Michaela Fiserova
MY NEW BOOK published with SUNY Press (USA):
https://sunypress.edu/Books/E/Event-of-Signature
GAČR, Vice-chairman and member of 401 Panel "Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies", Grant Agency of Czech republic
https://gacr.cz/en/panels/
GAČR, Member of Discipline Committee "Social Sciences and Humanities"
https://gacr.cz/o-ga-cr/poradni-organy/oborove-komise/
Specialization
- contemporary French philosophy, political philosophy, visual studies, aesthetics, ethic
- particularly works of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Ranciere, Nancy
Education
- academic title Mgr. in Cultural Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava (2004)
- academic title M.A. in Aesthetics at Université Paris 8 in Paris (2006)
- academic title Ph.D. (Dissertation) in Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava and at Université Paris 7 in Paris (cotutelle de these, 2009)
Habilitation
- academic degree "Docent" in Philosophy at Masaryk university in Brno (2020)
Dissertation committee
Eric Michaud, Etienne Balibar, Philippe Roger, Christian Lazzeri, Ivan Buraj, Robert Karul, Tibor Pichler, Kristina Korena (8 reports, result: excellent avec félicitation du jury)
Habilitation committee
Josef Vojvodík, Peter Michalovič, Ivan Buraj, Dagmar Pichová, Jan Zouhar, habilitation reports: Gregg Lambert, Vlastimil Zuska, Miroslav Marcelli (3 reports, result: unanimous favorable vote of the scientific council)
Awards and scholarships
- "Rector of Comenius University Award" for excellent Master diploma work (2004)
- Scholarship of Jan Hus Educational Foundation (2012/2013)
- Scholarship for Excellent PhD Students (2008, 2009)
- Scholarship of French Government (2004/2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Academic employment
- 2010-2018: Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics
- 2013-2015: Head of the Center for Media Culture Studies at Metropolitan University in Prague
- 2013-2019: Assistant Professor at Metropolitan University in Prague, Department of Media Studies
- from 2020: Associate Professor at Metropolitan University in Prague, Department of Media Studies
Academic fellowship (one-semester cycles of lectures)
- Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), Prague (2019, 2020, 2021)
- Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts (2013, 2018)
- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences (2011, 2012)
- Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts (2007, 2008, 2009)
Editorial board
- from 2020: member of editorial board at the MUP Press publisher
Doctoral board
- 2014-2020: member of doctoral board in Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication, FHS UK
- from 2016: member of doctoral board in Media studies, MUP
Grant agencies
- 2021-2023: Vice-chairman of the 401 panel "Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies", Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR, Czech republic)
- from 2020: refereeing for Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK, Czech republic)
- from 2018: refereeing for Agency for Science and Development (APVV, Slovak republic)
Research grants
2014-2016: post-doctoral research grant in philosophy „Deconstruction of Signature. Metaphysical Dimension of the Legal Mediation Politics“, Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR)
2021-2023: research grant in literature "Robert Saudek: Traces of Writing", Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR)
Languages
Scientific level of spoken and written expression in French, English, Czech, and Slovak
Academic associations (selection)
- American Philosophical Association
- Association Jacques Derrida, Paris
- Center for Sociology of Political Practices and Representations, Paris
- European Society for Aesthetics
- Society for Aesthetics, Prague/Brno
- Slovak Philosophical Association, Bratislava
Membership in NAU (Czech National Accreditation Institute), specialization: Philosophy
Supervisors: Etienne Tassin (Ph.D. in Philosophy - cotutelle de these avec Miroslav Marcelli), Miroslav Marcelli (Ph.D. in Philosophy - cotutelle de these avec Etienne Tassin), Francois Soulages (M.A. in Aesthetics), and Zuzana Slušná (Mgr. in Cultural studies)
Address: Doc. Michaela Fišerová, M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP)
Pasteurova 13
400 96 Ústí nad Labem
Czech republic
https://sunypress.edu/Books/E/Event-of-Signature
GAČR, Vice-chairman and member of 401 Panel "Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies", Grant Agency of Czech republic
https://gacr.cz/en/panels/
GAČR, Member of Discipline Committee "Social Sciences and Humanities"
https://gacr.cz/o-ga-cr/poradni-organy/oborove-komise/
Specialization
- contemporary French philosophy, political philosophy, visual studies, aesthetics, ethic
- particularly works of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Ranciere, Nancy
Education
- academic title Mgr. in Cultural Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava (2004)
- academic title M.A. in Aesthetics at Université Paris 8 in Paris (2006)
- academic title Ph.D. (Dissertation) in Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava and at Université Paris 7 in Paris (cotutelle de these, 2009)
Habilitation
