BEYOND ACADEMIA

The current geopolitical crisis in the West is an opportunity to rethink Europe and its relationship with the world.

This essay analyses the limits of critical thinking and emancipatory practices in a context of crisis.

An invitation to review the relationship between scientific progress and intentionally dispossessive political, economic and social projects.

The growing popularity of virtual reality, and the metaverse in particular, invites us to critically rethink the vague contours of what we call reality.

The renewed wave of interest in Alfred North Whitehead has revived a number of ideas that are still able to disentangle the complexities and uncertainties of our world.  

A critical reflection on the limits of the conception of an interconnected cosmos in the Anthropocene era.

Away from human-centred forms of knowledge production, the pandemic opens up the possibility of speculation about more-than-human forms of storytelling.

This course revisits the thought of Alfred North Whitehead to examine contemporary challenges such as the Anthropocene and the environmental crisis. It also explores the relevance of Whitehead's philosophy to current intellectual movements, including the new materialisms and posthumanism.

This course critically examines the relationship between modern science, particularly physics, and the structures of power and inequality associated with capitalism and colonialism. It also reflects on the limits of the scientific method, encouraging a more critical and socially responsible understanding of science.