Research Project: “What if I Told You I Never Left This City?” Exploring Becoming in the Films of the Early Chilean Exile

This project proposes to examine this cinema of exile on the basis of its earliest productions, through a series of twelve short and feature-length films made between 1974 and 1983: the very first decade of exile. My main hypothesis is that these films can be conceived in terms of what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze has called a ‘modern political cinema’, id est, a cinema that is less predicated on the question of authenticity or meticulous depiction –be it of real or offictional characters– than on that of ‘becoming’.

Publications: 

Edited volumes

1. (2024): Ruiz de lejos. 27 artefactos críticos, Ed. Albornoz, I. (Santiago: Bastante editores), 253 p.
2. (2023): Raúl Ruiz. Potencias de lo multiple, Eds. Albornoz, I. Pinto, I. (Santiago: Metales Pesados), 377 p.

Publications with peer review process

1. García F., Albornoz I. (2025): La película-coreografía: transposiciones del cine y la danza contemporánea en Detrás del muro (1989) de Raúl Ruiz, 452°F. Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada (in press)
2. Albornoz I., Hatzikidi K. (2025): ‘Now Where Am I?’: Endurance in Peter Loizos’s Sophia And Her People (1985): In: Resilient Humanities: Critical Perspectives, Eds. Lema, N., Stephen Hart et Camila Gatica (London: Tamesis), in press. 

Publications without peer review process

1. Albornoz I. (2024): Palabras preliminares. In: Ruiz de lejos. 27 artefactos críticos, Eds. Albornoz, I. (Santiago: Bastante editores), 11-14.
2. Albornoz I., Pinto I. (2023): Introducción. Presentación de los editores. In: Raúl Ruiz. Potencias de lo múltiple, Eds. Albornoz, I., Pinto, I. (Santiago: Metales Pesados), 9-14.

Translated books:

1. Blümlinger C. (2025): Horizones documentales. Escritos selectos sobre cine. Santiago, Metales Pesados (in press)
2. Tortajada M., Albera F (2025): El dispositivo no existe. Por una epistemología de los dispositivos, Santiago, Metales pesados, ISBN 978-956-6426-02-8

Publications: 

1. Veronica Cibotaru (2025). Phenomenological understandings of the relationship between ethics and the idea of God, Continental Philosophy Review.
2. Veronica Cibotaru (2024). For a contextualist and content-related understanding of the difference between human and artificial intelligence, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
3. Veronica Cibotaru (2023). Le problème de la signification dans les philosophies de Kant et Husserl. Paris: Hermann.
4. Veronica Cibotaru (2023). Banal evil - Radical goodness. Reflection on the 60th Anniversary of "Eichmann in Jerusalem", Open Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 1.

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Activities at the College of Fellows: I have organised the online series of workshops “Rethinking peace”. 

Activities at the College of Fellows: Member of the CoF focus groups Belonging and Intercultural Studies, Section Moderation at GIP Annual Conference 2021

Publications: 

1. Manuel Cojocaru (2024). The Will to Being. Plato, Cronus, and the Cult of Sisyphus, Springer.
2. Manuel Cojocaru (2022). “The Creative Solution. Privileged Things as Heroic Objects”, in Philosophia 50, 473–486, Springer.

Research Project: The Foreigner of Languages: Heidegger and Waldenfels at the Encounter of the Arabic World

My project explores the role that foreign language plays in the constitution of the foreign as such. The main questions I investigate are the following: Is the foreign language one form of foreignness among others or does it have a privilege by virtue of which it distinguishes itself from other types of foreignness? What are the implications of a foreign language for the matter of belonging? And, finally, what are the theoretical consequences of the encounter with the manner in which another cultural realm than our own conceives alterity? The research I lead is divided, thus, into a conceptual part on one hand, in which I pursue these questions through a critical reading of the works of Martin Heidegger and Bernhard Waldenfels. On the other hand, my project aims to pursue this philosophical research by bringing into a dialogue our philosophical concept of the foreign and the way in which the Arabic world conceived it with regard to language in the early epoch of Islam. In the aftermath of this endeavor, I develop a hermeneutical analysis of this dialogue, asking whether the words designating the “foreign”, the “stranger” and the “alien” are mutually translatable from one culture to another. My goal is to find out if a foreign language only reveals us a form of alterity among others or if it leads us to acknowledge a “structural” form of historicity, that touches upon the very phenomenon of the foreign (das Fremde) itself. Thus, by means of addressing different figures of the foreign, I try to think the contemporary intercultural situation, on the one hand, and to gain a horizon for a future research on the problem of the foreign in the modern and contemporary Islamic space, on the other.

Publications:

Recent publications (selection)

1. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2024). Is Violence a Limit Phenomenon? A Critical Approach from the Perspective of Transcendental Phenomenology and Public Health Studies. Human Studies (published online 31 July 2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09750-5
2. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2024). Phenomenological Method and Violence Research. The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, 31, 30-33. https://hiw.kuleuven.be/en/study/alumni/newsletter/newsletter-31-2024.pdf/view
3. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2023). The Distinction between ‘First’ and ‘Universal’ Philosophy in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: On a Basic Precondition for the Transformation of Philosophy into a Rigorous Science. In Daniele De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations. Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions. Baden-Baden: Karl Alber, pp. 481-495.
4. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2023). La recepción temprana del concepto ‘mundo de la vida’ en la filosofía de habla hispana. Valoración crítica de un episodio decisivo en la historia de la fenomenología entre Alemania, España y México. In Matei Chihaia et al. (eds.), Caminos cruzados: filosofía y literatura del exilio español en América Latina. Madrid: Iberoamericana, pp. 413-433. https://doi.org/10.31819/9783968694030
5. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2022). ¿Funcionarios de la humanidad? La fenomenología, la UNESCO y el exilio español en México. Investigaciones Fenomenológicas, 19, 159-171. https://doi.org/10.5944/rif.19.2022.34319  
6. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2022). Philosophy between Wisdom and Science – Luis Villoro’s Critique of Husserl’s Phenomenology. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, 20, 115-121. https://doi.org/10.4324/b23070
7. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2021). Die Diskussion zwischen José Gaos und Luis Villoro über den Begriff der Lebenswelt – Kritische Auswertung einer entscheidenden Episode der Rezeptionsgeschichte von Husserls Phänomenologie in Spanien und Mexiko. Husserl Studies, 37(3), 271-286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10743-021-09293-y  
8. Pérez-Gatica, S. (2020). Anfang und Methode. Zur Verwandlung der Ersten Philosophie in eine Grundlagenwissenschaft bei Husserl. Dissertation published by KUPS, Universität zu Köln, 279 pp. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/62926/

About: Sergio Pérez-Gatica holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cologne (2020), where he studied the methodological renewal of First Philosophy in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. From 2021 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Center for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy - Husserl Archives, KU Leuven, contributing to the collective project “Functionaries of Humanity”: Phenomenology, the UNESCO, and the Problem of Universalism in Science and Culture. 

His current research explores the application of phenomenological methods to intercultural philosophy and the study of violence, with recent publications engaging themes in phenomenology, violence research, and Latin American philosophy.