하와이 대학교 마노아 캠퍼스 대학원과정 철학과 교수. 저서로는 The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics, edited and introduced with Colin McQuillan (2012), Jacques Ranci?re: An Introduction?Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics (Continuum, 2011), Foucault’s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity (Continuum, 2009) 이 있다. 현재 현대미술 및 문화와 미학 간의 연관관계에 대한 심층적인 논의를 진행하는 저서인 Castles in the Sky: Aesthetics as Philosophical Discourse 을 집필 중이다.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics, edited and introduced with Colin McQuillan
(August, 2012).
Jacques Ranci?re: An Introduction?Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics (Continuum, 2011).
Foucault’s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity (Continuum, 2009).
Current Book Project
Castles in the Sky: Aesthetics as Useful Fiction is a monograph that contributes to the clarification and
defense of aesthetics as a philosophical discourse. I expect to publish this book with MIT University
Press.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Ranci?re and the Politics of Spectatorship,” under review at Critical Horizons.
“This Strange Idea of Art,” Philosophy East/West, Vol. 69, No. 2, (forthcoming, 2019).
“Communicablity Without Communication: Kant and Proust on Aesthetic Pleasure,” Diacritics,Vol. 45, No. 1 (2017), 76-93.
“Cette ?trange id?e de l’art,” ArtPress 2, Philosophie de Fran?ois Jullien, No. 46 (2017),104-113.
“Consensual, Dissensual, and Aesthetic Communities: Six Ways of Articulating the Politics of
Aesthetics,” The Journal of Art Theory and Practice. Vol. 16, No. 1, (2014).
“Art Before the Sublime: The Libidinal Economy Up Against the Pacific Wall,” in Cultural Politics, 2014.
“What is the Aesthetic Regime?” Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, No. 12, (2011),71-81.
“Why Ranci?re Now?” Journal of Aesthetic Education. Vol. 44, No. 2, (2010).
“J’ai le cafard: Deleuze on the Experience of Thinking,” Heythrop Journal. Vol. 51,No. 1 (2009).
“Reflections on the Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy of Art,” Philosophy Today. Vol. 53, No. 3,(2009).
“The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting,” Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol. 66, No. 4, (2008).
“Thinking the Viral Within the Twilight of Values,” International Journal of Baudrillard
Studies. Vol. 4, No. 3, (2007). This article is currently being translated into
Russian for a special issue of Khora devoted to the work of Jean Baudrillard.
“The Care of the Self and Environmental Politics: Toward a Foucaultian Account of Dietary
Practice,” Ethics & the Environment. Vol. 12, No. 1, (2007).
“Michel Foucault at the Coll?ge de France: 1974-1976,” Philosophy and Social Criticism. Vol.
31, No. 5-6, (2005).
“Cynical Aesthetics: A Theme From Foucault’s 1984 Lectures at the Coll?ge de France,”
Philosophy Today. Vol. 46, No. 2, (2002).
Editing
Series Editor of Global Aesthetic Research, a book series dedicated to publishing the latest
research in the field of aesthetics without regard for its geographical origin or philosophical
orientation. Published with Rowman and Littlefield: Rowman International.
Published Volumes:
1.) J. Colin McQuillan, Early Modern Aesthetics, 2016.
2.) Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on the Arts and Letters, 2016.
3.) Constantin Boundas and Vana Tentokali, Architectural and Urban Reflections after Delueze
and Guattari, 2018
4.) Fran?ois Jullien, Living Off Landscape, or the Unthought-of in Reason, 2018.
Forthcoming Volumes:
5.) Emily Brady, Isis Brook, and Jonathan Prior, Environmental Aesthetics: Between Nature and
Culture.
6.) Zolt?n Somhegyi, Reviewing the Past: The Presence of Ruins.
Guest Editor of a special issue of Symposium on the work of Jacques Ranci?re,
Vol. 15, No. 2, (2011).
Guest Editor of a double issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism: Twenty Years After
Foucault, Vol. 31, No. 5-6, (2005).
Book Chapters
“Which Politics of Aesthetics?” in Distributions of the Sensible: Ranci?re, Between Aesthetics
and Politics, ed., Scott Durham and Dilip Gaonkar (Forthcoming at Northwestern
University Press, 2019.)
“The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting, in Understanding
Foucault/Understanding Modernism, ed., David Scott, (Bloomsbury, 2018).
“Painting From the Outside: Foucault and Van Gogh” in Van Gogh Among the Philosophers:
Painting, Thinking, Being, ed., David Nichols (Lexington Books, 2017).
“Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink,” translated by Joyce One as 凡所?有, ?所不有
in Forum on Contemporary Art, ed., Peng Feng (Circle Art Center, 2014).
“Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics,” in the Yearbook of Aesthetics, ed., Peng
Feng, Peking University (Marquette University Press, 2014).
“Jacques Ranci?re,” an article for the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed., Michael Kelly,
(Oxford University Press, 2014).
“Why Julien Sorel Had to Be Killed,” in Ranci?re Now, ed., Oliver Davis, (Polity Press, 2013).
“On the Powers of the False: Foucault’s Engagements with the Arts,” in A Companion to
Foucault (Oxford: Blackwell, 2013).
“D?fis r?cents au paradigme postmoderne: le cas du r?gime esth?tique,” in Le postmoderne, un
paradigme pertinent dans le champ artistique? (Paris: La Lettre Vol?e, 2010).
Review Essays
“The Final ‘Final Foucault’?” forthcoming at The Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Everyday Gods: On Jacques Ranci?re’s Aisthesis,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 7, 2013.
Book Reviews
“A Review of Tina Chanter’s Art, Politcs and Ranci?re: Broken Perceptions, Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews, March 7, 2018.
“Communities of Dissensus: A Review of Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and
Politics,” Parallax, No. 59, (2011).
“A Review of Chloe Taylor’s The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault,”
Symposium. Vol. 14, No. 1, (2010).
“A Review of Todd May’s The Political Thought of Jacques Ranci?re,” Symposium. Vol. 13, No.
1, (2009).
Art Writings and Other Writings in Popular Publications
“What Could It Mean to Think Ink Painting?,” published in English and Mandarin in Hua Kan
(Art Monthly), January, 2015.
“Melt the Snow: Pan Gongkai on the Limits of Western Art,” an essay included in Pan Gongkai:
Generation and Dispersion, exhibition catalogue produced by the Zhejiang Museum of
Art, May, 2014.
“What Would Hegel Say?” Art In America, January 28, 2014.
“Content Follows Form: Li Song and the Decay of the Sublime,” an essay commissioned
for the Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Published in English and Mandarin.
September, 2013.
“Musings on the Artness of Art: Arthur Danto’s What Art Is,” Art in America, August 30, 2013.
“Consensual, Dissensual, and Aesthetic Communities,” published in an online reader edited by
Paola Santoscoy and M?nica Amieva for their symposium on art and community held in
Mexico City, September 2013.
“Content Follows Form: Li Song and the Decay of the Sublime,” an essay commissioned for
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Published in English and Mandarin (2013).
“What’s New in Aesthetics?” Art in America, July 30, 2013.
“Peng Feng: Professional Professor, Amateur Curator,” Art in America, July 12, 2013.
“Liu Jun and the Politics of Feng Hua Xue Yue (?花雪?),” an essay commissioned
for Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Published in English and Mandarin (2012).
“Become What You Are Not: Han Xiao’s Evanescent Beauty,” an essay
commissioned for Today Art Museum, Beijing, China. Published in English and
Mandarin (2012).
“An Interview with Joseph Tanke,” Cement, Summer, 2012.
“Sharing Sense: Editor’s Introduction,” special issue of Symposium on the work of Jacques
Ranci?re, Vol. 15, No. 2, (2011).
“Herbert Marcuse and the Arts,” an interview by Anthony Marcellini published by the San
Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, October 2008.
“‘Practice’ is Perfect”: Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, December 30, 2007.
This letter is a response to Roberta Smith’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About
Art.”
“The Betrayal of Words, or A Reading of Søren Kierkegaard’s Practice in Christianity,”
Dialogue. Vol. 44, No. 2-3, (2002).
“David Demming’s Sculpture,” The Sculpture Center Quarterly Newsletter,
October 1998.
“Harvey Rice: A Monument of Bronze and a Depiction of Generosity,”
The Sculpture Center Quarterly Newsletter, June 1998.
PRESENTATIONS
“Traversed by Limits, Marked by Furrows, and At War with Itself: Philosophy’s Margins,”
Opening Address, 2017 Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Hawaii,
Manoa, March 15, 2017.
“Thinking Through Art: From Poetics to Aesthetics,” A Presentation for the International
Cultural Studies Faculty Speaker Series, November 16, 2016.
“The Thought From the Outside: Reconstructing the early Foucault’s Account of Art,” Plenary
Address at the East/West Philosopher’s Conference, May 25, 2016.
