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 Jacob Potempski
Publications: "The Death of God and the Discovery of Finitude in the Philosophy of Time: from Kant, through Holderlin, to Heidegger,"forthcoming in Symposia, Journal of Religious Studies, University of Toronto. ‘The cinema and real-time: an investigation of the medium’s relation to time through the lens of Christian Marclay’s THE CLOCK (2010) and Dan Graham’s Present Continuous Past(s) (1974)’ forthcoming in the spring issue of Kinema, Journal of Film and Visual Studies, which is based at the university of Waterloo. Jacob Potempski was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2011-12.
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Jacob Potempski graduated from Trent University with a B.A. in philosophy and cultural studies. He completed his Master’s at the University of Amsterdam, in the program: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. His Master’s thesis dealt with the problem of time in the work of Heidegger and Kant, in relation to questions of ethics and ontology. In his PhD, he is exploring the question of time in relation to art, specifically the (avant-garde) cinema, by drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze.