Philosophy, Art & Technology

Performative Images explores how video-image technology impacts our psychic and social environments. We know media technology is dramatically shaping our political and epistemological landscape: this book foregrounds the emergence of performative video images as a key factor in the revaluation of culture and politics.

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Anaïs Nony, PhD

I am a philosopher working on the question of art and technology. I studied theater at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and philosophy at the University of Minnesota where I wrote my doctoral thesis under the direction of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952-2020). I received international research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the University of the Western Cape and the South African Research Chair Initiatives in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare. In 2021, I co-curated Data Streams. Art, Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence at the Glucksman Gallery in Ireland. I am the author of Performative Images. A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) and co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (forthcoming Nov. 2025). My second book Artificial Intelligence Emergency: How to Care for the Future with Technology is under contract with Intellect Books. I have been a guest speaker at Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Centre Pompidou, Quai Branly, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, Institut Français d’Istanbul, Ankara, Izimir among many other venues. 

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