By Alexander Giesen
Doctoral researcher Alexander Giesen reflects on the legacy of Michel Foucault 40 years after his death and “The Workshop on the Culture of the Self” as part of the World Congress Foucault: 40 Years After.
Category: Aesthetics, Philosophy, Theory
By Alexander Giesen
As part of the World Congress “Foucault: 40 Years After”, doctoral researcher Alex Giesen is organising a workshop on Michel Foucault’s late ethico-political thought to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death. Below is the call for participation.
Thinking in Crisis Times: A Collective Exploration by the English Department 2020-21.
For Thinking in Crisis Times, students at King’s responded to the first term’s readings with a series of poems (see https://thinking-in-crisis-times-a-collective-exploration.webnode.com/history/).
In the Spring term, a call was issued for submissions on the topic of the Extra/Ordinary, which elicited a range of powerful work in the form of writing and images.
The selected submissions for Thinking in Crisis Times on the topic of the Extra/Ordinary are:
Rosemary’s Bodies by Sarah Arnold, Body Talk by Finlay Cousins and Living in lock-down by Lauren Mappledoram.
By Professor Mark Turner, PGR Lead
It is a pleasure to announce to the KCL English community that the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) has awarded the 2021 Ellen Craft Essay Prize to one of our PhD students, Katie Arthur, for her brilliant essay, ‘Arousing Disgust: Visceral Configurations of Obscenity through Literal, Literary, and Governmental Bodies in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch (1959)’.
Thinking in Crisis Times: A Collective Exploration by the English Department 2020-21
The shift to online learning this year, however partial or temporary, presents a tremendous change in teaching and learning in our department. Because these changes are both profound and at the moment unavoidable, they have raised countless urgent and pragmatic questions for everyone involved. Staff have spent months in the lead up to September 2020 thinking about the best way to use the online systems provided by KCL, and students will have spent time grappling with their own questions about online learning, not least the way it will affect their university experience and long-term future.