Continuous research seminar. Organized by the Research Group on Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School.

Session 1: Thinking as a process

A key element of critical thinking is the constant challenge to established ways of thinking. With terms such as dialectics, processual, liquid or relational thinking, this thinking opposes the logic of identity, the naturalization and reification of social processes.

Reading Text: Theodor W. Adorno Introduction to "The Negative Dialectic".

Date: Tuesday, March 6th from 18:00 to 20:30

Session 2: Invisibilization

Processes of exclusion, marginalization or discrimination are often accompanied by mechanisms of invisibilization. Both non-hegemonic social groups (ethnic minorities, women, lower social classes) and certain moral social experiences, especially those of subaltern groups, are made invisible. Invisibilization, therefore, can be understood as a transversal concept of critical thinking.

Reading text: Axel Honneth "Invisibility".

Date: Tuesday, April 10 from 18:00 to 20:30

Session 3: Alternative Epistemologies

In order to transform the global regime of knowledge, the members of the modernity/coloniality network postulate the identification and integration of "other" epistemologies, that is, alternative ways of constructing knowledge with subjects who create proposals and act from their situationality in the "colonial difference".

Reading texts: Boaventura de Souza Santos "Towards a sociology of absences and emergencies" and Walter Mignolo "Prolegomena to a grammar of decoloniality".

New date: Tuesday, May 15 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Session 4: Regulatory frameworks

We will present the concept of "normative frames" as a tool that will allow us to critically approach the field of self-interested social representations. It is these frames that participate in the conformation of social categories that constrain subjects and provoke an interested impasse in the social struggle.

Reading Text: Judith Butler "Frames of War. The wept lives" (excerpt)

Date: Tuesday, June 5 from 18:00 to 20:30

All sessions take place at the Facultat de Ciències Socials.

To participate and receive the texts to be discussed it is mandatory to register (free of charge) by sending an email until March 1 to: critica@uv.es