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Speaker: Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Philosophy 

Abstract

Sjoerd will develop key resonances between mannerist art (history) and contemporary continental philosophy. The twentieth century has already seen expressionist and surrealist reappraisals of mannerism. Today we are witnessing the beginnings of a more theoretical one, closely tied up with shifting boundaries between nature, culture and art, but also with new crises of capitalism. In a word: Artificiality is no longer a flaw but an expression to endure alterity, that is – a second nature, but not a naturalization.

Short bio

Sjoerd van Tuinen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. After his PhD (Ghent 2009) on Leibniz and Deleuze, he has had visiting affiliations with universities in London, Berlin, Vienna, New York and Princeton. Driven by transdisciplinary affinities across the arts and humanities, his work is in metaphysics, aesthetics, social and political theory, and the history of philosophy. For more info, see his institutional homepage: https://www.eur.nl/people/s-van-tuinen 

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