Shannon Bell

Shannon Bell is a Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her books include: Fast Feminism (2010); Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Prostitute Body (1994); Bad Attitude/s on Trial, co-authored (1997); The Book of Radical General Semantics (2016); Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz, co-edited (2013); and New Socialisms, co-edited (2004). Bell is currently working on shooting theory–video-imaging philosophical concept such as Heidegger’s ‘stillness’, Husserl’s ‘epoché’, Batialle’s ‘waste’ and ‘expenditure’, Weil’s ‘attention’, Deleuze’s ‘deterritorialization’, Virilio’s ‘vision machine’ and ‘accident’, Levinas’ ‘elemental’ and Mallin’s ‘sinuosity’. For more information, see yorku.ca/shanbell or on Vimeo at FastBodies.