Alex915

I would encourage you to avoid Kingston by all means. There are many reasons why, first and foremost because it's a money making machine, feeding off you and other students. Kingston, the London Graduate School and the European Graduate School are basically the same group of academics making money of impressionable students from the US, through various forms. You want an MA they have a product for you, you want a summer school they got that too, are you star-struck and want to think you study with Zizek they 've got something for you too. The basic problem is that you will fork out 20k in british pounds for an one year masters which you are unlikely to ever recover from your academic career as a philosopher. Moreover, the people that are going to grab that money off you will treat you with disrespect and arrogangce and will never see you as an intellectual peer. Then there is the whole Middlesex business. When the CRMEP was kicked out of Middlesex Peter Osborne, Eric Alliez and the rest of the crew asked students to occupy the department in order to save the School. When some of them got an offer to move to KIngston they ditched the students, and some of their faculty and followed the money in Kingston. The whole "radical philosophy" thing is just a facade and most of the CRMEP people are conventional academics, detached from real movements, theoretical-only marxism and conservative inclinations. The department is hierarchical AF and some of the relations there strike me as unprofessional. Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford run the department, they are also a couple and I think she used to be his phd student. Just doesn't scream nepotism-free place. Overall, don't feed the monst of commercialisation of philosophy and Higher Education. Go to France or Germany and do your MA for free.