evaluating and re-defining cultural analysis and the role of cultural studies in the contemporary moment
Events 2025-26
Sita Balani, ‘Zombie Heteronormativity: Social Reproduction and the Far Right‘, March 13
- Sita Balani explores the methods for organising social reproduction that are emerging with the tacit endorsement of the far right, despite their putative investment in the family.
Events 2024-25
Carolyn Pedwell, ‘AI and the Affective Ideologies of Common Sense‘, December 12
- Carolyn Pedwell explores artificial intelligence, common sense and computation, focusing on the Cyc project.
Todd McGowan, ‘Is There a Universal Enjoyment‘, April 4
- Todd McGowan advocates for a universal form of enjoyment that doesn’t require an enemy and instead focuses on the universal failure to belong.