- academic degree "Docent" in Philosophy at Masaryk university in Brno (2020)
Dissertation committee
Eric Michaud, Etienne Balibar, Philippe Roger, Christian Lazzeri, Ivan Buraj, Robert Karul, Tibor Pichler, Kristina Korena (8 reports, result: excellent avec félicitation du jury)
Habilitation committee
Josef Vojvodík, Peter Michalovič, Ivan Buraj, Dagmar Pichová, Jan Zouhar, habilitation reports: Gregg Lambert, Vlastimil Zuska, Miroslav Marcelli (3 reports, result: unanimous favorable vote of the scientific council)
Awards and scholarships
- "Rector of Comenius University Award" for excellent Master diploma work (2004)
- Scholarship of Jan Hus Educational Foundation (2012/2013)
- Scholarship for Excellent PhD Students (2008, 2009)
- Scholarship of French Government (2004/2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
Academic employment
- 2010-2018: Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics
- 2013-2015: Head of the Center for Media Culture Studies at Metropolitan University in Prague
- 2013-2019: Assistant Professor at Metropolitan University in Prague, Department of Media Studies
- from 2020: Associate Professor at Metropolitan University in Prague, Department of Media Studies
Academic fellowship (one-semester cycles of lectures)
- Academy of Performing Arts (AMU), Prague (2019, 2020, 2021)
- Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Arts (2013, 2018)
- Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences (2011, 2012)
- Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts (2007, 2008, 2009)
Editorial board
- from 2020: member of editorial board at the MUP Press publisher
Doctoral board
- 2014-2020: member of doctoral board in Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication, FHS UK
- from 2016: member of doctoral board in Media studies, MUP
Grant agencies
- 2021-2023: Vice-chairman of the 401 panel "Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies", Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR, Czech republic)
- from 2020: refereeing for Grant Agency of Charles University (GAUK, Czech republic)
- from 2018: refereeing for Agency for Science and Development (APVV, Slovak republic)
Research grants
2014-2016: post-doctoral research grant in philosophy „Deconstruction of Signature. Metaphysical Dimension of the Legal Mediation Politics“, Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR)
2021-2023: research grant in literature "Robert Saudek: Traces of Writing", Grant Agency of Czech republic (GAČR)
Languages
Scientific level of spoken and written expression in French, English, Czech, and Slovak
Academic associations (selection)
- American Philosophical Association
- Association Jacques Derrida, Paris
- Center for Sociology of Political Practices and Representations, Paris
- European Society for Aesthetics
- Society for Aesthetics, Prague/Brno
- Slovak Philosophical Association, Bratislava
Membership in NAU (Czech National Accreditation Institute), specialization: Philosophy
Supervisors: Etienne Tassin (Ph.D. in Philosophy - cotutelle de these avec Miroslav Marcelli), Miroslav Marcelli (Ph.D. in Philosophy - cotutelle de these avec Etienne Tassin), Francois Soulages (M.A. in Aesthetics), and Zuzana Slušná (Mgr. in Cultural studies)
Address: Doc. Michaela Fišerová, M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (UJEP)
Pasteurova 13
400 96 Ústí nad Labem
Czech republic
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Books by Michaela Fiserova
philosophy, semiotics and media studies. The goal of the research presented in this book is to characterize the specific semantic „message“ generated by signature, a medium that can be defined as a picture of the author's name drawn manually by the author himself, which is supposed to represent the author's civil identity. The book compares three different discursive expectations from signature in psychological graphology, forensic analysis and digital cryptography. The hierarchized knowledge of these three disciplines founds contemporary Czech legal mediation politics. By means of Derrida's deconstruction, the book proposes to rethink three aporias corresponding to the three metaphysical expectations from handwritten signature, which are shared in graphology and forensic analysis. The first metaphysical expectation from signature is the ability to let us recognize the writer: signature is understood as a "natural" picture of the author's name, which has the same qualities as the author himself. The second metaphysical expectation from signature is the ability to guarantee "authenticity": signature is taken as a proof of physical contact between the signed document and the writing instrument held by the author's hand. The third metaphysical expectation from signature is the capability of eternal and perpetual manual reproduction: handwritten signature is considered to be a personal logo, a graphical convention, which guarantees the author's legal "identity". By analyzing the mentioned metaphysical expectations and aporias generated by them, the book proposes a media semiotics of signature inspired by both Derrida's deconstruction and Eco's semiotics of conventional realism. The book brings a complex philosophical research of discursive and metaphysical conditions of possibility of the handwritten signature's interpretation.
