Marilyn Stendera

ASCP Conference 2025 - Individual Registration Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy

FINAL REMINDER TO REGISTER FOR ASCP 2025!! 🙏👽

Please register by Monday, November 17 to keep your spot on the programme: ascp.org.au/ascp-confere...

Thanks so much! As does yours! It's great to see philosophy doing so well in this round - and being done in so many different cool ways

Congratulations!!

We're got an incredible line up of scholars across phenomenology, process philosophy, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, literature & aesthetics - Erin Manning, Claire Colebrook, Chloe Anastasia, Lorna Collins, Mads Dengso, J-P Deranty, Joe Hughes, Linda Luke, Annie Sandrussi, Jason Tuckwell

the relationscape Macquarie University, Sydney – 11th and 12th of December 2025

You're invited! Emily Hughes & I are running a workshop at Macquarie University in December. Called 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape', the event is built around Erin Manning's visit to Australia. All welcome, registration free but essential! sites.google.com/view/therela...

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Human-Chatbot Self-Narration 21 November 2025 Michael Kirby Building 330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally's Walk (in-person only) Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie University Organiser: Dr Regina Fabry Contact: regina.fabry@mq.edu.au

How do chatbots based on Large Language Models impact our self-narrative practices? We will explore this question in a workshop titled "Self-Narration in the Age of Conversational Chatbots." The workshop will take place at Macquarie University on 21 November 2025.
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Come join a whole bunch of wonderful people talking about cool things at Unimelb (and online) in November! Get in touch with us via conference@ascp.org.au if you have any questions. (Plus: you're a student or ECR without funding, consider applying for our bursary!)

This is part of a Special Issue on 'Grief in the Digital Age' that I'm co-editing with the brilliant @reginafabry.bsky.social We're so proud of this collection, make sure to check out all the awesome papers!

Marking time: griefbots, world-time, and the phenomenology of bereavement - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Bereavement has long been recognised as an experience of profound temporal disruption, unravelling and even severing the connections, meanings, and strategies we habitually use in navigating time. The...

I'm pleased to share my latest paper, which has just been published (Open Access) in Phenomenology & the Cognitive Sciences. It explores how 'griefbots' - AI chatbots trained to impersonate the dead - might impact the temporal phenomenology of grief.

Is Science a Public Good? Fifth Mullins Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 23 March 1993 - Michel Callon, 1994 Should governments accept the principle of devoting a proportion of their resources to funding basic research? From the standpoint of economics, science should ...

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Sydney turned out for Palestine today. An honour to be a part of this massive crowd.

The Opium of the Lasses: Beauvoir’s Revaluation of Love in The Second Sex Abstract. This paper argues that Beauvoir’s The Second Sex offers a genealogy of the morality of sexual hierarchy in which love plays a central role. In di

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨

‘The Opium of the Lasses: Beauvoir’s Revaluation of Love in The Second Sex’

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ASCP Conference 2025 UniMelb 24-26 November

#CFP: The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Conference 2025 will be held at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus (November 24–26) and online (November 21)

Submission deadline: August 31

For more information: ascp.org.au/conference #ASCP2025 #AusSocContiPhil

The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences Recently, philosophical research on grief and the impact of technological resources on its structure and quality has gained momentum. Deathbots, chatbots based on generative Large Language Models that...

Now out Open Access: My new article on human-deathbot interactions! doi.org/10.1007/s110... 1/3

Can’t take it with you I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

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Was so great to see you! Can't stop thinking about your incredible talk

@reginafabry.bsky.social citing my bible in her amazing talk on the case of counter- self-narration 😍

@marilynstendera.bsky.social using Beauvoir to make sense of games as existential imaginative practices.

So excited to see @bexmillar.bsky.social at the Narrative and Beyond workshop at Macquarie University today!!

So thrilled to have Pat's magnificent contribution as the first published paper of our Special Issue!

Narrative and Beyond Throughout cultural history, human agents have engaged in imaginative practices of meaning-making to negotiate their experiences of loss, disruption, and alienation. From storytelling to painting, fro...

You are cordially invited to register for an in-person workshop titled “Narratives and Beyond: Negotiating Experiences through Imaginative Practices,” which takes place at Macquarie University, Sydney on 22 and 23 April 2025. #philsky sites.google.com/view/narrati... 1/4

How can we integrate epistemological and ethical considerations on AI technologies? We will discuss this question in an upcoming workshop at the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre in Sydney on 28 February 2025. www.eventbrite.com/e/epistemic-... 1/3

A little history lesson reminding you that trans people have always existed! 🏳️‍⚧️ #transhistory #lgbthistory #inanna #ishtar #transartist #indiecomics #mesopotamia #transgender

In the new episode of the Concept : Art podcast, I speak with @marilynstendera.bsky.social about enactivism, embodiment, and the gorier (art) stuff. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or online at our website (www.conceptartpodcast.com).

Thanks man, you're far too kind!

Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time This book reconstructs Heidegger’s philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time. In doin...

It's here!!! The electronic version of my book with the wonderful Emily Hughes is out now! Please consider asking your library to order it - it makes a huge difference. If you want to review it, or don't have library access & want to read it, get in touch! www.routledge.com/Heideggers-A...

See also this excellent list curated by Sonia Sulaiman soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

I only read a couple of pieces, I think I'll have to go down that rabbit hole. (And resist the thought that there's a paper in this haha) I do prefer their first album, there's something so desperate and unbounded about the sound. But the latest is still good.