Shannon Bell is a performance

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

 philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action

Experimental philosophy

Experimental philosophy is an emerging field of philosophical inquiry that makes use of empirical data—often gathered through surveys which probe the intuitions of ordinary people—in order to inform research on philosophical questions This use of empirical data is widely seen as opposed to a...

, experimental philosophy.

Her five books include Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body, Whore Carnival, Bad Attitude/s on Trial (co-author), New Socialisms (co-editor), and Fast Feminism.

Bell is currently researching extreme science and art for her book entitled Fast Bodies; this research is funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council

Social Science and Humanities Research Council

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is an arm of the Canadian federal funding agency. SSHRC supports a wide range of research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The current president of the Council is Chad Gaffield.- History :SSHRC was formally...

 (SSHRC).

Bell is an associate professor in the York University

York University

York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....

 Political Science Department, Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. She teaches postmodern theory

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and structures of philosophy. Beginning as a critique of Continental philosophy, it was heavily influenced by phenomenology, structuralism and existentialism, including writings of Georg Wilhelm...

, fast feminism, sexual politics, cyber politics

Cyberculture

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, identity politics

Identity politics

Identity politics are political arguments that focus upon the self interest and perspectives of self-identified social interest groups and ways in which people's politics may be shaped by aspects of their identity through race, class, religion, sexual orientation or traditional dominance...

 and violent philosophy

Structural violence

Structural violence is a term first used in the 1960s commonly ascribed to Johan Galtung. It refers to a form of violence where some social structure or social institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Institutionalized elitism, ethnocentrism, classism, racism,...

.

Main works

• Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN 0253208599
• Whore carnival, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 1995. ISBN 1570270228
• Bad attitude/s on trial: pornography, feminism, and the Butler decision, Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 1997. ISBN 0802076432

External links

• York University page