International Symposium PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Koper, 17-19 June 2025 Mednarodni simpozij FILOZOFIJA, POETIKA IN UMETNOST MEJNOSTI INTERDISCIPLINARNI POGLEDI Koper, 17.–19. junij 2025 PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS PROGRAM IN POVZETKI International Symposium PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Koper, 17–19 June 2025 Mednarodni simpozij FILOZOFIJA, POETIKA IN UMETNOST MEJNOSTI: INTERDISCIPLINARNI POGLEDI Koper, 17.–19. junij 2025 PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS PROGRAM IN POVZETKI Koper 2025 International Symposium PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Programme and Abstracts Mednarodni simpozij FILOZOFIJA, POETIKA IN UMETNOST MEJNOSTI: INTERDISCIPLINARNI POGLEDI Program in povzetki Editor/Urednica: Maja Bjelica Editor-in-Chief of the Publishing House/Glavni in odgovorni urednik založbe: Tilen Glavina Editor for Philosophy and Religious Studies/Urednik za področji filozofije in religiologije: Lenart Škof Technical Editor/Tehnična urednica: Alenka Obid Design/Oblikovanje: Alenka Obid Layout/Prelom: Alenka Obid Cover photograph/Fotografija na naslovnici: Maja Bjelica, humist Publisher/Izdajatelj: Science and Research Centre Koper, Annales ZRS/ Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Annales ZRS For the publisher/Za izdajatelja: Rado Pišot Online edition/Spletna izdaja, available at/dostopna na: https://doi.org/10.35469/978-961-7195-89-7 This symposium has been financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), through the research programme Liminal Spaces: Areas of Cultural and Societal Cohabitation in the Age of Risk and Vulnerability (P6-0279) and the research bilateral project Rhythms, Silences and Polyphonies: Echoes from Environmental Humanities (BI-LV/25-27-003). Simpozij finančno podpira Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije (ARIS) v okviru raziskovalnega programa Mejna področja: območja kultur-nega in družbenega sobivanja v dobi tveganja in ranljivosti (P6-0279) ter bilateralnega razisko-valnega projekta Ritmi, tišine in mnogozvočja: odmevi okoljske humanistike (BI-LV/25-27-003). Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (CIP) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani COBISS.SI-ID 237522691 ISBN 978-961-7195-89-7 (PDF) CONTENTS VSEBINA 7 ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM 8 O SIMPOZIJU 11 PROGRAMME 17 PROGRAM 23 Seminar for Atmospheric Studies 25 Seminar atmosferskih študij 27 ABSTRACTS POVZETKI 29 Panagiotis Roilos Liminal Ontologies: From Classical Hyperrealities to Neomedieval Metacapitalism Mejne ontologije: od klasičnih hiperrealnosti do novosrednjeveškega metakapitalizma 31 Lenart Škof Thinking Towards Agapeology: Liminal and Ontological Approaches Mišljenje v smeri agapeologije: mejni in ontološki pristopi 35 Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Acephalic Temporalities: Liminality in Georges Bataille and André Masson Acefalne časnosti: mejnost pri Georgesu Batailleju in Andréju Massonu 39 Alberto Parisi The Outside: The Subject’s Liminality from Bataille, Blanchot, and Foucault to Esposito and Agamben Zunanjost: mejnost subjekta od Batailleja, Blanchota in Foucaulta do Esposita in Agambena 43 Yuho Hisayama The Aesthetics of kehai in “The Backrooms”: An Essay on the Atmosphere of Liminal Spaces on the Internet Estetika kehai v »Zasobju«: esej o atmosferi mejnih področij na internetu 47 Fabian Heubel The Double Character of the Way: Towards a Critique of the Theory of Breath-change in Móu Zōngsān’s Reading of the Lǎozǐ Dvojna narava poti: na poti h kritiki teorije spremembe diha v Móu Zōngsānjevem razumevanju Lǎozǐ 51 Petri Berndtson To Think Well is to Breathe Well: A Respiratory Interpretation of Heraclitus’ Fragment 112 Dobro misliti je dobro dihati: respiratorna interpretacija Heraklitovega fragmenta 112 54 Ineta Kivle The Rhythms of Liminality before the Performance Ritmi mejnosti pred izvedbo 58 Carool Kersten Islam, Literature and Liminality: Notes from some Small Countries Islam, literatura in mejnost: zapiski iz nekaterih malih držav 60 George Handley Tree Thoughts: On the Science and Art of Tree Intelligence Drevesne misli: o znanosti in umetnosti inteligence dreves 62 Raquel Ferrández Formoso Colonizing Death: From Cannibal Grief to Digital Immortality Kolonizacija smrti: od kanibalskega žalovanja do digitalne nesmrtnosti 64 Helena Motoh Interpreting Asian Religions in Early 20th-Century Collections in Slovenia Tolmačenje azijskih religij v zbirkah z začetka 20. stoletja v Sloveniji 68 Maja Bjelica Listening-with Elemental Rhythms and Silences: An Essay on Liminalities of Salt-Working Poslušanje-z ritmi in tišinami elementov: esej o mejnostih solinarstva 72 Tjaša Škorjanc The Mirror as Limen: A Non-Porous Pathway towards Human Porosity Zrcalo kot limen: neprepustna pot k človeški poroznosti 76 Rebecca Bruno A Breathing–Voicing Cure: Introducing the Oraline and Respiratory– Sonorous Field to Psychotherapeutic Relating Terapija z dihanjem in glasom: uvedba oralnega in dihalno-zvočnega področja v psihoterapevtsko vzpostavljanje odnosov PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM Liminality has increasingly become a key concept in contemporary thought, evoking a range of phenomena that resist fixed determination: transitions, thresholds, boundaries, and the indeterminate states that unsettle established structures of meaning. While the term originates in anthropological accounts of ritual and passage, its resonance has grown across Philosophy, Literary Theory, the Arts, and Religious Studies, signal-ling a mode of reflection attuned to the in-between, the unstable, and the emergent. This symposium approaches liminality not merely as a thematic focus but as a philosophical and poetic gesture: a structural condition of experience that traverses subjectivity, language, embodiment, and world. It asks what lies at the edges of the self, how thought arises from a space neither wholly interior nor exterior, and how meaning is shaped by that which precedes ar-ticulation. Liminality, in this sense, calls for a rethinking of inherited opposi-tions—presence and absence, interiority and exteriority, subject and object, meaning and matter, human and non-human, nature and technology, reason and mysticism—through the lens of their constitutive thresholds. This in-quiry unfolds within and across multiple philosophical traditions, including Islamic, East Asian, and European lineages of thought, where liminality has long been explored in metaphysical, poetic, and cosmological terms. The aim of the symposium is to cultivate a genuinely interdisciplinary and cross-cultural field in which philosophical inquiry, literary imagina-tion, aesthetic theory, and spiritual reflection converge on the problems of threshold, interruption, and the in-between. Here, the liminal is not con-ceived as a lack or deficiency to be overcome, but as a generative condi-tion: the rhythm of silence preceding articulation, the murmur underlying identity, the atmosphere—both breath and spirit—from which human and more-than-human world ceaselessly arise together. To think liminality today is to remain open to the other, the untimely, and the unforeseen – within and beyond the boundaries of thought. Lenart Škof and Alberto Parisi 7 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES O SIMPOZIJU Mejnost postaja v sodobni misli vse bolj ključen koncept. Obuja vrsto pojavov, kot so prehodi, pragovi, meje, ki se upirajo ustaljeni določenosti, in nedoločna stanja, ki rahljajo ustaljene strukture pomena. Izraz izhaja iz antropoloških virov o ritualu in prehodu, njegov vpliv pa se je okrepil skozi filozofijo, literarno teorijo, umetnost in religijske študije, kjer označuje nači-ne razmišljanja, naravnane na vmesno, nestabilno in porajajoče se. Simpozij obravnava mejnost ne le kot tematski fokus, temveč kot filozof- sko in poetično gesto : strukturni pogoj izkušnje, ki preči subjektivnost, je-zik, utelešenje in svet. Vprašuje, kaj leži na robovih jaza, kako misel nastaja iz prostora, ki ni niti povsem notranji niti zunanji, in kako pomen oblikuje tisto, kar pride pred artikulacijo. V tem smislu mejnost poziva k ponovnemu razmisleku o podedovanih nasprotjih – prisotnosti in odsotnosti, notranjosti in zunanjosti, subjektu in objektu, pomenu in snovi, človeškem in nečlove-škem, naravi in tehnologiji, razumu in misticizmu – skozi prizmo njihovih konstitutivnih pragov. To proučevanje se odvija znotraj in med več filozofski-mi tradicijami, vključno z islamsko, vzhodnoazijsko in evropsko miselno tradicijo , kjer se mejnost že dolgo raziskuje v metafizičnem, poetičnem in kozmološkem smislu. Cilj simpozija je gojiti pristno interdisciplinarno in medkulturno po- dročje, na katerem se filozofsko raziskovanje, literarna domišljija, estetska teorija in duhovna refleksija združujejo v raziskovanju problemov praga, prekinitve in vmesnega. Pri tem mejno ni pojmovano kot pomanjkljivost ali primanjkljaj, ki ga je treba premagati, ampak kot ustvarjalni pogoj: ritem tišine, ki nastopi pred artikulacijo, šepet v ozadju identitete, atmosfera – tako dih kot duh – iz katere neprestano skupaj izhajata človeški in več-kot-člove-ški svet. Danes razmišljati o mejnosti pomeni ostati odprt za drugo, za nepri-merno in nepričakovano – znotraj in zunaj meja misli. Lenart Škof in Alberto Parisi 8 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES SYMPOSIUM CO-ORGANIZED BY SOORGANIZATORJA SIMPOZIJA Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Slovenia Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Inštitut za filozofske in religijske študije, Slovenija Kobe University, Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), Japan Univerza Kobe, Inštitut za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS), Japonska ORGANIZING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ORGANIZACIJSKI IN PROGRAMSKI ODBOR Lenart Škof, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Slovenija Alberto Parisi, Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University, Japan, and Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia Inštitut za atmosferske študije Kobe, Univerza Kobe, Japonska, in Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Slovenija Tjaša Škorjanc, Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper, Slovenija 9 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES SYMPOSIUM FINANCIAL SUPPORT FINANČNA PODPORA SIMPOZIJU This symposium has been financially supported by the Slovenian Re-search and Innovation Agency (ARIS), through the research programme Lim-inal Spaces: Areas of Cultural and Societal Cohabitation in the Age of Risk and Vulnerability (P6-0279) and the bilateral research project Rhythms, Silences and Polyphonies: Echoes from Environmental Humanities (BI-LV/25-27-003). Simpozij finančno podpira Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije (ARIS) v okviru raziskovalnega pro-grama Mejna področja: območja kulturnega in družbenega sobivanja v dobi tveganja in ranljivosti (P6-0279) ter bilateralnega raziskovalnega projekta Rit-mi, tišine in mnogozvočja: odmevi okoljske humanistike (BI-LV/25-27-003). This symposium has also been financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Core-to-Core Program, Grant Number: JPJSCCA20250001, JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number: 23H00574) and by the Shimadzu Cooperation (Kyoto, Japan). Simpozij sta finančno podprla tudi Japonska družba za spodbujanje zna-nosti (JSPS Core-to-Core Program, številka subvencije: JPJSCCA20250001, JSPS KAKENHI, številka subvencije: 23H00574) in organizacija Shimadzu Coopera-tion (Kjoto, Japonska). 