‘Postscripts from the Antipodes’ 28th of November 2016 City Campus, La Trobe University 360 Collins Street, Melbourne. The Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University invites you to the 9th annual conference of the Castoriadis in the Antipodes Network. The Castoriadis in the Antipodes conference encourages an encounter of…
This event is at the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University. To register, enter your name in the box below, and click ‘Submit’. An email will be sent to our mailbox. Download PDF flyer: persistence-of-graffiti-seminar This is a free event, registration is for the estimation of attendance.
Beyond Moral Decline: New Moralities for New Times? Dr Nicholas Hookway (Sociology, School of Social Sciences, The University of Tasmania) THURSDAY 22nd OCTOBER, 2015 5pm to 6.30pm Martin Building Lecture Theatre 141, La Trobe University, Melbourne (all welcome) We’re in a state of moral decline in the West – or…
Annual Agnes Heller Lecture Intimacy as Freedom: Friendship, Gender and Everyday Life Dr Harry Blatterer, Macquarie University Wednesday 5 November 2014 5.00 – 6.30 pm Martin Building Lecture Theatre In intimate life, anything seems possible. Sexualities, lifestyles and identities appear to be merely a matter of individual proclivity and choice. Commitment is optional. The last…
What is remembered when the bombing of Hiroshima is remembered? Keith Tester, University of Hull introduced by Peter Beilharz @ La Trobe University According to Gunther Anders, the bombing of Hiroshima signified the dawning of the age of the Inverted Utopia – utopians, he said imagine what they cannot achieve, but now we are…
Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences La Trobe University University of Melbourne, Monash University and Thesis Eleven Centre Masterclass Theory of Atmospheres Gernot Böhme Atmospheres – moods and affects in their spatial situations – are the primary reality aesthetics (understood as aesthesis, a general theory of perception) has…
Thesis Eleven Centre Postgraduate/Staff Masterclass Dominique Bouchet University of Southern Denmark Consuming Ourselves to Death – The Ethics and Myth of Our Time What is the status of utility and consumption in modernity and postmodernity? I see trans- or postmodernity as a phase of modernity. The modern project of autonomy was, from the start, blurred…
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