The University of British Columbia has a Theory Workshop. No really; it does.
This month’s was a Derrida one. Coming up in April there will be a Deleuze one. It looks way good.
… Read the restMost of us who draw from, and aim to produce, critical theory set out to make analytical interventions in the making of political transformations. This is, after all, what sets critical theory apart from mainstream theory. The ongoing wave of revolutionary unrest in North Africa and the Middle-East provides us with an opportunity and a challenge, both of which are theoretical as well as political: to put the tool kits of our conceptual assemblages to the test and re-invent and expand our intellectual horizons in response
