Participating

Adam Wallenberg

Philosophical practitioner, art educator and artist. Adam works with existential phenomenology by philosophizing with art (PwA) together with children and teenagers at Moderna Museet. Adam is Vice-president of the Swedish society for philosophical practice (SSFP) and board member in the Swedish society for existential psychotherapy (SEPT).

Adam will do two sessions of PwA (philosophizing with art) together with children in the Marie-Louise Ekman exhibition during the philosophy night.

Alenka Ambroz: On nature and artifice in human behaviour: a Carribean perspective

Alenka Ambroz did her studies in philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and holds a Masters degree in applied ethics at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is currently enrolled in the first year of Ph.D. at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), working on questions related to the ethics of translation.

Alexander Bard: Libido versus Mortido – the Freudian Culture versus Nature in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Alexander Bard is a Swedish cyberphilosopher, internet visionary, author, songwriter, TV personality and religious and political activist.

Anders Bartonek: Adorno’s Concept of Second Nature

Lecturer in Philosophy at Södertörn University. His research has dealt with the idea of utopia in Theodor W. Adorno (Philosophie im Konjunktiv: Nichtidentität als Ort der Möglichkeit des Utopischen in der negativen Dialektik Theodor W. Adornos, 2010), the legacy of Hegel in modern philosophy (Att läsa Hegel, 2012, with Anders Burman) and, currently, the idea of labor from Hegel and Marx to the present.

Angelica Stathopoulos: The passivity of being human

Ph.D. student at The New School for Social Research, New York. Her research concerns the notion of passivity considered as a way-of-being, in relation to Ancient Greek thought and language and continental thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger.

Anna Ådahl: Default Character (film). Politics of crowd simulations

An artist who´s work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally, Ådahl and is a member of the editorial board of OEI. Currently a PhD student at the Fine Art department at the Royal College of Art in London, her thesis is entitled: Inside the New Mass Ornament: the Aesthetics and Politics of System-Operated Crowds.

Anna Enström: Kant’s Gemüt – sensing sensibility

Anna Enström is a Ph.D. student in Aesthetics at Södertörn University, writing a thesis on Kant’s concepts Gemüt and Stimmung in the Critique of Judgement with the title Sinnets sinnlighet.

Benoit de l’Estoile: Over-exposition ? About ‘augmented reality’ in the museum

Benoit de l’Estoile is a researcher specialized in the anthropology of politics and knowledge. He is currently a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research. His current research works relate to the anthropology of colonialism and the anthropology of museums.

Björn Wurmbach: AI47 – Artistic Intelligence 2047

Algorithms and robots will take away the necessity of traditional work. Combined with pro-longed life spams the question arises, whether time will be spent on using to create godlike creations or we turn into consumer zombies. Björn Wurmbach is a former venture capitalist who founded a participatory micro-nation before joining Goethe-Institut Schweden. Interested in interdisciplinary trends he is currently testing new formats for the future of culture.

Cara Tolmie: Objects of Feminism

Performance artist whose works probe the site-specific conditions of performance-making by finding ways to vocalise and place her body that access the political and poetic capabilities of physical, written and musical languages. She regularly collaborates with Paul Abbott, Kimberley O’Neill, France-Lise McGurn, and Patrick Staff, and is part of the editorial collective for Cesura//Acesso, a journal for music, poetics and experimental politics.

Catherine Larrère: Julie’s garden in La Nouvelle Héloïse: an art of the natural

Catherine Larrère is Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Université Paris Sorbonne. She is one of the main specialists of environmental philosophy in France and has published numerous books on that topic.

Cecilia Sjöholm: Rites of life/rights of the dead?

Cecilia Sjöholm is Professor of Aesthetics at Södertörn University. Research interests include psychoanalytic theory, political philosophy, and literature. Recent publications: Doing Aesthetics with Arendt: How To See Things (2015), Aisthesis: Estetikens historia 1 (2012, with Sara Danius and Sven-Olov Wallenstein), and Kristeva and the Political (2005).

Céline Spector: Can Artificial Intelligence bring more justice?

Céline Spector is a Professor at the Université Paris Sorbonne. Her research includes work in modern and contemporary political theory, and history of philosophy (especially the French Enlightenment, Montesquieu, Rousseau and their legacy, from Tocqueville to contemporary political theory, Rawls, Habermas and Foucault).

Charlotta Weigelt: The Ambiguous Role of Art in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Nature

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, specializes in ancient philosophy. Publications: The Logic of Life: Heidegger’s Retrieval of Aristotle’s Concept of Logos (2012). Her translation of Aristotle’s Physics is forthcoming in spring 2017.

