The Relationality of Research-Creation at the End of Episteme: A Scattering of Beginnings with Excursuses for Dissent

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  • Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield

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https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29727

Author Biography

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield

Dronsfield recently completed a Research Fellowship at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, on dissent under conditions of repression. Publications on dissent during this time include: ‘Reluctant Dissenters, Writer-Philosophers, Kundera and Hrabal’, Drozd (ed), Modern Czech Literature Since 1948: Writing in Times of Political Trauma (Vernon Press, 2024) 73-101; ‘University Leadership, Abyssal Responsibility, Sovereign Exception’, State of Affairs, special issue on New Sociology of Leadership, # 24, 2023, 271-88; ‘The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller and Liiceanu Before and After the Revolution’, Wohl & Păcurar (eds), Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Insurgencies in the “Eastern Block” Countries (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) 129-49; ‘Dissent Non-dissenting: “Resistance through Culture”’, Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory, special issue On Dissent, 55 (5), June 2023, 586-95; ‘The Rhetoric of Inner Freedom’, Journal of Romanian Studies, 4 (2), October 2022, special issue on Rhetorical Strategies and Political Engagement, 215-227; ‘Dissonant dissent: Du Bois and the Terrible Beauty of Rap Music’, Humanities Bulletin, 5 (1), August 2022, 234-41; ‘Banners of Dissidence’, in Thacker & Clay (eds), Revolutions in Print, (Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group, 2021), 23-4. In Prague he gave papers on research-creation to the Academy of Fine Art (‘De-individualization for Art as Dissent’), and the School of Art and Design, City University (‘‘The Use and Abuse of Philosophy for Art’). He is currently working on a book, The Use and Abuse of Philosophy for Art. Relevant publications in the field of art as research include the book The Materiality of Theory (2011), and essays: ‘Writing as practice: Notes on materiality of theory for practice-based PhDs’, Elkins (ed), Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art; ‘Filming deconstruction/deconstructing film’, in Callaghan & McQuillan (eds), Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida; ‘The theory seminars’, Elkins (ed), What Do Artists Know?; ‘The performativity of art’, Senatore (ed), Performatives After Deconstruction. Dronsfield has given readings of his performative texts at many galleries and museums, including: Herbert Read Gallery Kent, MACBA Barcelona, Wilkinson Gallery London, MNAC Bucharest, n Raum gallery Berlin, Focal Point Gallery Southend-on-Sea, Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, Stroom Den Haag, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Pallas Contemporary Projects Dublin, Sketch Gallery London, and at various other locations, among them: Lanserhaus Eppan, Monty Kultuurfactorij Antwerp, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, KaaiTheater Brussels, Spazio K Prato, L’institut français London, and IKEA Ashton-under-Lyne. Dronsfield has held academic positions at A.pass Institute of Art Research Brussels, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Switzerland, the Royal College of Art London, The Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics, and the universities of Reading and Southampton in the UK. He has held fellowships at the Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy London. 

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2025-03-14

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Dronsfield, J. L. (2025). The Relationality of Research-Creation at the End of Episteme: A Scattering of Beginnings with Excursuses for Dissent. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15(3), 119–146. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29727

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2024): A Research-Creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus

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practicing art – practicing knowledge

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