Joaquim Rodrigo:a contínua reinvenção da pintura

Tese de doutoramento, História (História da Arte), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2014

Play it Again

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Pintura), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2016

Aphomoioo : existir entre o processo e a obra

Coming from the need to express an image – aphomoioo – is more than a dissertation trying to prove its argument. It is the result of an experimentation born from within an anguish felt through an image. An uncontrollable desire that transforms my need into an answer to my craft. Through a discursive organization of speech enmeshed by psychoanalytic, biological, philosophical and linguistic concepts, we are allowed to discover that existing is more than agreeing on a target with an end but, as the relationship that it is, it does not define us as beings, but as an active/interactive limit. And this identity which puts us face to face with the reality - constructed and constructive - seeking to describe the similarity of the existence of things, the images. These beings from the reality that sends us to the symbolic place of our existence, the mundanity. A restlessness that is embedded into every action of knowing that, through language, establishes as true everything which silences the symbolic through a rule of conduct - the principle of reason - a formal rule of all knowledge that establishes the contemplative way for all knowledge originally set up as one signification event. The nature of our organization as living beings, our structural coupling, is what enables us to conclude that all formalities established as knowledge are born into a delirium that is expressed in the conformity of an answer. That being the end of an aphomoioo. The purpose of a "doing" that expresses itself into an image that is projected into a representation. A "doing" made after an image through an ergo genesis – the "artwork" – an answer to my making that expresses the image of my separation from myself as an image of ego established in a represented projection of my hallucinatory image

Opacidade e limite na antropologia de Helmuth Plessner

Le projet d’une Anthropologie Philosophique en tant que philosophie fondamentale defini par Helmuth Plessner, se base sur la catégorie d’excentricité: l’homme occupe une place à la fois centrée et décentrée, soit en tant qu’être au monde, soit dans le rapport à son corps, tantôt vécu comme identité personnelle, tantôt usé en tant qu’instrument. Cette dualité fondamentale de la condition humaine et de son existence dialectique mène à une compréhension de l’expressivité en tant que double. Ou bien l’expression suit une voie indicative (par le langage, les gestes et la mimique) quand l’homme est son corps, ou bien, quand le corps est usé en tant qu’instrument de réponse, l’expressivité devient opaque. L’article propose une lecture de ce point spécifique de la théorie de l’expression, thème central du livre de 1941, Rire et pleurer. Une étude des limites du comportement humain. Décrire la signification et le processus déclencheur du rire et du pleurer c’est donc saisir l’homme au sein même de son ambivalence.