10 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES PROGRAMME International Symposium PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Koper, 17–19 June 2025 ZRS Koper Centre for Humanities 11 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TUESDAY, 17 June 2025 Seminar for Atmospheric Studies Moderated by Yuho Hisayama 14.00–14.15 Presentation of the JSPS Core-to-Core Program 14.15–15.15 Presentations 15.15–15.45 Discussion 15.45–16.15 Coffee Break 16.15–17.15 Presentations 17.15–18.00 Final Discussion and Outlook 12 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES WEDNESDAY, 18 June 2025 9.30 Welcome addresses Prof Lenart Škof, Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper) Prof Yuho Hisayama, Head of the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS) of Kobe University Dr Alberto Parisi, Assistant Professor at the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS) of Kobe University and Assistant with PhD at the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper) 9.45–11.00 Keynote Lecture Panagiotis Roilos Liminal Ontologies: From Classical Hyperrealities to Neomedieval Metacapitalism 11.00–11.30 Coffee Break 11.30–12.00 Lenart Škof Thinking Towards Agapeology: Liminal and Ontological Approaches 12.00–12.30 Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Acephalic Temporalities: Liminality in Georges Bataille and André Masson 13 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 12.30–13.00 Alberto Parisi The Outside: The Subject’s Liminality from Bataille, Blanchot, and Foucault to Esposito and Agamben 13.00–15.00 Lunch Break 15.00–15.30 Yuho Hisayama The Aesthetics of kehai in “The Backrooms”: An Essay on the Atmosphere of Liminal Spaces on the Internet 15.30–16.00 Fabian Heubel The Double Character of the Way: Towards a Critique of the Theory of Breath-change in Móu Zōngsān’s Reading of the Lǎozǐ 16.00–16.30 Petri Berndtson To Think Well is to Breathe Well: A Respiratory Interpretation of Heraclitus’ Fragment 112 14 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THURSDAY, 19 June 2025 9.30–10.00 Ineta Kivle The Rhythms of Liminality before the Performance 10.00–10.30 Carool Kersten Islam, Literature and Liminality: Notes from some Small Countries 10.30–11.00 Coffee Break 11.00–11.30 George Handley Tree Thoughts: On the Science and Art of Tree Intelligence 11.30–12.00 Raquel Ferrández Formoso Colonizing Death: From Cannibal Grief to Digital Immortality 12.00–12.30 Helena Motoh Interpreting Asian Religions in Early 20th-Century Collections in Slovenia 15 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 12.30–13.00 Maja Bjelica Listening-with Elemental Rhythms and Silences: An Essay on Liminalities of Salt-Working 13.00–15.00 Lunch Break 15.00–15.30 Tjaša Škorjanc The Mirror as Limen: A Non-Porous Pathway towards Human Porosity 15.30–16.00 Rebecca Bruno A Breathing–Voicing Cure: Introducing the Oraline and Respiratory–Sonorous Field to Psychotherapeutic Relating 16.00–16.30 Concluding Discussion Moderated by Lenart Škof and Alberto Parisi 16 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES PROGRAM Mednarodni simpozij FILOZOFIJA, POETIKA IN UMETNOST MEJNOSTI: INTERDISCIPLINARNI POGLEDI Koper, 17–19. junij 2025 Center humanističnih znanosti ZRS Koper 17 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TOREK, 17. junij 2025 Seminar atmosferskih študij Moderira Yuho Hisayama 14.00–14.15 Predstavitev programa JSPS Core-to-Core 14.15–15.15 Predstavitve 15.15–15.45 Razprava 15.45–16.15 Odmor za kavo 16.15–17.15 Predstavitve 17.15–18.00 Končna razprava in obeti 18 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES SREDA, 18. junij 2025 9.30 Pozdravni nagovori Prof. dr. Lenart Škof, predstojnik Inštituta za filozofske in religijske študije, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper (ZRS Koper) Prof. ddr. Yuho Hisayama , predstojnik Inštituta za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS), Univerza Kobe Dr. Alberto Parisi, docent na Inštitutu za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS), Univerza Kobe in asistent z doktoratom na Inštitutu za filozofske in religijske študije, Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper (ZRS Koper) 9.45–11.00 Otvoritveno predavanje Panagiotis Roilos Mejne ontologije: od klasičnih hiperrealnosti do novosrednjeveškega metakapitalizma 11.00–11.30 Odmor za kavo 11.30–12.00 Lenart Škof Mišljenje v smeri agapeologije: mejni in ontološki pristopi 12.00–12.30 Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Acefalne časnosti: mejnost pri Georgesu Batailleju in Andréju Massonu 19 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 12.30–13.00 Alberto Parisi Zunanjost: mejnost subjekta od Batailleja, Blanchota in Foucaulta do Esposita in Agambena 13.00–15.00 Odmor za kosilo 15.00–15.30 Yuho Hisayama Estetika kehai v »Zasobju«: esej o atmosferi mejnih področij na internetu 15.30–16.00 Fabian Heubel Dvojna narava poti: na poti h kritiki teorije spremembe diha v Móu Zōngsānjevem razumevanju Lǎozǐ 16.00–16.30 Petri Berndtson Dobro misliti je dobro dihati: respiratorna interpretacija Heraklitovega fragmenta 112 20 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ČETRTEK, 19. junij 2025 9.30–10.00 Ineta Kivle Ritmi mejnosti pred izvedbo 10.00–10.30 Carool Kersten Islam, literatura in mejnost: zapiski iz nekaterih malih držav 10.30–11.00 Odmor za kavo 11.00–11.30 George Handley Drevesne misli: o znanosti in umetnosti inteligence dreves 11.30–12.00 Raquel Ferrández Formoso Kolonizacija smrti: od kanibalskega žalovanja do digitalne nesmrtnosti 12.00–12.30 Helena Motoh Tolmačenje azijskih religij v zbirkah iz začetka 20. stoletja v Sloveniji 12.30–13.00 Maja Bjelica Poslušanje-z ritmi in tišinami elementov: esej o mejnostih solinarstva 21 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES 13.00–15.00 Odmor za kosilo 15.00–15.30 Tjaša Škorjanc Zrcalo kot limen: neprepustna pot k človeški poroznosti 15.30–16.00 Rebecca Bruno Terapija z dihanjem in glasom: uvedba oralnega in dihalno-zvočnega področja v psihoterapevtsko vzpostavljanje odnosov 16.00–16.30 Zaključna razprava Moderirata Lenart Škof in Alberto Parisi 22 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES SEMINAR FOR ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES The JSPS Core-to-Core Program is a prestigious grant by the Japan So-ciety for the Promotion of Science that supports the formation of interna-tionally collaborative research hubs in fields recognized as cutting-edge and of high global relevance. Through sustained partnerships between different “cores” (research institutions) located in several countries, it promotes joint research projects, seminars, and researcher exchanges, while also nurturing the next generation of scholars. The seminar celebrates and marks the launch of the newly funded JSPS Core-to-Core Program: World Networking Project for the Establish-ment of Atmospheric Studies between the Kobe Institute for Atmos-pheric Studies (KOIAS), Kobe University, Japan, and the Science and Re-search Center (ZRS) Koper, Slovenia, together with further collaborating cores in Canada (Centre for Sensory Studies, Montreal) and Germany (So-ciety for New Phenomenology, Rostock). The event will open with a short presentation of the recently awarded five-year grant and the aims of the pro-gramme. It will be followed by a series of brief talks from scholars affiliated with both research centres, focusing on new approaches and perspectives in the emerging fields of Atmospheric and Respiratory Studies. 23 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES PARTICIPANTS OF THE SEMINAR Yuho HISAYAMA (KOIAS, Kobe University) Alberto PARISI (KOIAS, Kobe University; Science and Research Centre Koper) Mao MATSUYAMA (KOIAS, Kobe University; Okayama Prefectural University) Takuya NIIKAWA (KOIAS, Kobe University; Institut Jean Nicod) Rie KODERA (KOIAS, Kobe University) Yukiko KUWAYAMA (KOIAS, Kobe University; University of Tokyo) Lorenzo MARINUCCI (KOIAS, Kobe University; Tohoku University) Hikaru OKAMOTO (Toyooka Professional College of Arts and Tourism) Shinji KAJITANI (University of Tokyo) Ching Yuen CHEUNG (University of Tokyo) Kahlua TSUNODA (University of Tokyo) Manuela SALAZAR (University of Sussex) Fabian HEUBEL (Academia Sinica; FU Berlin) Lenart ŠKOF (Science and Research Centre Koper) Maja BJELICA (Science and Research Centre Koper) Petri BERNDTSON (Science and Research Centre Koper) Tjaša ŠKORJANC (Science and Research Centre Koper) Carool KERSTEN (Science and Research Centre Koper; KU Leuven) Marijn NIEUWENHUIS (Durham University) This seminar is financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Core-to-Core Program, Grant Number: JPJSCCA20250001). 24 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES SEMINAR ATMOSFERSKIH ŠTUDIJ Program JSPS Core-to-Core je prestižna subvencija Japonske družbe za spodbujanje znanosti, ki podpira oblikovanje mednarodnih razisko-valnih središč na področjih, ki veljajo za najnaprednejša in pomembna na svetovni ravni. S trajnimi partnerstvi med različnimi »jedri« (raziskovalnimi ustanovami) v več državah spodbuja skupne raziskovalne projekte, seminar-je in izmenjave raziskovalcev in raziskovalk, hkrati pa vzgaja novo generacijo znanstvenic in znanstvenikov. Seminar obeležuje začetek novega financiranega programa JSPS Core-to--Core: Projekt svetovnega povezovanja za vzpostavitev atmosferskih študij med Inštitutom za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS) Univerze Kobe (Japonska), in Znanstveno-raziskovalnim središčem (ZRS) Ko-per (Slovenija), skupaj z drugimi sodelujočimi središči v Kanadi (Center za senzorične študije, Montreal) in Nemčiji (Društvo za novo fenomenologijo, Rostock). Dogodek se bo začel s kratko predstavitvijo nedavno dodeljene petletne subvencije in ciljev programa. Sledila bo serija kratkih predstavitev znanstvenikov in znanstvenic, povezanih z obema raziskovalnima centroma, ki se bodo osredotočila na nove pristope in perspektive na nastajajočih po-dročjih atmosferskih in respiratornih študij. 