Biography
Dr. Sjoerd van Tuinen is associate professor of philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy
Driven by affinities between the arts and humanities, and with expertise across the spectrum of continental philosophy, my research is rooted in the theoretical traditions of pragmatism, philosophical anthropology, critical theory, and (post-)structuralism. I combine contemporary questions concerning the (bio)politics of debt, power struggles over the imagination, the ecology of habits and habitats, changing technology and media cultures, the destitution of subjectivity, and the politics of affect with problems in metaphysics, aesthetics, social and political theory, and the history of Western philosophy. My philosophical expertise is on authors such as Leibniz, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Bergson, Whitehead, Heidegger, Adorno, Deleuze, Agamben, and Stengers.
After having studied sociology and philosophy in Rotterdam, Rome and Leipzig, I received a PhD in philosophy from Ghent University (2009) for a dissertation on Deleuze and neo-monadological accounts of subjectivity. In 2008-9 I worked as a lecturer at Maastricht University. Among visiting appointments, I was visiting lecturer at Stellenbosch University (2005), visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2013), research fellow at Humboldt University (2014) and Fordham University (2016), a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University (2017-18), and a collaborator at NOVA University Lisbon (2022-). I have received several research grants, among them the NWO-Veni scholarship, and edited over two dozen films, volumes and special issues, including a series of interdisciplinary theory books in collaboration with V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. I’m a founding member of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge and editor for various journals including De Uil van Minerva Much of my work is available on academia.edu. ORCID iD
Selected audio and video
‘De anarchistische metafysica van Gabriel Tarde’, De nieuwe wereld (2023), link ‘Menno ter Braak: kikker in het moeras’, Felix en Sofie (2023), link ‘Ressentiment: a liberal concept?’, Study Groups in Psychoanalysis and Politics (2022), link ‘The philosophy of care’, Rhizostance (2021), link The Toxic Reigns of Resentment, Bullfrog Films (2019), link Book presentation Leven in het antropoceen, Studio Erasmus (2019), link ‘Die beste aller möglichen Welten?’ Zum 70. Geburtstag Peter Sloterdijks, ZKM Karlsruhe (2017), link ‘Good sense and common sense’, response to I. Stengers, Kaaitheater (2017), link Lectures on aesthetics, Frontaalfilm (2017), link Class on the anthropocene, EUR (2016), link
Key publications
Book in progress: Less Subject, More Substance. A General Account of Bonding.
Forthcoming book: Deleuze’s Mannerist Aesthetics (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
Book: The Dialectic of Ressentiment: Pedagogy of a Concept (Routledge, 2023). Open access
Book: The Philosophy of Mannerism: From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Papers on anarchism and autonomist marxism: 'Biomacht en biopolitiek: de inbedding van Foucault in het autonoom marxisme', in: Krisis. Tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie 2009.3, 68-85. With A. Griffioen. pdf 'Intersubjectivity and Transindividuality: Leibniz, Husserl, Deleuze, and the Composition of Worlds (Animal Monadology)', Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia, 32 (2021), doi ‘The Use of Souls: Souriau and Political Spirituality’, Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico 15.2 (2022), 103-13. doi; ‘Political Mannerism’ in: M. Marder and G. Tusa (eds.), Glossary of the Present (MIT Press, 2024). pdf
Papers on critique, care, and the PSR: 'Difference and Speculation: Heidegger, Meillassoux and Deleuze on Sufficient Reason', in: A. Beaulieu & E. Kazarian & J. Sushytska (eds.), Deleuze and Metaphysics, Lexington Books (2014), 63-90. pdf 'Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy', in: A. Avanessian & S. Malik (eds.), Genealogies of Speculation. Materialism and Subjectivity since Structuralism. Bloomsbury (2015), 93-114. pdf 'Elasticity and Plasticity: Immunology and the Crisis of Repetition', in: A. Radman & H. Sohn (eds). Critical and Clinical Cartographies. Edinburgh University Press (2017), 243-68. pdf 'Common Sense: From Critique to Care (Arendt beyond Arendt)' in: J. Brouwer & S. van Tuinen (eds.) To Mind is to Care (V2 Publishers, 2019), 124-57. pdf Follow-up: 'Philosophy in the Light of AI: Hegel or Leibniz', in Angelaki. Journal for the Theoretical Humanities 25.4 (2020), 97-109, doi
