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!…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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: 9^th –11^th October 2014

Deadline for responses: 13th June 2014

Location: American University…

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…

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…

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 both

playful 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 the

immediate topic in the text.…

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

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 15^th and 11.00-19.30 Sunday 16^th 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…

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…