Course Catalogue

This module consists of three courses delivered over four online weekend sessions, running from mid-October to early December 2026, with seminars held every other weekend. Registration is for the module as a whole, giving students access to all three component courses.Last date to register: 2 October 2026

Cartographies of the Imagination will explore how philosophy and the arts illuminate the (non)human metamorphoses we are all currently undergoing in the midst of the turbulence of climate change, institutional and political reorganizations, extractive capitalism, gender relations and identities, the pervasiveness of technologies (including AI), and the rapidly shifting terrain of experience.Last date to register: 3 October 2026

Why should we care about the future? From climate change and artificial intelligence to existential risk and social transformation, contemporary challenges increasingly require long-term thinking. This interdisciplinary introduction to Future Studies explores how philosophers, historians, social theorists, and futurists have understood humanity’s relationship to tomorrow.Last date to register: 2 October 2026

How do stories shape the future? This course examines the role of imagination, culture, technology, and narrative in constructing visions of tomorrow. Drawing on literature, social theory, systems thinking, and media studies, students explore how utopias, dystopias, science fiction, and cultural narratives influence expectations about social change and technological development.Last date to register: 2 October 2026

This module consists of three courses – two seminars and one workshop – over three weekends in February, April, and June, and two days in August 2026. The sessions are held online. The last session is followed by the 2026 Ereignis Conference, where students are encouraged to present their paper. Attendance at the conference is included in the course fee.Last date to register: 6 August 2026

This workshop focuses on a key process in the everyday life of academics: shaping an essay from proposal, via draft and submission to presentation. This course is conducted over four sessions. The first three are held online, while the August session will be hybrid, with options for participation online or on-site in Gdynia, Poland. The last session is followed by the 2026 Ereignis Conference.

The notion of the Other is a key concept in contemporary thought. As such, it is highly complex, at times even contradictory. The course aims to bring clarity to this topic, by outlining the key features of the figure of the Other as it is portrayed in phenomenology, psychanalysis and Marxism. As part of this endeavor, we will examine notions such as the Big Other, the Other and God, the Other and the Ego, and the Other and Ideology.

This course approaches artificial intelligence not as a model of cognition or a substitute for human thought, but as a machinic assemblage that reorganises desire, labour, and planetary forms of life. Rather than asking whether AI can “think,” I investigate how AI participates in the production of subjectivity: how it reconfigures perception, affects, attention, and the conditions of planetary co-existence.

This course aims to unpack the developments of ethical thought in continental European philosophy (particularly in France) after and in response to Nietzsche’s critique of morality which appears in his Genealogy of Morality and Beyond Good and Evil. The main conceptual distinction that I’m going to elaborate is between morality and ethics. And the main problematic is that how can we have a good life in a world in which there is no transcendent moral principle. Nietzsche’s critique of morality clears the space for French philosophers to think about a possibility of an immanent ethics.

This course presents a distinct view of technology and technological change. As we situate technology within various philosophies of the event we learn to appreciate a whole range of life techniques for ethical – good – living in the event of technology. This course gives a solid introduction into the philosophy of Ereignis. The course is designed for anyone interested in ethics, philosophy of technology, contemporary psychoanalysis, or cultural analysis.

Wallace Stevens’s novelty remains obscured by certain critics and philosophers who themselves oppose one another. The former desire Stevens a national figure of Americana; others emphasize their own aesthetic theory. Most shun philosophical implications which place the poetry in service of philosophy. Stevens’s ‘theōria’ holds implications beyond conventional truth disputes. This seminar explores theōria as contra-criticism which views technological determinism as a most potent critic of the imagination. Thus Stevens’s “poetry itself” and “a poetry of thought” offer ethical considerations for humans under the reins of technic.