Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

New journal issue: parrhesia 39.
Featuring new translations of Foucault and Ruyer, a chapter from Bill Ross’ book Order and the Virtual, a review of Simondon’s Imagination and Invention, and articles on Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze.

Current issue - Parrhesia 392024 Read the full issue Features Foucault and Information Theory: On “Message or Noise?” (1966)Chris O'Neill “Message or Noise?”Michel FoucaultChris O'Neill The Fracture of CyberneticsRaymond RuyerJames Kelly In Memorium: Bill Ross Bill Ross In MemoriumAshley Woodward Order as ComplexityB...

Course starting tonight:
Education: The Priority of Philosophy
Lecturer: A.J. Bartlett

Starts: Thu 6:30-8:30pm 1 Aug
Location: Nicholas Building on Swanston Street and Online via Zoom.

Evening School Sem2 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person and online.

Course starting tonight 6:30pm Melbourne time.
Nick Land’s Accelerationist Philosophy
Lecturer: Vincent Lê

Registration is available for in-person and online.

Evening School Sem2 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person and online.

The MSCP Semester 2 programme kicks off Monday night. First up is the Works of Gilles Deleuze with Dr Jon Roffe. Enrol today for in-person or online attendance.

Evening School Sem2 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person and online.

Course starting Wednesday 31 July - Nick Land's Accelerationist Philosophy with lecturer Vincent Le.
https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-sem2-2024

Read the full course description online:
https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-sem2-2024

Evening School Sem2 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person and online.

MSCP Evening School Semester 2 is open for registration

When: 29 July - 31 October
Where: Melbourne CBD and online via Zoom.

https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-sem2-2024

Mon 6:30-8:30pm Starts 29 July
Works of Gilles Deleuze (part 2) - Lecturer: Jon Roffe

Wed 6:30-8:30pm Starts 31 Jul
Nick Land’s Accelerationist Philosophy - Lecturer: Vincent Lê

Thu 6:30-8:30pm Starts 1 Aug
Education: The Priority of Philosophy - Lecturer: A.J. Bartlett

Evening School Sem2 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person and online.

Next week we have four courses running Monday to Friday. All four will be taught on Zoom.
* 10am: Philosophy of the Semiotic: On Julia Kristeva’s Early Work - John Lechte
* 12:30pm: The Passion for Formalization: Structural Materialisms in 20th Century Epistemology and Ontology - Daniel Sacilotto
* 3:30pm: After Hegel, Before Kant: Universality and Particularity between Freedom and Domination - Leksa Zhang
* 6pm: Phenomenology of Happiness in Edmund Husserl’s Thought - Sara Pasetto

Enrol today to get the readings online.

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

It's Winter School Week 4. Tonight Prof. Andrew Benjamin continues with "Cosmopolitanism and Peace: Kant’s Political Writings". All classes are recorded so it's not too late to jump in.

Also a reminder, the 5-day intensive courses are just two weeks away.
https://mscp.org.au/courses/winter-school-2024

Course Starting Tonight 6:30pm
What does Plato talk about when he talks about love?
Lecturer: Daniel Lopez

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

The MSCP Philosophy Winter School is on now. We have nine short-courses running June-July. Read the full progamme on our website.

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

Upcoming course - An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit - with lecturer Gregory Marks.

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

Upcoming course - Cosmopolitanism and Peace: Kant’s Political Writings - with lecturer Prof. Andrew Benjamin.
5 x Mondays 6:30-8:30pm AEST - Starts 10 June.

Register to attend in-person or live-streamed:

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

The MSCP Winter School 2024 is now open for enrolment! We have Nine courses on offer running in June-July at our teaching space in the Nicholas Building in the Melbourne CBD and online via Zoom.

Read the full course descriptions on the website.

- Cosmopolitanism and Peace: Kant’s Political Writings
- Knowledge Cultures: Rethinking Epistemology From African And Indigenous Australian Perspectives
- Reason Strikes Back: New Rationalisms
- What does Plato talk about when he talks about love?
- An Introduction to Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
- Philosophy of the Semiotic: On Julia Kristeva’s Early Work
- The Passion for Formalization: Structural Materialisms in 20th Century Epistemology and Ontology
- After Hegel, Before Kant: Universality and Particularity between Freedom and Domination
- Phenomenology of Happiness in Edmund Husserl’s Thought

Winter School 2024 - MSCP Nine 10-hour courses taught in-person and online.

Starts tonight.
Upcoming course from the ISP for those with at least basic ancient Greek. Plato's "Lovers" - 7pm Thursdays starting 16 May.

