Join us on Wednesday 4th April at 17.30 in room G.05 in 50 George Square for the last LLC WiP seminar of the academic session and an end of year party!
Ian Anderson will be presenting a paper entitled, 'Class Dismissed: Rancière Meets The Plebs'. An abstract and a bio can be found below.
After the talk and Q&A, there'll be drinks, snacks and other refreshments to toast another academic year of successful PG research seminars!
We hope to see you there!
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Abstract:
“Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself.” (Beuller, 1986)
Taking the above quote as a starting point, I propose to offer a sense of how supposedly “good isms” can be, in a subtle way, just as corrosive as straight-up “bad isms”.
To do so, I must take you on a necessarily superficial journey into my Big Thinks. This will entail stepping back in time to encounter the unashamedly Marxist journal of the 1930s, “The Plebs”. However, in order that this journey be in any way illuminating, we will take along with us the words and thoughts of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière. Ultimately – and taking very literally the words “work in progress” – I hope to offer some hesitant, contingent conclusions; and place those lessons I’ve learned via my research uncertainly and precariously back in the present (so that you may then gleefully and mercilessly savage them).
Bio:
I am an absurdly unlikely Ph.D. candidate, driven mainly by the hazy but nonetheless firm conviction that certain largely overlooked proletarian works of the 1930s retain wider relevance today. I am also unable to resist defacing these works with sententious marginalia and Stabilo Boss highlighters, for which I make no apology.