L’ensemble est composé des sept entretiens: 1. Quelle poli tique des images? entretien avec théoricien de l’art plastique Georges Di- di-Huberman, 2. Les images ne représentent plus, entretien avec philosophe Jacques Rancière, 3. Image, sujet, pouvoir, entretien avec philosophe Ma- rie-José Mondzain, 4. L’imaginaire cybernétique, entretien avec philosophe Pierre Lévy, 5. L’ère d’images numériques, entretien avec sociologue Michel Maffesoli, 6. Globalisation de la vision, entretien avec anthropologue Marc Augé, 7. Construction du regard, entretien avec philosophe Monique Sicard.
Chaque entretien s’accompagne d’une caractéristique concentrée, censée présenter la spécialisation de l’auteur donné, les enjeux de sa conception et ses publications les plus importantes. Le livre est introduit par une étude d’auteur assez complexe, considérant le point de vue sur le rapport entre l’image et le pouvoir, tel qu’il est actuellement présenté en France dans les domaines de la philosophie et des sciences sociales.
L’enjeu de cette réflexion est de montrer que, malgré leurs différences considérables, les conceptions présentées ont un point commun: selon les auteurs, les images elles-mêmes ne disent rien, ni ne montrent jamais le tout. La seule chose qu’elles peuvent réellement faire, c’est faciliter notre partage du visible, en provoquant la parole à propos de ce qu’elles font voir et en nous incitant à construire nos représentations du monde. Telle est la limite implicite du travail de tout penseur cherchant a saisir le rapport entre l’image et le pouvoir: il n’est pas possible d’échapper à la pratique de la représentation, ni en la déniant, ni lorsqu’on la prend pour le sujet de notre réflexion. Cette pratique ambiguë ne peut pas être contournée, car on ne peut pas procéder autrement: tant qu’on choisit et utilise les images en tant qu’illustrations, on leur assigne une signification qui n’est pas la leur dans un sens absolu. Essentiellement politique, le travail de représentation ne cesse pas d’affronter le décalage insurmontable entre la nature de l’image et celle de la parole par laquelle nous la saisissons.
Papers by Michaela Fiserova
philosophy, semiotics and media studies. The goal of the research presented in this book is to characterize the specific semantic „message“ generated by signature, a medium that can be defined as a picture of the author's name drawn manually by the author himself, which is supposed to represent the author's civil identity. The book compares three different discursive expectations from signature in psychological graphology, forensic analysis and digital cryptography. The hierarchized knowledge of these three disciplines founds contemporary Czech legal mediation politics. By means of Derrida's deconstruction, the book proposes to rethink three aporias corresponding to the three metaphysical expectations from handwritten signature, which are shared in graphology and forensic analysis. The first metaphysical expectation from signature is the ability to let us recognize the writer: signature is understood as a "natural" picture of the author's name, which has the same qualities as the author himself. The second metaphysical expectation from signature is the ability to guarantee "authenticity": signature is taken as a proof of physical contact between the signed document and the writing instrument held by the author's hand. The third metaphysical expectation from signature is the capability of eternal and perpetual manual reproduction: handwritten signature is considered to be a personal logo, a graphical convention, which guarantees the author's legal "identity". By analyzing the mentioned metaphysical expectations and aporias generated by them, the book proposes a media semiotics of signature inspired by both Derrida's deconstruction and Eco's semiotics of conventional realism. The book brings a complex philosophical research of discursive and metaphysical conditions of possibility of the handwritten signature's interpretation.
