Susana Viegas 

Susana Viegas is a Researcher in Philosophy of Film and a full member of IFILNOVA, FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 

She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2013 with a doctoral thesis on Deleuze's philosophy of film, and a FCT Ph.D. Studentship during the years 2007 through 2011. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the project "Rethinking the Moving Image and Time in Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy" (2014-2019). 

She is co-editor/founder of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (cjpmi.ifilnova.pt) and is currently working on philosophy's relation to painting and film.

Academic Expertise and Research interests:

Gilles Deleuze, Philosophy of Film, Philosophy of Time, Aesthetics, Contemporary Philosophy, Contemporary Art, and Portuguese Cinema.

Publications:

Journal articles (last 3 years)

  • Viegas, S. and James Williams (Eds.). “Painting, Moving Images and Philosophy,” Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 10 (2018).

  • Viegas, S. “Verdade, Vida e Philia: O eixo Nietzsche-Deleuze-Kiarostami,” ArteFilosofia 24 (2018): 217-236.

  • Viegas, S. “Deleuze and Film’s Philosophical Value,” Kriterion: Revista de Filosofia 139 (2018): 271-286. 

  • Viegas, S. “Deleuze sobre a importância do acordo discordante em Kant,” Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea 5.2 (2017): 329-348.

  • Viegas, S. “Gilles Deleuze and Early Cinema: the Modernity of the Emancipated Time,” Early Popular Visual Culture, 14.3 (2016): 234-250.

  • Viegas, S. “Toward a Cinematic Pedagogy: Gilles Deleuze and Manoel de Oliveira,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 50.1 (2016): 112–22.

Book chapters (last 3 years)

  • Viegas, S. “Deleuze’s Cronosigns.” In Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides, ed. by Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva and Steven S. Gouveia, 64-77. New York: Routledge, 2019.

  • Viegas, S.“‘I’d rather be lucky than good.’ Ethical variations in Pickpocket and MatchPoint”. In Essays on Values and Practical Rationality: Ethical and Aesthetical Dimensions, ed. by António Marques and João Sáàgua, 373-387. Bern: Peter Lang, 2018.

  • Viegas, S. and James Williams, “Why Lyotard and Film?”. In Acinemas: Lyotard’s Philosophy of Film, ed. by Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward, 10-16. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

  • Viegas, S.“Ethics and the Integrity of Gesture in Steve McQueen's Hunger” in Thinking Reality and Time through Film, ed. by Christine Reeh and José Manuel Martins, 9-21. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

  • Viegas, S.“O Valor Filosófico do Cinema: A Ética Relacional no Documentário de Fabulação”, In Actas II Congreso internacional de la Red española de Filosofía Vol.II, coord. Antonio Campillo y Delia Manzanero,9-18. Madrid: Red española de Filosofía, 2017.

  • Viegas, S. “O Acto de Matar: Ética e Filosofia no Filme que se Documenta”. In Filosofia e as Artes, org. by Steven Gouveia, 78-94. South Carolina: CreateSpace, 2016.

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