Filipe Felizardo is a philosophy student, artist and musician from Lisbon, with an informal education in film, comics, and musical pedagogy. They founded Antumbra Publishing House, dedicated to photography and Portuguese translations of neo-rationalist thought. Their current research in Critical Philosophy at the New Centre for Research & Practice focuses on systematic reconceptions of learning and alienation, as understood from the workspaces of inferentialism, Marxist activity-approach, and anti-vitalism. Felizardo is also working on a comics adaptation of Peter Wolfendale’s “Essay on Transcendental Realism” and translations of Wilfrid Sellars and Rob Lucas.
Articles
Learners of the World, Unite! Part III
[This is Part III of a three-part essay. Part I can be read here. Part II can be read here. — Ed.] Is it worth it? Let me work it. — Missy Elliott PAIDEIA2: THE FORMATION OF THE INHUMAN It is in the contours of the vacuum pointed at by the previous… Read More »
Learners of the World, Unite! Part II
[This is Part II of a three-part essay. Part I can be read here. Part III can be read here. — Ed.] PG: When I write, I try to reach beyond the social, and even beyond the human state. It’s something that I’ve been doing for a long time. TWR: Does this lead you towards… Read More »
Learners of the World, Unite! Part I
[This is Part I of a three-part essay. Part II can be read here. Part III can be read here. — Ed.] On Labor, Universality, and the Production the Human Besides, he did not know which side of eternity it was. He was not sure that eternity could be bisected—or if so, that there were… Read More »
I Am A Philosopher
Last year—two years ago?—Cássia Siqueira tweeted: “Better Call Saul S06E07.” I was mystified, but didn’t ask her what it was about. I’d never watched the TV show. But anything Cássia wrote, wherever she wrote it, however cryptic, deserved investigation. So I watched the whole show, knowing I was looking for the meaning of her tweet.… Read More »
The Purist
Filipe Felizardo is a philosophy student, artist and musician from Lisbon, with an informal education in film, comics, and musical pedagogy. Currently a Researcher on Critical Philosophy at the New Centre for Research & Practice, Felizardo focuses on systematic reconceptions of learning and alienation, as understood from the workspaces of inferentialism, Marxist activity-approach, and anti-vitalism.
As If a Planet is a Camera Obscura of Itself
01 Burrowed somewhat deep in the human ocular globe lies what will, for the sake of this essay, be called a bottleneck or a gate which functionally delimits the liminal zone between thought and cognition, between self and alien, between globularity and planetarity, between being and worlding. Punctum caecum is the scientific name of that… Read More »
The Learner
I. Mania «Recently my thoughts have been pointillistic: timeless markers, like an old prison tattoo, a program for a learning addiction. You see, friend, I have been trying to compose myself, tentatively, as an archetype for a Learner, the archetype to kill all archetypes. This is based on my intuition or the real possibility that… Read More »