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For anyone interested in reading and discussing the works of Michel Foucault. We plan to start with The Archaeology of Knowledge in autumn 2011.See More

We have now (finally) finished reading Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, and will not be meeting again. Many thanks to all those who joined in!See More

The Cybernetics reading group is dedicated to reading and discussing the core texts of the 'cyberneticians' of the late 1940s and through the 1950s, centered around the ten Macy Conferences that ran from 1946-1953.The cyberneticians pioneered many of the core concepts central to todays understanding of both culture and science: information, feedback, control and communication. The group aims at reading primary texts of the original cyberneticists and their heirs, discussing and interrogating…See More

A postgraduate reading group exploring the culture of things and objectsSee More

Hosted by Birkbeck College, an open-to-all MA/MPhil/PhD reading group. We meet monthly to discuss key texts, listen to invited speakers, and learn from each others' work.

This group is no longer running.See More

Run by English Literature / Art History students, meeting one Friday per month. Our first session (5th October, 12-1.30pm in the Keynes Library) will look at Bruno Latour's essay "Why has critique run out of steam" alongside Rosalyn Diprose's "Continental Philosophy: Thinking the Corporeal with the Political". Our second session (2nd November, 12-1.30pm) will aim to look at Derrida's Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview. Texts for subsequent sessions tbc, but many include extracts from…See More

This group welcomes anyone interested in Post-colonial theory and literature. Please feel free to come to the seminar to check it out and see whether it's for you or not.