Daniel Birnbaum + Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Immaterials and Art

Daniel Birnbaum is Director of Modern Museet. He was the co-curator of the 2003 Venice Biennale as well as the director of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Publications include As a Weasel Sucks Eggs: An Essay on Melancholy and Vannibalism (2008, with Anders Olsson) and the Hospitality of Presence (2008). His most recent book is Spacing Philosophy: Jean-François Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition (2017, with Sven-Olov Wallenstein).

Sven-Olov Wallenstein is Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University. His main research topics are aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Recent book publications include Spacing Philosophy: Jean-François Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition (2017, with Daniel Birnbaum), Architecture, Critique, Ideology: Writings on Architecture and Theory (2016), and Madness, Religion, and the Limits of Reason (2015, co-ed. with Jonna Bornemark).

David Payne: The Violation of Reason: Hegel and the Dialectic of Matter

Currently teaching at Södertörn University, Payne completed his doctoral thesis in 2012 at the University of Essex in Political Philosophy, entitled A Critique of Post-Emancipatory Reason: Philosophical Visibility, Political Possibility and the Question of Novelty. His research interests include: the role of universal and emancipatory ideas in politics, the history of Marxism, Post-Marxism, contemporary french thought and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

Denis Bonnay: Explaning Conventions: a case study on the little black dress

Denis Bonnay is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. He specializes in logic, philosophy of science and social epistemology. He is particularly interested in the question of social conventions.

Denis Vidal: The Robot as a Mask

Denis Vidal is an anthropologist specialized in Indian studies. He is a professor and researcher in several institutions such as the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris), the Musée du Quai Branly (Paris) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London). His current research works relate to the anthropology of tools and technology.

Elif Özmen: Enhancing human beings. Anthropological fictions and ethical risks

Elif Özmen (1974) is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Gießen. Her main interests are moral philosophy, political and social philosophy and applied ethics.

Eric Brandstedt: Is it too late to save the Planet?

Eric Brandstedt is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy at London School of Economics and Lund University working on a project about the relevance of ethics to effective climate politics. Fields of interests: climate ethics, political philosophy, methodological questions in normative theorising, intergenerational justice.

Etienne Bimbenet: Enhancement : what are the normative resources of the human body?

Etienne Bimbenet teaches contemporary philosophy and phenomenology at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. His main research interests are about our animal origins and the possibility of a phenomenology-based anthropology.

Francis Wolff: Why do we need an art of sounds?

Francis Wolff is currently Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His past research has been on Ancient Philosophy. His work is now focused on contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics. In 2015 he published a book on music and the arts in general: Pourquoi la musique? (Fayard, 2015).

Frédéric Worms: Nature and technology in critical vitalism

Frédéric Worms is a professor of contemporary Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he is also the director of the International Center for the study of French contemporary philosophy. He published several books about contemporary questions such as the care and the experience of illness. His last book is called Les Maladies chroniques de la démocratie (“The chronical diseases of democracy”, Desclée de Brouwer éditions, 2017).

Fredrik Svenaeus: What Kind of Creature is ADHD? Personalities and Pathologies in the Neuropsychiatric Era

Professor at the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University. His main research areas are philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical humanities, and philosophical anthropology. He has published a large number of articles and books on various subjects within these fields, most often from a phenomenological point of view.

Hedda Viå and Mani Shutzberg: Prosthesis, metaphor and the obsolete body

Hedda Viå, physiotherapist, artist, editor of the anthology Prosthesis, Metaphor and the Obsolete Body (2017). Mani Shutzberg, physician at Södersjukhuset and Ph.D. student in the Theory of Practical Knowledge at Södertörn University, writing his dissertation on collective action within the medical professions.

Helena Mattsson: The recessed surface: Thinking nature through architecture

Architect, researcher and Associate Professor in History and Theory of Architecture at KTH School of Architecture. Publications include Arkitektur och konsumtion: Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik (2004), and Swedish Modernism: Architecture, Consumption and the Welfare State (2010, with Sven-Olov Wallenstein).

Henrik Håkansson: Film Birdconcert Oct 23, 2005 (Cardeluelis carduelis) Part 1

Henrik Håkansson is a naturalist who has repositioned his fascination with nature into the art world. Focusing on the smallest animals and insects, he often presents them on grand scale through sound, light, and video installations. Håkansson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions all over the world.

Herman Geijer: Zombies on the Rise

Herman Geijer is a zombie survival expert with an interest in questions regarding zombies, survival and the sociology of disasters. He has published Zombieöverlevnad: din guide till apokalypsen, hosted Sommar i P1 and is currently writing a book entitled Strategier för överlevnad which describes what we can do in order to be better prepared in the face of catastrophies.

Imri Sandström: Som is bryter / As Ice Diffracts

(In English and Swedish)

Artist and researcher, she is currently conducting her doctoral research within the field of literary composition, at Valand Academy, Gothenburg University.

