See below for details of a number of online and in-person seminars coming up
From Marx to Spinoza
Our irregular online seminar series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, hosted by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy Gilbert, has been running since November 2023.
The next two seminars in that series will be:
‘Spinoza in post-Marxist Philosophy’ with Katja Diefenbach
February 21st 2026 17:00-19:00 GMT and
‘Spinoza’s Multitude, and Marxism’s’ with Michael Hardt
March 16th 2026 17:00-19:00 GMT
You can find details of both on this page.
The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism
Saturday April 11th 2026, 17:00-19:00 BST
with Ben Anderson, Anna J. Seccor, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert and Carolyn Pedwell
This event forms part of our ongoing series, From Marx to Spinoza, but will also be of interest to anyone interested in contemporary politics and / or cultural studies.
A launch event to mark the publication of The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism by Ben Anderson and Anna J. Seccor.
The Politics of Feeling argues that politics has become a matter of political feelings in an age of uncertainty. The uncertainties of the post-2008 period have transformed the political arena and made the question of how people feel central to the formation of political affiliations and divisions. The book identifies three competing political forms in the US and the UK today: right-wing populism, progressivism, and contemporary liberalism. It argues that rather than naming coherent programs of political thought, these popular political forms are operating as arrangements or modes of attachment and political intensity. Each one suggests a different way of remembering the past, imagining the future, and making the present politically meaningful. Each one elevates some affective orientations over others and thereby etches differences of race, class, and gender within its structure. The Politics of Feeling is a critique of the living edge of politics, where feelings emerge, gather intensity, or dissolve in the continual making and remaking of the politics of the present.
At this online launch event the authors will present key arguments from the book, with responses and comments from Carolyn Pedwell, Will Davies and Jeremy Gilbert
Free, all welcome, BOOK HERE
The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture
June 2nd – July 14th 2026 (four sessions)
John Clarke’s The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture (2023) is a major work of political, cultural and social analysis, investigating the state of Britain in the wake of Brexit. A classic exercise in cultural studies, this book attends to all of the complex interconnections between histories of imperialism, class struggle, radicalisation, nation-building, democratisation and repression that define our political epoch. John has been a very significant contributor to British social theory, critical policy studies and cultural studies since the 1970s, when he was one of the co-authors of Policing the Crisis.
Over four 2-hour sessions, John will introduce the key arguments of the book and discuss them with seminar participants. The series will be hosted and facilitated by Jeremy Gilbert, with Sarah Bufkin, Jo Littler and Anamik Saha acting as respondents in individual seminars.
The series will be hosed by The Autonomy Institute and Culture, Power and Politics and is free to attend. Registration is required and space will be limited.