Seminario ILLA: "Between Process and Progress: Philosophical Interrogations, Social Experimentations"

Por Craig Lundy (London Metropolitan University).

Organiza: ILLA-CSIC

El seminario sería en inglés. 

Resumen: There is no progress without process. But what, exactly, is the conception of process within the predominant paradigm of progress that rules contemporary life? And what happens to this paradigm of progress if alternative conceptions of process are elevated in their place? In this paper I will attempt to challenge the paradigm of progress, not by rehearsing critiques of it, but by experimenting with its processual dimensions. Thinking and debate on progress most often resolves around its ethical aspects, along with their consequences for socio-political, economic and environmental affairs (or vice versa). But what happens if we shift its ontological, epistemic and physical foundations? Does the concept of progress change its nature or adjust to stay the same? Does it disappear or offer other avenues? These and related questions will be pursued through the application of insights from process philosophy and complexity sciences.

Craig Lundy is a Reader in Social and Political Thought at London Metropolitan University. From 2025-27 he is also  a Leverhulme Research Fellow, pursuing research on the thematic ‘After Progress: Revaluing Life Amidst Catastrophe’. The majority of Craig’sresearch has been concerned with exploring the nature of transformational processes, in particular the role that history plays in shaping socio-political formations. He is the author of Deleuze’s Bergsonism (2018), History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity (2012), and he co-edited with Daniela Voss the collection At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (2015), all published by Edinburgh University Press. Craig’s most recent book is the volume After Progress (Sage, 2022), co-edited with Martin Savransky.