Jakob Lien: Sjungande satelliter och talande fåglar

(In Swedish)

Ph.D. student at the Department of Culture and Communication at Linköping University, a member of the research project RepRecDigit and one of the co-founders of the Nordic interdisciplinary network Sensorium. His research interests include media archaeology and perspectives on digital technology and literature.

Jakob Nilsson: Fire, Water, Etc. Nature in recent Steyerl and Akomfrah

Researcher and assistant professor in Film and Media Studies, Örebro University. Research topics include the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Film-Philosphy, artistic treatments of globalization. His publications include The Untimely-Image: On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking (2012), and Foucault, Biopolitics, and Governmentality (2013, with Sven-Olov Wallenstein).

Jean-Loup Bonnamy: How can human beings adapt to anything through artefacts?

Jean-Loup Bonnamy is a French teacher of philosophy. Graduated from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), he teaches General philosophy and History of philosophy.

Jean-Claude Monod: Technology, before and after humanity: from Kubrick to Blumenberg

Jean-Claude Monod is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He also teaches philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences Po in Paris. His main research interests are in political philosophy and French and German thoughts from the 20th century.

Johan Härnsten: “A Cosmos of Similarity” – Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Mimesis

Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at the Department of Philosophy of Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. He is currently writing his thesis on Walter Benjamin’s theory of expression. He has studied both in Paris and Stockholm.

Johan Sehlberg + Anna-Karin Selberg: Philip K. Dick: Pink Laser beams, blade running and post-apocalyptic envy

Johan Sehlberg is a PhD-student in Philosophy at Södertörn University, writing a thesis on the experience of thought in Gilles Deleuze’s early philosophy and its relation to modernist literature. He is also a translator and a musician.

Anna-Karin Selberg is currently finishing her doctoral thesis at Södertörn University, Stockholm. Her thesis, The Politics of Truth, investigates ethos and its relation to polis in Heidegger’s thought.

Jonas (J) Magnusson, Cecilia Grönberg and Johan Redin: The Concept of Nature – On and from OEI # 75–76

Jonas (J) Magnusson, writer, translator and editor-in-chief of OEI magazine and OEI editör. Fields of interests are editorial aesthetics, stratigraphy, montage, earth art and geo criticism.

Cecilia Grönberg, artist, researcher and image editor of OEI magazine and OEI editör. Fields of interests are image editorial aesthetics, montage, image technologies and cephalopods.

Johan Redin, cultural geologist, philosopher and member of the editorial board of OEI. Fields of interests are minerals, cavities, art and time.

Jonna Bornemark: Giordano Brunos’ Magical Concept of Nature and the Role of the Magician

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, specializes in phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and human-animal studies. Publications: Kroppslighetens mystik: Filosofiska läsningar av Mechthild von Magdeburg (2015); Phenomenology of Pregnancy (ed. with Nicholas Smith, 2016), and Madness, Religion, and the Limits of Reason (co-ed. with Sven-Olov Wallenstein, 2015).

Josefine Wikström: Objects of Feminism

Lecturer in Art Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts, visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths, associate editor of Philosophy of Photography and art critic. Wikström currently completed her Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Research interests: questions of labour, value and the object in contemporary art and the intersection between cultural theory and post-Kantian critical philosophy.

Katarina MacLeod: Conversations between Body, Tree, and Camera in the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Lecturer in Art History at Södertörn University. Her current project, The Domestic Paradox: A comparative study of representations of home and family life in art cutting through an east west divide, focuses on the theme of domestic environments in 1960s and 70s art. The starting point is the Swedish art scene and the aim is to see how domesticity is a theme of its time, but also its heterogeneous meanings in different bodies of work.

Lovisa Andén: Nedskrivandet av det sinnliga hos Merleau-Ponty och Proust

(In Swedish)

Ph.D. student at Uppsala University/Södertörn University. Examines the understanding of literature in Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished manuscripts and explores the readings of Proust, Valéry and Stendhal.

Lucie Fabry: Contemporary Science as the Knowledge of Artificial Reality

Lucie Fabry is a graduate student and teaching assistant at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris. Her research focuses on contemporary French philosophy and the philosophy of science.

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback: Techniques of the Between, Or, The Art of Nature

Professor of philosophy at Södertörn University. Main fields of research are German idealism, hermeneutical phenomenology, ancient philosophy, and contemporary philosophy with special focus on the relation of philosophy, poetry, and the arts, especially music. Recent publications include: Att tänka i skisser. Essäer om bildens filosofi & filosofins bilder (2011), Dis-orientations: Philosophy, Literature and the Lost Grounds of Modernity (2015, with Tora Lane), The End of the World (2017, ed. with Susanna Lindberg).

