Reading Loop 7, Wednesday 23rd March, 6pm

Reading Loop 7 will be led by Jaspar Joseph-Lester.

The texts are:

Owen Hatherley, ‘Fossils of Time Future: Bunkers and Buildings from the Atlantic Wall to the South Bank’, in Collapse, vol. 6 (January 2010), edited by Robin Mackay.

Clegg and Guttmann’s ‘Monument for Historical Change’, in Transmission Annual: Hospitality, eds. Michael Corris, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Sharon Kivland, London: Artwords Press, 2010, pp. 64-77.

Bruno Latour, ‘From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public’

For pdfs of the texts, please email sheffieldseminars@gmail.com

Reading Loop 6, Wednesday 16th March, 6pm

This week’s session on the idea of the spandrel will be led by Conn Redden and Amanda Crawley Jackson.
The texts are:

Franz Kafka, ‘The Giant Mole’

Stephen J. Gould and Richard C. Lewontin, The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme

Adrian Lahoud, ‘Architecture, Contingency and Crisis: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek’

The ethical author, ethical readership: literature, coma, cognitive disability

Tim Andrews, photographed by Danielle Tunstall © Danielle Tunstall

Matt Colbeck, who led Reading Loop 4, has provided a text which summarises the discussion that took place. Download the text here:

Reading Loop 4 – Overview of discussion

Manifesto for the Arts and Humanities: The Example of Candide

Manifesto for arts and humanities, David McCallam

Download David McCallam’s Manifesto for the Arts and Humanities, presented at the 2nd Reading Loop in February 2011.

Reading Loop 5

Dale Holmes will be leading Reading Loop 5 on Wednesday March 9th, 6pm. The texts are:

Theodor Adorno, ‘Commitment’
Alain Robbe-Grillet, ‘Commitment’

If you need a pdf copy of the texts, please email sheffieldseminars.gmail.com

Reading Loop 4, Weds March 2nd, 6pm

Next week’s Reading Loop discussion, ‘The Ethical Author, the Ethics of Readership’, will be led by Matt Colbeck and will focus on the ethical
issues of writing about cognitive disability (and disability as a whole). While Matt’s research is specifically grounded in the literature of coma, brain
injury and disability (and the readings reflect this), we don’t expect the discussion to be purely focused on this field.

There are 3 short readings:

1) ‘The Portrayal of Coma in Contemporary Motion Pictures’ by the two neuro-
scientists, Eelco F.M.Wijdicks and Coen A. Wijdicks

2) Extracts from two different sections of the novel ‘The Coma’ by Alex Garland
(London: Faber and Faber, 2004)

3) ‘Philosophers of Intellectual Disability’ by Licia Carlson
Eva Feder Kittay, and Licia Carlson, eds., Cognitive Disability and
Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)

As always, event listings and information about 7 Garden St can be found at www.7gardenstreet.wordpress.com
If you’d like a copy of the texts, please email sheffieldseminars@gmail.com

Reading Loop 3, Manet and the Object of Painting

Reading Loop, Weds February 23rd, 6pm

Eve Michelaki will be leading a discussion around Michel Foucault’s ‘Manet and the Object of Painting’.
If you’re having trouble getting hold of a copy of the text, please email Laurence at sheffieldseminars@gmail.com

Reading Loop

Reading Loop this week

David McCallam, from the French department at the University of Sheffield, will be leading the reading loop this week (Weds February 16th, 6pm). He’ll be presenting a manifesto for the arts and humanities, then exploring some key ideas from Voltaire’s Candide. For more details, click on the Reading Loop tab above. You’ll also find a link there to the full online text (in English) of Candide. If you don’t have time to read the whole thing but want to come along, don’t worry – the first five chapters will be enough!