Category Archives: Reading Groups

This month, InterCcECT’s reading series on sovereignty encircles the city.

3-5 Nov, French Theory in Translation centers on Derrida’s final seminars on sovereignty and the death penalty.

16 Nov, UIC’s Publics, Cultures, Practices of Differences working group meets to discuss Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony.

On a different frequency:

For those who missed the Zizek lecture at UIC, a webstream is now available.

4-5 Nov, UofC’s 3CT stages a conference with which the ECT model has some affinity, on “experimental critical attention.”

As always, check the InterCcECT calendar regularly and be sure to  send us any events you’d like to announce or propose.

InterCcECT reminds you of our very special upcoming event with Eric Santner, The Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at The University of Chicago, discussing his recent work The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty”, this Monday, 24 October, at 6pm.  Contact us for directions.

Sovereignty reigns supreme as theme of theory events around town: beginning 3 November, check out the multi-day, cross-town extravaganza French Theory in Translation. Roundtables, film screenings, and discussions by numerous dignitaries celebrate the publication of Jacques Derrida’s late seminars on sovereignty, The Beast and the Sovereign and The Death Penalty.

This month, InterCcECT directs your attention to several exciting events around Chicago, including our own very special reading group session with Professor Eric Santner. From Foucault to Zizek, psychoanalysis to sovereignty, we hope to see you around town:

14-15 Oct: French-American Conversations on Psychoanalysis at U of C

18 Oct: Foucault Colloquium at DePaul

19 Oct: Class Dismissed – Zizek Reading Group at UIC

21 Oct: Zizek at UIC

24 Oct: InterCcECT reading group, with Eric Santner discussing his work The Royal Remains

26 Oct: “Ghost, Text, Play: Living Within and Without Black Politics” lecture at UIC

And, the ongoing critical experiment: Occupy Wall Street Chicago and beyond.

As always, check the InterCcECT calendar regularly and be sure to  send us any events you’d like to announce.

InterCcECT exhorts you to mark your calendars and open your books: two upcoming events will focus on questions of the state in our time. First, an InterCcECT reading group on Wendy Brown’s Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, in which the renowned feminist political theorist tackles the paradox of proliferating walls in an era of eroding nation-statehood. Second, a companion reading group convened by UIC’s Forum for Research on Law, Politics, & the Humanities, on Democracy In What State?, a recent volume from Columbia University Press that includes reflections by Wendy Brown, Badiou, Ranciere, Zizek, Nancy, Agamben, and Kristin Ross.

We’ll open our doors for Walled States on Tuesday, 23 August, 4pm. The FRLPH group meets Wednesday, 5 October, 3pm, UIC Institute for the Humanities.

Check out the InterCcECT calendar for other upcoming events as the school year commences, and be sure to  contact us with events you’d like to announce.  

InterCcECT invites you to a session on this question, enunciated directly by Alain Badiou in his Second Manifesto For Philosophy, and posed dynamically by his oeuvre. The text is brief; the consequences anything but. Discussion next Monday, 25 July, at 4pm in Bucktown.  Address request . 

This month, InterCcECT hosts a reading group on Alain Badiou’s recently released Second Manifesto for Philosophy, in which his truly inventive ontology is freshly refined. Join us Monday 25 July, 4pm, details forthcoming. Points, protests, proposals?  Contact us . 

This week, join InterCcECT for a reading-group session on Jacques Ranciere’s The Politics of Literature. Ranciere’s most recently published work in English, this text focuses his radical theory of the aesthetic on the specific properties of literature, up-ending platitudes in literary study and invigorating new modes of reading. The title essay is approximately 30 pages; meeting Wednesday 29 June at 4pm at a member’s home in Bucktown –  contact us for details and pdf.

What’s on your Theory summer reading list?  Propose a text or convene a group.