"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
Zone 4: Personal
Editorials
• Inflexions: Journal for Research-Creation (editor)Old Lectures
• “What is culture?”, open day at Algemene Cultuur Wetenschappen, Erasmus University, November 2000, Rotterdam. • “The philosophy of Hardt and Negri’s ‘Empire’’’, Dwars Groenlinkse Jongeren (Green Party), 24 juni 2002, Utrecht. • “Spinoza on the Affects”, Seminar at Algemene Cultuur Wetenschappen, Erasmus University, 12 February 2003, Rotterdam. • “Consumentisme en Globalisering”, Festival Globalisering, Amsterdam, 26 Juni 2004. • “What is Good to Eat?”, Stafdispuut ACW, Rotterdam, 4 Oktober 2004. • “Deleuze and Francis Bacon”, Seminar at Algemene Cultuur Wetenschappen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 15 Oktober 2004. • “Deleuze and Food”, Filosofendiner (organized by the faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 4 November 2004. • “Interculturaliteit, identiteit en de rol van het eten”, Jaarsluiting Albeda College, Rotterdam, 8 juni 2005. • “De betekenis van het eten voor de kunst: een filosofische zoektocht”, Opening Academisch Jaar, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, 5 september 2005 • “De micropolitiek van het eten”, Honoursprogram Je bent wat je eet, van eetcultuur tot genetische modificatie, Radbout Universiteit Nijmegen, 15 september 2005 • “Deleuze en eten als culturele praktijk”, filosofisch café Felix & Sophie, 8 november 2005 • “The TIME city: the Asian Megalopolis and its Production of Life”, IIAS lecture, 30 November 2005 • “The TIME city: What’s so New About the Asian Megalopolis?” Seminar at Geosciences, University of Utrecht, 19 December, 2005 • “A National Cuisine Does Not Exist”, Studium Generale, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 19 January 2006 • “Multidisciplinariteit en Cultuurwetenschappen”, general introduction at the Open Day of the Cultural Studies department at Erasmus University Rotterdam, 25 March 2006 • “The Art of Living; food, medicine and the body in a global perspective”, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, 1 April 2007 • “Care, Cure or Control? Disciplining the body in a global perspective”, Wetenschapscafé Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, DikT, 26 november 2007 • “Power: Bacon versus Foucault” Lecture at Communication studies Utrecht University 16 February 2008 • “Language and Power” Introductory talk at Communication Studies Utrecht University 15 March 2008Conference Organization
• “Gilles Deleuze and Cultural Studies”, Session at the Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2002 • The Garden of Eating; Experiencing the thoughts of Gilles Deleuze in Cultural Practices, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 29th of May, Conference featuring Paul Patton, Eugene Holland, Leung Ping-Kwan, Henk Oosterling, Patricia Pisters and Wim van Binsbergen. • (Per)Forming Culture; Architecture and Life in the Chinese Megalopolis, NAi, Rotterdam, 19th of November 2005. Expert meeting featuring Zheng Shiling, Xing Ruan, Anne-Marie Broudehoux • Platforms on Architecture and on Food. Housing the Body, Dressing the Environment, Montreal, 2007Scholarships / Funding
• Grant for doing research and writing a masters thesis at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia. (+- Fl. 2.000. -) Erasmus Trust Fund • Unilever research grant for writing a dissertation on food and culture (+- Fl. 500,000. -) Unilever Research • Organizing a conference (The Garden of Eating) (1,000 Euro) Erasmus Trust Fund (4,000 Euro) Faculty of Arts • Research Grant (+- 5,000 Euro) International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University) • Organizing an Expert-Meeting (+- 2,000 Euro) International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University)Miscellaneous
• Member of the Association for Cultural Studies • Member of The Sense Lab • Member of the Association for the Study of Food and Society • Member of Convivium- Association for Food and Philosophy