Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Week Three: The Most Good You Can DO

EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM WEEK!

We will be discussing Part One of Peter Singer's The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015) 


Week 2

This week we read Lauren Berlant’s Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency) published in 2007. There was some great discussions concerning identity, agency in individuals and across nations and the differences between the U.S and the U.K.

Thanks to all who attended. 

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Week 1 : 27th September Timo Maran

This week we are reading ...


Timo Maran's "Biosemiotic criticism: modelling the environment in literature" (May 2014)


You can find the article online here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14688417.2014.901898

Welcome to the Contemporary Critical Theory Reading Circle

Much exciting news to follow - the announcement of the first meeting time and date!