Category Archives: Simon Critchley

The Anarchist Turn – Simon Critchley

Posted on May 27, 2012 by

The Butler videos I linked to earlier are part of a wider conference. Below is Simon Critchley’s introduction, which around 4 minutes in raises the question of anarchist geographers/ies and calls for ‘new maps’.   More videos from this conference … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

Interview with Simon Critchley here (via Verso blog). Among many other topics (love, death, Occupy, literature) one thing it reveals is that he is co-writing a book on Hamlet with his wife. What’s the Hamlet book about, if you don’t … Continue reading →

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Simon Critchley – The Faith of the Faithless and reading

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

via the Verso blog, an interview with Simon Critchley which mentions Obama and the Occupy movement, and a list of some of the books that inspired his latest book, The Faith of the Faithless.

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Simon Critchley interview

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

Interesting interview with Simon Critchley here. It covers his new book Faith of the Faithless and a range of other questions, political, theological and philosophical.

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Critchley on Hamlet in London

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

Thanks to Rory Rowan for letting me know that Simon Critchley will be speaking about Hamlet in London on 29th November. Details here. (there is a video of his talk on this play – not sure if it is same … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Hamlet

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

Thomas posted this as a comment to an earlier post, but since many people read this in ways where comments don’t show up, I’m reposting here, and have embedded the video below. You can see Critchley’s lecture on Hamlet at … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Shakespeare

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Simon Critchley is leading a summer school on Shakespeare and Philosophy in Tilburg next year. It’s for graduate students and you can find details here (via Continental Philosophy bulletin board). Critchley’s own lectures will focus on Hamlet – but discussions look … Continue reading →

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Histories of Violence

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

That Massumi lecture is part of a series, including pieces by Bauman and Chomsky, which is itself part of a wider project run by Brad Evans at University of Leeds on ‘Histories of Violence’. The project has a website here, though … Continue reading →

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Critchley on Tragedy

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Tilburg Philosophy Summer School – ‘On the Tragic and its Limits’ A Seminar with Simon Critchley | July 12-21, 2011 Is the tragic an adequate category for thinking about the nature of contemporary conflicts, and their cycles of revenge, violence … Continue reading →

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