Marion Waller: Can natural artefacts exist?

Marion Waller is a philosopher trained at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She has published a book called Artefacts naturels (Natural artefacts, Editions de l’Eclat, 2016) and is interested both in environmental philosophy and urban studies. She works as an advisor to the Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of urban planning and architecture.

Martin Benson: Zoon Logon Echon: A living body having speech

Ph.D. student and Fulbright fellow at Stony Brook University, USA. Research interests include ancient and early modern philosophy, conceptions of language in philosophy, social and political philosophy, and aesthetics.

Michele Masucci: Negation as Biological Resistance

MFA, Ph.D. candidate at Karolinska Institutet and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His research concerns the political economy of Genomic Medicine with its consequences to philosophical conceptions of the materiality of life, agency, value and aesthetics. Fields of interest are History of Science, Biopolitics, Aesthetic Theory.

Moritz Gansen: Radical empiricism

Working as an editor and translator, Gansen is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Technische Universität Darmstadt, investigating receptions and transformations of Anglo-American pragmatism and empiricism in French twentieth-century philosophy. Research interests include aesthetics and politics, philosophies of life, and the histories of recent European philosophy.

Olle Strandberg: Landing on a cloud – Constructing circus out of thin air

Olle Strandberg has established himself as one of the most prominent directors of contemporary circus in Sweden. Since 2011, he has directed shows for Cirkus Cirkör and been in charge of the artistic researsh platform Cirkör LAB. The internationally recognised shows Undermän and Underart have been performed over 500 times for a world-wide audience. The première of his new show, Under, will take place in September 2017. In parallel with his work as director, Olle explores the possibilities of creating and enabeling areal circus…at a height of several thousand meters.

Peter Gärdenfors: Thinking with things

Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University. His main research topics include philosophy of language, the application of semantics in robotics, and the evolution of mind and language. Recent publications: Den svåra konsten att se sig själv (2017), Geometry of Meaning (2014), Lusten att förstå (2010).

Pierre Cassou-Noguès: Strange Times on the Sea-Side

Pierre Cassou-Noguès is professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 8. His research concerns the relation between reason and imagination, through the study of French philosophy, history of logic and new technologies.

Pierre Charbonnier: Provincializing Ecology: the many natures of the climate regime

Pierre Charbonnier is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His work focuses on the relations between social sciences and environmental studies, from both a political and epistemological approach.

Ramona Rat: The Un-common Sense of the Common

Ph.D. in Philosophy from Södertörn University, Sweden, in 2016, with the thesis Un-Common Sociality. Thinking sociality with Levinas. She is currently lecturer at Södertörn University.

Rikard Johansson: Natural artifice: Hegel’s speculative identity of opposites

Johansson studied Philosophy in Stockholm, Paris and Berlin, is currently writing on methodological and systematic ’homologies’ in Hegel and Bergson and is a translator of Hegel, Bergson and Deleuze. Interests: epistemology, speculative logic.

Sophie Roux: Between Natural and Artificial Languages: International Auxiliary Languages at the beginning of the 20th century

Sophie Roux is Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She studied philosophy in Paris (ENS; agrégation de philosophie) and took her Ph.D from the EHESS (1996). Since then, she was appointed at MPIWG (Berlin), at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris) and at the University of Grenoble. She works in history and philosophy of science, with an emphasis on various aspects of natural philosophy in the Early Modern period.

Thierry Hoquet: From Icarus to Robocop: can technology be natural?

Thierry Hoquet is a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Nanterre. His research encompasses many different aspects of life sciences since the 18th century, including their relationship to science-fiction. He has published several books about topics such as cyborgs and gender equality.

Thordis Arrhenius: The Return of the New; Modern Architecture, Nature and Decay

Professor of Cultural Heritage, Department of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University. Her research interests concern the exhibition of architecture in mass culture, the relation between architecture and the museum, and the curatorial aspects of preservation. Book publications include: Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (2014) and The Fragile Monument: On Conservation and Modernity (2012).

Trond Lundemo: Montage as transubstantiation in Godard: Jean-Luc Godard on Cinema and Thinking

Film theorist at Stockholm University. His research is focused on issues of technology, time and media constellations in a historical and contemporary perspective. Book publications include Historiens hemvist:  Minne, medier och materialitet (2016, with Johan Hegardt), Konst och film, 2 vols. (2004–2005), Jean Epstein: The Intelligence of a Machine (2001).

Walter Frankenstein: Frankensteins föreläsning: Är jag mindre mänsklig än du?

Born in 1924 Walter Frankenstein fled from the Nazis and lived in Germany’s underground until he and his wife emigrated first to Palestine and finally to Sweden. Now he tells german pupils about his experiences and tries to create a sensibility for the subject.