Steven Shaviro
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How and what does catastrophe complete, dissolve, or terminate in terms of philosophical thinking? In this paper I would like to argue that we can approach this question by addressing the Heideggerian call to abandon philosophy for a new... more
The action sequences in Michael Bay’s Transformers series present impossible spaces. Instead of spatially orienting the spectator, these films aim for a maximum of action, a cacophony of movement where space once was. Bay states that he... more
Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal Fluminense para obtenção do título de Mestra em Cinema e Audiovisual. Orientadora: Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco Linha de Pesquisa:... more
Though most neomaterialists share a commitment to the Copernican decentring of humans from the world stage, there is disagreement on the purposes of such an endeavour. The polemic stems from a fundamental discrepancy about what the return... more
The 2014 Mortgage Market Review in the United Kingdom prompted legislation that empowered lenders to scrutinize the personal bank statements of potential borrowers for proof of “consistent behavior of being able to live within their... more
*course design + syllabus* In brief summary, the preparation of a proposed syllabus for examining the textuality of the xenomorph reveals an expansive discourse on the Alien franchise and its key figure. The Alien franchise is... more
In his later works (shortly after he wrote Being and Time in 1927), Heidegger started seing the whole project of philosophy since Plato as an error. Metaphysics, he held, has been rooted in humanism—a major mistake he himself made in his... more
The motion picture Spring Breakers, directed by Harmony Korine, is employed to illustrate a schizoanalysis of identity politics or neoliberal multiculturalism wherein specific subject positions that have become hypostatized, as for... more
This extended essay critically examines cinema in the digital format in relation to its traditional, celluloid-based predecessor. Using seminal texts of the field, such as What is Cinema by Lev Manovich, it analyses the unique aesthetics... more
This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language explores the notion of animatechnics in its two meanings: living technology and animal technology. On the one hand, there is a fiction or utopian component in this notion, on... more
Što je svijest? Što znači osjećati bol ili percipirati crvenu boju? Misle li roboti i računala zaista? Ili biljke i amebe? Ako ikad susretnemo inteligentne izvanzemaljce, hoćemo li ih moći razumjeti? Filozofi i znanstvenici i dalje nisu u... more
Dans le vidéo-clip que Chris Cunningham a réalisé pour la chanson de Bjork « All is full of love » (1999), l’américain Steven Shaviro analyse la façon dont la chanteuse se transforme en cyborg et la façon dont ce fantasme se réplique dans... more
Le collectif Entrepreneurs du commun s'est constitué en réponse au projet de construction d'un Monument aux victimes du communisme à Ottawa sur la colline parlementaire. Nous avons mis sur pied une exposition réunissant différentes... more
Exploration of the new digital paradigm in cinematographic and audiovisual forms, in particular related with dance performances.
The topic is the transcultural meaning of Enlightenment. I bring in a discussion of Object-Oriented Ontology to elucidate some things about Madhyamaka Buddhism, and develop a critique of post-Kantian Enlightenment based on Foucault, but... more
This essay proposes to explore a transcultural meaning of “Enlightenment” through an encounter between Madhyamaka Buddhism and contemporary critiques of Kantianism inspired by Object-Oriented Ontology. The concept of... more
This paper explores the real cause of the 2008 financial crisis, al la Daniel Shaviro and supported by Anat R. Admati.
This project is framed in the recent turn to speculation in philosophy which aims to develop new ontologies that deprivilege the human and human cognition, in turn claiming the capacity of all entities to hold agency in experiential... more
At the basis of this study lies the observation that Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) builds upon the uniquely media-aware formal strategies of an older film, Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafian, 1971), a cult classic of the car-chase... more
n this paper the visual identity of a post-communist estate in Poland and the role of memory and the remembering of the communist past are discussed. Phenomenological concepts derived from Paul Ricoeur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are... more
Lecture on Whitehead's philosophy of organism, contrasted with the eliminative materialism of thinkers like Ray Brassier and with transhumanism.
The purpose of this article is to put some light on Whitehead's notion of "concern". This notion, introduced in his late works, gives a new ethical tonality to his philosophy, but this ethical character of the... more
Interview with Valentina Signorelli for the podcast Podversations.
https://anchor.fm/valentina-signorelli/episodes/Post-Cinema-In-the-Transmedia-Era-elvfst
https://anchor.fm/valentina-signorelli/episodes/Post-Cinema-In-the-Transmedia-Era-elvfst
Ao fío do libro "Groove: An Aesthetics of Measured Time", de Mark Abel, o filósofo Steven Shaviro fai neste artigo unha serie de reflexións sobre a teoría da música especialmente no que se refire ao emprego do ritmo e da medida, á súa... more
Homelessness poses a challenge to urban order that, if it is represented cinematically, can likewise influence the modes of filmic representations of the city. In this essay, I argue that film is a spatial and corporeal form of... more