What Is to Be Done? Political Ontology, Critique and Democratic Politics

Event date: 
Friday 18 November to Saturday 19 November
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
15 George Square

Edinburgh roundtable

Location: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, University of Edinburgh

15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK

Date/Time: 18th of November 2016, 16:00-18:00

Details of the event

The roundtable brings together Aletta Norval (Essex), Lois McNay (Oxford), Oliver Marchart (Vienna) and Sergei Prozorov(Helsinki). They will speak to the following three questions:

  1. Is political ontology merely the epochal form of critique at a time when alternatives to capitalism are often thought to be unimaginable?
  2. Have we exhausted the intellectual and practical resources of other forms of critique, such as feminist, post-colonial or Marxist approaches?
  3. What new forms of political imagination can animate critique and re-invigorate democratic practices?

The Edinburgh event will be chaired by one of the organisers.