Since February 2013, the CPTRG has run a weekly reading group exploring the solo and collaborative works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, in person until March 2020 at the College's central London locations in Senate House and Bedford Square (and occasionally at Goldsmiths College collaborating with the Centre for Arts and Learning), and online since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The group is open to all who are interested in participating and includes academics and graduate students from both Royal Holloway and other UK institutions, as well as independent scholars, practicing psychoanalysts, and members of the general public.
2023/24 - A Thousand Plateaus (cont.); The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
Summer 2023 - A Thousand Plateaus (cont.)
2022/23 – Anti-Oedipus (cont.); A Thousand Plateaus
Summer 2022 – Anti-Oedipus (cont.)
2021/22 – The Logic of Sense (cont.); Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza; Anti-Oedipus
Summer 2021 – The Logic of Sense
Summer 2020 and 2020/21 academic year – Difference and Repetition; Nietzsche and Philosophy
2019/20 – Cinema 2; Empiricism and Subjectivity; Coldness and Cruelty; Proust and Signs
2018/19 – Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature; Guattari, The Three Ecologies and Chaosmosis; What is Philosophy?; Pure Immanence: Essays on ‘A Life’; Cinema 1
2017/18 – A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
2016/17 – Difference and Repetition; Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
2015/16 – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy; Nietzsche and Philosophy; Bergsonism
2014/2015 – The Logic of Sense
Summer Term, 2014 – The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
February 2013 – March 2014 – Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Please email Nathan Widder for further details and to join the groups email list.
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CPTRG Reading Groups convened from September 2009 to February 2012
2011/12 Seminar Schedule
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 7-9pm, Room F1: Part Two, Chapters 1-5 of Althusser and Balibar's Reading Capital.
Friday, 9 December 2011, 5-7pm, Room F1: Part Two, Chapters 6-9 and Appendix of Reading Capital.
Friday, 20 January 2012, 4-6pm, Room F1: Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, chapters 1-3.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 6-8pm, Room F1: Ranciere, The Ignorant Schoolmaster, chapters 4-5.
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2010/11 Seminar Schedule
13 January 2011 - Carl Schmitt's "The Concept of the Political," sections 1-4. As an additional reading, Schmitt's 1929 essay, "The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations."
27 January 2011 - Carl Schmitt's "The Concept of the Political," sections 5-8.
17 February 2011 - Carl Schmitt's "Theory of the Partisan."
4 March 2011 - Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception.
25 March 2011 - Deleuze and Guattari, "Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine."
14 October 2010 - Hegel's Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage (including introductory pages of chapter 4 of the Phenomenology), plus a short section of Alex Honneth's The Struggle for Recognition.
28 October 2010 - Chapter 6 of Frederick G. Weiss's (ed.) Hegel: The Essential Writings (with selections from the Philosophy of Right and the Philosophy of Mind).
11 November 2010 - Hegel selections, pp. 266-297.
2 December 2010 - Hegel selections, pp. 297-313.
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2009/10 Seminar Schedule
21 October 2009 - "Pluralism and Time" from William E. Connolly's Pluralism (Duke University Press, 2005).
11 November 2009 - Chapter 3 of Kwame Appiah's The Ethics of Identity (Princeton University Press, 2007).
25 November 2009 - Introduction to Geoff Waite's Nietzsche's Corps/e: Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technocultre of Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 1996).
2 December 2009 - Marx's "On the Jewish Question."
3 February 2010 - Selections from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols.
3 March 2010 - Chapter 2 of Iris Marion Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 1990).
17 March 2010 - Hannah Arendt's "Lying in Politics."
28 April 2010 - Richard Rorty, "Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism."
12 May 2010 - Chapters 1 and 2 of Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010).
