Future Meetings.

Michaelmas Term 2016/Lent Term 2017.

Thanks to generous further support from the AHRC, the Materials in Practice group will now be expanding into podcasts.

We will issue a full schedule and links to listen to the podcasts when term begins, and look forward to your thoughts, feedback and fanmail.


Past Meetings.

Michaelmas Term 2015.

16/10. Session One : Introduction. 

Daniel Miller, 'Materiality: An Introduction', in Materiality, ed. Daniel Miller (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005). Available online.

30/10. Session Two. 

Extracts from Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall (London: University of California Press, 1984), and Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).

13/11. Session Three. 

Extracts from Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), and Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics, trans. Wieland Hoban (Cambridge: Polity, 2013).

27/11.Session Four.

Visiting Speaker: Prof. Catherine Boyle (Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, KCL).

 

Lent Term.

22/1. Session One. 
 

Charlie McDuff, 'At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die' (New York Times: June 16th, 2000).
Jacques Derrida, 'And Say the Animal Responded?' in Cary Wolfe,ed.,Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Minneapolis:UMP,2003) pp121-46.
Ceridwen Dovey, 'A Letter to Sylvia Plath: Dolphins in wartime' (n+1 magazine, Issue 23,Fall 2015,'As If').

5/2. Session Two.
 

John Dewey, "Qualitative Thought". The Later Works of John Dewey. Vol. 5: 1929-30. Ed. Jo Anne Boydston. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984 (pp.243-62)
Richard Sennett, The Craftsman. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2009: Ch.7, "Arousing Tools" (pp.194-213).
Ryan White, The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 [extract TBC]

19/2. Session Three.

Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Echographies of Television, trans. Jennifer Bajorek. Cambridge: Polity, 2002.
'Echographies of Television', Chapters 1, 3 and 4 (pp. 31-40, 56-72).
Bernhard Siegert, Cultural Techniques, trans. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. 'Introduction', pp. 1-18, and Chapter 6, '(not) In Place', pp. 97-120.

4/3. Session Four

Visting Speaker: Richard Coyne (Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh). 

Symposium: Friday May 6th, 2016. S2, Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site.