Courses
Courses at the Centre are taught by both Core and Non-core faculty at Western, as
NEW 2024-25 COURSES
Fall 2024
| Course # | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| Earth Aesthetics in the Information Age | Russell Duvernoy | Monday | [C] | |
| Machiavelli and Us | Julian J. Haladyn | Monday | [C] | |
| 9230 | Cybernetics, Complexity, Chaos and Critical Theory | Nick Witheford | tbd | [B] |
| Playing at the Absolute: On Games, Thought, Politics, and Time | M. Curtis Allen | Thursday | [A] |
Winter 2025
| Course # | Title | Instructor | Day & Time | Category |
| Agamben’s Philosophical Archeology: An Historiographical Research Method | Ed Matthews |
Monday |
[C] | |
| 9501 | Theories, Practices, and Politics of Sound and Silence | Christof Migone |
Tuesday |
[A] |
| 9628 | What Is Philosophy? Philosophy and Theory from the Late Eighteenth- to Twentieth Century | Tilottama Rajan |
Wednesday |
[A] |
| 9326 | Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening | Sharon Sliwinski |
Wednesday |
[A] |
| 9639 | Deleuze and Psychoanalysis | John Vanderheide | Thursday | [C] |
| Capital & Ressentiment: Intersections of Marx and Nietzsche | Matt Stahl | Friday | [B] |
* please contact the program for course location, days and times
Master's students are required to
Group A: aesthetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, language theory
Group B: social, cultural and political theory
Group C: topical focus covering theorist(s) from the above areas, as well as 19th-century, modern, and contemporary theory
More information on Course Requirements can be found here.
Course Enrolment Forms can be found here.
Historical course offerings:
2023-24
9151 - The Frankfurt School: The “Origins” of Critical Theory - Jeremy Arnott [C]
9154 - The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9202 - Bergson – Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9224 - Cosmovisions from the South: Decolonial epistemologies and the praxis of decolonization - Lucas Savino [B]
9324 - Aliens in Theory - Joshua Schuster [A]
9524 - Feminist and Gender Perspectives on/in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts - Erica Lawson [C]
9653 - Queer Temporalities - Chris Roulston [B]
9540 - Species-Beings: Young Marx in the Post-Anthropocene - Nick Witheford [B]
9656 - Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2022-23
9149 - Ecological Conversion: From Critique to Creation - Russell Duvernoy [C]
9155 - The Waning of Philosophies of Difference and the Rise of the New Universalism - Antonio Calcagno [A]
9207 - Life: The Impact of the Life Sciences on Philosophy and Other Philosophical Domains, from Kant to Esposito - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9223 - Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9325 - Finitude and Plentitude - Joshua Schuster [C]
9421 - The Benjamin Constellation - John Vanderheide [A]
9440 - “A Vermilioned Nothingness”: Late Lacan, Sexuation, Sinthome, and the Prosdiorism - Allan Pero [C]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9659 - Theorizing Care in an Uneven World - Kate Lawless [B]
2021-22
9150A Disability, Ability and the Idea of Self - Jeremy Colangelo [B]
9202A Cine-Perception - Janelle Blankenship [A]
9206B Instrumentality - Jonathan De Souza [C]
9222A Anti-Psychoanalyses: A (Short and Incomplete) History of Confluences and Conflicts - Cristina Ionica [A]
9229B Biopolitics and the Unconscious - Matthew Rowlinson [B]
9244B Postcolonial Theory at the Limits of the Animal - Jason Sandhar [B]
9326B Ways of Seeing, Ways of Listening - Sharon Sliwinski [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9637A Questioning Aesthetics - Julian Haladyn [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2020-21
9154A The Philosophy of Hannah Arendt: Rethinking the Social and the Political - Antonio Calcagno [B]
9203B Land, Language, Locatives - Regna Darnell [B]
9223B Climate Change - Michael Gardiner [B]
9246A Schoenberg/Wittgenstein - Kevin Mooney [C]
9329B Teasing the dainty rods of vision: Imaginary/Imagination/Semblance - Allan Pero [A]
9422Y Translating Theory - Jan Plug [C]
9460B The Arts and Politics of the Situationist International (1957-1972) - Ed Matthews [A]
9614Y Idealism and the Margins of Philosophy: (Inter)Disciplinarity in Kant, Hegel, Schelling - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9655A Theorizing Environmental Subjectivity - David Janzen [C]
2019-20
9153B The Avant-gardes as Anti-Culture: A History of “Radicalism” and “Excess” - Cristina Ionica [A]
9201B Cyberwar Theory - Nick Dyer Witheford [B]
9204A Immaterial - Mary Helen McMurran [B]
9327A Techniques of the Body in Greece, Rome, and the Modern Era - Charles Stocking [B]
9423A The Performance of Race - Nigel Joseph [C]
9449B Postwork Imaginaries - Michael Gardiner [B]
9501A Writing Aloud: Theories of Sound and Silence - Christof Migone [A]
9538B Critical Phenomenology - Helen Fielding [C]
9579B Why (and how) are things similar?: Analogy, Example, Metaphor, Taxonomy - Laurence de Looze [A]
9640B Existential Risk - Joshua Schuster [A]
9656A Social Theory in the Age of Austerity - Matt Stahl [B]
2018-19
9152A From Dada to Dank Memes: Revolt, Revulsion, and Discontent - Andrew Wenaus [C]
9210B Hantology, or Reading Byung-Chul Han - Julian Jason Haladyn [B]
9228B Keywords for the 21st Century - Regna Darnell [B]
9245A Zones of Entanglement: Philosophy, the Life Sciences and Medicine 1785-2012 - Tilottama Rajan [A]
9328A Reconciliation and its Discontents: Theory, Art, Critique - Pauline Wakeham [A]
9347B French Enlightenment Thought and the Rise of Materialism - Ed Matthews [A]
9436A The Subject of the Object - Peter Schwenger [C]
9449B Post-work Imaginaries - Michael Gardiner [B]
9500A Mimesis in Modernity - John Vanderheide [A]
9559B Under Elding Towers, Among Dimming Stars: The Spaces and Politics of Modernity - Allan Pero [A]
