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44On Jean Améry: Philosophy of CatastropheLexington Books. 2011.This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness
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Experience and its othersIn Suzie Attiwill (ed.), Practising with Deleuze: design, dance, art, writing, philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. 2017.
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10Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny: Philosophy in MotionRoutledge. 2020.Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and movement. It is organized around two conceptual paradigms - one phenomenological, the other an interpretation of Nietzschean philosophy, mediated through the work of Deleuze. The book draws on dance studies, cultural critique, ethnography and po…Read more
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3Chapter 10 Dance and the Passing Moment: Deleuze’s NietzscheIn Laura Guillaume & Joe Hughes (eds.), Deleuze and the Body, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 203-223. 2011.
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148Reviews : Pauline Johnson, Marxist Aesthetics: the Foundations within Everyday Life for an Enlightened Consciousness, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984 (review)Thesis Eleven 12 (1): 172-174. 1985.
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63IntroductionTopoi 24 (1): 3-4. 2004.The paper builds an argument about empathy, kinesthesia, choreography, and power as they were constituted in early eighteenth century France. It examines the conditions under which one body could claim to know what another body was feeling, using two sets of documents – philosophical examinations of perception and kinesthesia by Condillac and notations of dances published by Feuillet. Reading these documents intertextually, I postulate a kind of corporeal episteme that grounds how the body is co…Read more
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164Differentiating phenomenology and danceTopoi 24 (1): 43-53. 2004.This paper critically reviews phenomenological philosophy of the body in light of postmodern and postcolonial critiques of universalism. It aims to recast the notion of the lived body in plural rather than singular terms. It does so within the context of phenomenology and dance, using cultural anthropology to highlight the sense in which bodies are culturally and corporeally specific. The notion of corporeal specificity is applied to the perception of dance, paying particular attention to questi…Read more
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Bodies and subjects: medical ethics and feminismIn Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled bodies: critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body, Duke University Press. pp. 168--201. 1995.