Book: Peter Sloterdijk – Ein Profil (Fink/UTB, 1st and 2nd editions, 2006) pdf and 2004 Dutch version. English follow-ups: 'Critique Beyond Resentment. An Introduction to Peter Sloterdijk’s Jovial Modernity', Cultural Politics 3.3 (2007), 275-306 doi 'Air Conditioning Spaceship Earth: Peter Sloterdijk’s Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm', Society and Space 27.1 (2009), 105-18. doi ‘A Thymotic Left? Peter Sloterdijk and the Psychopolitics of Ressentiment’ Symploke 18.1/2 (2011), 217-34. doi
Selected edited volumes
Miscellaneous: The Politics of Debt: Essays and Interviews (Zero Books, 2020). With A. Kleinherenbrink; The Polemics of Ressentiment. Variations on Nietzsche (Bloomsbury, 2018); Speculative Art Histories. Analysis at the Limits (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). pdf
Interdisciplinary theory with V2_ Publishers: Technological Accidents – Accidental Technologies (2023). With J. Brouwer. pdf; To Mind is to Care (2019). With J. Brouwer. pdf The War of Appearances: Transparancy, Radiancy, Opacity (2016). With J. Brouwer & L. Spuybroek. pdf; Giving and Taking. Antidotes to a Culture of Greed (2014). With J. Brouwer. pdf
On Deleuze: Art History after Deleuze and Guattari (Leuven University Press, 2017). With S. Zepke. pdf and pdf Deleuze and the Passions (Punctum Books, 2016). With C. Meiborg. pdf Deleuze and The Fold. A Critical Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). With N. McDonnell.
In Dutch: Leven in het antropoceen. Een handleiding (Boom, 2019). With M. Schuilenburg. pdf De nieuwe Franse filosofie. Denkers en thema's voor de 21e eeuw (Boom, 2011). With B. Ieven, A. van Rooden & M. Schuilenburg. pdf en pdf Deleuze compendium (Boom, 2009, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions). With E. Romein & M. Schuilenburg. pdf en pdf
Guest editorials: ‘Gebruik en Misbruik van Agamben’, De Uil van Minerva, December 2024 (with S. Meeuwsen); ‘Gewoonte: fenomenologische en ontologische benaderingen’, Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrijft voor de Wijsbegeerte 114.3, 2022 (with M. Wehrle); ‘Analytische en continentale filosofie’, De Uil van Minerva, 33.3, 2020; ‘Bruno Latour’, Wijsgerig Perspectief, 52.4, 2012 (with M. Schuilenburg); ‘Deleuze and visual art’, Deleuze Studies, 5.1, 2011; ‘Foucault en Biopolitiek’, Krisis, 2009.3 (with M. Schuilburg); ‘Peter Sloterdijk’, Cultural Politics, 3.3, 2007.
Courses taught
Graduate courses: Advanced Critical Theory: Readings in Marxism; The Principle and Function of Reason; Mannerism and Modernity; Political Affect; Leibniz Today (Neo-Monadologies); The Expressionist Aesthetics of Deleuze and Guattari; Alfred North Whitehead's 'Process and Reality'; Art Theory and Art Criticism; Metaphysics in Spinoza and Leibniz.
Undergraduate courses: Key Concepts for Ecological Encounters; Bergson and Continental Empiricism; Ontology and Metaphysics; Dialecticss and Difference; Aesthetics; Plasticity of the Human; Philosophy and Rhetorics; Philosophy and Film; Philosophy of History; Ecophilosophy; Science, Culture and Technology; Thesis Writing; Philosophical Anthropology; Culture, Identity, and Globalization; Style and Modernity; Philosophy of Language; Disenchantment and Ideology; Philosophical Reading.
Current research
I’m working on a series of papers in which I develop a pedagogical practice and eco-philosophical reinterpretation of the principle of sufficient reason (PSR), geared towards achieving coherence between habits and habitats. According to Kant, the ‘idea of reason’ has passed through three stages: dogmatism, skepticism, and critique. Starting from the identification of a fault line in the late 19th century responses to German Idealism, I elaborate a fourth stage, provisionally called care.
One of my ongoing interests is in anarchism and autonomous Marxism, with a focus on questions of constituent and destituent power, the soul, and technology. I investigate the mediatic, ritual, and semiotic fields of belonging in which the constant (re)composition of collective bodies and souls occurs. This work on our affective incorporations, conspirative bubbles, and attention grabs includes revisiting the Kantian notion of the schematism and its reception in modern philosophy, as well as modes of value production beyond the worn dualism of use value and exchange value.
