Interdisciplinary practice of philosophy(II)

SPEAKER: Shan-ni Sunny Tsai

Postdoctoral research scholar, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica

TOPIC: What If Deleuze Does Taichi: Verbs of the Body Forming The Subject as a Practice

TIME:  15:30-17:30, Monday, 22 April, 2024

VENUE: LA 2009, National Sun Yat-sen University

Foregrounding the mobile, affective matter of the body over the fixed forms of thoughts, Deleuze and Guattari prompt us to consider: How can subjectivity be as radical as becoming and as multiple as milieus? Through what kind of practice of the body can we become such subjects? The body of Taichi could be an amorphous formation to further think about such a subjectivity. Following Deleuze and Irigaray’s theory of subject-forming verbs, this talk explores how some verbs of Taichi could create paradoxes that determine the practice of a subject. The verbs this talk would explicate include “to settle in fluidity” (沉), “to melt into metamorphosis” (化), and “to move as a milieu” (虛).