Introduction

Rick Dolphijn is interested in the body/sensitivity/sensuality/experience and the role of language, in Gilles Deleuze and his philosophy, in time and in space. Thus he lectures and writes on architecture, philosophy and food, on media theory, language theory and performance theory. At the moment he is most interested in concepts like 'meat', 'surface', and the aesthetic experience.

He is writing a book on the abovementioned concepts that is entitled (for now) "Aesthetic Vitalism: earth culture health". Next to that he is finishing a book together with dr. Iris van der Tuin on the philosophy of science, entitled: "New Materialism" (to be published with Open Humanities Press in the series New Metaphysics (ed by Bruno Latour and Graham Harman). He is assistant professor at the humanities department, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

This website is not meant to function as a medium of expression but as a medium of relation, which means that it is an invitation to share thoughts. Comments, suggestions and other reactions in any form are therefore highly appreciated.

"The interior is only a selected exterior and the exterior a projected interior." Gilles Deleuze

"Taste and smell alone... bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and most impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection." Marcel Proust

"If the human body has once been affected by two or more bodies at the same time, then when the mind subsequently imagines one of them, it will immediately recollect the others also." - Benedictus de Spinoza

Announcements

9 March 2010 | Friday, March 19th 2010 I will lecture at the Conference Landelijk Netwerk Vrouwenstudies FIlosofie

16 February 2010 | Feb 18th: Eten met een reden, stadsschouwburg Utrecht

I will "do theory" at a theme evening entitled "Aphrodisiacs". an interesing bland of performance art, philosophy and a fabulous dinner.

More Inrformation(in dutch):

16 February 2010 | new seminar series on cultural theory

Seminar series on CULTURAL THEORY

Organised by: Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Media and Culture Studies), Dr. Iris van der Tuin (Gender Studies)

Location: Drift 21… Read More »

21 April 2009 | What’s eating Amsterdam?

An expedition and convivial dinner developed by Wietske Maas, Sher Doruff, Rick Dolphijn and others as part of the SOCIETY OF MOLECULES, a distributed Sense Lab event. senselab.ca… Read More »