The meaning of ‘Home’ has become a paradox whether looking at it as a house, desperately settled by things of objects, through its architectural forms and functions [Figure II, III], or looking at it as an abstract space without shells, populated by humans and non-humans, opened and became habitable by objects [Figure IV]. As mentioned by Coccia, from now on, staying at home should simply mean “staying where you give life to everything and everything gives life to you”. He also examined home as a universal kitchen, a kind of shared laboratory in which we attempt to create ourselves, discover the right combination, and manufacture shared bliss. Within a bigger image, the new city could be seen as a massive chemical recipe in which humans strive to create an elixir of life by combining things and themselves with every existing object. Ultimately, envisioning the house and the city as the great kitchens means to get rid of patriarchal relationships and transform them into a space of care, not just in the form of nourishment. This can simply be rendered in the following sentence, “Home is only where there is care for something and someone”. 

Daoism, Pluritemporality, Critique

Julia Ng

Goldsmiths, University of London

Thursday 14 March 2024 

5:00 - 7:00 pm GMT

Link to register for online seminar: https://fb.me/e/1Z2LopgnC

Session 2 of Experiment and Experience: A Polyphonic Seminar on the Dao of Indeterminacy and Play

We hope you can join us to hear Julia Ng, our next speaker in the Polyphonic Seminar series on Indeterminacy organised by Cecile Malaspina and  Sha Xin Wei on behalf of the Collège International de Philosophie and in partnership with the Department of French, King's Arts & Humanities, and the Department of Philosophy, UWE Philosophy Community.

Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has explored the links between modern mathematics and political thought, modern German-Jewish philosophy, and theories of history and language in the 20th century, particularly in the work of Walter Benjamin, whose essay “Toward the Critique of Violence” she recently translated for a critical edition she co-edited (with Peter Fenves) for Stanford UP (2021). Funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, Julia is currently completing a book on Daoism and Capitalism based around Benjamin and Weber’s respective images of China ancient and modern, which has also received support from the Leverhulme Trust, the Center for Jewish History (NYC), and the British Society for the History of Philosophy.I

Queen’s University at Kingston, Philosophy Department and Online

Keynote Speakers: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University), Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University), and Muindi Fanuel Muindi (Independent Scholar) 

In recent years, philosophy of race has moved from the margins of academia to becoming a recognized, rich field of its own. Similarly, Queen’s University as a hub of critical philosophy, has undergone immense growth. 

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Philosophy of race as a broad field examines issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and processes of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world and throughout history. Contemporary philosophers of race face the logics and orders of racial capitalism, coloniality, and anti-Blackness. Following Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s repeated assertion that scholarship and activism cannot be cleaved apart, they study and struggle against these structures and horizons of social life by opposing racism and oppression in all forms. We are interested in papers that are oriented toward freedom in this way, especially those that take analytic, continental, and interdisciplinary approaches drawing from Black Studies, Trans/Queer/Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, etc.