Arkiv for kategorien ‘filosofi’

Funny Games, Rear Window og selvreferentialitet

onsdag, 29. oktober 2008

Blogbestyreren sidder netop nu og arbejder med et oplæg om film og filosofi, som han skal præsentere på fredagens symposium om samme emne. I den forbindelse har han viklet sig ind i en diskussion omkring tilskuerens moralske medansvar for de begivenheder han eller hun er tilskuer til, og den måde hvorpå denne problematik tematiseres i Hanekes Funny Games og Hitchcocks Rear Window. Hvilket ledte til en diskussion af disse to films ”performative selvreferentialitet”. Et citat kan (måske) forklare hvad jeg mener med det. 

Både Funny Games og Rear Window etablerer og problematiserer således aktivt præcis det forhold mellem tilskuer og begivenhed, som begge film samtidigt konstant kredser om og forholder sig til. Det filmene gør i kraft af at være film (nemlig at være noget som man kan være tilskuer til), er en integreret del af det, som filmen er om (nemlig forholdet mellem tilskuer og begivenhed). Tilskuerne inddrages i (er for så vidt altid allerede en del af) denne problemstilling, blot ved at sidde og se filmene. Og netop derved involveres tilskuerne aktivt i filmene; de bliver en del af den historie de er tilskuere til, og igennem denne indlevelse i filmene forstærkes og underbygges den overordnede tematik.”

Det lyder jo sådan set meget godt – men giver det mening? Og hvad der er mindst lige så  væsentligt: Er det sandt?

Der tænkes i styrhuset.

Cycling and Philosophy

tirsdag, 28. oktober 2008

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CYCLING & PHILOSOPHY

Jesús Ilundáin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Linfield College
jilunda@linfield.edu
Mike Austin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Kentucky University
mike.austin@eku.edu

Abstracts are sought for a new title in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general editorship of Fritz Allhoff. Cycling & Philosophy will integrate the insights of philosophers, interdisciplinary academics such as sociologists and psychologists, and cycling insiders. The abstracts and resulting selected papers should be written for an educated, but non-specialized, audience who love the sport. For examples of this type of work, see Running & Philosophy, Beer & Philosophy, Wine & Philosophy, and/or Food & Philosophy.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to: cycling and the meaning of life, existentialism on the bike, the phenomenology of cycling and the varieties of cycling experience, the ethics of doping, the beauty of the sport, the bike as a work of art, environmentalism and cycling, cycling and rails to trails, elitism and cycling aesthetics, individual virtues and vices as they relate to cycling, the role of tradition in cycling and in life, the politics of the professional cycling world, arguments for or against a union for professional cyclists, issues related to race and gender in the sport, the ethics of peloton cooperation, how technology has changed the sport, philosophical tour of bicycling in film (Breaking Away, American Flyers, The Triplettes of Belleville, The Flying Scotsman, and others), Zen and bicycling, karma and the bike, the bike as an instrument of charity, fixed gear riding, mountain biking, emergence of BMX as an Olympic sport, philosophical discussions of individual cyclists (e.g., Lance, Merckx, Indurain, Major Taylor, LeMond, etc.), the world of touring, cycling fanatics, the state of nature among cyclists and automobile drivers, and the pros and cons of the Critical Mass movement.

Guidelines for Abstracts and Contributions:
- Abstract of paper (approximately 200 words) due by: Dec 15, 2008
- Accepted authors will receive notification by Jan 10, 2009
- The submission deadline for accepted papers will be August 31 2009
- Final papers must be between 4000-5000 words and be aimed at a general, educated audience.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically to mike.austin@eku.edu and jilunda@linfield.edu

Other proposals for series titles are also welcome; please direct those to Fritz Allhoff at fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu.

Kantianske Gerninger

mandag, 27. oktober 2008

I disse dage minder bloggen vist mest om et filosofisk informationskontor, hvor konferencenotitser, call for papers og andet nyt fra den filosofiske markedsplads annonceres og faldbydes. Men når nu der ER så forbandet mange interessante arrangementer derude, så ville det da være synd ikke at oplyse verden om dem.

