Toward an Aesthetic Image of Thought Arno Böhler     The problem… June, 2023. Again I am sitting at my computer and writing a research proposal for the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in the framework of the program for arts-based research and development (PEEK), this time with the title “Art in Philosophy: Philosophy in the Arts. The Significance of the …

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sri Aurobindo Arno Böhler   Prelude…1 My article reads Friedrich Nietzsche and Sri Aurobindo Ghose as artist-philosophers and poet-seers who followed the great reason of their lived-bodies (Nietzsche 1985, 34). Taking the multiple planes and sheaths of their bodies seriously,2 they were forced to invent a hybrid style of doing philosophy in which they constantly aligned the …

Avital Ronell   Against all odds, I am, it seems, still in the ring, pressed by an inexorable rope-a-dope technique of quasi-defeat. I depend on my coaches—those who keep me awake enough to have me take the hits—to get back on the ropes. As a survival technique, landing punches in this back-and-forth of borrowed stamina can be wearing, clocking out, …

Performative Types of Writing in Poetry and Philosophy1 Violetta L. Waibel   Friedensfeier2 Friedrich Hölderlin (See english version below) Ich bitte dieses Blatt nur gutmüthig zu lesen. So wird es sicher nicht unfaßlich, noch weniger anstößig seyn. Sollten aber dennoch einige eine solche Sprache zu wenig konventionell finden, so muß ich ihnen gestehen: ich kann nicht anders. An einem schönen …

On the Aesthetic Materiality of Thought Soumyabrata Choudhury   Introducing a Heideggerian Resonance: Thinking at the Place of the Unthinkable Anyone familiar with Martin Heidegger’s works will hear the resonance of one of his well-known titles in that of the present essay. “Thinking, Evaluating, Enjoying” will no doubt remind the reader of the German philosopher’s text “Building Dwelling Thinking”. Let me spend a little …

On the Aesthetic Materiality of Thought Tanja Traxler & Reinhold A. Bertlmann   Prologue On September 14th, 2015, only a few scientists noticed that this was the start of a new era in astronomy. Months later, after rigorous testing, it was published in February 2016 that the first direct observation of gravitational waves had been achieved by the Laser Interferometer …

Performative Strategies of Incompleteness and the Right to Bodily Integrity Sandra Noeth   Taking a Breath Berlin, winter 2021. About a year and a half into a series of lockdowns and various limitations of public life. While negotiating the ever-changing rules and regulations related to the Covid-19 pandemic and their impacts on my own and other people’s bodies, new movement …

Con-fusions Between Movement and Linguistic Figures, Between Performance and Critique Krassimira Kruschkova   Danced and spoken stories contaminate and comment on each other, they collapse into one another in the performance Shown and Told (2016) by American choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart and British writer and performance maker Tim Etchells. What shows and tells here are pointedly incomprehensible body and …

Stories on Artists Reading Theory Veronika Reichl1   Dreaming of cabbage – Sandy reads Heidegger Sandy is an artist. That means that she takes the form of things seriously. The form concerns every detail of her work: It concerns how Sandy prepares, how she starts and finishes. It concerns the material, the tools and the work space. It concerns how …