“(How) Can Aesthetics Talk About Art,” Keynote address at Coloquio International de
Historia del Arte, Instituto de Investigaciones Est?ticas, UNAM, Mexico City,
October, 21, 2015.
“Aesthetics as Void,” an invited lecture held at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, December 6,
2014.
“The Politics and Promise of Aesthetic Research,” a lecture organized by students in the
Department of Art and Aesthetics at Peking University, December 5, 2014.
“Rethinking ‘Modernity,’” an invited presentation for the conference “Modernity: Transmission
and Alternation?Three Asian Cases,” held at Today Art Museum, Beijing, China,
December 4, 2014.
“What Could It Mean to Think Ink Painting,” an invited presentation for “Review and
Reconstruction of Chinese Painting and History,” held at the National Museum, Beijing,
China, December 2-4, 2014.
“On the Sharability of Aesthetic Pleasure: From Kant to Proust,” an invited lecture at John
Carroll University, November 4, 2014.
“Towards the Historical Ontology of Pain,” an invited presentation for the humanities faculty at
John Carroll University, November 3, 2014.
“The Audacious Idea of the Aesthetic: Entropy in Two Parts, Contemporary Aesthetics,”
Cranbrook Academy of Art, November 11, 2014.
“The Audacious Idea of the Aesthetic: Entropy in Two Parts, Classical Aesthetics,” Cranbrook
Academy of Art, October 7, 2014.
“Broken Blossoms: Pan Gonkai on the Boundaries of Contemporary Art,” an invited
presentation for the exhibition “Pan Gongkai: Withered Lotus Cast in Bronze,” at the
Frye Art Museum in Seattle, October 5, 2014.
“Jacques Ranci?re: A Critical Introduction,” a series of invited lectures held at the center for
Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education, Beijing, China, July 6, 7, 8 and 9 of 2014.
“On the Virtues of Not Knowing What is Going On: Contemporary Art without the
Avant-Garde,” an invited lecture for the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China,
June 23, 2014.
“Six Ways of Understanding the ‘Politics of Aesthetics,’” an invited lecture for the Center for
Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China,
April 14, 2014.
“Melt the Snow: Pan Gongkai on the Limits of Western Art,” an invited lecture for the exhibition
“Pan Gonkai: Generation and Dispersion,” Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China,
April 13, 2014.
“Crosscurrents and Undercurrents: Transformations of the Beautiful from Kant to Proust,”
keynote address for the 2014 Graduate Conference in Philosophy, University of Hawaii,
Manoa, March 15, 2014.
“Everything, Including the Kitchen Sink,” an invited presentation for the Ninth Annual Circle
Art Center Forum on Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China, May 13, 2013.
“The Shallow and The Deep: The Foucaultian Critique of Hermeneutics,” an invited presentation
for the conference, Hermeneutics and Philosophical Classics, University of Hawaii,
February 23-24, 2013.
“Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics,” an invited presentation for the Critique
Program, San Francisco, January 28, 2013.
“Three Ways of Thinking Art and Community,” keynote address for a special
symposium on Art and Community at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea, November 16,
2012.
“The Madness of the Surface,” an invited presentation for the Department of Aesthetics, Seoul
National University, Seoul, Korea, November 12, 2012.
“A Promissory Note Pain: Towards a Historical Ontology,” invited presentation for the
International Cultural Studies Certificate Program,” Honolulu, HI, October 24, 2012.
“The Polyvalent Politics of Aesthetics,” invited presentation for Renmin University, Beijing
China, July 14, 2012.
“The Logic of the Scene,” invited presentation for the International Association for Philosophy
and Literature, Tallinn Estonia, June, 2012.
“Art Into Life,” invited presentation for the Center for Biographical Research, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, March, 22, 2012.
“What Does It Mean to Look Creatively?,” invited presentation, [Off]Hours, Honolulu, HI,
September 15, 2011.
“Why Aesthetics Will End You, Part II,” invited presentation, The People’s Gallery, San
Francisco, May 9, 2011.
“Why Aesthetics Will End You, Part I,” CAP Forum, California College of the Arts, April 27,
2011.
“Which Politics of Aesthetics?” invited presentation, Northwestern University, April 22, 2011.
“What Does it Mean to Look Aesthetically?,” invited presentation for the Annual Meeting of the
Board of Trustees of California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, March 7, 2011.
“Art Before the Sublime: The Libidinal Economy Up Against the Pacific Wall,” an invited
presentation for the conference “Rewriting Lyotard” at the University of Alberta,
February 11-13, 2011.
“On the Politics of Art and Aesthetics,” annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the
Continental Tradition, University of San Francisco, October 9, 2010.
