Anna and Grace invite you to gunnhilde’s leg, a critical theory reading group with a focus on the body and technology. We hope this can be a welcoming space of talking and thinking for postgrads and other interested parties.
Each session will focus on an excerpt from a work of theory alongside a companion text or interpretation. We encourage you to look at the materials in advance and will provide pdfs where necessary. You don’t need to be familiar with critical approaches or any of the proposed readings to participate.
Please feel free to contact [email protected] with any questions.
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Tuesday, 25 November at 6.30pm in Birkbeck Faculty of Humanities @ 43 Gordon Square, Room 106
Our third session will focus on anaestheticised subjects and neurochemical selves in Nikolas Rose and Laurent de Sutter. The reading pack includes excepts from Rose’s The Politics of Life Itself (2007) and de Sutter’s Narcocapitalism (2018).
Gunnhilde's Leg volume three.pdf
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Tuesday, 23 September at 6.30pm in Birkbeck Faculty of Humanities @ 43 Gordon Square, Room 106.
Bodies and technology in Donna Harway. We will base our discussion around an excerpt from Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, which you can find in the pdf below. We’ve also included some additional gobbets from other texts which we find useful as companion pieces. Please read as much or as little as you would like!
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Tuesday, 28 October at 6.30pm in Birkbeck Faculty of Humanities @ 43 Gordon Square, Room 106
For this second session, we will be focussing on the concepts of biopolitics and psychopolitics as described by Michel Foucault and Byung-Chul Han. In the reading pack attached, you will find excerpts from Foucault’s The History of Sexuality Vol I and Han’s Psychopolitics.
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