“Transparentism: The End of Critique?” - A Lecture by Professor Emmanuel Alloa

Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. He has long taught at the University Paris 8 and at the Collège international de philosophie and has held Invited Professorships at the universities of Berkeley, Weimar, Belo Horizonte, Vienna, Columbia, and Turin. He currently serves as President of the German Society of Aesthetics. Among his publications in English: Resistance of the Sensible World. An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (Fordham UP 2017); Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media (Columbia UP 2021); This Obscure Thing Called Transparency. Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor (Eds., Leuven UP 2022); The Share of Perspectives (Routledge, 2024).