Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

The public lecture will take place on  June 7, at 5 pm(CET) w at the Stadtpalais, Theaterstraße 75, 52062 Aachen. You can also attend online via the following link https://rwth.zoom.us/j/91769488851?pwd=VnBKc1l1M0JRSzBzRDIwZFBodFlYQT09 Meeting-ID: 917 6948 8851 Kenncode: 477889 ABSTRACT: This talk explores how one could develop and apprehend a philosophically intuited syzygy that is art and science, giving way to art-science and artscience (without the hyphen). However, this is not merely about what philosophy could do for artscience (the un-hyphenated version is the speaker’s preferred choice for reasons to be explained in the talk), but also untangles and highlights the simultaneous (and comparative) philosophical arguments that invariably, even if not intentionally, exert the co-existence of art-like (filtered through aesthetics) and science-like (filtered through cognitive acts of logic) subjects in epistemological discussions that often reinforce reductive representations of a...

 It's been 4 months since I'd last posted as I'd been busy completing some papers, attending workshops, presenting at one of a major local conference, and also completing the first draft of a revised book project proposal (these were all between January and the first week of April 2023). This month, it has been about building (and exploring) new skills while also organizing materials (both past and new stuff) for the first two chapters of my book. That said, there are a few announcements to be made with regard to recently published articles, starting from December 2022 since I have forgotten to post about the small booklet that came out in that month. In Devember 2022, my article-length book, " Stanning" Najib: Fanning a Personality Cult in Malaysian Politics " was published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book is co-authored with ISEAS's research associate Amirul Adli Rosli. This work brings together political communication, fan studies, and platfor...