Category Archives: Reading Groups

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.