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TO SIGN LOG ON TO:    http://cartapucsp.lrdsign.com  IN SUPPORT OF THE PERSECUTED TEACHERS BY PUC-SP The Provost’s Office of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo opened an investigatory procedure against professors Peter Pál Pelbart, Yolanda Glória Gamboa Muñoz and Jonnefer Barbosa, under the allegation of having invited, envisaged, supported and advertised the theatre-performance staged in the University’s facilities in November 2012 by theatre director Zé Celso Martinez. At the time, students, professors and staff protested against Cardinal Don Odilo Scherer’s appointment as Provost of the candidate who was only third place in the election. In so doing, a democratic…

What do you know about the soul?Index number 7 is now on Soundcloud! https://soundcloud.com/58_plus1_indicesonthebody/jean-luc-nancy-recording-index-7 Share your thoughts with us. Leave a comment along the tracks and be part of the project! https://soundcloud.com/58_plus1_indicesonthebody 7. The soul is extended everywhere along the body, says Descartes; it is entirely everywhere all along it, on its very surface, insinuated within it, and slipped into it, infiltrated, impregnating, tentacular, inflating, modeling, omnipresent. From Fifty-eight Indices on the Body (Corpus), Jean-Luc Nancy. New York, Fordham University Press, 2008.. 7. L’âme est étendue partout au travers du corps, dit Descartes, elle est toute entière partout le long de lui, à même…

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  …