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Shannon Bell (born 5 May 1955) is a performance
Performance art

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time....
 philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action
Experimental philosophy

Experimental philosophy is a form of philosophical inquiry that makes at least partial use of quantitative research?especially opinion polling?in order to address list of philosophical questions....
, 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's length Canada federal funding agency. SSHRC supports a wide range of research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities and the current president of the Council is Chad Gaffield....
 (SSHRC).

Bell is an associate professor in the York University
York University

York University is a Public university research university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
 Political Science Department, Toronto
Toronto

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, Canada
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Shannon Bell (born 5 May 1955) is a performance
Performance art

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time....
 philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action
Experimental philosophy

Experimental philosophy is a form of philosophical inquiry that makes at least partial use of quantitative research?especially opinion polling?in order to address list of philosophical questions....
, 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's length Canada federal funding agency. SSHRC supports a wide range of research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities and the current president of the Council is Chad Gaffield....
 (SSHRC).

Bell is an associate professor in the York University
York University

York University is a Public university research university located in Toronto, Ontario. It is Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders across the humanities and in sciences such as chemistry, meteorology and space science....
 Political Science Department, Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. 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 Friedrich Hegel, S?ren Kierkegaard, Belette Des...
, fast feminism, sexual politics
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
, cyber politics
Cyberculture

Cyberculture is the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for computer-mediated communication, entertainment industry#Electronic entertainment and electronic business....
, identity politics
Identity politics

Identity politics is political action to advance the interests of members of a group whose members perceive themselves to be oppressed by virtue of a shared and marginalized identity ....
 and violent philosophy
Structural violence

Structural violence, a term which was first used in the 1960s and which has commonly been ascribed to Johan Galtung, denotes a form of violence which corresponds with the systematic ways in which a given social structure or social institution kills people slowly by preventing them from meeting their basic needs....
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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


See also

  • Posthumanism
    Posthumanism

    Posthumanism or post-humanism is a term with five definitions:#Antihumanism: a term applied to a number of thinkers opposed to the project of philosophical anthropology....


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