“What Can Aesthetics Do?” invited presentation for the first annual Biennial of the Americas,
Denver, Colorado, July 29, 2010.
“Beyond Ranci?re: Problems and Transformations of the Aesthetic Regime,” invited
presentation for the International Philosophical Seminar, S?dtirol, Italy, July 2, 2010.
“The Aesthetics of Existence,” an invited presentation for the seminar of Professor Marjolein
Oele, University of San Francisco, April 29, 2010.
“For A Materialist Imagination or A Materialism of the Imagination?” an invited presentation at
the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, June 14, 2009.
“Resisting the Biopolitical: A Response to W. Swedlow,” an invited commentary at the Bay
Area Continental Philosophy Association, University of San Francisco, November 13,
2008.
“Aesthetics and Utopian Possibility: Herbert Marcuse and the Arts,” an invited presentation for
the exhibition “Immediate Future” at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
October 18, 2008.
“The Hellenic Strategies of Modern Art,” an invited presentation for the seminar of
Professor Catherine M. Soussloff at the University of California, Santa Cruz, June
3, 2008.
“Recent Challenges to the Postmodern Paradigm: the Case of the Aesthetic Regime,” in “Le
postmoderne, un paradigme pertinent dans le champ artistique?” May 30, 2008 at the
Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris, France.
“The Twisted Logic of Modernity: the Philosophy and Anti-Philosophy of Art,” at
Jacques Ranci?re Day, May 21, 2008 at Roehampton University, London, England.
“Thinking the Viral Within the Twilight of Values,” at the Annual Meeting of the International
Association for Philosophy and Literature, June 8, 2007 at the University of Cyprus.
“The Specter of Manet,” at the Annual Meeting of the New England Seminar in Continental
Philosophy, April 21, 2007 at Boston College.
“Transvestites Chez Foucault,” at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society,
February 24, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts.
“On Empire and Institutions,” at the International Congress of Philosophy: Person and
Society, November 17-19, 2005 in Braga, Portugal.
“Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Justice,” at the 78th Annual Pacific Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 29, 2004 in Pasadena,
California.
“On the ‘Spirituality’ of Michel Foucault’s Final Works,” at Identifications: Faith,
Theory, and Identity-Making, February 8, 2004 at Purdue University.
“Foucault’s Genealogies of Spirituality,” invited presentation for Philosophers in Jesuit
Education at the 100th Annual Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical
Association, December 28, 2003 in Washington, D.C.
“Vegetarian Ethics, Practices of the Self and Environmental Politics,” meeting of the
International Association for Environmental Philosophy, November 9, 2003 in
Boston, Massachusetts.
“Out of the Funhouse: Toward a Critique of Baudrillard’s Third Order Simulacrum,”
Word & Image: Sixth International Conference, July 23, 2002 in Hamburg,
Germany.
“Foucault’s Aesthetics,” invited presentation for the Philosophy Club of John Carroll
University, November 19, 2001.
“Ensor’s Assassination,” Case Western Reserve University Graduate Student Conference
in Art History, April 1999.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Interim Chairperson of the Philosophy Department
(August 2018-August 2019)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Director of the International Cultural Studies Program
(January 2018- Present)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Associate Professor (August 2013 to Present)
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Assistant Professor (August 2011 to July 2013)
California College of the Arts, Chalsty Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy
(May 2007 to May 2011)
College of the Holy Cross, Visiting Professor (January 2007 to May 2007)
Boston College, Teaching Fellow (September 2004 to May 2007)
Cambridge College, Senior Lecturer (September 2004 to May 2007)
Merrimack College, Adjunct Professor (August 2003 to May 2004)
Philosophy and Social Criticism, Editorial Assistant
(June 2000 to September 2002 and August 2003 to June 2004)
John Carroll University, Philosophy Tutor (January 2000 to May 2000)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Summer Intern (June 1999 to September 1999)
SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination, 2016-2017, College of Arts and
Humanities, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Critical Studies Fellowship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This
residential fellowship includes a stipend ($15,000), travel support, and accommodations
for the fall semester.
Invited to participate in the International Summer School, Renmin University, Beijing China,
July, 2014. During this time, I offered a course on comparative aesthetics, “Aesthetics:
East and West.”
Organizer and Instructor of Annual Seminar on Aesthetics at the Center for Aesthetics and
Aesthetic Education, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Awarded by the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii two month’s support at
the University of Peking, China, June 11, 2012-August 11, 2012. During this time, I
offered a mini-seminar on aesthetics and politics at the Center for Aesthetic Education
and Research at Peking University.
