Alessandro De Cesaris

[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular – Historical and Theoretical Perspectives – New Cycle

Registration: click here. The second cycle of the “Being Singular” seminar begins in February 2025 with new guests. Permanent Zoom link: click here Schedule 27.02.2025 Edward Halper (University of Georgia) 28.02.2025 Brook Ziporyn (University of Chicago) 07.03.2025 Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College) 27.03.2025 Mirjam Schaub (HAW, Hamburg) 28.03.2025 Pauline Sabrier (Université de Fribourg) 04.04.2025 Nastassja … Read more[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular – Historical and Theoretical Perspectives – New Cycle

Writing Atelier – Winter 2024

9.45Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg)Welcome and Introduction 10.00Mariana Larison (Buenos Aires)Potentialités d’une phénoménologie de l’institution 11.00Coffee Break 11.30Vanessa Ossino (Cologne)Zum Potential der Philosophie Merleau-Pontys jenseits dualistischer ParadigmenDiscussant: Patrick Flack 14.00Jason Day (Fribourg)Expansion: An Introduction to Psychedelic ExperiencesDiscussant: Golnar Narimani 15.00Alessandro De Cesaris (Fribourg)Blurred Lines. Confusion as a Moral ConceptDiscussant: Olivier Dorais 16.00Coffee pause 16.15Christian Sternad (Fribourg)On TitanismDiscussant: … Read moreWriting Atelier – Winter 2024

[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Directed by: Gregory Scott Moss (Hong Kong University) Alessandro De Cesaris (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) Introduction A bizarre paradox runs through the history of philosophy. Since the time of Aristotle, philosophy has been defined as the knowledge of the universal, and what is singular is excluded from the domain of what is knowable. At the … Read more[Online Seminar Series] Being Singular: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

[Interview] Pioniergeist: Der erste Ästhetik-Lehrstuhl der Schweiz

Seit der Einrichtung des ersten Universitäts-Lehrstuhls für Ästhetik und Kunstphilosophie im Jahr 2019 hat dieser eine bedeutende Rolle in der schweizerischen akademischen Welt übernommen. Im Interview mit Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Alloa werfen wir einen Blick auf die facettenreiche Welt der Ästhetik, von ihrer historischen Entwicklung bis hin zu ihrer aktuellen Relevanz für Gesellschaft und Kultur. … Read more[Interview] Pioniergeist: Der erste Ästhetik-Lehrstuhl der Schweiz

(Conference) Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien – XII. International Congress of the German Society of Aesthetics

http://www.dgae.de/kongresse/medien-der-kuenste-kuenste-der-medien/ Call for Participation [English below] Die sogenannte ‚Medienkunst‘ gibt es nicht erst, seit technische Medien sich ins Kunstgeschehen einschalten; medienfreie Künste gab es noch nie. Keine Kunst, die sich nicht in bestimmten Medien äußerte, sei es in Bild, Klang, Licht, Raum oder Sprache. Keine Kunst, die nicht auf Marmor und Meißel, Farbe und Leinwand, … Read more(Conference) Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien – XII. International Congress of the German Society of Aesthetics

(Seminar) Colloque des doctorant∙e∙s/Forschungskolloquium/Research Colloquium

Mittwoch/Mercredi/Wednesday – 10:15-12:00 – MIS04 – Room 4120 Research Seminar of the Group «Aesthetics&Critique» – Spring Semester 2024 Programme 28.02. Emmanuel Alloa (Fribourg) Die ästhetische Differenz/La différence esthétique/On the Aesthetic Difference 06.03. Jean-Baptiste Ghins (Louvain/Fribourg) Cybernétique et industries culturelles numériques 13.03. Julia Landkau (Genève) On Creative Imagination 20.03. Federico Luisetti (St. Gallen) Nonhuman Subjects. An … Read more(Seminar) Colloque des doctorant∙e∙s/Forschungskolloquium/Research Colloquium

(Conference) Aesthetics & Critique VII – Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience (Fribourg, 14-16.12.2023)

The philosophical debate concerning virtuality has so far privileged metaphysical issues, asking whether or not virtual spaces and objects should be considered as real or illusory. With this conference, we suggest bracketing such metaphysical questions for a while and focus instead on the relationship between virtuality and experience. In this framework, we would like to … Read more(Conference) Aesthetics & Critique VII – Beyond Reality? Virtuality and Experience (Fribourg, 14-16.12.2023)

Talk: Jason Day, Psychedelic Theory: Attention & Experience

In this episode of YBOS, Zarmeen speaks with PhD candidate Jason Day about his thesis work which looks to understand the phenomenology of the psychedelic experience. Jason theorizes a change in attention as a crucial aspect of the psychedelic experience. In this episode he explains his theory and also introduces a more controversial take on … Read moreTalk: Jason Day, Psychedelic Theory: Attention & Experience

(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle

Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence and colonial oppression, Fanon also presented it as a potentially revolutionary medium of decolonization. The article has … Read more(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle

Publication: M. Foucault, La Question anthropologique (Ed. Arianna Sforzini)

Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? Michel Foucault, au mitan des années 1950, consacre une partie de son enseignement, dispensé à l’université de Lille et à l’École normale supérieure, à comprendre comment cette interrogation a traversé et transformé la philosophie. Ces leçons sont rassemblées dans un manuscrit, dont nous proposons ici l’édition complète.Foucault déroule son parcours en … Read morePublication: M. Foucault, La Question anthropologique (Ed. Arianna Sforzini)