Sensitive Space

The author of "Life of Plants," "Metamorphosis," and "Sensible Life" questions space and perception: is space the object of our perception or matter that perceives in itself?

Emanuele Coccia is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and formerly taught in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Columbia University in New York, and the Universities of Buenos Aires, Dusseldorf, Tokyo and Weimar. He has worked extensively on aesthetics and biology, and has written about contemporary art and fashion, and was appointed scientific curator of the exhibition Trees at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (2019). His publications include Sensible Life (New York, 2016), Goods: Advertising, Urban Space and the Moral Law of the Image (New York, 2017), The Life of Plants (London, 2018) and Metamorphosis (London 2020). With Giorgio Agamben, he edited an anthology covering angels in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

This masterclass is the second session of the Sensitive Observations Seminar Series hosted by AA Diploma Unit 16: Homo Urbanus taught by Ila Beka, Louise Lemoine and Gili Merin.

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