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11/03/2025

Reading Group on Catherine Malabou’s “Destructive Plasticity”

Catherine Malabou first arose to prominence in the International philosophical landscape in the 1990s, thanks to her groundbreaking interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s system as one revolving around plasticity, which eventually became the key concept of her own philosophical production. Itself a plastic concept, plasticity (“the nature of that which is ‘plastic’, being at once […]

06/10/2024

Ifilnova Youtube channel

Did you miss any of our recent events? You can catch up on the Ifilnova YouTube channel, where some are available to watch online. For example, Jamieson Webster’s lecture, ‘Breathing and the Unconscious’, has garnered over 1.7K views. You can also find recordings of our Reading Group on Slavoj Žižek’s ‘Lacrimae Rerum’. Stay tuned, more will […]

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 […]

22/01/2024

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Thomas Lamarre

The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar (2023-2024) is promoting a workshop with Thomas Lamarre (University of Chicago) on “Half Life: Radiation and Animation”. The session will be held in-person on March 9, 2024, Colégio Almada Negreiros room SE1 from 10 AM to 6 PM.