Hvilket blot var en floromvunden introduktion til endnu en annoncering :-)

Kære alle,

Nu på onsdag den 29. oktober afholder Filosofisk Forening sit næste arrangement, nemlig et foredrag ved Henrik Jøker Bjerre i anledning af hans nyligt erhvervede ph.d. grad, se nedenfor. Vanlig vis er der efter foredraget spørgsmål og debat, og i pausen vil der kunne købes forfriskninger. Vel mødt!

Mvh.
Filosofisk Forening

Henrik Jøker Bjerre:
KANTIANSKE GERNINGER

Foredraget vil fremlægge nogle af hovedtankerne i min Ph.d.-afhandling, der blev forsvaret ved Aarhus Universitet den 13.8. Afhandlingen er et forsøg på en ny læsning af Immanuel Kants moralfilosofi, der forener to ofte adskilte aspekter af moraliteten: På den ene side er moralitet kun mulig på grund af den moralske aktørs placering i en meningssammenhæng (kultur, sprog), hvilket især den såkaldte analytiske filosofi har fremhævet. Afhandlingen kalder dette aspekt for den “normale moralitet”. På den anden side er der visse handlinger, der netop er moralske fordi de bryder med det, der betragtes som moralsk i et givent samfund; en tolkning der især er blevet reaktualiseret af nyere psykoanalytisk inspireret forskning. Afhandlingen søger på denne baggrund at definere et begreb om en “kantiansk gerning” som en handling, der sætter sig udover den normale moralitet, men omvendt kun kan gøre dette på baggrund af den normale moralitet.

Henrik Jøker Bjerre er cand.mag. og ph.d. i filosofi, videnskabelig assistent ved Insitut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, samt medforfatter til bogen Slavoj Zizek (Roskilde Universitetsforlag 2008).

Onsdag den 29. oktober kl. 19.00
Richard Mortensen stuen, Studenternes Hus
Entré: 25,- Medlemmer gratis. Årsmedlemsskab: 100.

Fra blogbestyreren skal der lyde et helhjertet DUK OP FOR HELVEDE!

Filosofi og populærkultur

mandag, 27. oktober 2008

FILOSOFI OG POPULÆRKULTUR

4. årlige konference

Fredag d. 7. november, kl. 10.00-18.00
SDU Odense, Auditorium 100, – lige ved hovedindgangen

PROGRAM:
10.00-10.10: Introduktion v/Cynthia M. Grund
10.10-10.50: Landskabsæstetik og computerspil v/ Bjarke Liboriussen
11.00-11.40: Filosofi fra den virkelige verden i – og om – den virtuelle verden v/ Cynthia M. Grund og Jesper Pilegaard
11.50-12.30: Filosofisk spildesign v/Lars Konzack
13.30-14.10: Filosofi og underholdning – udkast til et forskningsprogram v/ Carsten Fogh Nielsen
14.20-15.00: “Har din kæreste nogensinde stemt dig ud af soveværelset?” – reality-tv og etik v/ Kean A. Bruhn og Line S. Kristoffersen
15.10-15.50: Intertekstualitet mellem myte, fortælling og animationsfilm: Fra det hellige til det filosofisk-litterære; fra det filosofisk-litterære  til det populær-højkulturelle v/Claudio Cifuentes-Aldunate
16.10-16.50: Italiensk genrefilm – et spejl af Hollywood v/ Mikkel Leffers Svendstrup
17.00-17.40: Litterær darwinisme – et problematisk paradigme v/Søren Mortensen

Se det fulde program (med abtracts) her.

Film og filosofi

mandag, 27. oktober 2008

Endagssymposium om FILM & FILOSOFI

Arrangeret af Filosofisk Studenter Kollokvium (FSK)
i samarbejde med
Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet.

Fredag d. 31/10, kl. 10-15.45
Mødelokale 2, Studenternes hus, Aarhus Universitet

I krydsfeltet mellem film og filosofi trives mangt en kulturel bastard, herunder Wachowski-brødrene med deres Matrix-trilogi og Richard Linklater med sin Waking Life. Men også en radikal intellektuel som den slovenske Slavoj Žižek, der med sin A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema stadfæstede psykoanalytisk (Lacaniansk) filmteori, har draget nytte af mediets brede appel.

Med dette endagssymposium sigtes der således til oplæg omhandlende forskellige former for eksponering af filosofisk tankegods, både den af filmskaberen intenderede art og filosoffens anvendelse af filmmediet til illustration af ellers vanskeligt tilgængelige stofområder.

