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- As Águas de Sua MãePublication . Dias Branco, Sérgio; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
- Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral ImagesPublication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
- Power – A Surveyable RepresentationPublication . Vinten, Robert; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)Although Wittgenstein did not concern himself much with politics his work is useful in getting clearer about the notion of power in a number of ways. In the first place, although Wittgenstein did not have much to say about power he have quite a lot to say about ways of getting clearer about concepts and he made clarity or understanding a central aim in his philosophy. One of the ways in which he helped us to get clearer about concepts was to guide us away from the assumption that all of the items subsumed under a term must have something in common. Wittgenstein highlighted that some terms, such as 'game' and 'number' were family resemblance terms and it is plausible that many terms used in discussing political matters are family resemblance terms. He also reminded us of the diversity of ways in which we use language and of the fact that speech takes place within a rich weave of activities. He called these different uses of language 'language games'. In analysing power it is useful to remember that discussions of power take place in many different spheres, in religion, in politics, in meteorology, chemistry, etc., and that we speak about power in many different language games. Moreover, Wittgenstein warned us against thinking that the methods of the natural sciences can be transferred straightforwardly to the social sciences and to philosophy. One of the problems with studies of power conducted in the past is that they have tried to be 'scientific' by focussing on observable instances of the exercise of power. Finally, this paper will briefly look at remarks from where Wittgenstein does talk about power:Culture & Value where he distinguishes power from its bases and brings our attention to the fact that human powers are two-way powers.
- Uma história de esqueletos felizesPublication . Viegas, Susana; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
- How to Mediate RealityPublication . Baumann, Stefanie; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)In recent years, documentary formats have entered prominently into the realm of the culture industry, especially since Hollywood and Netflix started to invest in costly productions addressed to the mainstream. Many of these documentaries claim to show reality in its immediacy (“as it really is”), to reveal that which is obscured, or to critically assess societal evils. They use aesthetic strategies that reinforce the appearance of authenticity, while concealing the mediation of what they represent, and the authoritarian stances they presuppose. This turns them into powerful instruments for diffusing authoritarian and populist ideologies. Their political impact on society, their performative power of opinion-shaping, and their subliminal influence on how we perceive and understand reality call urgently for critical assessment. Horkheimer and Adorno’s critique of the culture industry, along with their philosophical, sociological, and aesthetic writings, provide a constructive starting point. This essay aims to mobilize their critical theory of society for the problematization of documentary films in terms of their dialectical relation to society.
- A-placePublication . Madrazo, Leandro; Aparício, Maria Irene; Pak, Burak; Zupančič, Tadeja; Departamento de Ciências da Comunicação (DCC); Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)The purpose of A-Place “Linking places through networked artistic practices”, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme (2019-2023) is to design and implement art-centred placemaking activities in six European cities –Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia– to connect meanings and experiences associated to places across cultural and geographic boundaries. Placemaking activities will be carried out with the participation of both local residents (from multiple cultural backgrounds) and transient population (refugees, tourists, business travellers, temporary workers), in collaboration with artists and educational staff participating in the project. In this paper, we outline the scope of the project, describe the first-year programme of activities, and discuss the methodology to be applied in their evaluation.
- Wandering WordsPublication . Pisano, Libera; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)In this paper, I will address the issue of translation as a critique of autochthony that emerges in the context of Fritz Mauthner’s linguistic scepticism. Translation, for Mauthner, becomes a privileged prism through which to consider identity and belonging, as well as a way of understanding uprootedness, since language is a continuous product of borrowing, bastardization, stratification, and contingency. According to Mauthner, languages are not possession, but borrowing; not purity, but contagion; not an abstract crystallization, but transit. Therefore, love of the mother tongue — the only way to conceive patriotism — is not a physical connection with the land, roots, or nation, but a refuge, an always precarious Heimat (home).
- Immediation, Bergson and the Problem of PersonalityPublication . Bordeleau, Erik; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
- Love is in the AirPublication . Bordeleau, Erik; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
- Risk, Responsibility, and Their RelationsPublication . Placani, Adriana; Broadhead, Stearns; Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)Philosophical interest in the relationship between risk and responsibility continues to rise, which is in no small part due to environmental crises, emerging technologies, legal developments, and new medical advances. In spite of such interest, scholars are still working out how to conceive of the links between risk and responsibility, the implications that risks may have to conceptions of responsibility (and vice versa), as well as how such theorizing may play out in applied cases. This chapter provides an introduction and overview of the two concepts that are essential to this work - risk and responsibility. It examines the concepts of risk and responsibility by detailing some of their definitions, senses, and dimensions. This achieves the aims of introducing the topic of this book by way of outlining its constituent parts as well as orientating and guiding the reader. This chapter also details the ways in which Risk and Responsibility in Context, through its various contributions, brings together new work examining the interplay between risk and responsibility, exploring its varied philosophical aspects and applications in different contexts. In these ways, this chapter helps to contextualize and explain, rather than exhaust, the concepts of risk and responsibility and how they are treated in this book.