Notes on Contributors
Tirna Chatterjee
is a Ph.D. scholar in the department of Cinema Studies in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, jnu, New Delhi, India. She is from Calcutta and enjoys the company of cats and her interests are her subjective lack of interest in things and studies of everyday life, boredom, melancholia, cities, affect theory, disinterest, leisure studies and the relations between eventative and non-eventative history writing.
Ian Fong
is an independent scholar teaching literary and cultural studies in various tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. He is now working on a book manuscript with the tentative title Infinite Responsibility of The Grandmaster and Beyond: Martial Arts, Hong Kong Film, and Hong Kong Culture. He received his Ph.D. degree in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong.
Arzu Karaduman
is Visiting Assistant Professor at Ithaca College,
Raoul Kirchmayr
is Adjunct Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Trieste. As a Research Fellow in Philosophy in Brussel (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and in Paris (ehess), he received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Trieste and in Aesthetics at the University of Paris 1. He is a member of the editorial board of the philosophy journal “Aut Aut” and researcher of the “Équipe Sartre” at the item/ens in Paris. He edited and translated into Italian works by Sartre, Lyotard, Sloterdijk, Nancy, Bernstein and others. Passioni del visible. Saggi sull’estetica francese contemporanea (Passion of the Visible. Essays on the Contemporary French Aesthetics, 2018) is his last book. He recently wrote on Lacanian theory and deconstruction, Husserl’s phenomenology, Philosophy and visual studies.
Kamil Lipiński
Ph.D. in Philosophy, is an assistant at the Contemporary Art Gallery Garbary 48. Alma Mater: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (two degrees in Philosophy and Cultural Studies). His numerous publications include Mapowanie obrazu. Między estetyczną teorią a praktyką (Image mapping. Between Aesthetic Theory and Practice, 2022) and he edited the issue “French Cultural Theory: Contexts and Applications” in Sensus Historiae (2015–2016). He was a runner-up in the 2019 Postgraduate Essay Prize awarded by the Postcolonial Studies Association/Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Yonathan Listik
is a Lecturer at the University of Leiden. His interests are related to philosophy, more specifically, the possible connections between contemporary ontology in the continental tradition, political and social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics.
Andrzej Marzec
Philosopher, Assistant Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Film critic, editor of “Czas Kultury” journal, curator of the experimental film cycle “Short circuits” presented at “Pawilon” cultural centre in Poznań (2018–2021). His research interests are speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, dark ecology, and contemporary alternative cinema. Author of the books “Widmontologia. Teoria filozoficzna i praktyka artystyczna ponowoczesności” (Hauntology. Philosophical theory and artistic practice of postmodernity, 2015) and awarded with the Identitas prize for: “Antropocień – filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata” (Anthroposhade – philosophy and aesthetics after the end of the world, 2021). https://amu.academia.edu/AndrzejMarzec
Tomer Nechushtan
is a Ph.D. candidate and Tisch Film School Scholar at Tel Aviv University, currently researching the impact of digital voice technologies on film and new media. Her work also explores phenomenological experiences of history in musical film and television. Tomer teaches at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, and at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Her work has been published in The Soundtrack and Journal of Historical Fictions.
Cillian Ó Fathaigh
is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ucm), Spain. He completed his Ph.D. on the role of institutions in Jacques Derrida’s political engagements at the University of Cambridge (England), where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Scholar. Prior to coming to ucm, he was a Research Fellow on the “Spaces of Translation” project, a major Arts and Humanities Research Council (ahrc)–Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (dfg) funded project, shared between Nottingham Trent University (England) and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany). He previously taught at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), and has been a scholar at both Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), and St. John’s College, Cambridge (England), and an invited student at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm, France). His research interests lie in twentieth-century Francophone philosophy and intellectual history and his work has been published in prestigious international journals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism, Paragraph and Derrida Today. He has also co-edited two volumes: Derrida’s Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and #NousSommes (Peter Lang, 2020).
Mariana Almeida Pereira
is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Coimbra. Her thesis focuses on the question of the animal in Derrida’s philosophy and aims at deconstructing the carnophallogocentric subject through the non-logocentric notions of vulnerability, corporal affection, and lack. She obtained her undergraduate (2019) and master’s degree (2021) in Philosophy from the University of Porto.
Davide Persico
is an Italian Ph.D. in film studies since 2014. Since 2002 he is Professor at the University of Napoli “Federico ii.” His research interests are film theory about relationships between cinema and philosophy, especially hermeneutics, deconstruction and psychoanalysis, and the directors Michelangelo Antonioni, David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Andrej Tarkovsky. He has published essays in the university magazines “Imago” and “Segnocinema,” the monographs “Inland Empire. L’illusione e l’assenza” (Rome, 2010), “Decostruire lo sguardo. Il pensiero di Jacques Derrida al cinema” (2016), “Blow-up e le forme potenziali del mondo” (2020).
Prateek Rawat
is the lead (International Programming) Film Programmer at the 53rd International Film Festival of India. He holds a masters degree from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, jnu, New Delhi, India. He is from Lucknow and is invested in the field of cinema philosophy and theory.
Jack Rutherford
was awarded a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Essex in 2022, where he currently teaches for the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies.
Amresh Sinha
teaches film at the School of Visual Arts (sva) in New York City. He has taught Film and Media Studies in various institutions that includes New York University, The New School, Rutgers University, Brooklyn Collee, Hunter College, College of Staten Island. He is the co-editor of the anthology, Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Films (2011), published by Wallflower/Columbia University Press. His articles have appeared in Filmmakers on Film (forthcoming), Cinema E Outras Artes iv, bcs Learning and Development Ltd: Proceedings of re:sound 2019, Film and Philosophy, Film-Philosophy, Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Films, The Memory Effect: The Remediation in Literature and Film, Lost in the Archive, In Practice: Adorno, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Scope: Online Journal for Film and Television Studies, Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, Connecticut Review, etc.
Nikos Sarafianos
was born in 1975. He holds a bachelor degree in Greek Philology (University of Athens) and a Master’s degree in European Studies (Master of Arts in European Studies, Belgium, Louvain, Catholic University). He also holds a Ph.D. in Film Philosophy (University of Ioannina). He has also studied music and he has composed music for theater. In parallel, he teaches in theater schools (history of Modern Greek literature and history of theater), while he has written various articles on music. He was a lecturer in the academic lecture series of the Municipality of Heraklion (Attica) and is a member of the research philosophy group of Anna Lazou.
Miłosz Stelmach
holds a Ph.D. in arts studies. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is the editor-in-chief of film magazine “Ekrany” (“Screens”). His research interests include film history, art cinema, and modernism. He authored numerous scholarly and popular articles as well as a book-length monograph: “Przeczucie końca. Modernizm, późność i polskie kino” (“Sensing the End: Modernism, Lateness, and Polish Cinema,” 2020).
Susana Viegas
is a Researcher in Philosophy of Film and a full member of ifilnova, Universidade nova de Lisboa. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the Universidade nova de Lisboa in 2013 with a doctoral thesis on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of film, and a fct Ph.D. Studentship during the years 2007 through 2011. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Dundee and Deakin University with the project “Rethinking the Moving Image and Time in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy” (2014–2019) and is currently working on philosophy’s relation to painting, film, and death.
Ahmet Yuce
is a Ph.D. candidate in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University. His dissertation examines surgical film aesthetics in relation to radical alterity through the lens of Derridean deconstruction.