25 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES UDELEŽENCI IN UDELEŽENKE SEMINARJA Yuho HISAYAMA (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe) Alberto PARISI (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe; Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper) Mao MATSUYAMA (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe; Univerza prefekture Okayama) Takuya NIIKAWA (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe; Inštitut Jean Nicod) Rie KODERA (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe) Yukiko KUWAYAMA (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe; Univerza v Tokiu) Lorenzo MARINUCCI (KOIAS, Univerza Kobe; Univerza Tohoku) Hikaru OKAMOTO (Visoka šola za umetnost in turizem v Toyooki) Shinji KAJITANI (Univerza v Tokiu) Ching Yuen CHEUNG (Univerza v Tokiu) Kahlua TSUNODA (Univerza v Tokiu) Manuela SALAZAR (Univerza v Sussexu) Fabian HEUBEL (Academia Sinica; FU Berlin) Lenart ŠKOF (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper) Maja BJELICA (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper) Petri BERNDTSON (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper) Tjaša ŠKORJANC (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper) Carool KERSTEN (Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper; KU Leuven) Marijn NIEUWENHUIS (Univerza v Durhamu) Seminar je finančno podprla Japonska družba za spodbujanje znanosti (JSPS Core-to-Core Program, številka subvencije: JPJSCCA20250001). 26 ABSTRACTS POVZETKI PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES KEYNOTE LECTURE LIMINAL ONTOLOGIES: FROM CLASSICAL HYPERREALITIES TO NEOMEDIEVAL METACAPITALISM Panagiotis ROILOS Harvard University The crisis of representation in postmodernity—closely connected with social and existential alienation and technological development—often manifests itself in terms of “hyperreality,” where distinctions between “the real”/”the original” and “the simulacrum” are profoundly blurred. The boundaries between “reality” and “non-reality” and relevant concepts (e.g. originality, authenticity, mimesis, simulacrum) have been explored and challenged from different but comparable perspectives in philosophy, art, and literature since classical antiquity. In this paper I shall focus on liminality as an essential constituent of any manifestation/conception of hyperreality from classical antiquity to our era, which I define as “neome-dieval metacapitalism.” Keywords: Platonic philosophy, neomedieval metacapitalism, hyperreality Panagiotis Roilos is the George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His publications and research inter-ests centre upon postclassical Greek literature and culture, cognitive humanities, com-parative poetics, cognitive and historical anthropology, posthumanism, medieval and modern literary theory, and ritual theory. He is the (co)author and (co)editor of ten books, including Towards a Ritual Poetics (co-author; 2003) and the monographs Amphoteroglossia : A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel (2005); C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy (2009); and Lamenting Greece: On Early German Philhellenism (16th and 17th Centuries) (in Greek; forthcoming). He is currently com-pleting a book on hyperreality, posthumanism, and democracy, entitled Neomedieval Metacapitalism. His new book project is a study of the history of imagination in late antiquity and the Greek Middle Ages (Postclassical Imaginaries: A Cognitive Anthro-pology of Late Antique and Byzantine Phantasia). 29 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES OTVORITVENO PREDAVANJE MEJNE ONTOLOGIJE: OD KLASIČNIH HIPERREALNOSTI DO NOVOSREDNJEVEŠKEGA METAKAPITALIZMA Panagiotis ROILOS Univerza Harvard Kriza upodabljanja v postmodernizmu – tesno povezana z družbeno in eksistencialno odtujenostjo ter tehnološkim razvojem – se pogosto kaže v obliki »hiperrealnosti«, kjer so razlike med »resničnim«/»izvirnim« in »si-mulakrom« močno zabrisane. Meje med »resničnostjo« in »neresničnostjo« ter z njimi povezani pojmi, kot so izvirnost, avtentičnost, mimesis in simu-laker, se v filozofiji, umetnosti in literaturi raziskujejo in izpodbijajo iz raz-ličnih, a primerljivih perspektiv že od antike. V tem prispevku se bom osre-dotočil na mejnost kot bistveno sestavino vsakršne manifestacije/zasnove hiperrealnosti od klasične antike do naše dobe, ki jo opredeljujem kot »no-vosrednjeveški metakapitalizem«. Ključne besede: platonska filozofija, novosrednjeveški metakapitalizem, hiperrealnost Panagiotis Roilos je profesor novogrških študij in primerjalne književnosti z akademskim nazivom »George Seferis« na Univerzi Harvard. Njegove publikacije in raziskovalna dejavnost se osredotočajo na postklasično grško književnost in kultu-ro, kognitivne humanistične vede, primerjalno poetiko, kognitivno in zgodovinsko antropologijo, posthumanizem, srednjeveško in moderno literarno teorijo ter teo-rijo ritualov. Je (so)avtor in (so)urednik desetih knjig, med drugim Towards a Ritual Poetics (soavtor; 2003) in monografij Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Cen-tury Medieval Greek Novel (2005); C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy (2009); in Lamenting Greece: On Early German Philhellenism (16th and 17th Centuries) (v grščini; v pripravi). Trenutno dokončuje knjigo o hiperrealnosti, posthumanizmu in demokraciji z naslovom Neomedieval Metacapitalism. Njegov novi knjižni projekt je študija zgodovine domišljije v pozni antiki in grškem srednjem veku ( Postclassical Imaginaries: A Cognitive Anthropology of Late Antique and Byzantine Phantasia. 30 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THINKING TOWARDS AGAPEOLOGY: LIMINAL AND ONTOLOGICAL APPROACHES Lenart ŠKOF ZRS Koper As an agapeistic phenomenon, love always traverses physical and psychi-cal worlds and connects persons across more “usual” or diachronic and too often limited coordinates of space and time. But in some rare moments, the workings of love sometimes open an entirely unexpected and mysterious plane of proximity, being able to connect people or effect upon persons far beyond any known spatio-temporal logic or nexus. This lecture is an attempt to reflect upon this hidden or mysterious logic of love as an ontological and panexperiential phenomenon. In this attempt, we first delineate the margins between the fields of philosophy, spirituality, and research in psi phenomena (also known as paranormal phenomena) and investigate on some historical conditions of a conflict between those disciplines as based on D. R. Griffin’s Psychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality. In the main part of this paper, we first present the aesthetic theory of force by Christoph Menke and follow his analyses on the hidden or obscure layers of the soul. As based on these analy-ses, we present our own thesis on agapeology as synchronicity (C. G. Jung) – as related to psi phenomena as well as to aesthetic phenomena. In the final part of this lecture, our aim is to show that within the ontology of the ground (F. W. J. Schelling), as well as by acknowledging the constructive theological reflections on quantum entanglement (C. Keller), we can postulate an under-lying nexus, providing us with an access to the phenomenon of dark love – as a key mark of the ontological liminality of ethics. Keywords : Agapeism, love, psi phenomena, ontology, liminality Lenart Škof is professor of philosophy and religious studies, Head of the In-stitute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre (Koper, Slovenia) and Dean of Faculty ISH at the Alma Mater Europaea University (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg) and president of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion. He re-cently co-edited Marian Reflections on War and Peace: Trauma, Mourning, and Justice 31 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES in Ukraine and Beyond (Routledge, 2025), Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice (Lexington Books, 2021), and Atmospheres of Breathing (New York: SUNY Press, 2018). Škof is an author of several books, among them God in Post-Christianity: An Elemental Philosophical Theology (SUNY Press, 2024), Antigone’s Sisters: On the Matrix of Love (SUNY Press, 2021) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics and Peace (Springer, 2015). He is editor-in-chief of “Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing” series (with Magdalena Górska) and his main research interests are in respiratory philosophy, new elemental philosophy, and philosophi-cal theology. 32 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES MIŠLJENJE V SMERI AGAPEOLOGIJE: MEJNI IN ONTOLOŠKI PRISTOPI Lenart ŠKOF ZRS Koper Ljubezen kot agapeistični pojav vedno presega fizični in psihični svet ter povezuje ljudi prek bolj »običajnih« ali diahronih in prepogosto omejenih koordinat prostora in časa. Vendar pa v nekaterih redkih trenutkih delova-nje ljubezni odpre povsem nepričakovano in skrivnostno raven bližine, ki lahko poveže ljudi ali vpliva na osebe daleč onkraj vsake znane prostorsko--časovne logike ali povezave. Predavanje je poskus razmisleka o tej skriti ali skrivnostni logiki ljubezni kot ontološkem in vseizkušenjskem pojavu. Naj-prej bomo opredelili meje med področji filozofije, duhovnosti in raziskav pa-ranormalnih pojavov ter na podlagi dela D. R. Griffina Psychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality raziskali nekatere zgodovinske okoliščine konflikta med temi disciplinami. V glavnem delu tega prispevka bomo najprej predstavili estetsko teorijo sile Christopha Menkeja in sledili njegovim analizam skritih ali zakritih plasti duše. Na podlagi teh analiz bomo predstavili lastno tezo o agapeologiji kot sinhronosti (C. G. Jung) – v povezavi s paranormalnimi in estetskimi pojavi. V zadnjem delu predavanja želimo pokazati, da lahko v on-tologiji temelja (F. W. J. Schelling) in ob upoštevanju konstruktivnih teoloških razmišljanj o kvantni prepletenosti (C. Keller) postavimo temeljno povezavo, ki nam omogoča dostop do pojava temne ljubezni – kot ključnega znaka on-tološke mejnosti etike. Ključne besede: agapeizem, ljubezen, paranormalni pojavi, ontologija, mejnost Lenart Škof je redni profesor filozofije in religiologije ter predstojnik Inštitu-ta za filozofske in religijske študije pri Znanstveno-raziskovalnem središču Koper. Je tudi dekan Fakultete Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis pri univerzi Alma Mater Europaea v Ljubljani. Je član Evropske akademije znanosti in umetnosti (EASA, Salz-burg) in predsednik Društva za primerjalno religiologijo. Je sourednik knjig Marian Reflections on War and Peace: Trauma, Mourning, and Justice in Ukraine and Beyond (Routledge, 2025), Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice (Lexington 33 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Books, 2021), in Atmospheres of Breathing (New York: SUNY Press, 2018). Škof je avtor več knjig, med njimi Bog v postkrščanstvu (Slovenska matica, 2024), Antigonine sestre (Slovenska matica, 2018) ter Etika diha in atmosfera politike (Slovenska ma-tica, 2012). Je glavni urednik serije »Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing« (skupaj z Magdaleno Górsko), njegova glavna raziskovalna področja pa so respiratorna filozofija, nova elementarna filozofija in filozofska teologija. 