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03/10/2024

NEW Reading Group on Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity” – Spring 2025

Catherine Malabou is mostly known as the philosopher of plasticity, a concept she drew mainly from her groundbreaking interpretation of Hegel. Not only “the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once capable of receiving and of giving form”, plasticity is also the destruction of form as its non-transcendental condition of possibility. “Destructive plasticity” thus concerns the […]

01/10/2024

Marco Grosoli’s new open-access article explores Plasticity in Rivette’s Film Criticism

This article shows the productiveness of “plasticity” (a concept famously developed by French philosopher Catherine Malabou) for cinema, by using Jacques Rivette’s film criticism as a detailed case study. In several greatly influential writings (which have, among others, decisively contributed to the formation of the French New Wave), Rivette relied on an interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy […]

25/06/2024

Film-Philosophy Conference 2024 | Panels

Between July 1 and 3, the Film-Philosophy Conference 2024 will take place in Espinho. The conference is organised by colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (NOVA University Lisbon), and the University of Coimbra, in partnership with the FEST Film Festival. 1 July (5:30–7:00 pm) Film and Death #1 | Chair: […]

31/05/2024

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Marco Grosoli

June’s Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar (2023-2024) will be led by Marco Grosoli (IFILNOVA) who will talk about “Looking Through the Eyes of Those Who Are No Longer: Death and Cultural Politics in Leonora addio (Paolo Taviani, 2022)” The session is hybrid and will be held on June 17, 2024, at 15:00 PM (Lisbon time), at Colégio […]