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Exercises in Existential Eccentricity. Conceptualising autoimmunity as a variation of the conditio humana (2023)

Barbara Macek
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Barb Macek (PhD candidate and fellow (DOC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Fine Arts & Media Arts) takes as her starting point self-reflections and her own experiences with the autoimmune disease SLE. She approaches the phenomenon of autoimmunity in relation to fundamental human ambiguity, following the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner. Macek’s contribution, "Exercises in Existential Eccentricity", explores the bio-philosophical dimension of the disease rather than its bio-medical dimension, showing how autoimmunity raises existential-phenomenological questions regarding bodily ownership, the self, and the notion of the body as “one’s own”. From an assumed embodied diversity, she designs an artistic technique, EEE - Exercises in Existential Eccentricity, drawing on the technique of auto-interviewing, autoethnography and poetics to facilitate a dialogue between different inner voices.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsautoimmunity, artistic research, self-reflexivity, biophilosophy, philosophy, artistic practice, autoethnography, Poetic writing, Poetic Research, philosophical anthropology, poetry
date29/11/2022
published20/03/2023
last modified20/03/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightBarb Macek
licenseAll rights reserved
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1840999/1841000
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/repos.1840999
published inUniversity of Applied Arts Vienna
portal issue01. reposition Journal of reflective Positions in Art and Research


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