34 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ACEPHALIC TEMPORALITIES: LIMINALITY IN GEORGES BATAILLE AND ANDRÉ MASSON Dimitrios YATROMANOLAKIS Johns Hopkins University In the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s Georges Bataille and André Masson collaborated on a number of pioneering initiatives that had a drastic impact on European avant-garde art and thought. One of their experimental projects was the publication of the journal Acéphale. Named after the ho-monymous hybridic, quasi-mythical creature embodying Bataille’s and Mas-son’s subversion of established perceptual, political, and social hierarchies, Acéphale also promulgated a radical redefinition of sanctioned ontological categories. The two associates also further explored similar questions in their respective discursive fields and articulated their own distinctive, but supplementary, ontological problematics. Their rewritings/redrawings of ontology put forward what I define as “perpetual existential and discursive liminality.” A major part of this paper will focus on the ways in which Bataille and Masson’s conceptualization of liminality was formulated in a complex dialogue with Pre-Socratic, Nietzschean, and (sometimes) contemporary Eu-ropean philosophy. Keywords : Avant-garde art, liminality, ontology, temporality, Georges Bataille, André Masson, pre-Socratic philosophy Dimitrios Yatromanolakis holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. A former Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, he has been awarded nu-merous international fellowships, including the Berlin Prize of the American Acad-emy in Berlin. His areas of expertise include ancient Greek vase-painting and art, Greek epigraphy, and Greek papyrology. His research has also focused on European intellectual history and history of art (first half of the 20th century), and historical and comparative anthropology. He holds appointments at the Department of Clas-sics, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Comparative Thought, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 10 books, includ-ing Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception (author), Towards a Ritual Poetics (co-author; translated into several European languages), Greek Mythologies (author), Politics of Mythogenesis: Art and Thought in the European Avant-Garde (author; in 35 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Greek), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (editor), An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies (editor), Archaic Ontological Past: Pre-Socratic Philosophy and Euro-pean Avant-Garde Art and Thought (editor), and Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (editor). He is currently completing a book on André Masson and Georges Bataille. 36 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ACEFALNE ČASNOSTI: MEJNOST PRI GEORGESU BATAILLEJU IN ANDRÉJU MASSONU Dimitrios YATROMANOLAKIS Univerza Johnsa Hopkinsa V poznih 20. letih in v 30. letih 20. stoletja sta Georges Bataille in André Masson sodelovala pri številnih pionirskih pobudah, ki so imele drastičen vpliv na evropsko avantgardno umetnost in miselnost. Eden od njunih eks-perimentalnih projektov je bila izdaja revije Acéphale. Poimenovana je bila po istoimenskem hibridnem, skoraj mitološkem bitju, ki pooseblja Bataille-jevo in Massonovo podiranje uveljavljenih zaznavnih, političnih in družbenih hierarhij, in je razširjala tudi radikalno redefinicijo sankcioniranih ontolo-ških kategorij. Sodelavca sta podobna vprašanja nadalje raziskovala vsak na svojem diskurzivnem področju ter oblikovala lastne, značilne, toda med seboj dopolnjujoče ontološke problematike. Njuna prenova/preoblikovanje ontologije predstavlja to, kar opredeljujem kot »večno eksistencialno in dis-kurzivno mejnost«. Večji del tega prispevka bo posvečen načinom, s katerimi sta Bataille in Masson konceptualizirala mejnost v kompleksnem dialogu s predsokratsko, nietzschejansko in (včasih) sodobno evropsko filozofijo. Ključne besede: avantgardna umetnost, mejnost, ontologija, časnost, Georges Bataille, André Masson, predsokratska filozofija Dimitrios Iatromanolakis je doktoriral na Univerzi v Oxfordu. Bil je mladi raz-iskovalec na Društvu raziskovalcev Univerze Harvard in prejel je številne medna-rodne štipendije, med drugim berlinsko nagrado Ameriške akademije v Berlinu. Njegova strokovna področja so starogrška poslikava vaz in umetnost, grška epigra-fika in grška papirologija. Njegovo raziskovalno delo se osredotoča tudi na evrop-sko intelektualno zgodovino in zgodovino umetnosti (prva polovica 20. stoletja) ter zgodovinsko in primerjalno antropologijo. Je zaposlen na Oddelku za klasične štu-dije, Oddelku za antropologijo in Oddelku za primerjalno miselnost Univerze Johnsa Hopkinsa. Je avtor, soavtor ali urednik desetih knjig, med drugim Sappho in the Ma-king: The Early Reception (avtor), Towards a Ritual Poetics (soavtor; prevedeno v več evropskih jezikov), Greek Mythologies (avtor), Politics of Mythogenesis: Art and Tho-ught in the European Avant-Garde (avtor; v grščini), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (urednik), An Archaeology of Representations: 37 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies (urednik), Archaic On-tological Past: Pre-Socratic Philosophy and European Avant-Garde Art and Thought (urednik), in Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (urednik). Trenutno dokončuje knjigo o Andréju Massonu in Georgesu Batailleu. 38 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THE OUTSIDE: THE SUBJECT’S LIMINALITY FROM BATAILLE, BLANCHOT, AND FOUCAULT TO ESPOSITO AND AGAMBEN Alberto PARISI KOIAS, Kobe University and ZRS Koper In this paper, I will argue that contemporary French and Italian philosophy have tried to overcome the traditional European understanding of the sub-ject by thinking the subject as a liminal place or non-entity, always already outside itself. Thus, I will retrace the history of the concept of the “outside” (dehors), starting from its apparent opposite in Georges Bataille’s “interior experience,” to show its influence and development in conceptions of the lin-guistic subject in Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze’s reading of both, and Jean-Luc Nancy. A punctual but brief study of these sources will show how, against the idea of an absolute self-reflexive interiority – a pure consciousness, these thinkers tried to rethink the subject from its origin in an impersonal void, a neutral space, a murmur that always precedes it. This is what they called “the outside.” However, while such profoundly new conception of the subject called into question the whole history of European philosophy, it also left open, due to its references to the mystical tradition and its stress on language, the pos-sibility of a return to an absolute interiority—which Bataille’s original move preserved and which is perhaps best summarized by Derrida’s claim that “there is nothing outside the text.” The French philosophers already cited seemed aware of this problematic but struggled to further explain the out-side. This paper will argue that, while these French philosophers remained trapped in mysticism, Italian philosophers, like Giorgio Agamben and Rob-erto Esposito, managed to escape it by taking the concept of the outside in a different direction: namely, life. Only by transforming the outside into life itself can one escape mysticism and re-imagine the subject as a liminal event of life, beyond any split between inside and outside. Keywords : outside, liminality, subjectivity, French Philosophy, Italian Philosophy, mysticism 39 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Alberto Parisi, PhD, is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Kobe In-stitute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS) of the Graduate School of Humanities of Kobe University, Japan, as well as a researcher at the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies of the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University with a dissertation ti-tled “The Intention of the Spirit: Breath, Air, and Voice in Modern European Poetry and Philosophy” and soon to be published by Routledge. His research situates itself at the intersection of Comparative Philosophy, Literature, Respiratory and Atmos-pheric Studies. 40 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ZUNANJOST: MEJNOST SUBJEKTA OD BATAILLEJA, BLANCHOTA IN FOUCAULTA DO ESPOSITA IN AGAMBENA Alberto PARISI KOIAS, Univerza Kobe in ZRS Koper V prispevku bom trdil, da sta sodobna francoska in italijanska filozofi-ja poskušali preseči tradicionalno evropsko razumevanje subjekta tako, da sta ga mislili kot mejni kraj ali ne-entiteto, ki je vedno že zunaj sebe. Tako bom ponovno sledil zgodovini pojma »zunanjost« (dehors), začenši z njego-vim navideznim nasprotjem v »notranji izkušnji« Georgesa Batailleja, da bi pokazal njegov vpliv in razvoj v pojmovanju jezikovnega subjekta pri Ma-uriceu Blanchotu in Michelu Foucaultu, Deleuzovem razumevanju obeh ter Jean-Lucu Nancyju. Natančna, a kratka študija teh virov bo pokazala, kako so ti misleci v nasprotju z idejo absolutne samorefleksivne notranjosti – či-ste zavesti – poskušali ponovno premisliti subjekt, vse od njegovega izvora v neosebni praznini, nevtralnem prostoru, šepetu, ki se vedno zgodi pred njim. To so imenovali »zunanjost«. Vendar pa je takšna globoko nova zasnova subjekta postavila pod vprašaj celotno zgodovino evropske filozofije, hkrati pa je zaradi svojih sklicevanj na mistično tradicijo in poudarka na jeziku pustila odprto možnost vrnitve k absolutni notranjosti – možnost, ki jo je ohranil Bataillejev izvirni premik in ki jo morda najbolje povzema Derridajeva trditev, da »ne obstaja zunanjost teksta«. Zgoraj navedeni francoski filozofi so se zavedali te problematike, vendar so imeli težave pri nadaljnjem pojasnjevanju zunanjosti. V tem član-ku bomo zagovarjali tezo, da so italijanski filozofi, kot sta Giorgio Agamben in Roberto Esposito, uspeli ubežati misticizmu, v katerem so ostali ujeti ome-njeni francoski filozofi, in sicer tako, da so pojem zunanjosti usmerili v drugo smer: v življenje. Samo s preoblikovanjem zunanjosti v samo življenje se lah-ko izognemo misticizmu in ponovno zasnujemo subjekt kot mejni dogodek življenja, ki presega vsako ločitev med znotraj in zunaj. Ključne besede : zunanjost, mejnost, subjektivnost, francoska filozofija, italijanska filozofija, misticizem 41 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Alberto Parisi je posebej imenovani docent na Inštitutu za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS) na Fakulteti za humanistične študije Univerze Kobe na Japonskem kot tudi raziskovalec na Inštitutu za filozofske in religijske študije pri Znanstveno-razi-skovalnem središču Koper. Doktorski naziv iz primerjalne književnosti je pridobil na Univerzi Harvard z disertacijo z naslovom »The Intention of the Spirit: Breath, Air, and Voice in Modern European Poetry and Philosophy«, ki bo kmalu izšla pri založ-bi Routledge. Njegovo raziskovalno delo se nahaja na stičišču primerjalne filozofije, književnosti ter respiratornih in atmosferskih študij. 