L’ensemble est composé des sept entretiens: 1. Quelle poli tique des images? entretien avec théoricien de l’art plastique Georges Di- di-Huberman, 2. Les images ne représentent plus, entretien avec philosophe Jacques Rancière, 3. Image, sujet, pouvoir, entretien avec philosophe Ma- rie-José Mondzain, 4. L’imaginaire cybernétique, entretien avec philosophe Pierre Lévy, 5. L’ère d’images numériques, entretien avec sociologue Michel Maffesoli, 6. Globalisation de la vision, entretien avec anthropologue Marc Augé, 7. Construction du regard, entretien avec philosophe Monique Sicard.
Chaque entretien s’accompagne d’une caractéristique concentrée, censée présenter la spécialisation de l’auteur donné, les enjeux de sa conception et ses publications les plus importantes. Le livre est introduit par une étude d’auteur assez complexe, considérant le point de vue sur le rapport entre l’image et le pouvoir, tel qu’il est actuellement présenté en France dans les domaines de la philosophie et des sciences sociales.
L’enjeu de cette réflexion est de montrer que, malgré leurs différences considérables, les conceptions présentées ont un point commun: selon les auteurs, les images elles-mêmes ne disent rien, ni ne montrent jamais le tout. La seule chose qu’elles peuvent réellement faire, c’est faciliter notre partage du visible, en provoquant la parole à propos de ce qu’elles font voir et en nous incitant à construire nos représentations du monde. Telle est la limite implicite du travail de tout penseur cherchant a saisir le rapport entre l’image et le pouvoir: il n’est pas possible d’échapper à la pratique de la représentation, ni en la déniant, ni lorsqu’on la prend pour le sujet de notre réflexion. Cette pratique ambiguë ne peut pas être contournée, car on ne peut pas procéder autrement: tant qu’on choisit et utilise les images en tant qu’illustrations, on leur assigne une signification qui n’est pas la leur dans un sens absolu. Essentiellement politique, le travail de représentation ne cesse pas d’affronter le décalage insurmontable entre la nature de l’image et celle de la parole par laquelle nous la saisissons.
Nous proposons de réfléchir à ce problème en nous attachant plus par- ticulièrement aux problématiques de la photographie documentaire, saisie en tant qu’image censée porter deux messages différents à la fois : factuel et fétiche, politique et esthétique. Par la présentation de deux cas exemplaires de photographies clandestines ayant « survécu » malgré un décret d’élimi- nation – celui de la période de normalisation en Slovaquie d’un côté, et celui des camps d’extermination nazis d’un autre côté –, nous proposons de mettre en évidence les enjeux de la censure qui a attribué à ces épreuves le statut d’images interdites.
Comme la sélection officielle relève d’un ensemble de conditions d’ins- titutionnalisation, de médiation et de contrôle des représentations dans la société, sa finalité consiste à fournir un principe de légitimité pour des images jugées « convenables » et destinées au partage public. Mais, en pré- sentant certaines photographies documentaires comme les représentations « pertinentes » d’une période historique, cette pratique de sélection fait sys- tématiquement disparaître le côté fétiche des images au profit de leur mes- sage documentaire. Dans cette perspective, la sélection témoigne d’une triple stratégie discursive – de délimitation, d’exclusion et d’affirmation – à laquelle il nous faut prêter attention.