Prof. Ben Noys Book Launch
Join Professor Benjamin Noys as he reflects on how we might re-envision life, literature, and reality as a collective transformation of the world.
What is the relationship between literature, life, and reality?
On the occasion of the publication of his three books – The Matter of Language (2023), Crisis and Criticism (2004), and Envisioning the Good Life (2025) – Professor Benjamin Noys reflects on how we might reenvision life, literature, and reality as a collective transformation of the world.
Envisioning the Good Life: The Limits of Contemporary Vitalism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025) urges us to rediscover the vision of the good life in the collective and to grasp our own powers to transform our lives and the world.
Crisis and Criticism: Literary, Cultural and Political Essays, 2009–2021 (Leiden: Brill, 2024) is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8.
The Matter of Language: Abstraction & Poetry (London: Seagull Books, 2023) reconceives notions of alienation and class struggle as essential modes of reading and analysis for our fractured present.
Time: 5.00pm
Date: 2nd April 2025
Venue: Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
Cost: FREE and open to all
