by Nicholas Baer and Maggie Hennefeld There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now, and none of their accusations are true. –Plato, Apology[1] All the rumors are true, yeah / What ya’ heard, that’s true, yeah –Lizzo featuring Cardi B, ‘Rumors’[2] Rumor had it that Socrates was impious […]
Film-Philosophy 2018 will be held at University of Gothenburg (Sweden), from 3 to 5 July. The conference is associated with the journal Film-Philosophy. Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference are Emma Wilson (University of Cambridge), Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (University of California at Davis), Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London), and filmmakers Maja Borg (Sweden) […]
by Thomas E. Wartenberg[1] There has been an ongoing debate among philosophers and film theorists about whether films are capable of doing philosophy. The vast majority of the contributions to this debate have concentrated on narrative fiction films and the extent to which they are capable of producing something recognisable as philosophy.[2] This essay begins […]
by Janet Harbord What does the work of Giorgio Agamben bring to an understanding of cinema? A political philosopher known predominantly for the ongoing project of works that comprise the Homo Sacer series,[1] Agamben also writes about cinema. However, the relationship between the political determination of his work and the essays on cinema is not […]
by James Harvey-Davitt In Film Fables[1] Jacques Rancière contests some deeply-held theoretical stances on a number of canonical auteurs. He claims these auteurs countered the soullessness of their industrial constraints through a shared act of ‘thwarting’: ‘to thwart its servitude, cinema … constructs dramaturgies that thwart its natural powers’.[2] In doing so he confronts attempts […]
The team behind the Film-Philosophy Conference 2014 has announced that the full programme is now available online. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from 2 to 4 July. NECSUS editorial board member Patricia Pisters will deliver a keynote presentation on contemporary art and film. NECSUS book reviews editor Alena Strohmaier will […]
Amsterdam University Press is launching a new book series titled ‘Recursions: Theories of Media, Materiality and Cultural Techniques‘. This series will publish fresh, exciting, and important books in media theory. Topics include media archaeology, media philosophy, cultural techniques, and more. The editors of this series are Jussi Parikka, Anna Tuschling, and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. Proposals for […]
The Film-Philosophy Conference 2014 has issued a call for papers. In 2014 the conference is inviting proposals which engage with the theme ‘A World of Cinemas’. Keynote speakers include Professor Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Professor Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading, UK), NECSUS editorial board member Professor Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), […]
The upcoming Film-Philosophy Conference will be hosted by the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, the Departments of Media Studies and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and the EYE Film Institute Netherlands. With this location, the annual Film-Philosophy Conference will take place for the first time outside of the UK.
The new issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image has been published online. The special focus of this issue is ‘Embodiment and the Body’ and it was edited by Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco. Included in this issue is the article ‘Upside-down cinema: (Dis)simulation of the body in the film experience’ by Adriano […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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