Critique in the Globalised and Fragmented World

 

18 July 3:30-5:30 pm

Critique in the Globalised and Fragmented World

Public roundtable  at Casa do Comum

 

With

Malte Frøslee Ibsen (Digital Speech Lab-UCL London)

Robin Celikates (Freie Universität Berlin)

Rocío Zambrana (University of Puerto Rico)

 

The problems the contemporary world is facing are global: ecological disaster, wars, proliferation of technology, persistent poverty and growing gap between rich and poor. The forms of responding to all these pressing problems are still local and nation-state based. The theoretical responses are oscillating between the fear of grand narratives and intellectually situated positions. Therefore, the world is globalised and fragmented simultaneously. What is the role of critique in navigating these challenges? Can critique be global or does it require a situated standpoint? Does the fact of being within a ‘form of life’ endow someone with a critical position, or is critical engagement acquired by reclaiming the tradition of critical thinking?

These and other questions will be addressed at the public roundtable Critique in the Globalised and Fragmented World at Casa do Comum, the closing event of the Lisbon Praxis Summer School on Global Critical Theory.

 

Organizing committee:

Tamara Caraus, Moirika Reker, Mariana Teixeira and Ricardo Mendoza-Canales (Praxis-CFUL)

This event is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the project UIDB/00310/Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa.