Alex Alvarez Taylor
Talks
Walter Benjamin: Interpretation against Myth. 15th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome: Loyola University, Chicago (May 2023)

The Concept of the Aesthetic in Benjamin and Adorno. Postgraduate Colloquium. Department of Politics, Univ. of York (Dec 2022)

‘Third Time Lucky? The Reception of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy in Spain’. Historical Materialism Conference 19, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Nov 2022)

Dialectic in the Young Benjamin and Lukács. Doctoral Seminar. Aesthetic Representations of the Crisis of Fordism (1950-80). Dep. Philosophy and Society, Complutense University Madrid (June 2022)

Seminar. An Introduction to the Young Walter Benjamin. (April – June 2022)

1. Politics of Youth and Experience. 2. Benjamin and Early German Romanticism. 3. Farewell, Eden: The Fall of Language. 4. Allegory and the Idea of Constellations 1. 5. Benjamin and Romantic Anticapitalism. 6. Allegory and the Idea of Constellations 2.

Brexit: escisión y ansiedad [Brexit: Scission and Anxiety]. Society for Critical Theory Studies (Setcrit) International Seminar. Critical Theory of Authoritarianism (Nov 2021)

Aesthetic Experience in Benjamin and Adorno. Postgraduate Colloquium. Dep. Philosophy and Society. Complutense University, Madrid (Oct 2021)

Walter Benjamin as critical theorist. Doctoral Seminar. Aesthetic Representations for figuring the Interwar Crisis: Art, Theatre, Film and Thought. Dep. Philosophy and Society. Complutense University, Madrid (June 2021)