42 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THE AESTHETICS OF KEHAI IN “THE BACKROOMS”: AN ESSAY ON THE ATMOSPHERE OF LIMINAL SPACES ON THE INTERNET Yuho HISAYAMA KOIAS, Kobe University In contemporary internet culture, the notion of liminal space often re-fers to very ordinary but empty places that have a specific, eerie, and sur-real atmosphere. One of the most iconic examples is “The Backrooms” image, which went viral on 4chan in 2019 accompanied by the following Kafka-like text: “If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluo-rescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred mil-lion square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.” In this paper, I explore this new category of Internet aesthetics by drawing on the Japanese atmospheric concept of kehai, which usually denotes the indication or sign of a potential happening. In the origi-nal version of “The Backrooms”, there are no monsters or risky happenings, but just the kehai that something might happen. I argue it is this kehai that creates the sense of horror in “The Backrooms”, which we feel not only with our imagination, but also due to the atmospheric forces on (and through) the computer display. Instead of drawing a fixed conclusion at the end of my talk, I aim to open up broader possibilities for how Atmospheric Studies can engage with virtual reality, or more broadly, with the liminal space between reality and the imaginary, between materiality and immateriality, and be-tween this world and another world – diesseits and jenseits in a new sense. Keywords : Atmosphere, liminal space, kehai, internet aesthetics Yuho Hisayama , Head of the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), is associate professor for German Literature at the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, Japan. He has received his first PhD (2013) from Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) and his second PhD (2021) from Kyoto University (Japan). His 43 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES publications include Erfahrungen des ki: Leibessphäre, Atmosphäre, Pansphäre (Karl Alber, 2014); Weltseele, Weltgeist und das Ungesagte in Goethes Altersgedicht Eins und Alles, in: Goethe-Jahrbuch 135 (2018), 39–46; Fun‘iki gaku wo hiraku [Launch-ing Atmospheric Studies], in: Gendai Shisô 51–15 (2023), 201–217. In 2022, he has established KOIAS (Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies) to develop Atmospheric Studies as a new cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary academic field. 44 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ESTETIKA KEHAI V »ZASOBJU«: ESEJ O ATMOSFERI MEJNIH PODROČIJ NA INTERNETU Yuho HISAYAMA KOIAS, Univerza Kobe V sodobni internetni kulturi pojem mejnega področja pogosto označuje zelo običajne, a prazne prostore, ki imajo posebno, skrivnostno in nadrea-listično atmosfero. Eden najbolj znanih primerov je slika »Zasobje« (»The Backrooms«), ki je leta 2019 postala viralna na spletni strani 4chan, skupaj z naslednjim kafkovskim besedilom: »Če nisi previden in se na napačnih ob-močjih izklopiš iz realnosti, se boš znašel v Zasobju, kjer ni nič drugega kot smrad po starih vlažnih preprogah, norost enobarvne rumene, neskončen hrup fluorescenčnih luči, ki brnijo na polno, in približno šeststo milijonov kvadratnih milj naključno razdeljenih praznih sob, v katerih si lahko ujet. Bog ti pomagaj, če slišiš, da se v bližini nekaj giblje, ker te je prav gotovo slišalo.« V tem prispevku bom raziskal novo kategorijo internetne estetike, pri čemer se bom opiral na japonski atmosferski koncept kehai, ki običajno označuje indic ali znamenje možnega dogajanja. V izvirni različici »Zasobja« ni pošasti ali nevarnih dogodkov, temveč le neke vrste znanilo (kehai), da se lahko kaj zgodi. Trdil bom, da prav kehai ustvarja občutek groze v »Za-sobju«, ki ga ne občutimo le z domišljijo, ampak tudi zaradi atmosferskih sil na računalniškem zaslonu (in skozenj). Na koncu svojega govora ne želim podati dokončnega zaključka, temveč odpreti širše možnosti za povezovanje atmosferskih študij z virtualno resničnostjo ali, širše, z mejnim področjem med resničnostjo in namišljenim, med materialnostjo in nematerialnostjo ter med tem svetom in drugim svetom – diesseits (tostranstvo) in jenseits (onostranstvo)v novem pomenu. Ključne besede: atmosfera, mejno področje, kehai, internetna estetika Yuho Hisayama , predstojnik Inštituta za atmosferske študije Kobe (KOIAS), je izredni profesor nemške književnosti na Podiplomski šoli za humanistične štu-dije Univerze Kobe na Japonskem. Leta 2013 je doktoriral na Tehniški univerzi v Darmstadtu v Nemčiji, leta 2021 pa še na Univerzi v Kjotu na Japonskem. Njegove 45 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES publikacije vključujejo Erfahrungen des ki: Leibessphäre, Atmosphäre, Pansphäre (Karl Alber, 2014); Weltseele, Weltgeist und das Ungesagte in Goethes Altersgedicht Eins und Alles, v: Goethe-Jahrbuch 135 (2018), 39–46; Fun‘iki gaku wo hiraku [Zagon atmosferskih študij], v: Gendai Shisô 51–15 (2023), 201–217. Leta 2022 je ustano-vil KOIAS, katerega namen je razvijati atmosferske študije kot novo medkulturno in meddisciplinarno akademsko področje. 46 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THE DOUBLE CHARACTER OF THE WAY: TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF BREATH-CHANGE IN MÓU ZŌNGSĀN’S READING OF THE LǍOZǏ Fabian HEUBEL Academia Sinica The “double character of the Way” (dào de shuāngchóngxìng 道的雙重 性) is a key concept in Móu Zōngsān’s interpretation of the classical Daoist book Lǎozǐ. In a crucial step for his interpretation, he introduces the differ-entiation between “double character” or “doubleness” (shuāngchóngxìng 雙重性) and “pairing” (dùiǒuxìng 對偶性). When he speaks of the “double character of the Way,” he means that the Way is twofold in “withoutness” (wúxìng 無性) and “withness” (yǒuxìng 有性). The physical world of breath- change (qìhuà 氣化), which is determined by “pairing”, is now juxtaposed with the meta-physical world of the Way, which Móu sees as determined by doubleness. The relation of the two points to a transition that is difficult to under-stand: the transition from the metaphysical world of the Way to the physical world of things. How is it possible to go down from the metaphysical world into the physical world and vice versa from the physical world up into the metaphysical? I think that this question can only be answered with great difficulty by an approach that differentiates and contrasts metaphysical way (doubleness) and physical breath change (pairing) in Móu’s way. My interpretation follows Móu in emphasizing the relation between way and breath-change, but interprets it differently than he does. Breath-change is thus not limited to the physical, but is to be understood as a transforma-tive and wandering movement between the metaphysical and physical worlds. In this sense, breath-change (氣化) is the axis that connects spirit and thing, spirit-change (神化 shénhuà) and thing-change (wùhuà 物化) in a relation of paradoxical communication. Keywords : Daoism, Way, breath-change, Lǎozǐ, Móu Zōngsān, metaphysics 47 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Fabian Heubel is Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Phi-losophy of Academia Sinica, Taipei, and currently Guest Professor for Classical and Modern Chinese Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin (2023–2025 – DAAD spon-sored). His main research interests are in classical and modern Chinese philosophy, interpretations of Chinese philosophy in Western sinology, Critical Theory, contempo-rary German and French thought, aesthetics, and philosophy of art. His monograph on breath in Chinese Philosophy is about to be published by Matthes & Seitz with the title Schlucht und Atemwandel: Zur Philosophie des Weges. 48 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES DVOJNA NARAVA POTI: NA POTI H KRITIKI TEORIJE SPREMEMBE DIHA V MÓU ZŌNGSĀNJEVEM RAZUMEVANJU LǍOZǏ Fabian HEUBEL Academia Sinica »Dvojna narava Poti« (dào de shuāngchóngxìng 道的雙重性) je ključni pojem v Móu Zōngsānovi interpretaciji klasičnega daoističnega dela Lǎozǐ. V ključnem koraku svoje interpretacije uvede razlikovanje med »dvoj-nim značajem« ali »dvojnostjo« (shuāngchóngxìng 雙重性) in »parnostjo« (dùiǒuxìng 對偶性). Ko govori o »dvojnem značaju Poti«, misli, da je Pot dvojna v smislu »biti brez« (wúxìng 無性) in »biti z« (yǒuxìng 有性). Fizični svet spremembe diha (qìhuà 氣化), ki ga določa »parnost«, je zdaj postavljen nasproti metafizičnemu svetu Poti, ki jo Móu vidi kot določeno z dvojnostjo. Odnos teh dveh točk do prehoda iz metafizičnega sveta Poti v fizični svet stvari je težko razumljiv. Kako se je mogoče spustiti iz metafizičnega sveta v fizični svet in obratno, povzpeti iz fizičnega sveta v metafizičnega? Menim, da je na to vprašanje mogoče z veliko težavo odgovoriti le če uporabimo pristop, ki na Móujev način razlikuje in protistavlja metafizično pot (dvojnost) in fi-zično spremembo diha (parnost). Moja interpretacija sledi Móuju v poudar-janju odnosa med potjo in spremembo diha, ki pa ga razlagam drugače kot on. Sprememba diha torej ni omejena na fizično, ampak jo je treba razumeti kot transformativno in tavajoče gibanje, ki potuje med metafizičnim in fizič-nim svetom. V tem smislu je sprememba diha (氣化) os, ki povezuje duha in stvar, spremembo duha (神化 shénhuà) in spremembo stvari (wùhuà 物化) v odnosu paradoksalne komunikacije. Ključne besede : daoizem, Pot, sprememba diha, Lǎozǐ, Móu Zōngsān, metafizika Fabian Heubel je znanstveni sodelavec na Inštitutu za kitajsko književnost in filozofijo raziskovalne ustanove Academia Sinica v Tajpeju in trenutno gostujoči pro-fesor za klasično in moderno kitajsko filozofijo na Freie Universität Berlin (2023– 2025 – financirano s strani DAAD). Njegova glavna raziskovalna področja so klasična 49 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES in sodobna kitajska filozofija, interpretacije kitajske filozofije v zahodni sinologiji, kritična teorija, sodobna nemška in francoska misel, estetika in filozofija umetnosti. Njegova monografija o dihu v kitajski filozofiji bo kmalu izšla pri založbi Matthes & Seitz z naslovom Schlucht und Atemwandel: Zur Philosophie des Weges. 