Claire Blencowe delivered a plenary paper at interim event of the TaPRA Theatre Performance and Philosophy Working Group - Biopolitics and Performance.

The group have their main conference in September addressing issues of 'aesthetics and politics in relation to philosophy': call for papers is here (deadline THIS SUNDAY).

The line-up for our conference panel 'Common Life: Critical Perspectives on Authority, Experience and Community' at the London Conference in Critical Thought has been finalised. We've had a lot of interest in the panel, and are looking forward to a really exciting set of papers.  Leila Dawney and Sam Kirwan are organizing the panel. Abstracts can be viewed here.

• Leila Dawney, 'The idea of the common'
• Gundula Ludwig, “Community as a ‘body without organs’. Post-sovereign reformulations of democracy”
• Slavcho Dimitrov, “Shattering the grounds of community: Queerness, corporeality and the political”
• Patrick Bresnihan, “From commons to commoning”
• Tracey Skillington, “‘We bow our heads in deep mourning’: Genocide remembrance amongst global political communities”
• Thomas Swann, “Social Media, Organisational Cybernetics and Non-hierarchical Community Organisation”
• Alexandra Reynolds, “Collaborate or perish! The network economy, consensus democracy and late biopower”
• Adam Gearey, “On Martin Luther King day...”
• Daniel Matthews, “A communality-to-come: Deconstructive politics and community.”
• Tara Atluri, “Pirates and politics: A digital commons or Bill Gates’s wet dream?”
• Naomi Millner, “An uncommon commons: Radicalising the radical imagination as a response to new enclosures”
• Sophie Ball, “Reclaim the commons: Occupy everything”