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About
Elisabeth Schäfer is a philosopher* in Vienna. She* teaches and researches in the fields of: Deconstruction, Queer-Feminist Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, Body, Violence, Trauma, Écriture feminine, Writing as Artistic Research and Resistant Practice, and on artistic positions on Climate Change.
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Research
Elisabeth Schäfers works on the intersection of Philosophy and the Arts.
Her current research project (habilitation with SFU Linz) is: „Language Wounds: Alterity. Trauma. Difference. Translations between Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Gender Theory and Art.“
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Publications
"Write your self. Your Body must be heard."
Hélène Cixous
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Lectures
"I am spacious singing Flesh: onto which is grafted no one knows which I – which masculine or feminine, more or less human, but above all living, because changing I."
Hélène Cixous
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Performances
"The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities."
Gilles Deleuze | Félix Guattari
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Teaching
Elisabeth Schäfer teaches at several national and international Universities and Art Institutions, such as: University of Vienna (Department of Philosophy and Gender Studies) | University pf Applied Arts Vienna (Department for Sprachkunst) | Sigmund Freud Private University Linz | Goethe University of Frankfurt (Department of Philosophy) | Université Paris VI Vincennes (Department of Philosophy and Gender Studies) | UdK University of the Arts Berlin (DfG Graduate Research Training Group) | University of Klagenfurt (Gender Studies Department) | University of Potsdam Berlin (European Media Studies)
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Radio
"We are bodies in ghosts as fast as the radio."
Hélène Cixous
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Material
"Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?"
Donna Haraway
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Credits
What goes around comes around
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Contact
"Telepathy is matter of habit, says Freud to himself."
Hélène Cixous