University Research Council Award of $2000.00, April, 2012, University of Hawaii.
Founded and Organized the CAP Forum, a regular conversation series on topics dealing with
philosophy and culture. (September 2008 to August 2011). Grant award: $7,000.00
Organized the international symposium “Aesthetics After the Postmodern Turn: Philosophy,
Criticism, and Studio Culture.” October 17, 2009 at California College of the Arts. Grant
award: $20,000.00.
Chalsty Research Award, California College of the Arts, 2009. Grant award: $12,500.
Faculty Development Grant, California College of the Arts, 2007. Grant award: $2,500.
Named to Editorial Board of Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2007.
Recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award Boston College, 2006.
Award: $600.00.
Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 2006.
Fellowship award: $15,000.
Grant for Summer Language Study at the Sorbonne, Paris, Philosophy Department,
Boston College, 2006. Grant award: $2000.00.
Recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, 2005.
Award: $600.00.
Recipient of Ernest Fortin Memorial Grant, Boston College, 2004. Grant award: $1500.00.
Teaching Fellowship, Boston College, 2003-2007, Five years of full support were awarded; four
were used.
Accepted to the 2001-2002 Graduate Student International Forum, Boston College,
2001.
Graduate Student International Forum Grant, Boston College, 2001. Grant award: $500.00.
David Matthew Bonnot Memorial Scholarship in Philosophy, John Carroll University,
2000, Grant award: $500.00.
Roger A. Welchans Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, John Carroll University,
2000.
Undergraduate Research Grant to fund research at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York City. John Carroll University, 1999. Grant award: $500.00.
President’s Honor Award, John Carroll University, 1996-2000, (Four-year tuition scholarship).
CURATORIAL WORK
Co-curator of Art College Radio, an audio exhibition featuring the work of CCA students
and faculty, as well as a collection of internationally recognized artists. March 13, 2009-
April 24, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Referee for Parhesisa.
External Reviewer for Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
Member of the Editorial Board for Art Theory and Practice.
Referee for Philosophy East and West.
Manuscript and Proposal Review for Bloomsbury International.
Manuscript and Proposal Review for Rowman & Littlefield International.
Review Board Member for Education Sciences and Society (Italy).
Manuscript and Proposal Review for Polity Press.
Manuscript Review for University of Toronto Press.
Manuscript and Proposal Review for Continuum International.
Manuscript Review for Oneworld Press.
Invited to organize and chair a Life and Works Symposium: Jean Baudrillard:
Commemorating the Conspiracies of His Art, at the Annual Meeting of the International
Association for Philosophy and Literature. University of Cyprus, June 4-9, 2007.
Referee for Philosophy and Social Criticism.
Referee for Foucault Studies.
Referee (in French) for PhaenEx.
Referee for Transformations.
Planning Committee for Post-Structuralist Reading Group at Boston College.
Chair of an Invited APA Symposium: Foucault, Hadot, and Philosophy as a Way of Life,
at the 101st Annual Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
December 30, 2004.
Invited by the Foucault Society to organize and direct the planning committee for a
symposium and exhibition devoted to Michel Foucault and contemporary visual art.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Philosophical Association
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy
American Society for Aesthetics
International Association for the Study of Word and Image
International Association for Environmental Philosophy
Eastern Sociological Society
LANGUAGES
French
German
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Member of Dai Ho Chun Committee, 2015-present.
(Duties Include: identifying and inviting high-profile visitors to UHM for academic
enrichment and exchange; publicity; hosting and hospitality; organization; and formal
introductions to university community.)
Faculty Judge for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition sponsored by Graduate Division, spring
2018.
Member of a Committee Responsible for Working on the Transition from Course Evaluation
System to eCafe, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Office, 2016.
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Interim Chairperson, 2018-2019.
Member of the Graduate Committee, 2011-2013 and 2015-2018.
Colloquium Coordinator, 2016-2017.
Chairperson for the Departmental Committee to Develop a New Website, 2012-2014.
Graduate Chair, 2013-2014.
UHPA Representative, 2011-2014 and 2015-present.
Regular and ongoing support of the Graduate Program through the organization of workshops
dedicated to publishing, teaching, and various aspects of the job market.
VOLUNTEER WORK
Consulting and written work volunteered for Full Circle Giving, a non-profit organization
dedicated to improving the lives of the financially disadvantaged in Cleveland, Ohio and
Cuyahoga County. Active participation (2007-Present).
Volunteer work on various political and human rights campaigns (2006-Present).