Visual Cultures events

Past events

Tuesday 15 March 2011

• Jenny Doussan, "Agamben's Cat & Mouse Game"

Friday 11 March 2011

• Film Screening: Arbeiter Verlassen die Fabrik (Workers Leaving The Factory, 1995) by Harun Farocki & British Sounds (1969), by the Dziga Vertov Group, with Kodwo Eshun

Thursday 10 March 2011

• Alexander Garcìa Düttmann - My Birth

Friday 4 March 2011

• Investigation on a citizen above suspicion (E.Petri, 1970, Italy), followed by a conversation with Lorenzo Chiesa

Thursday 3 March 2011

• Anat Pick - Cine-Zoos: On the Animality of Film

Tuesday 1 March 2011

• Magdalena Winsniowska, "On Stupidity"

Friday 25 February 2011

• Citizen Tania (R.Pettibon, 1989, US), followed by discussion

Friday 18 February 2011

• Week End (J-L.Godard, 1967, France), followed by a conversation with Benjamin Noys

Thursday 17 February 2011

• Dave Tompkins - How to Wreck a Nice Beach

Tuesday 15 February 2011

• Arthur Bradley, "Politics of the Unborn: Unbearable Life from Augustine to Schmitt"

Friday 11 February 2011

• Dillinger is Dead (M.Ferreri, 1969, Italy), followed by a conversation with Lucy Bolton

Thursday 10 February 2011

• Alia Syed - Wallpaper

Tuesday 8 February 2011

• James Burton, "The Worst of All Possible Worlds: The Fabulation of Evil"

Friday 4 February 2011

• Mysteries of the organism (D.Makavejev, 1971, Yugoslavia), followed by a conversation with Nina Power

Thursday 3 February 2011

• Jo Longhurst - On Perfection

Friday 28 January 2011

• Even dwarves started small (W.Herzog, 1970, Germany)

Thursday 27 January 2011

• Tom Hunter - A Palace for Us

Tuesday 25 January 2011

• The Politics and Philosophy of Disorder: Critical Theories of (Student) Violence - Alberto Toscano

Thursday 16 December 2010

• Aislinn O'Donnell - Simondon's Metastability and the Prison

Wednesday 15 December 2010

• John Milbank 'Does anti-capitalism take us beyond the Left?'

Friday 10 December 2010

• Screening of Lo sguardo di Michelangelo (The gaze of Michelangelo) (2004) by Michelangelo Antonioni

Wednesday 8 December 2010

• 'The Death of the University: The Life of the University' a debate on the implications of the Government's education cut

Tuesday 7 December 2010

• Michael Dillon, ‘Cocking the Question; Disarming Answers’

Friday 3 December 2010

• Screening of City lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin

Tuesday 30 November 2010

• Leena Petersen, ‘Nature and Justice in Critiques of Violence’ (postponed till spring 2011)

Friday 26 November 2010

• Screening of Viaggio in Italia (Voyage to Italy) (1954) by Roberto Rossellini

Thursday 25 November 2010

• Alberto Toscano, ‘Against the Day: Marxian Histories and Theories of Violence and Non-Violence’

Tuesday 23 November 2010

• Elina Staikou, ‘“Like the Evening Shofar”: On a Certain Apocalyptic Tone in Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’’

Friday 19 November 2010

• Screening of L 'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last year at Marienbad) (1962) by Alain Resnais

Thursday 18 November 2010

• Jason Gaiger - Non-Conceptual Content and Artistic Activity