From the turn of the century UK-based human geography in particular has witnessed a rapid upsurge of interest in new conceptualisations of, for example, practice, performance, politics, embodiment and materiality. This reading group regularly meets to read philosophical works and trans-disciplinary materials that can inform the ongoing evolution of 'non-representational geographies'. Readings are rich and varied, for example: significant discussion within the group (and beyond) has been inspired by continental philosophers such as Badiou, Deleuze, Nancy and Ranciere as well as with recent developments in what has come to be known as 'Speculative Materialism/Realism'. Whilst the reading group is formally situated in the School of Geographical Sciences, regular participants come from across the Humanities and Social Sciences and from other institutions. We welcome participation from those with a keen interest in critically engaging with contemporary philosophical debates in the humanities, social sciences and science.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil - prelude to a philosophy of the future (1886)

Towards a whole cartful of beautiful possibilities ... to recognize untruth as a condition of life

 So we begin this week with reading Beyond Good & Evil. The schedule is as follows:
Friday 21st October - 'Preface', 'Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers' & 'Part Two: The Free Spirit'
Friday 28th October - 'Part Three: The Religious Nature', 'Part Four: Maxims and Interlude' & 'Part Five: On the Natural History of Morals'
Friday 4th November - 'Part Six: We Scholars', 'Part Severn: Our Virtues'.
Friday 11th November - 'Part Eight: Peoples and Fatherlands', 'Part Nine: What is Noble?' & 'From High Mountains: Epode'.

The ideas in terms of the blog: each week one of us from the meetings in Bristol will blog a resume of the key points of discussion over the subsequent weekend. Additionally, please blog in precursive thoughts ahead of the meetings on that week's readings as new posts and comment on the posted resumes and other precursive thoughts as you see fit.

... if your ship has been driven into these seas, very well! Now clench your teeth! Keep your eyes open! Keep a firm hand on the helm! - We sail straight over morality and past it, we flatten, we crush perhaps what is left of our morality by venturing to voyage thither - but what do we matter!

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