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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…

Renowned dance and Husserlian phenomenologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone has just published a book on everyday movement. Book can be pre-purchased at Amazon for RRP 12.95 USD Putting Movement into Your Life: A Beyond Fitness Primer is bothplayful and serious, bridging both popular and scholarly texts. It is engagingly written with two Ponderabilia inserts per chapter that offer slow food for thought on a diversity of topics related to theimmediate topic in the text. The book is definitely not an exercisebook or a typical self-help book, but a book about movement that breaks new ground in lively and creative ways while remaining…

For details on the programme for Animal Encounters: Performance, Animality & Posthumanism organised by TaPRA Theatre Performance & Philosophy Group in co-operation with Roehampton University and the University of East London (Centre of Performing Arts Development), see: Animal%20Encounters%20-%20Programme.docx

In memory of Selma Jeanne Cohen, the American Society for Aesthetics established a $1000 biennial prize in dance aesthetics, dance theory, or the history of dance. Begun in 2008, the next prize will be for a critical article or book of distinction published in English in the biennium from July 2012 to June 2014. The prize winner will be selected by a committee of three members appointed by the President of the ASA and will be notified by September 2014.The award will be announced publicly during the national meeting of the ASA on October 29 to November 1, 2014 in…

Produced in response to Performance Philosophy: The Young, an international postgraduate conference at the university of Groningen 7-8 February 2014.

  Performance Philosophy School of Athens, a two-day symposium of lectures, workshops and performances organized by Stefania Mylona in collaboration with Michael Klien to be held 10.00-21.00 Saturday 15th and 11.00-19.30 Sunday 16th March 2014 at Ε.Δ.Ω. in Keramikos and in association with Performance Philosophy invites artists and scholars interested in the relationships of performance and philosophy to participate. Entrance is free so there will be priority upon arrival for registration. Registration will take place on Saturday 15th March 9.30-10.00. Additionally, please note that lunch will be provided and that the event will be recorded so, by registering you provide permission for…

Dear all, As a collaborator of Bruno Latour’s AIME team and as a member of the PP network, I have posted a contribution about performance philosophy (http://www.modesofexistence.org/inquiry/?lang=en#a=CONTRIB&c[leading]=COM&c[slave]=VOC&i[id]=#cont-11608&i[column]=COM&s=0) on the website of « An Inquiry into Modes of Existence ». The contribution was welcomed with interest, since performance philosophy seems to have some interesting points of connection with AIME: the substitution of a philosophy of experience to a philosophy of abstract thesis; questions about the embodiment of thought; "domains", "institutions", "fields" and the way they can either empower or divide the beings that we value, and so on. Thus, if some of you…

The Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our fourth annual summer session, to be held June 2 - 13, 2014. The School offers faculty and advanced graduate students the opportunity to learn from leading scholars in theater and performance research in an intensive two-week summer program. The topic for the 2014 session will be "Locations of Theater." The word "theater" designates a "place of seeing," and the question of where theater should take place has been a fundamental one throughout the history of this art form. Our investigations will address the architecture and archaeologies of theater, from the invention of the raised stage to…

I'd like to share information about two new films below, in case they are of interest... Transfigured Night: a conversation with Alphonso Lingis Transfigured Night assembles a rich patchwork of fragments taken from a two day dialogue in the philosopher’s house near Baltimore in which Lingis makes dynamic forays into thoughts that have preoccupied him in over forty years as a writer and traveller, drawing on his influences in phenomenology and ethics, and his extensive encounters with many places and cultures. The discussion moves from questions of the face and gaze of others, the sensual experiences of weight and being touched,…