At present I supervise projects on ‘Aesthetic Transformations in Decolonial Media Practices’ (PhD), 'The Principle of Sufficient Reason: From Critique to Care' (PhD), 'The Role of Philosophy of Technology in the Anthropocene' (PhD), 'The Logic of Deliciousness: To Think Food Differently in the Case of Nordic Cuisine' (PhD), 'Reasonable Machines: Rational Paths, Models and Prospects in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence' (PhD), 'The Politics of Austerity in Europe' (PhD), 'Articulations of Desire: Populism and the Future of Democracy' (Postdoc), and coordinate a long-standing study group in post-Kantian philosophy.
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Work
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2023) - The Dialectic of Ressentiment: Pedagogy of a Concept - doi: 10.4324/9781003384250 - [link]
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2023) - Technological Accidents - Accidental Technologies - [link]
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2022) - The Philosophy of Mannerism: From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics - [link]
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2022) - The Use of Souls: Souriau and PolitiSpirituality - Aisthesis (Italy), 15 (2), 103-113 - doi: 10.36253/Aisthesis-13908 - [link]
- Sjoerd van Tuinen & Maren Wehrle (2022) - Gewoontes: ontologische, fenomenologische en antropologische perspectieven - doi: 10.5117/ANTW2022.3.001.TUIN
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2022) - Intersubjectivity and Transindividuality Leibniz, Husserl, Deleuze, and the Composition of Worlds (Animal Monadology) - Lo Sguardo - rivista di filosofia (online), 1 (32), 109-129 - doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5838251 - [link]
- Sjoerd Van Tuinen (2022) - The Philosophy of Mannerism: From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics - [link]
- Sjoerd Van Tuinen (2021) - Authentic ressentiment? The polemics of Jean Améry - Philosophy Today, 65 (4), 807-827 - doi: 10.5840/philtoday2021727421 - [link]
- Sjoerd Van Tuinen (2021) - Transparency and its Schematism - Krisis, 41 (2), 83-86 - doi: 10.21827/krisis.41.2.38258 - [link]
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (2020) - PHILOSOPHY IN THE LIGHT OF AI: hegel or leibniz - Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25 (4), 97-109 - doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2020.1790838
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (31 March 2023) - De anarchistische metafysica van Gabriel Tarde
- Sjoerd van Tuinen (20 February 2023) - Erasmus University Medical Center Researcher Advances Knowledge in Language and Literature (The Use of Souls: Souriau and Political Spirituality)
- Sjoerd van Tuinen & Merieke Stevens (13 May 2019) - Is transparency an obstacle or promotor in the transition to a circular economy?
- Sjoerd van Tuinen, Merieke Stevens & Robert Rooderkerk (18 April 2019) - Executives and students to explore supply chain analytics and code of conduct
- Sjoerd Tuinen (24 October 2015) - Interview met Marlene Dumas
- Sonia de Jager, Sjoerd van Tuinen & Katharina Dany Martin (2024) - Instructor at Deleuze and Guattari Studies Camp (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd van Tuinen, Sonia de Jager, Joost De Raeymaecker & David van Putten (2024) - Schematism (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Katharina Dany Martin & Sjoerd van Tuinen (2024) - Technology – Expression – Individuation (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Maren Wehrle & Sjoerd van Tuinen (2022) - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2020) - The Time of Mannerism? Actuality, Lateness, Eternity (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2020) - The Return of Mannerism: Art, Philosophy, History (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2019) - The Time of Mannerism (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2019) - Nietzsche on Politics and the Reactive Affects (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2019) - The History of Philosophy in the Light of AI: Hegel or Leibniz (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Sjoerd Tuinen (2019) - The Resentment-Ressentiment Complex (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
Second Degree Thesis
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-DD3198
Advanced Critical Theory
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MA0027
Master Thesis Philosophy
- Level
- Master 1
- Year Level
- Master 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-AFS4200
Key concepts for Ecological Encounters
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MAP001
Technicities and Collectivity
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MAP002
Diagrammatics and Societal Design
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MAP003
MA Central
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-MA000
Aesthetics
- Year Level
- Bachelor 2, Bachelor 2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FW-FMC2012