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Shannon Bell

Shannon M Bell

Politics & Policy, Technology in Practice
DepartmentPolitics (York)
Areas of Expertiseextremes in art (especially bio- and hybrid-art); shooting theory (videoing-imagining philosophical concept such as Heidegger's stillness, Husserl’s epoché, Bataille's waste, Weil's attention, Deleuze's deterritorialization, Virilio's vision machine and accident)
http://www.yorku.ca/shanbell/ (external link) 

Shannon Bell is a performance philosopher who-lives-and-writes philosophy-in-action. Bell is a Professor in York University’s Political Science Department, Toronto, Canada.

Her books include: Fast Feminism (Autonomedia, 2010), Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body(Indiana University Press 1994); Whore Carnival (Autonomedia1995); Bad Attitude/s on Trial coauthored with Brenda Cossman, Lise Gotell and Becki Ross (University of Toronto Press 1997); New Socialisms eds. Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, John R. Bell and Richard Westra (Routledge 2004).

Bell's areas of interest include continental political theory, cyber politics and digital theory, aesthetics and politics, psychoanalysis, feminism.

Bell is currently working on shooting theory––video-imagining philosophical concept such as Heidegger’s ‘stillness’, Husserl’s ‘epoché’, Batiallian ‘waste’ and ‘expenditure’, Weil’s ‘attention’, Deleuzian ‘deterritorialization’, Virilio’s ‘vision machine’ and ‘accident’, Levinas’ ‘elemental’ and Mallin’s ‘sinuosity’.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2020 - Cody Rooney; Project-Paper: The Post-Digital Pensive Image: Reclamation of Subjectivity Within Communicative Capitalism

2012 - Jessica Thorp; Project-Paper: Fishnets & Desire: Performing the Neoburlesque

2011 - Laura Shaw; Major Research Paper: Representing Orgasms and Pleasure in Pornography: The Face in Beautiful Agony