'DANCING' - MARCH 2009
10 & 11 MARCH: SESSION WITH IRIS VAN DER TUIN AND RICK DOLPHIJN
Gender and media scholars Iris van der Tuin and Rik Dolpijn discussed the text 'How can you tell the dancer from the dance?' by Prof. Claire Colebrook with the DAI students. Colebrook is an influential 'Deleuzean' feminist. Students were asked to discuss their work from the Deleuzean feminist frame and hence to put it in a new context.
Gender and media scholars Iris van der Tuin and Rik Dolpijn discussed the text 'How can you tell the dancer from the dance?' by Prof. Claire Colebrook with the DAI students. Colebrook is an influential 'Deleuzean' feminist. Students were asked to discuss their work from the Deleuzean feminist frame and hence to put it in a new context.
Professor Claire Colebrook, still from Manchester Metropolitan University
Claire Claire Colebrook holds a first degree in philosophy from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Letters from Australian National University and a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. She was Professor of Modern Literary Theory at the University of Edinburgh from 2000-2008. She has published articles on contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory, literary theory, contemporary music, dance, visual culture and political theory.
Her books include new Literary Histories (Manchester UP 1997), Ethics and Representation (Edinburgh UP 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge 2002), Understanding Deleuze (Allen and Unwin 2003), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska 2002), Irony: The New Critical Idiom (Routledge 2003), Gender (Palgrave 2004), Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2006) and Milton, Evil and Literary History (Continuum 2008). She is currently completing two book-length studies, one on vitalism and another on William Blake and aesthetics.
Her books include new Literary Histories (Manchester UP 1997), Ethics and Representation (Edinburgh UP 1999), Gilles Deleuze (Routledge 2002), Understanding Deleuze (Allen and Unwin 2003), Irony in the Work of Philosophy (Nebraska 2002), Irony: The New Critical Idiom (Routledge 2003), Gender (Palgrave 2004), Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2006) and Milton, Evil and Literary History (Continuum 2008). She is currently completing two book-length studies, one on vitalism and another on William Blake and aesthetics.
Dr. Rick Dolphijn is assistant professor in Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He was educated in cultural studies and philosophy and wrote his dissertation Foodscapes (2004) on material culture from a Deleuzian perspective. It was published by Eburon (distributed by the University of Chicago Press). He has published on architecture, philosophy (mainly Deleuze and Foucault), the human body, and cultural theory at large in journals like Angelaki and Gastronomica. He is now finishing a manuscript entitled I must have a body: matter, spirit, art. He lectures on cultural theory, communication theory and the philosophy of science.
Dr. Iris van der Tuin is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. dissertation (2008) was on new feminist epistemologies and European women studies. She teaches courses focusing on philosophy of science, and feminist theory. With Prof. Rosemarie Buikema she has edited the textbook Gender in media, kunst en cultuur (2007), which will be published in English under the title Gender in Media, Art and Culture (Routledge, 2009). She is currently finishing a manuscript entitled Generation/Knowledge. The latter book deals with new feminist epistemologies (especially new materialism).
Dolphijn and Van der Tuin have co-written an article entitled 'The Transversality of New Materialism' (currently under review with Women: A Cultural Review).
Dolphijn and Van der Tuin have co-written an article entitled 'The Transversality of New Materialism' (currently under review with Women: A Cultural Review).
