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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…

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…