50 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TO THINK WELL IS TO BREATHE WELL: A RESPIRATORY INTERPRETATION OF HERACLITUS’ FRAGMENT 112 Petri BERNDTSON ZRS Koper In my presentation, I will give a respiratory interpretation of Heracli-tus’ fragment 112. The fragment says: Sophronein arete megiste, kai sophie alethea legein kai poiein kata physin epaiontas. Among scholars this frag-ment has been translated in manifold ways. For example, Charles H. Kahn translates the fragment to say: “Thinking well (sophronein) is the greatest excellence and wisdom: to act and speak what is true, perceiving (epaion-tas) things according to their nature (physis).” Both Kahn and Martin Hei-degger agree that fragment 112 is one of the most important fragments for interpreting what Heraclitus might have meant by “thinking.” In my presentation, I will especially focus on the fragment’s last word epaiontas (ἐπαΐοντας). Kahn translates epaiontas as “perceiving” or “perceptively”, but this word can be interpreted in multiple ways as the stem of the word aio (ἀίω) means “to blow”, “to give ear to”, “to listen”, “to breathe” and “to reach out to something and to bring it in.” In Heidegger’s interpretation the meaning of epaiontas is “to listen attentively to the Logos.” Heraclitus’ Logos is Heidegger’s Being. Through his interpretation of Heraclitus, for Heidegger thinking as “the thinking of Being” means to listen attentively to the Logos/Being. In my interpretation of the fragment 112, instead of un-derstanding the meaning of epaiontas as perceiving (Kahn) or as listening (Heidegger), I will emphasize the possibility of understanding this word as breathing. Within this respiratory atmosphere, I will ponder the possibility that for Heraclitus thinking well is essentially intertwined with breathing well. Keywords : Heraclitus, thinking, breathing, ἐπαΐοντας, Heidegger Petri Berndtson is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophi-cal and Religious Studies (Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia). His work is focused on respiratory and elemental philosophy. He is the author of 51 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being (Rout-ledge 2023) and the co-editor of Atmospheres of Breathing (SUNY Press 2018). In addition to his academic work, Berndtson is also an avid practitioner of mindfulness of breathing meditation and other methods of breathwork. 52 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES DOBRO MISLITI JE DOBRO DIHATI: RESPIRATORNA INTERPRETACIJA HERAKLITOVEGA FRAGMENTA 112 Petri BERNDTSON ZRS Koper V svoji predstavitvi bom podal respiratorno interpretacijo Heraklitovega fragmenta 112, ki se glasi: Sophronein arete megiste, kai sophie alethea legein kai poiein kata physin epaiontas. Strokovnjaki so ta fragment prevedli na raz-lične načine. Prevod Charlesa H. Kahna se na primer glasi: »Dobro mišljenje (sophronein) je največja odličnost in modrost: delati in govoriti resnico, za-znavati (epaiontas) stvari v skladu z njihovo naravo (physis).« Kahn in Martin Heidegger se strinjata, da je fragment 112 eden najpomembnejših fragmen-tov za razlago tega, kar je Heraklit morda mislil z »mišljenjem«. V svoji pred-stavitvi se bom posebej osredotočil na zadnjo besedo fragmenta: epaiontas (ἐπαΐοντας). Kahn prevaja epaiontas kot »zaznavanje« ali »zaznavajoč«, ven-dar je mogoče to besedo razlagati na več načinov, saj koren besede aio (ἀίω) pomeni »pihati«, »poslušati«, »prisluhniti«, »dihati« ter »segati po nečem in to prinesti notri«. V Heideggerjevi razlagi je pomen epaiontas »pozorno po-slušati Logos«. Heraklitov Logos je Heideggerjeva Bit. V Heideggerjevi inter-pretaciji Heraklita mišljenje kot »mišljenje Biti« pomeni pozorno prisluhniti Logosu/Biti. V svoji interpretaciji fragmenta 112 ne razumem pomena bese-de epaiontas kot zaznavanje (Kahn) ali poslušanje (Heidegger), ampak pou-darjam možnost razumevanja te besede kot dihanje. V okviru respiratorne atmosfere bom razmišljal o možnosti, da je za Heraklita dobro misliti tesno prepleteno z dobro dihati. Ključne besede: Heraclitus, mišljenje, dihanje, ἐπαΐοντας, Heidegger Petri Berndtson je znanstveni sodelavec na Inštitutu za filozofske in religijske študije Znanstveno-raziskovalnega središča Koper. Njegovo delo se osredotoča na respiratorno in elementarno filozofijo. Je avtor knjige Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being (Routledge, 2023) in sourednik knjige At-mospheres of Breathing (SUNY Press, 2018). Poleg akademskega dela se Berndtson tudi intenzivno ukvarja z meditacijo čuječnosti dihanja in drugimi metodami dihal-nih vaj. 53 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THE RHYTHMS OF LIMINALITY BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE Ineta KIVLE University of Latvia This paper views the rhythms of liminality through such concepts as in-tersubjectivity (Husserl), in-between (Deleuze and Guattari), and meaning-ful silence (Dauenhauer). These different philosophical approaches open liminality as the uniting state of the deepest existential core showing a new starting point for something that will happen. Liminality is assumed as a meaningful silence that dwells in the human expectations to be incorporat-ed. The deep existential state transforms into thinkable, audible, and visible horizons. It allows us to meet our true sense of who we are and how we are in our internal world and the world with others and things around us. The paper gives examples of painting, music, and sport. Liminal state (practice) is grasped by Edgar Degas in his painting “Before the Performance” (1895/1900) – the dancers dwell in silent rhythms of body and soul and aim to move out from themselves in the intersubjective space-time of the dance. The same is constituted by the transformation of the meaningful rhythmic silence to sounds – the musicians and listeners are waiting for the conduc-tor’s sign at the start of the performance. Also, it is seen in sports games – the athletes concentrate before the start and the rhythmic beats of their hearts wait for the referee’s signal to participate in the competition. Keywords: liminality, rhythm, intersubjectivity, meaningful silence, in-between This research and paper presentation is funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) through the bilateral project Rhythms, Silences and Polyphonies: Echoes from Environmental Humanities (BI-LV/25-27-003). Ineta Kivle , DPhil, is a leading researcher in the history of ideas at the University of Latvia. Her doctoral thesis titled “Sound, Speech, Voice and Music in Phenomeno-logical Perspective” (2007) gives impetus to further research covering a variety of philosophical and interdisciplinary areas dedicated to sound, colour, rhythm, and number. She is a creator of the interdisciplinary research series phronesis, praxis, 54 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES paideia at the University of Latvia, a chief scientific editor of scientific book series and conference proceedings, and a head of scientific committees of international and local interdisciplinary conferences, a reviewer of scientific monographs and research. Ineta Kivle is the author of more than fifty scientific publications on the philosophy of sound and music, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ancient philosophy, and interdisciplinary philosophy in Latvian and English. 55 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES RITMI MEJNOSTI PRED IZVEDBO Ineta KIVLE Latvijska univerza Ta članek obravnava ritme mejnosti skozi pojme, kot so intersubjektiv-nost (Husserl), vmesnost (Deleuze in Guattari) in pomenljiva tišina (Dauen-hauer). Ti različni filozofski pristopi odpirajo mejnost kot združujoče stanje najglobljega eksistencialnega jedra, ki kaže novo izhodišče za nekaj, kar se bo zgodilo. Mejnost se razume kot pomenljiva tišina, ki prežema človeška pričakovanja, ki se imajo uresničiti. Globoko eksistencialno stanje se preo-brazi v zamisljiva, slišna in vidna obzorja. Omogoča nam, da spoznamo svoj pravi občutek za to, kdo smo in kako smo v svojem notranjem svetu ter v svetu z drugimi in s stvarmi okoli nas. Prispevek navaja primere iz slikarstva, glasbe in športa. Mejno stanje (praksa) je ujel Edgar Degas v sliki »Pred predstavo« (1895/1900) – plesal-ke se nahajajo v tihem ritmu telesa in duše in si prizadevajo izstopiti iz sebe v intersubjektivnem časo-prostoru plesa. Enako se zgodi pri preoblikovanju pomenske ritmične tišine v zvoke – glasbeniki oziroma glasbenice in poslu-šalke oziroma poslušalci čakajo na znak dirigenta oziroma dirigentke na za-četku nastopa. Prav tako je to vidno pri športnih tekmovanjih – športnice in športniki se pred začetkom koncentrirajo, njihovi ritmični srčni utripi čakajo na signal sodnika oziroma sodnice za začetek tekmovanja. Ključne besede: mejnost, ritem, intersubjektivnost, pomenljiva tišina, vmesnost To raziskavo in predstavitev financira Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in ino-vacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije (ARIS) v okviru bilateralnega raziskovalnega projekta Ritmi, tišine in mnogozvočja: odmevi okoljske humanistike (BI-LV/25-27-003). Ineta Kivle je vodilna raziskovalka na področju zgodovine idej na Latvijski uni-verzi. Njena doktorska disertacija z naslovom »Zvok, govor, glas in glasba v fenome-nološki perspektivi« (2007) daje zagon nadaljnjim raziskavam, ki pokrivajo različna filozofska in interdisciplinarna področja, posvečena zvoku, barvi, ritmu in številu. Je avtorica interdisciplinarne raziskovalne serije phronesis, praxis, paideia na latvijski 56 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES univerzi, glavna znanstvena urednica znanstvene knjižne serije in konferenčnih zbornikov, vodja znanstvenih odborov mednarodnih in lokalnih interdisciplinar-nih konferenc ter recenzentka znanstvenih monografij in raziskav. Je avtorica več kot petdesetih znanstvenih publikacij v latvijskem in angleškem jeziku o filozofiji zvoka in glasbe, fenomenologiji, hermenevtiki, antični filozofiji in interdisciplinarni filozofiji. 