Plato's "Lovers" in Greek — Independent School of Philosophy teaching philosophy literature courses | Melbourne Australia This is an Intermediate course in Ancient Greek. We will read through the text of Burnet with some vocabulary and syntax assistance. In the Lovers, Socrates enters into a school and has conversation with an athlete and a scholar who are both in love with the same youth. The conjunction of the qu

Reminder: course proposals for the MSCP Winter School are due tomorrow.

Call for Winter School 2024 course proposals - MSCP CFP Winter School 2024 Deadline Friday 3 May 2024 The MSCP invites proposals to teach in the Winter School, 2024.  All topics broadly definable as philosophical are welcome. Proposals are due on 3 May 2024 (Melbourne Time). Acceptance will be circulated within two weeks of the due date. Our CFP ...

2024 Simone Weil Lecture - ACU
Empathy and Interpersonal Relations
The 2024 lecture will be delivered on May 2nd at the Mercy Theatre by Professor Dermot Moran (Boston College).

Simone Weil Lecture | ACU The Simone Weil Lecture on Human Value is hosted by the School of Philosophy. It was first held in 2000, an initiative of Professor Raimond Gaita.

ASCP Conference 2024
Deakin University - Geelong Waterfront - 2-4 December
Keynotes: Camisha Russell, Laura Roberts, Massimiliano Tomba

ASCP Conference - Deakin December 2024 Deakin Geelong Waterfront 2-4 December

Call for MSCP Winter School course proposals.
The MSCP invites proposals to teach in the Winter School, 2024. All topics broadly definable as philosophical are welcome. Proposals are due on 3 May 2024 (Melbourne Time).

Call for Winter School 2024 course proposals - MSCP CFP Winter School 2024 Deadline Friday 3 May 2024 The MSCP invites proposals to teach in the Winter School, 2024.  All topics broadly definable as philosophical are welcome. Proposals are due on 3 May 2024 (Melbourne Time). Acceptance will be circulated within two weeks of the due date. Our CFP ...

Week three already!
All classes are recorded so it's not too late to jump in. This week's topics include Deleuze's *Kant's Critical Philosophy* and Hobbes's *Leviathan*.

Enrol now:

Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP Two 12-week courses taught in-person.

Our second semester-long course starts tonight at 6:30pm in the Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St., Melbourne.
The Freedom of the Devil: power, politics and critique from Hobbes to de Sade - Lecturer: Jon Rubin

Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP Two 12-week courses taught in-person.

Book launch: Law, Selfhood and Feminist Philosophy: Monstrous Aberrations – Janice Richardson.
12 March 4:15pm - Linkway, 4th floor, John Medley Building, UniMelb (+ via Zoom).
In conversation with Marilyn Stendera and Joe Hughes.
https://unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtce6oqTMvH9SxfwZRenjRB9dXqjEMC9oC

Course starting Mon 6:30pm 11 Mar
Works of Gilles Deleuze (part 1) - Lecturer: Jon Roffe

https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-sem1-2024

Location: Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne and online via Zoom.

Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP Two 12-week courses taught in-person.

Course starting Thurs 6:30pm 14 Mar
The Freedom of the Devil: power, politics and critique from Hobbes to de Sade - Lecturer: Jon Rubin

https://mscp.org.au/courses/evening-school-sem1-2024

Location: Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne and online via Zoom.

Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP Two 12-week courses taught in-person.

MSL course starting March 5 in Carlton:
“Mind is shapely, Art is shapely”: Practicing Beat Poetics
Lecturer: George Mouratidis - Starts: Tues 6pm 5 March

MSL Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP 10 Week Workshop taught in-person.

The MSCP Semester 1 programme is open for enrolment.
When: 11 March - 6 June
Where: Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St. Melbourne and Zoom.
* Works of Gilles Deleuze (part 1) - Lecturer: Jon Roffe
* Alain Badiou: The Project - Lecturer: A.J. Bartlett
* The Freedom of the Devil: power, politics and critique from Hobbes to de Sade - Lecturer: Jon Rubin

Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP Three 12-week courses taught in-person.

Upcoming MSL 10-Week Workshop
“Mind is shapely, Art is shapely”: Practicing Beat Poetics - George Mouratidis

Starts: Tues 6:00-8:00pm 5 March
Location: Kathleen Syme Library, Carlton

MSL Evening School Sem1 2024 - MSCP 10 Week Workshop taught in-person.

We have three intensive courses running Mon-Fri next week.
12.30pm: Embodiment and Feminist Theory - Francesca Ferrer-Best
3pm: A Critique of Keynesian Rationality - Austin Hayden Smidt
6pm: Camus’ Absurdism and African Perspectives on the Question of Life’s Meaning - Augustine Obi
Visit the MSCP website for full course descriptions.

Summer School 2024 - MSCP Eight philosophy courses in-person and online. Hegel, Economics, Camus, Feminism, and more.