The Philosopher

Erin Manning

The face

The background

Nationality:
Canadian
Schools:
Process philosophy, Radical empiricism
Period:
20th-century philosophy, 21st-century philosophy

The synopsis

Erin Manning (born 1969) is a Canadian cultural theorist and political philosopher, as well as a practicing artist in dance, fabric design, and interactive installation. Manning's research spans the fields of art, political theory, and philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Hawaii in 2000. She currently teaches in the Concordia University Fine Arts Faculty. Manning is the founder and director of the SenseLab, a research-creation laboratory affiliated with Hexagram: Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technology in Montreal. She collaborates with Brian Massumi. They co-edit a book series at MIT Press entitled *Technologies of Lived Abstraction* and are founding members of the editorial collective of the Sense Lab journal *Inflexions: A Journal of Research Creation*. Manning frequently gives workshops and lectures at universities and other institutions globally.

The works