BEHAVIORAL AESTHETICS: I pursue Jean Galard’s problem of “the beauty of gesture” in terms of analyzing the “poetics of conduct.” In his work, the first chapter bears the title, a literal art (word-for-word, it would be art to the letter, which I translated as an “art to the bone,” but now I am having some reconsiderations about that translation.) As the “art of letters” (signification and communication, including formalization and standardization), behaviors materially take shape as grammatical conditioning, so behavior in-itself and for-itself is both an entity and a process, that is a being (state, object, life) and a having (figures, functions, telos). Moreover, it is epochocal (read: Husserl’s epoche.)
These considerations lead me to deconstructive thinking as advanced by Jacques Derrida, and more importantly, Bernard Stiegler, who proposed a deconstruction of deconstruction, and advanced techne as historically suppressed by episteme in his trilogy, Technics and Time. His book analyzes techne in time and techne as the condition that creates time, in other words, programmability, double rhythms of flow and counter-flow, or tendency and countertendency—different calender and cardinal systems. He does so while considering an evolutionary perspective or that of “deep time.”
In this way, I try to understand behavior from various ways of illumination. That includes behavior as a kind of organological writing or grammatization process that encodes knowledge in the body, so a non-cognitive variety of intelligence or learning. However, I try to remember the temporality and ephemerality of noesis, the intellectual “soul.” I started with Maurice Merlau-Ponty’s first book, The Structure of Behavior—which requires a post-structural critique. I also try to incorporate the science of behavior, marketing manipulations of behavior (as objects of measurement and calculability). Furthermore, I look at the artists who use behavior as a medium for their work, which includes, amongst others: Stephen Willats, Tania Bruguera, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Judson Wright, Marcus Young, and I would argue Joseph Beuys’s Soziale Plastik too.
BIO: (Jagiellonian University), a classically trained musician from the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan. Currently, affiliated with the Department of Aesthetics of the Institute of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University researching Behavioral Aesthetics within the framework of Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of art. Vice-Chair of Polskie Towarzystwo Etyki i Filozofii Techniki [the Polish Society of Ethics and the Philosophy of Technology]. Associate editor at the Polish Journal of Aesthetics and technical editor for Kultura i Historia. Translator and technical editor for Medialica. Multimedia Studies in the Humanities. Research Project worker for the Roman Ingarden Digital Archive. Lecturer at Academia Electronica. Experienced speaker for peer-reviewed conferences held in Poland, France, and Finland.
Research interests: Aesthetics, The Philosophy of Behavior and Art, The Philosophy of Music, Technics, Contemporary French Philosophy, Gender.
