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01/12/2022

Become a GCAS Researcher for $20/20€ per month and take all our live and some archived seminars. https://gcascollege.ie/gcas-subscriber. This is a special offer.

26/11/2022

Julie Reshe's GCAS course starts next weekend, Dec 3rd. Financial assistance is available. Sign-up here:

Can we build a world where people will no longer hurt each other? No. Can we fail better in trying not to hurt each other? Yes.

15/09/2022

Take a GCAS seminar with a Pulitzer Prize winning author (Chris Hedges) and a community education activist (Boris Franklin). Enrol today:

Description: This seminar, which will include the book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges and the play Caged written by The New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative, will examine the transformative power of education and creative self-expression in prison. It wil...

13/09/2022

Take a course from a leading philosopher of law, Laurent de Sutter. There's limited space and financial aid.

Reading: Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, transl. Michael A. Greco and Daniel W. Smith, Univ of Minnesota Press, 1997

03/09/2022

Take a course from the Pulitzer prize writer, Chris Hedges and Boris Franklin. Enrol now for a 50% discount until September 7.

Description: This seminar, which will include the book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges and the play Caged written by The New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative, will examine the transformative power of education and creative self-expression in prison. It wil...

30/08/2022

Take a course with one of Latin America's leading artists and philosophers, Francisco "Pancho" González Castro. His seminar, "The Category of Art as a Capitalist Product" starts this Sunday, September 4th. https://gcascollege.ie/category-of-art-2022

In this seminar we will review the relationship between the art system and capitalism. To do so, we will examine how contemporary art is articulated as a system and how it is differentiated from artistic practices. Then we will see certain ways in which Art relates to capitalism and how aesthetics a...

28/08/2022

Take a GCAS seminar with a leading philosopher, John D. Caputo: https://gcascollege.ie/caputo-seminar

Description: In a scene from Ghost Dance (1982) in which Derrida played himself, an actress asks Derrida whether he believes in ghosts. His “appearance” in this film is turning him into a ghost, he replies, an apparition in which, long after he is dead, we will be able to “see” and “hear.....

10/08/2022

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06/07/2022

Dr. Isabel Millar's course starts this Sunday. Enroll and take a seminar with a foremost expert on AI, s*x, and psychoanalysis. https://gcascollege.ie/psychoanalysis-and-ai

This seminar will provide an introduction to the ‘Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence’. Highlighting some of the key psychoanalytic concepts at stake and articulating their relationship to a more critical approach to intelligence, the body, thought and their simulation. We will interrogate...

02/07/2022

09/06/2022

Take a seminar on Spinoza's Ethics this summer. Rocky Gangle will be guiding you through Sponiza's work. Financial aid is available. https://gcascollege.ie/spinoza

20/05/2022

Join GCAS Monday May 23 from 1-4:30 pm in Belfast for our Symposium on "Lack". You can watch the symposium live on our Youtube channel via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCd2bj-qog&ab_channel=GCASMedia

https://gcascollege.ie/belfast1:00 PM Creston Davis Welcome1:05 Lewis Gordon Introduction1:30 PM Helen Rollins “Avoiding the Void: The entertainment ...

14/05/2022

The most advanced college on planet Earth. https://gcas.ie

09/05/2022

29/04/2022

Join us next Saturday.

28/04/2022

Take a seminar from Dr. Isabel Millar and learn how they created a new field of research both within psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence. Financial aid is available. Enroll here: https://gcascollege.ie/psychoanalysis-and-ai

This seminar will provide an introduction to the ‘Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence’. Highlighting some of the key psychoanalytic concepts at stake and articulating their relationship to a more critical approach to intelligence, the body, thought and their simulation. We will interrogate...

23/04/2022

Taking Education Back from Banks
From the inception of the modern university rests an intractable problem. This problem is organized around two basic and irreconcilable perspectives: on the one side there is administration, and on the other, there is the faculty. The faculty is the core of the university, but over time (from the mid to late 20th century) the administrative side dislodged the power of the faculty. This power-shift was a consequence of pressure on the administration to denude the infinite power of thinking (philosophy) from the faculty and thus depriving the students from thinking boldly and beyond the “box” of social conformity. The result is that education (and the university) was forced to serve the economy in its current configuration rather than following thinking and how bold new ideas can materialize in the world to change it for the better. One tactic of this administrative coup d'etat was student debt. By forcing students into education-debt you nearly guarantee that the teaching content in classes align with pragmatic employment opportunities in its current economic configuration. But the point of the university was to have time to think and reimagine a better world than its current organization. This means you need time away from the pressures of conformity to the status quo in order to create something better. But the business mentality “of the way the world works” subverted education leisure time to think and to try something new that benefits all humanity and not just the few. If GCAS is nothing else, it is a place to think boldly against the grain of the world in its current configuration. We know something better is possible, a better world and we believe in this above all. We don’t pretend to have THE answer either: we are not political precisely because the political is itself a form of the “old world” and not the world to come. We don’t have THE answer, but we have a “way” a “quest” and it is that journey that is inherently academic. But to protect this sacred space of infinite possibilities we must protect our way, which is to say how we produce and reproduce our journey together. To do this, we created a different “debt-free” mode of production on the level of a shared economy materialized in our de-centralized token, GCASy. In this way, the influence of $ or € is held in check so the determinations on how we teach and learn is mitigated so our GCAS sacred space of learning is protected. In the final analysis, this co-productive, co-owned GCAS modality puts the administrative side back in its place of supporting and not enslaving faculty and students to the almighty dollar and profits. For an example of what this means read this important interview between Salli and Andrew. Can you just imagine what is thinkable within this learning space? It becomes a different world entirely. Together we are building this world that is not entirely out of our world, but neither is it entirely enslaved to the world as it is. Listen to the French philosopher, (Jean-Paul Sartre’s student) Alain Badiou talk about GCAS.

