Center for Philosophical Technologies

03/02/2026

Life in Crisis: Biopolitics & Haunted Ecologies
📅 March 5 | 🕞 3:30 p.m.
📍 Ross-Blakley Hall 196 (ASU)

Join us for a dialogue on how environmental, political, and psychic ecologies intersect in the present moment. Featuring Gregg Lambert and Gabriele Schwab, two leading scholars thinking crisis, ecology, and political subjectivity from complementary perspectives.

🎙️ Talks followed by Q&A moderated by Stacey Moran
🥂 Light refreshments served

✨ Bonus (rare in-person opportunity): the following day, March 6, Schwab leads an in-person graduate seminar exploring Félix Guattari’s “Three Ecologies.”

🔗 Learn more + register: humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/applied-theory

Co-sponsored by Applied Theory and the Center for Philosophical Technologies.

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04/04/2024

Theory After Dark

Aporetical times that divide call for differently hospitable spaces that illuminate.

So why not a séance-type vibe as a non-standard experiment for non-standard thought?

To conclude the spring 2024 semester, we invite all to do “theory after dark”—a Friday series, taking place late into the evening and early into the morning to think otherwise.

These informal seminars, beginning at the CPT and finishing at Casey Moore’s Oyster House, engage critical topics of pressing public interest and vital conceptual import.

To start, we’ll be engaged with sound, planetarity, and the creaturely commons propagated in the music of Sigur Rós; the emergence of “Degrowth” political economics premised on the decoupling of thriving futures from the imperative of endless growth; and forensic self-organization in the context of impossible temporalities at geo-logical scale.

theory after dark is open to everyone and free of charge. We meet at the Creativity Commons at 9:00 p.m., engage in an hour’s worth of open discussion of materials each evening’s host introduces, and then move to repair to Casey Moore’s and continue the conversation (or not).

03/18/2024

The School of Materialist Research is excited to announce a 2024 summer school on design and creative research in Olympiada, Greece: Mytho Planetarities: Critical and Speculative Practices in Design Research.

Dates: Aug 3-9, 2024

The summer school is geared toward graduate students (Master’s and Doctoral) and early career researchers wanting to expand their creative and critical research on questions related to design, mythology, and planetarity. The school is taught by internationally renowned design and arts faculty from Goldsmiths University of London (UK), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of New South Wales (Australia), and Arizona State University (USA).

The program fee covers lodging and tuition. Applications are due May 3. Apply here (link in bio).

Instructions for submitting 1000 euro to secure your place in the summer school will be sent upon receipt of application. Payments are due by July 1.

Olympiada is a beach town, easily accessible from Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece. Details about transportation and accommodation will be sent out in early summer.

02/08/2024

Global Education: Design and Society in Amsterdam 2024!

Check the link in bio for more info!

02/07/2024

The call for applications for the Summer School of SMR is now open!

The Summer Institute of SRM in Olympiada Greece with John Ó Maoilearca, Thomas Nail and Joel White,
and Jonathan Fardy as invited lecturer
"Death, Movement, Change and Transformation: The Domain of Matter" Dates: 15-22 September 2024, Venue: SMR Campus Olympiada: Stagira/Akanthos, Greece

Check the link in bio for more info

01/31/2024

CPT is happy to announce a collaboration with Baltan Laboratories on Marginalia Reading Group!

Repost (see info below):

Following the success of our first edition, we are excited to announce a second iteration of our Marginalia reading group.

ℹ️ Marginalia is an occasion for the general audience to expand on the ideas outlined in our Technologies Otherwise program, which attempts to unpack, redefine and ultimately foster a healthier relationship with the technologies surrounding us. Furthermore, Marginalia facilitates the experience of a new format of collective reading that is not solitary but thrives in its communal aspect.

📔 The first gathering will take place on February 27 and we will be reading Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor.

✅ Find all info at

08/30/2023

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CLOSES ON SEPTEMBER 4th.
Not many spots left!
SCHOLARSHIP POLICY: Out of all of the applications we will choose four candidates (two will be awarded full scholarship and two will receive partial) based on their motivation statements in the application forms, and on their economic situation.
We will have the following brilliant professors teaching this Fall:
Thomas Nail
Paul Reynolds
Amanda Beech
Ben Woodard
John O Maoilearca
Paul Cockshott and Katerina Kolozova
Daniel Sacilotto
Samantha Bankston and Tarvo Varres
Laura Tripaldi

Application form at the end of this link below and in our bio!

https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Integrated-Credit-Program-Fall-Semester-2023-2024

08/30/2023

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CLOSES ON SEPTEMBER 4th.
Not many spots left!
SCHOLARSHIP POLICY: Out of all of the applications we will choose four candidates (two will be awarded full scholarship and two will receive partial) based on their motivation statements in the application forms, and on their economic situation.
We will have the following brilliant professors teaching this Fall:
Thomas Nail
Paul Reynolds
Amanda Beech
Ben Woodard
John O Maoilearca
Paul Cockshott and Katerina Kolozova
Daniel Sacilotto
Samantha Bankston and Tarvo Varres
Laura Tripaldi
Application form at the end of this page:

https://schoolofmaterialistresearch.org/Integrated-Credit-Program-Fall-Semester-2023-2024

08/30/2023

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CLOSES ON SEPTEMBER 4th.
Not many spots left!
SCHOLARSHIP POLICY: Out of all of the applications we will choose four candidates (two will be awarded full scholarship and two will receive partial) based on their motivation statements in the application forms, and on their economic situation.
We will have the following brilliant professors teaching this Fall:
Thomas Nail
Paul Reynolds
Amanda Beech
Ben Woodard
John O Maoilearca
Paul Cockshott and Katerina Kolozova
Daniel Sacilotto
Samantha Bankston and Tarvo Varres
Laura Tripaldi
Application form at the end of this page:

︎ Integrated Credit Program Fall Semester 2023-2024 The School of Materialist Research (SMR) is proud to announce its official...

07/21/2023

Second SMR's Special Program this summer: open to all, free of charge. Go to our website to learn more and sign up for a zoom link via Eventbrite or by emailing SMR at [email protected]

07/21/2023

Right now: Collaboration between SMR (School of Materialist Research) and CPT's Amsterdam Summer School, co-organized on-site (online content soon!) under the direction of Adam Nocek and Stacey Moran.

07/08/2023

Here the list of the faculties for the Fall Semester 2023 - Integrated Credit Program at the

Email us at [email protected]
for more info!

Application form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9SnEVPVL3M4iBENnPvu-tawN_2DziEvb3DbeBfuxZ_tmhgg/viewform