychoanalysis and the Polis
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Etienne Balibar Module: *Concepts of the Transindividual: Can we reconcile the legacies of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and how?*	Introductory: Philosophy, anthropology, politics, and the category of “relation”

Tuesday 29^th June Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Drucilla Cornell Module: Socialist Futures	The Always Unfinished Project of Modernity : The Fragile Life of symbols
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Jacqueline Rose Module: *Psychoanalysis and the Polis*	Hannah Arendt and Anti-Semitism
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Etienne Balibar Module: *Concepts of the Transindividual: Can we reconcile the legacies of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and how?*	Marx’s concepts of a “social relation”. The Two Discoveries and the ambiguity of “communist politics” in Capital

Wednesday 30^th June Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Drucilla Cornell Module: *Socialist Futures*	Transformative revolution: Repairing the Fractured Ethical World
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Jacqueline Rose Module: *Psychoanalysis and the Polis*	Sigmund Freud and the Jew
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Etienne Balibar Module: *Concepts of the Transindividual: Can we reconcile the legacies of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and how?*	Freud’s model of “identification” and the mass-ego, a critique of political reason?

Thursday 1^st July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Drucilla Cornell Module: Socialist Futures	Unfree Black Labour: The telos of history and the struggle against Racialized Capitalism
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Jacqueline Rose Module: *Psychoanalysis and the Polis*	Psychoanalysis in the Middle East: literary memory
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Etienne Balibar Module: *Concepts of the Transindividual: Can we reconcile the legacies of Spinoza, Marx, Freud, and how?*	Is a “Spinozistic” reconciliation of political economy and political psychology at all thinkable?

Week 2 5^th July – 9^th July

Monday 5^th July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Slavoj Zizek Module: *Hegel as a Critical Theorist*	Introduction: Critique Versus Reconciliation
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Stephen Frosh Module: *Relational ethics: A conversation between psychoanalysis and social theory?*	The relational ethics of conflict and identity
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Esther Leslie Module: *The Political and the Arts*	The Splinter in Your Eye: On Criticism and Visuality

Tuesday 6^th July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Slavoj Zizek Module: *Hegel as a Critical Theorist*	The Limits Of Hegel: Sexuality, Rabble And Repetition
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Derek Hook Module: *Relational ethics: A conversation between psychoanalysis and social theory?*	The powers of emptiness
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Esther Leslie Module: *The Political and the Arts*	Animation and the Image from a Benjaminian Point of View

Wednesday 7^th July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Slavoj Zizek Module: *Hegel as a Critical Theorist*	Why Only A Christian Can Be A True Atheist
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Lisa Baraitser Module: *Relational ethics: A conversation between psychoanalysis and social theory?*	Melancholic subjects, affective states
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Costas Douzinas Module: *The Left and Rights*	The genealogy of rights

Thursday 8^th July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Slavoj Zizek Module: *Hegel as a Critical Theorist*	Hegel contra Heidegger: A diagnosis of where we are
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Margarita Palacios Module: *Relational ethics: A conversation between psychoanalysis and social theory?*	For and against recognition: contemporary debates and critical approaches
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch
15.00 – 16.30	Costas Douzinas Module: *The Left and Rights*	Rights and the subject

Friday 9^th July Room 416
*Time*	*Tutor & Module*	*Seminar Title*
09.30 – 11.00	Esther Leslie Module: *The Political and the Arts*	Shudder and Shake: Contemporary Panoramas of Disaster Capitalism
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	Costas Douzinas Module: *The Left and Rights*	Rights, humanism, biopolitics
13.00 – 15.00	Lunch