And if you think about it, when you write an idea or concept down within the GCAS ecosystem your energy, time, and resources are building a world-within a world even in its micro-form. It is together that we exist devoted not to a vulgar political agenda, but to an infinite unknown possibility that is at the same time materialized with each word, concept, and idea shared on a different horizon of being.

We thank all of you who support us and give us a chance to configure the world with different principles of peace, collaboration, and what is not yet known.

There are a lot of upcoming seminars in May for GCAS. The Pulitzer prize winning writer, Chris Hedges will be teaching with Boris Franklin. Isabel Millar’s new paradigm in psychoanalysis will be presented in her seminar. Keith Faulkner’s course of Deleuze starts this coming week. And then we have two seminars in Belfast with Barry Taylor and Jamieson Webster along with others like Helen Rollins, Alfie Bown, Rocky Gangle, Lewis Gordon to name a few. We finish the month of May with the GCAS event in Dublin. You may enroll in all these seminars and events using your GCAS.ie account just follow the instructions on this page: https://gcascollege.ie/course-catalogue. Share your ideas on our GCAS forum. If you want to become a member of GCAS you can do so here: https://gcas.ie/membership.

Get involved in decision-making with GCAS. Help us by sharing seminars with others. Invite friends to come and think with us as together our collective “mind” is a weapon against the vulgar reduction of the human to the totalitarian idea that we are all just cogs in the machine of money-making. We are more, we are, in a fashion part, of an infinite procedure of a new world in the making and continual re-making of itself with a higher cause and higher mode-of-being-in-the-world.

22/04/2022

GCAS will be at Wake Festival in Belfast with our friend and colleague, Peter Rollin this year-after last year’s online version it will be great for us all to be back in person. This year there is also a partnership with .ie and Barry Taylor and Jamieson Webster will be their own 3 ECTS credit seminars. Taylor is giving a seminar every morning mapping the territory in which the fascinations and struggles of radical theology play out. He will be sketching out a particular territory, or contemporary ecology and presenting the challenges and opportunities for theological reflection and discourse. Digital occultism, simulation hypotheses, post-truth polarisations, techno-optimism and wellness, stupidity and knowledge, cryptoculture and other contemporary cultural issues and developments will provide the backdrop for conversations about theology, philosophy and life in the 21st century. (These will also be live-streamed so check out .ie if you’re interested in that). If you signed up for Wake you can attend these talks-which will be taking place in the same location in Belfast and GCAS students are free to join in the Wake events and festivities. Wake is a unique experience and continues to push horizons of thought and ideas in new directions and GCAS explores new possibilities in edgy higher education and we are excited to see what this year will bring. Check out https://peterrollins.com/wake-22 or https://gcascollege.ie/belfast We’d love to see you in Belfast.

14/04/2022

Take GCAS' Deleuze Seminar taught by one of the leading philosophers of Deleuze, Prof. Keith Faulkner. Financial aid is available. Enroll here: https://gcascollege.ie/ma-deleuze-seminar

11/04/2022

Study with some of the best philosophers in the world pursuing a 1 year EU accredited Masters degree online. Apply by 1 May for Fall enrollment. https://gcas.ie/philosophy-ma

31/03/2022

Todd McGowan's GCAS talk in Montreal is in just over a week. Limited seating available but RSVP "Yes" if you want to make this in person to [email protected]. This will be live-streamed on our Youtube channel. https://youtu.be/h5Fw2SwtW70

29/03/2022

Read through the Phenomenology of Spirit with Todd McGowan in a GCAS Seminar. Only a few seats remain. Deadline: Saturday April 2nd. 3 ECTS credits available.

https://gcascollege.ie/hegel-seminar-2022

19/03/2022

GCAS researcher, Swarnima Kriti talks about the festival, Holi during our discussion session in the Philosophical Theology seminar. Swarnima lives in India.

15/03/2022

Take a course from a theorist who practically created a new field of study, Dr. Isabel Millar https://gcascollege.ie/psychoanalysis-and-ai

This seminar will provide an introduction to the ‘Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence’. Highlighting some of the key psychoanalytic concepts at stake and articulating their relationship to a more critical approach to intelligence, the body, thought and their simulation. We will interrogate...

12/03/2022

GCAS' conference on Greek National TV.

11/03/2022

Where GCAS' power alights. https://gcas.ie We're also not just a ego-centered platform where you just take courses from "stars" devoid of sharing research among community members. It's not the "egos" that make education it's the ecosystem. Think horizontally not vertically.

08/03/2022

María Crespo Blázquez speaks about GCAS.

07/03/2022

There's only 3 seats left in Nina Power's seminar. Financial aid is available. ECTS credits are available too. The seminar starts this Saturday: https://gcascollege.ie/simone-weil

This seminar will read Weil's great mid-twentieth century text with a view to understanding our own time. By coming to terms with Weil's ideas about 'the needs of the soul', 'uprootedness' and 'the growing of roots', alongside a broader understanding about her place in political philosophy, spiritua...