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The project 58 (+1) indices on the body is a collaboration between the artistic collective AMAE and the artist Pier Giorgio De Pinto with the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The topics come from the treaty 58 indices sur le corps (Editor’s note “58 indices on the body”), written in 2006 by Jean Luc Nancy and related to his book Corpus. The project has a blog: http://58indicesonthebody.wordpress.com/ This blog is the ideal platform to collect all the ideas, images, videos, texts and documentation of other nature this collaboration will produce through the exchange between all people involved. Mr. Nancy wrote exclusively for the project four new post-indices…

Call for proposals (book): This Body is in Danger! Shift-shaping CorpoRealities in Contemporary Performing Arts Editors: Aneta Stojnić, Christel Stalpaert and Marina Gržinić http://www.theaterwetenschappen.ugent.be/bodydanger Book theme: Changing corporealities in the light of: 1. Necropolitics - from Foucault through Agamben to Mbembe 2. Technologies - pop-up bodies in the desert of the real 3. Activism - from performing protest to cultivating ethics in a diplomacy of dissensus 4. EthicoAesthetics - from moralism to decolonial aesthetics One of the hallmarks of the 20th century is what we could call a corporeal turn, that focussed the attention of political and theoretical considerations on…

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy Editor, Kevin Curran (University of North Texas) “Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy” takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare’s art. Maintaining a broad view of “philosophy” that accommodates foundational questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself. These scholarly monographs will reinvigorate Shakespeare studies by opening new interdisciplinary conversations among scholars, artists, and students. For further information, or to discuss submitting a proposal, please contact the series…

Before I begin I must address an apology to you all. Perhaps you all have already lived this particular situation: you have pages and pages regarding your investigation, they seem to have a logic within them, how concepts play with others or are connected to others, but when faced with a strict economy of time and you need only to address one problem it is terribly difficult to find a Ariadne who will give you a thread, one that you must hold on in order not to loose yourself along the labyrinth of a problem. Of course we must be…

Hello everyone, while i'm waiting for my PhD defense, I decided to move to Berlin (11th of June) and start a new life. This to say, to all our Berliner friends, I would like to meet them, discuss some ideas with them, and even help with their work and research if they would be interested. I'm trying to develop further the problem questioned on my PhD for a post-doc fellowship, but for most important is to be close to people working on performance philosophy. So, please get in touch with me. Best regards

My book Posthuman Life: philosophy at the edge of the human will be published by Routledge in September 2014. "We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Whoever is right, it is assumed that our technological successor will be an upgraded or degraded version of us: Human 2.0. Posthuman Life argues that the enhancement debate projects a human face onto an empty screen. We…

Call for Papers Whither political theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe Faculty of English, Cambridge, and St John’s College, Cambridge 19-20 September 2014 This conference is concerned with the state and direction of contemporary political theatre in Europe after 2000, initiating a re-engagement with the aesthetics and politics debates of Bloch, Lukács, Benjamin, Brecht and Adorno and with their legacies. While calling for critical reflection on the relationship of contemporary theatre with politics, sociology, education and the public sphere, we ask how contemporary plays and theatre practices can contribute to developing autonomy, critical responsibility…

Call for Papers and Interventions Beirut: Bodies in Public   Beirut: Bodies in Public is a three-day workshop inviting artists and researchers to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding performance in public space in Beirut.   Workshop Dates: 9th –11th October 2014 Deadline for responses: 13th June 2014   Location: American University of Beirut (Beirut, Lebanon)   Confirmed Speakers: Professor Mona Harb, American University of Beirut                                     Professor Jane Rendell, the Bartlett, UCL                                     Professor Cornelia Krafft, American University of Beirut  …

Abstract English Artist-Philosophers. Philosophy as Arts-Based Research From the very beginning of European philosophy in ancient Greece the relation between philosophy and arts has been highly problematic. On the one hand we find “artist-philosophers” like Plato or Nietzsche, whose philosophical investigations used artistic practices to demonstrate their thoughts; on the other hand philosophy has been extremly hostile to such practices, especially since Plato himself banned a wide range of arts from his ideal state ruled by philosophers. Philosophers, since then, have often even opposed arts, claiming that they were doing science (reasoning) rather than “art”––which they equal with “poetry”, based…

Arno Böhler/Krassimira Kruschkova/Susanne Valerie (Eds.): Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag? Rhizomatische Körper in Religion, Kunst, Philosophie. Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld 2014, 258 Seiten, kart., ISBN 978-3-8376-2687-2 Die Frage »Wissen wir, was ein Körper vermag?« ist für Spinozas Ethik zentral, weil sie die leibliche Fundierung geistiger Tätigkeiten in den Blick kommen lässt. Immer wieder fragt er seine philosophischen Gegner, wie sich die »schlafwandlerische Kreativität« der Natur verstehen lässt, kraft der sie komplexe Gebilde hervorbringt, ohne sich diese im Vorhinein mental vorgestellt zu haben.Der Band geht dieser Frage in drei Hinsichten nach: Wie kommt die nachtwandlerische Kraft der Natur in religiösen Diskursen…