57 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ISLAM, LITERATURE AND LIMINALITY: NOTES FROM SOME SMALL COUNTRIES Carool KERSTEN KU Leuven and ZRS Koper As a spin-off from my research on Islam and the Imagination, this presen-tation addresses creative and reflective contributions on the poetics and arts of liminality by literary writers and scholars of literature from Slovenia, Lux-embourg, and Malta. Predating more widely known novels about Southeast Europe’s Ottoman past by such writers as Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, and Ismail Kadare, whose work is discussed in my upcoming book Islam and Con-temporary European Literature , in the 1930s, Slovene writer Vladimir Bartol wrote a collection of short stories and a novel featuring Islamic referents and themes. This historical detour serves to connect the project with the work of the Luxembourger-American literary scholar, translator, and poet Pierre Joris, and that of the Maltese comparativist, cultural theorist, and poet Nor-bert Bugeja. The focus will be on collections of Joris’s of poetry and reflective prose, such as Barzakh, A Nomad Poetics, and Arabia (not so) Deserta, and on Bugeja’s critique of cultural hybridity and his engaged writings on develop-ments and events in the contemporary Middle East. Keywords: cultural hybridity, Islam, liminality, literature Carool Kersten is Research Professor of Islamic Studies at Leuven University (Belgium) and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for Philosophical and Reli-gious Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper (Slovenia), as well as Emeri-tus Reader in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King’s College London (UK). The author or editor of twelve books, his latest monograph is entitled Islam and Contemporary European Literature (2025). 58 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ISLAM, LITERATURA IN MEJNOST: ZAPISKI IZ NEKATERIH MALIH DRŽAV Carool KERSTEN KU Leuven in ZRS Koper Kot stranski produkt mojega raziskovanja o islamu in domišljiji ta pred-stavitev obravnava ustvarjalne in refleksivne prispevke o poetiki in ume-tnosti mejnosti literarnih pisateljev in literarnih znanstvenikov iz Slovenije, Luksemburga in Malte. Pred bolj znanimi romani o osmanski preteklosti ju-govzhodne Evrope, ki so jih napisali pisatelji, kot so Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimo-vić in Ismail Kadare, katerih dela obravnavam v svoji prihajajoči knjigi Islam and Contemporary European Literature, je slovenski pisatelj Vladimir Bartol v 30. letih prejšnjega stoletja napisal zbirko kratkih zgodb in roman, v kate-rih so prisotni islamski motivi in teme. Ta zgodovinski ekskurz služi povezavi projekta z delom luksemburško-ameriškega literarnega znanstvenika, pre-vajalca in pesnika Pierrea Jorisa ter malteškega komparativista, kulturnega teoretika in pesnika Norberta Bugeja. Poudarek bo na zbirkah Jorisove poe-zije in refleksivne proze, kot so Barzakh, A Nomad Poetics in Arabia (not so) Deserta, ter na Bugejevi kritiki kulturne hibridnosti in njegovih angažiranih besedilih o razvoju in dogodkih na sodobnem Bližnjem vzhodu. Ključne besede: kulturna hibridnost, islam, mejnost, literatura Carool Kersten je raziskovalni profesor islamskih študij na Univerzi v Leuvnu v Belgiji, višji znanstveni sodelavec Inštituta za filozofske in religijske študije Znan-stveno-raziskovalnega središča Koper ter zaslužni profesor za študij islama in mu-slimanskega sveta na King's Collegu v Londonu. Je avtor ali urednik dvanajstih knjig, njegova najnovejša monografija pa nosi naslov Islam and Contemporary European Literature (2025). 59 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TREE THOUGHTS: ON THE SCIENCE AND ART OF TREE INTELLIGENCE George HANDLEY Brigham Young University As the science of tree intelligence has advanced, controversy has fol-lowed. While scientists generally agree that trees exhibit capacities that are more collaborative and communal than was previously thought, individual debates on species, have increased over the choice of metaphors scientists might use to communicate these qualities and to urge upon lay readers a stronger ethic of care for trees and forests. Trees as mothers, as perceivers, as communicators and warners, and as witnesses of history have abound-ed. In essence, we see continued anxiety about how to draw a line between anthropomorphism and biocentrism: when are we giving faithful voice and representation to the otherness and subjectivity of trees and when do we know we have overstepped our human bounds? Drawing upon tree science, plant philosophy, and the insights from recent tree novels, this paper will explore the strategies different authors have employed to capture tree intel-ligence. The paper’s hypothesis is that tree intelligence simultaneously chal-lenges and affirms the poetics of human language as a method for imagining non-human otherness. I will argue that artists who are serious about the findings of contemporary science offer more potent and effective metaphors than the scientists, precisely to the degree that they are more aware of and willing to exploit metaphoric instability, which is the very engine of human poetics. Keywords: plant philosophy, tree intelligence, mother tree, poetics George Handley teaches Comparative Literature and Environmental Humani-ties at Brigham Young University (USA). He is the author of Literature and Ecotheol-ogy: From Chaos to Cosmos (Routledge, 2024), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (University of Georgia Press, 2007), and other books. He is also a scholar of Mormonism and Mormon environ-mental ethics. 60 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES DREVESNE MISLI: O ZNANOSTI IN UMETNOSTI INTELIGENCE DREVES George HANDLEY Univerza Brigham Young Z napredkom znanosti o inteligenci dreves so se pojavile tudi polemike. Medtem ko se znanstveniki in znanstvenice na splošno strinjajo, da drevesa kažejo več sodelovalnih in skupnostnih sposobnosti, kot se je prej mislilo, so vse pogostejše razprave o izbiri metafor, ki bi jih znanstvenice in znanstveni-ki lahko uporabili za opisovanje teh lastnosti in za spodbujanje laičnih bral-cev in bralk k večji skrbi za drevesa in gozdove. Drevesa kot matere, kot bitja, ki zaznavajo, komunicirajo, kot priče zgodovine so v izobilju. V bistvu vidimo nenehno zaskrbljenost glede tega, kako potegniti črto med antropomorfiz-mom in biocentrizmom: kdaj zvesto izražamo in predstavljamo drugost in subjektivnost dreves in kdaj vemo, da smo prestopili oziroma prestopile svo-je človeške meje? Na podlagi ved o drevesih, filozofije rastlin in uvidov iz naj-novejših romanov o drevesih bo ta prispevek obravnaval strategije, ki so jih različne avtorice in avtorji uporabili za zajemanje inteligence dreves. Hipo-teza prispevka je, da inteligenca dreves hkrati izpodbija in potrjuje poetiko človeškega jezika kot metodo za zamišljanje nečloveške drugosti. Zagovarjal bom stališče, da umetniki in umetnice, ki resno jemljejo ugotovitve sodob-ne znanosti, ponujajo močnejše in učinkovitejše metafore kot znanstvenice in znanstveniki sami, in sicer ravno v tolikšni meri, kolikor se bolj zavedajo metaforične nestabilnosti, ki so jo pripravljeni izkoristiti, in ki je pravzaprav gonilo človeške poetike. Ključne besede: filozofija rastlin, inteligenca dreves, matično drevo, poetika George Handley poučuje primerjalno književnost in okoljske humanistične vede na Univerzi Brigham Young (ZDA). Je avtor knjig Literature and Ecotheology: From Chaos to Cosmos (Routledge, 2024), New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Univeristy of Georgia Press, 2007) in drugih. Je tudi strokovnjak za mormonizem in mormonsko okoljsko etiko. 61 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES COLONIZING DEATH: FROM CANNIBAL GRIEF TO DIGITAL IMMORTALITY Raquel FERRÁNDEZ FORMOSO UNED Colonial practices not only involved the domination of living bodies, but also the domination of corpses. Occasionally, civilized ways of burying and mourning the dead were imposed under the domination of various forms of Christianity. In this presentation I suggest that what we might be cur-rently seeking to colonize, under the paradigm of unlimited progress and civilization, is death itself. Various forms of technological longevity or even immortality are being proposed, some of which involve remaining in the digital arena, where the “dead” continue to generate data and feed the data colonialism denounced by some authors. From the “deathism” denounced by transhumanists, to the “restless dead”, as they are called in studies on digital immortality, or to forms of “active” mourning where the ghost-bot consoles the mourner, our current era demands that we pause to think about the eter-nal problem that has always been at the heart of philosophy: our mortal con-dition. Thus, this proposal is a risky venture into thinking about our current relation with death and the impact of digital technologies on our lives. Keywords: colonialism, digital immortality, death, transhumanism Raquel Ferrández Formoso, is professor of philosophy at the National Universi-ty for Distance Education (UNED, Spain). Her main area of research is Contemporary Indian Philosophy, with an emphasis on the intersection between yoga and tech-nology. Her research interests include the impact of technology on “non-religious spiritualities” as well as in the psychology of grief and the memory of the bereaved. 62 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES KOLONIZACIJA SMRTI: OD KANIBALSKEGA ŽALOVANJA DO DIGITALNE NESMRTNOSTI Raquel FERRÁNDEZ FORMOSO UNED Kolonialne prakse niso vključevale le nadvlade nad živimi telesi, temveč tudi nadvlado nad trupli. Občasno so bile pod nadvlado različnih oblik krš-čanstva vsiljene civilizirane oblike pokopavanja mrtvih in žalovanja za nji-mi. V tej predstavitvi trdim, da je tisto, kar trenutno skušamo kolonizirati v okviru paradigme neomejenega napredka in civilizacije, prav smrt sama. Ponujajo se različne oblike tehnološke dolgoživosti ali celo nesmrtnosti, od katerih nekatere vključujejo ostajanje v digitalnih sferah, kjer »mrtvi« še na-prej ustvarjajo podatke in hranijo podatkovni kolonializem, ki mu nekateri avtorji oziroma avtorice nasprotujejo. Od prepričanja, da je smrt neizbežna, ki mu nasprotujejo transhumanisti, do »nemirnih mrtvih«, kot jih imenujejo študije o digitalni nesmrtnosti, ali do oblik »aktivnega« žalovanja, kjer duh– robot tolaži žalujočega, današnja doba zahteva, da se ustavimo in razmislimo o večnem problemu, ki je bil vedno v središču filozofije: naši smrtnosti. Zato je ta predlog tvegano popotovanje v razmišljanje o našem današnjem odnosu do smrti in vplivu digitalnih tehnologij na naše življenje. Ključne besede: kolonializem, digitalna nesmrtnost, smrt, transhumanizem Raquel Ferrández Formoso je profesorica filozofije na Nacionalni univerzi za študij na daljavo (UNED, Španija). Njeno glavno področje raziskovanja je sodobna indijska filozofija, s poudarkom na presečišču joge in tehnologije. Njeni raziskovalni interesi vključujejo vpliv tehnologije na »nereligiozne duhovnosti« ter psihologijo žalovanja in spomin na pokojne. 