PROGRAM:
10.15-11.00: Carsten Fogh Nielsen: How to do Things with Movies
11.15-12.00: Danny Kreuztfeldt: Mod posthumanistisk filmanalyse
Pause
12.45-13.30: Niels Kern Bertelsen: Toy Story – en eksistentiel dannelsesrejse
13.45-14.30: Matthias Elmose Andersen: Filmens ontometaforik
Pause
15.00-15.45: Søren Graae Rasmussen: Autonom lyd i Jean Luc Godards videoværk Histoire(s) du Cinema

Se plakaten her og det fulde program (med abstracts) her.

Pornography and Philosophy

torsdag, 23. oktober 2008

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

PORNOGRAPHY & PHILOSOPHY

Dave Monroe (ed.)
Applied Ethics Institute, Saint Petersburg College

We seek abstracts for a new title in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general editorship of Fritz Allhoff.  As with previous titles now subsumed under the series-Wine & Philosophy, Beer & Philosophy, Food & Philosophy, and Running & Philosophy-Pornography & Philosophy will integrate the insights of philosophers, interdisciplinary academics such as sociologists and psychologists, and industry insiders.  The abstracts and resulting selected papers should be written for an educated, but non-specialized, audience.

According to a website monitoring internet usage, pornography generated worldwide revenues of $97.6 billion in 2006; there is little doubt that the porn industry captures a substantial portion of global disposable income.  A significant number of people, of both genders, are porn-users.  Yet discussions of this industry and its attendant issues seem largely to be limited to academic or business contexts, or to locker rooms and bedchambers.  In other words, the ubiquity of the subject appears to outrun the scope of the discourse.  This anthology seeks to broaden the conversation about pornography, both by expanding the range of questions about porn that academics might address and by opening the conversation to those who are most familiar with it-the creators and users of porn.

There is a standing corpus concerning pornography in feminist, aesthetic, ethical and socio-political dialogues, and we welcome essays that continue and contribute to the discussions present in that corpus.  We seek coverage of all topics therein which include, but are not limited to:  exploitation, objectification, sexual safety, and freedom of speech.  We also want to explore less traditional topics, such as internet pornography, fetishes, the celebrity of porn stars/celebrity sex tapes, pornography in the popular media, the ethics of sexual gratification, the effects of pornography on relationships, pornography and evolutionary psychology, and so on.  Since this volume should be both entertaining and scholarly, we are especially delighted to receive proposals for papers that are provocative, racy, or downright irreverent and naughty!  Here are some essay titles that may stimulate your imagination or analytic thought:

“Nikki’s Not Naked!: The Pornographic Status of Non-Nude Modeling”
“Boys, Ball Gags and Humiliation: Femdom Porn as a Means of Empowerment”
“Holy Smokes: The Role of Drugs in Adult Entertainment”
“Size DOES Matter: Porn Actors and Cartoonish Bodily Proportions”
“Porn as Sexual Education-I’m Hot for Teacher!”
“That’s Disgusting!: The Role of Obscenity in Pornography Laws”
“Why not call it the Pornternet?: On the Supposed Dominance of Porn on the Internet”
“Watching Others F!&k as an Aid in Marital Intimacy”
“Paris, Pam, and the Girls Next Door: Pornography and Mainstream Media”
“I’m Wired This Way, or Why Evolutionary Psychology Explains the Male Porn Fixation”
 
We encourage you to be as creative as possible with your topic and strive to make your abstract and essay as lively, yet enlightening, as possible.  Please attend to the following guidelines:

Guidelines for Contributions:
-Abstract of paper (approximately 250 words) due by: Dec 1, 2008
-Accepted authors will receive notification by: Dec 15, 2008
-The submission deadline for accepted papers will be Summer 2009
-Final papers must be between 4000-5000 words and be aimed at a general, educated audience.
-Abstracts should be submitted electronically to:
PornographyandPhilosophy@gmail.com
 
Please contact Dave at the above email address if you have any questions about the book.  Other proposals for series titles are also welcome; please direct those to Fritz Allhoff at fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu.

Dave Monroe
St. Petersburg College
Applied Ethics Institute
P.O. Box 13489
St. Petersburg, FL 33733-3489
Ph: (940)736-0663
Email: davil324@yahoo.com
monroe.david@spcollege.edu

Syret

onsdag, 22. oktober 2008

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

CANNABIS & PHILOSOPHY: WHAT WERE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT?

Dale Jacquette (ed.)
Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy
University of Bern, Switzerland

Abstracts with titles are solicited for a new volume in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophy for Everyone, under the general series editorship of Fritz Allhoff. Like previous volumes in the successful ancestral Epicurean Philosophy series-including Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking, Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking, and Food & Philosophy: Eat, Think, and Be Merry-Cannabis and Philosophy will focus on philosophical, social, and economic aspects of a popular albeit illegal indulgence.

There are countless philosophically interesting issues related to cannabis use. Suggestions for topics include but are by no means limited to: cannabis gourmandise; phenomenology and epistemology of cannabis intoxication; distinction between substance use and substance abuse; morality of illegal substance ingestion; civil disobedience and cannabis use; medicinal marijuana and the morality of legal sanctions against medically prescribed usage; related health aspects of cannabis; definitions of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ drugs; whether cannabis is a gateway substance to harder substances; cannabis-influenced aesthetics in art and music; political aspects of cannabis legalization and decriminalization movements; medical and psychological effects of cannabis use, short- and long-term; social implications of cannabis prohibition; relativism and cannabis-induced alterations of perception; memory and cannabis use; impact of cannabis on popular culture; cannabis and nineteenth century literature; globalism and worldwide cannabis cultivation practices; cannabis tourism; legal and social dimensions of home cultivation; cannabis and philosophical insight; cannabis and the critical outlook in philosophy; enhancement of pleasures using recreational drugs.

Contributors to the volume will include philosophers, academics outside of philosophy in fields related to the volume’s themes, and knowledgeable experts in the industry and production of cannabis and paraphernalia. There is no presumption that by writing for this volume a contributor implies either personal cannabis ingestion or an endorsement of cannabis use by others. The volume introduction will contain explicit disclaimers to this effect, and individual contributors are welcome if they choose also to emphasize this fact in their own specific cases. Critics of cannabis are especially invited to contribute. We will be treating an important theme in an academic fashion like any other of social importance, although we expect the collection also to feature a certain amount of fun and mature good humor about marijuana use; contributors are accordingly encouraged if they choose to relate personal anecdotes and impressions if any of their own or acquaintances’ experience with cannabis.

Guidelines for Contributions:
-Abstract of paper (approx. 250 words) submission deadline: December 1, 2008
-Acceptances will be issued December 15, 2008
-Submission deadline for completed papers will be in the Summer 2009
-Final papers should be approximately 4000-5000 words
-Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to dale.jacquette@philo.unibe.ch.

 Please contact Prof. Jacquette at the above email address if you have any questions about the book. Other proposals for series titles are also welcome; please direct those to Fritz Allhoff at fritz.allhoff@wmich.edu.

Filosofi og populærkultur konference

onsdag, 8. oktober 2008

I forlængelse af det foregående indlæg, så er programmet for den fjerde årlige konference om Filosofi og Populærkultur netop blevet offentliggjort. Som sædvanligt finder arrangementet sted på SDU-Odense, Auditorium 100, fredag den 7. november, 2008,  kl. 10.00-18.00. Der vil bl.a. blive givet oplæg om Borges, underholdning, litterær darwinisme, spil-design, reality-tv og virtual reality.

Klik her for at se det fulde program som pdf-fil.

 Og klik her for at se plakaten (ligeledes som pdf).

Philosophy meets Popular Culture

onsdag, 8. oktober 2008

Så er det sgu’ lykkedes at få en hjemmeside og en blog om filosofi og populærkultur op at stå. Klik straks her, bogmærk www.philpopculture.dk og sørg for at få The Philosophy meets Popular Culture Initiative anbragt på din blogroll.

Nu.

NU blev der sagt!

Gode nyheder

torsdag, 2. oktober 2008

I dag

  1. skinner solen. 
  2. har jeg underskrevet og sendt min jobplan, så jeg kan blive (deltids-)aktiveret i Idealismekredsen med at gøre alt det jeg i virkeligheden allerede foretager mig.
  3. har min lillebror afleveret sit speciale.
  4. er jeg blevet tilbudt og har accepteret en 2-årig post.doc.-stilling på Center for Subjektivitetsforskning.

Alt i alt en meget god dag :-)