Indication: César Guimarães – Department of Social Communication of FAFICH/UFMG
Period: November 4th to 25th, 2025
Philosopher and researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marie José Mondzain, drawing on contributions from philosophy, theology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, dedicates herself to the critical analysis of the contemporary political, cultural, and audiovisual field from the Byzantine sources of thought surrounding images, as formulated in her seminal book, Image, icône, économie (Paris: Seuil, 1996). Among her most recent publications are Homo spectator: ver, fazer ver (Lisbon: Orfeu Negro, 2015), Confiscação das palavras, das imagens e do tempo: por uma outra radicalidade (Belo Horizonte: Relicário, 2022); Accueillir: venu(e)s d’un ventre ou d’un pays (Paris: Les liens qui Libérent, 2023), and K de kolônia: Kafka e a descolonização do imaginário (Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 2024).