‘Holding Things in Common’ Symposium at Birkbeck

Richard Evans, a PhD student at Birkbeck, is co-organising a postgraduate and early career symposium titled Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects and memory at the Birkbeck Cinema on Monday 12th May. The event includes three panels showcasing a wide range of interesting papers (see schedule below). This will be followed by a … Continue Reading

Harman’s politics of particularities?

I am a fairly regular reader of Graham Harman’s blog Object-Oriented Philosophy. Partly, of course, because his philosophy interests me, especially its implications for thinking about media, even though I certainly couldn’t claim to be doing object-oriented media research (there’s a lot of that, e.g. soon-to-be-former Birkbeck student Paul Caplan, and several of the contributions … Continue Reading