Nélio Conceição

Nélio Conceição obtained his PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His thesis focuses on the relation between philosophy and photography, paying special attention to the thought of Walter Benjamin, while exploring phenomenology and the work of Fernando Gil at the same time. He is currently working on a post-doc project on the relation between art, play and image, investigating the philosophical and artistic ramifications of Walter Benjamin’s work. He was a visiting scholar at PUC-São Paulo (2015) and Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin (2016). In the IFILNOVA, he organised several seminars and conferences, mainly on aesthetics, and was a team member of the projects “Morphology: Questions on Method and Language” and “Language and Forces”.

Academic Expertise and research interests:

Aesthetics and philosophy of artistic practices (photography, cinema, literature, modern and contemporary art). Walter Benjamin’s thought and contemporary philosophy. Aesthetic values from the perspective of critique and history. Aesthetic experience of the city.

Publications:

Journal articles

  • “Repetition, Experimentation: games of chance and the urban room for play”, in Itinera. Rivista di filosofia e di teoria delle arti, n.14, 2017.

  • “Atirar pedras, olhar de frente a estranheza: sobre os gestos que não esquecem”, Revista ArteFilosofia, n. 22, Jan/Jul, 2017, pp. 77-86.

  • “Do génio ao jogo. O papel da técnica na transformação dos valores estéticos em Walter Benjamin”, in Trans/Form/Ação, UNESP, Marília, v. 40, n. 1, Jan/Mar, 2017, pp. 87-108.

  • “Shedding the veils, making room: on some photographic motives in Walter Benjamin”, in Scopio Sophia. Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: The Aura of the Image. Dimendberg, Edward; Neto, Pedro Leão; Ventura, Susana (eds.), Porto: Scopio Editions, Sophia Collection, Cityscopio Associação Cultural, December 2016, pp. 30-45.

  • “Cinco movimentos sobre a fixação”, Revista três três, nº 3, Janeiro 2014, Caldas da Rainha, pp. 6-9. 

  • “The childhood photographs of Benjamin and Kafka: from sacrifice to gesture in the World Theatre”, in Itinera. Rivista di filosofia e di teoria delle arti, n. 6, 2013, pp. 82-95.

Book chapters

  • “Technology and urban space: on the relation between the historical approach and the transformation of aesthetic values in Walter Benjamin”, in A. Marques, J. Sáàgua, Essays on Values and Practical Rationality – Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017 (forthcoming).

  • “Jogo, espaço de manobra e inervação em Walter Benjamin”, in Conceitos Estéticos / Conceptos Estéticos (II Encontro Ibérico de Estética / II Encuentro Ibérico de Estética, 2015), María José Alcaraz León, Vítor Moura (org.), Vila Nova de Famalicão: Húmus, 2017, pp. 63-76.

  • “Muitas coisas ao mesmo tempo: sobre o atlas da exposição Retornar – Traços de Memória”, in Retornar – Traços de Memória do Fim do Império, Elsa Peralta, Bruno Góis, Joana Oliveira (eds.), Lisboa: Edições 70, 2017, pp. 177-195.

  • “Persistência fotográfica – a força de evidência e a vitalidade do atlas”, in Fotogramas: Ensaios sobre a Fotografia. Margarida Medeiros (ed.), Lisboa: Documenta, 2016, pp. 129-140.

  • “Images to exercise ourselves. Morphology between August Sander’s photographs and Gerhard Richter’s Atlas”, in Morphology. Questions on method and Language, Molder, Maria Filomena; Soeiro, Diana; Fonseca, Nuno (eds.), col. Lisbon Philosophical Studies: Uses of Language in Interdisciplinary Fields. Vol. 3, Bern: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 125-146.

  • “Descrever fotografias, descrever a fotografia – entre Husserl, Barthes e Benjamin”, in Filosofia e Literatura 2 – Descrever Arte (Actas do Segundo Colóquio de Filosofia e Literatura, 2011), Humberto Brito (org.), Lisboa: IFL – UNL, 2011, pp. 105-122.

 
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