63 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES INTERPRETING ASIAN RELIGIONS IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY COLLECTIONS IN SLOVENIA Helena MOTOH ZRS Koper In the early 20th century, the territory of present-day Slovenia witnessed a growing interest in collecting objects from South and East Asia, largely due to increased travel opportunities made possible by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The ports of Trieste (for passenger travel) and Pula (for the navy) became key hubs for contact with Asia, as travellers, missionaries, and sailors brought back numerous Asian objects and collections. This presenta-tion focuses on one particular category of items that gained popularity in these collecting practices: religious objects, and how they were interpreted, classified, and perceived upon their arrival. Several significant collections will be examined through this lens – including those of the Franciscan mis-sionary Peter Baptist Turk, the naval officer Ivan Skušek Jr, the female trav-eller and writer Alma Karlin, and the collection assembled by the Yugoslav Jesuit mission in Bengal. Religious objects from various Asian traditions found in these collections will be analysed to understand what aspects the collectors emphasized, how the objects were acquired, how they were inter-preted, and—crucially—how these traditions were presented and explained to the Slovenian public. Keywords: Asian religions, Slovenian collections, religious objects, early 20th century, intercultural interpretation Helena Motoh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Research Centre Koper and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. She holds a degree in Sinology and Philosophy and a PhD in Philosophy with a disserta-tion on the philosophical dialogue between China and Europe during the Enlight-enment. Her research focuses on Asian collections in Europe, the history of con-tacts between Europe and Asia, and intercultural philosophy. She works in several national and international research projects. She is leading the Slovenian-Austrian research project “The Life of the Skušek Collection: from the living room to a virtual museum” in partnership with the Technical University of Graz, and was a part of the 64 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES research team of the research projects “East Asian Collections in Slovenia: the En-gagement of Slovenian Space in the Global Exchange of Objects and Ideas with East Asia”, “Slovenian Missionary Women in India: a Forgotten Chapter in Intercultural Relations”, and “Orphaned Objects: the Treatment of East Asian Objects Outside Organised Collection Practices in Slovenian Space”. She is the co-author of the VAZ (East Asian Collections in Slovenia) website and the database of East Asian objects in Slovenian collections. In 2020, together with the with the East Asian Collections in Slovenia project team she received the prestigious Prometheus of Science Award for Excellence in Communicating Science. 65 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TOLMAČENJE AZIJSKIH RELIGIJ V ZBIRKAH Z ZAČETKA 20. STOLETJA V SLOVENIJI Helena MOTOH ZRS Koper Na začetku 20. stoletja je na ozemlju današnje Slovenije naraščalo zani-manje za zbiranje predmetov iz Južne in Vzhodne Azije, predvsem zaradi večjih možnosti za potovanja, ki jih je omogočilo odprtje Sueškega prekopa leta 1869. Luki v Trstu (za potniški promet) in Pulju (za mornarico) sta postali ključni vozlišči za stike z Azijo, saj so popotniki in popotnice, misi-jonarji oziroma misijonarke in mornarji od tam prinašali številne azijske predmete in zbirke. Ta predstavitev se osredotoča na posebno kategorijo predmetov, ki so postali priljubljeni v teh zbirateljskih praksah, in sicer na verske predmete ter na to, kako so se ti predmeti ob prihodu tolmačili, kla-sificirali in dojemali. Skozi to perspektivo bomo pregledali več pomemb-nih zbirk, med drugim zbirko frančiškanskega misijonarja Petra Baptista Turka, pomorskega častnika Ivana Skuška mlajšega, popotnice in pisate-ljice Alme Karlin ter zbirko, ki jo je zbral jugoslovanski jezuitski misijon v Bengaliji. Verske predmete iz različnih azijskih tradicij, ki so bili najdeni v teh zbirkah, bomo analizirali, da bi razumeli, katere vidike so zbirateljice oziroma zbiralci poudarili, kako so bili predmeti pridobljeni, kako so bili tolmačeni in – kar je najpomembnejše – kako so bile te tradicije predstavlje-ne in razložene slovenski javnosti. Ključne besede : azijske religije, slovenske zbirke, verski predmeti, začetek 20. stoletja, medkulturno tolmačenje Helena Motoh je višja znanstvena sodelavka v Znanstveno-raziskovalnem sredi-šču Koper in docentka na Filozofski fakulteti Univerze v Ljubljani. Diplomirala je iz sinologije in filozofije ter doktorirala iz filozofije z disertacijo o filozofskem dialogu med Kitajsko in Evropo v obdobju razsvetljenstva. Njeno raziskovalno delo se osre-dotoča na azijske zbirke v Evropi, zgodovino stikov med Evropo in Azijo ter medkul-turno filozofijo. Sodeluje v več nacionalnih in mednarodnih raziskovalnih projektih. Vodi slovensko-avstrijski raziskovalni projekt »Življenje Skuškove zbirke: od dnev-ne sobe do virtualnega muzeja« v sodelovanju s Tehnično univerzo v Gradcu in je 66 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES bila članica raziskovalne skupine raziskovalnih projektov »Vzhodnoazijske zbirke v Sloveniji: vpetost slovenskega prostora v globalno izmenjavo predmetov in idej z Vzhodno Azijo«, »Slovenske misijonarke v Indiji: pozabljeno poglavje v medkultur-nih odnosih« in »Osiroteli predmeti: obravnava vzhodnoazijskih predmetov izven organiziranih zbirateljskih praks v slovenskem prostoru«. Je soavtorica spletne stra-ni VAZ (Vzhodnoazijske zbirke v Sloveniji) in podatkovne zbirke vzhodnoazijskih predmetov v slovenskih zbirkah. Leta 2020 je skupaj s projektno skupino Vzhodno-azijske zbirke v Sloveniji prejela prestižno priznanje Prometej znanosti za odličnost v komuniciranju. 67 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES LISTENING-WITH ELEMENTAL RHYTHMS AND SILENCES: AN ESSAY ON LIMINALITIES OF SALT-WORKING Maja BJELICA ZRS Koper This paper will be an inquiry into the possibilities that listening-with the rhythms and silences of elements might have to offer for a further develop-ment of a posthuman ethics that would rise beyond anthropocentricism and technocracy of the present world; an ethics of a caring cohabitation in (and of) the more-than-human world that would be inclusive not only of the liv-ing, but of the so-called non-living as well, such as objects, materials, and other elements – including different versions of liminalities. Following such a horizon for ethics, the rhythms and silences of elements will be explored in terms of their presence and absence, namely of their pulse, frequencies, and vibrations. Thinking and listening-with silences and rhythms of the elements will allow the emergence of enriching reverbera-tions for environmental (post)humanities as well, presented with the case study of salt-working in the Sečovlje saltworks in Slovenia. Through listen-ing-with the elements and exploring the silences of the water evaporating, the air welcoming it, the soil supporting the salt crystals, and the heat drying them; and rhythms of mud on the soles of our feet, wind singing into our ears, the sun resting on our shoulders, the water guiding the way – we will be able to follow the four elements (water, fire, air and earth) crystallizing into salt. By approaching echoes of liminality in this way, this essay will be connecting the ethics of listening with elemental philosophy. Keywords: listening-with, rhythms, silences, salt-working, liminality, environmental (post)humanities This research and paper presentation is funded by the Slovenian Research and Innova-tion Agency (ARIS) through the research programme Liminal Spaces (P6-0279), the research project Grain of Salt, Crystallising Cohabitation (J6-50196), and the bilateral project Rhythms, Silences and Polyphonies (BI-LV/25-27-003). 68 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Maja Bjelica, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Science and Research Centre Koper’s Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies. Currently she is work-ing on the research programme on liminal spaces in areas of cultural and societal cohabitation in the age of risk and vulnerability, and a transdisciplinary research project in environmental humanities, concentrating on ecoethnography, elemental philosophy, and ecophenomenology, applying it to a case study of salt-working as ex-periential environmental wisdom. She interdisciplinarily cross-pollinates research in the themes of ethics of listening, ethics of hospitality, (applied) ethnomusicology, community music, and environmental humanities. 69 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES POSLUŠANJE-Z RITMI IN TIŠINAMI ELEMENTOV: ESEJ O MEJNOSTIH SOLINARSTVA Maja BJELICA ZRS Koper Ta prispevek bo raziskoval možnosti, ki jih lahko ponuja poslušanje-z rit- mi in tišinami elementov za nadaljnji razvoj posthumanistične etike, ki bi presegla antropocentrizem in tehnokracijo sedanjega sveta; etike skrbnega sobivanja več-kot-človeškega sveta in v njem, ki bi vključeval ne le živega, temveč tudi tako imenovano neživo, na primer predmete, materiale in druge elemente, vključno z različnimi oblikami mejnosti. S tovrstnim obzorjem za etiko bodo proučevani ritmi in tišine elementov s slušnega kota njihove prisotnosti in odsotnosti, tj. njihovega utripa, frekvenc in vibracij. Razmišljanje in poslušanje-s tišinami in ritmi elementov bo omo-gočilo nastanek bogatitvenih učinkov tudi za okoljske (post)humanistične vede, kar bo predstavljeno na študijskem primeru Sečoveljskih solin. Prek poslušanja-z elementi in raziskovanja tišine izhlapevajoče vode, zraka, ki jo gostoljubno sprejema, zemlje, ki podpira solne kristale, in toplote, ki jih suši; ter ritmov blata na podplatih naših nog, vetra, ki poje v naša ušesa, sonca, ki počiva na naših ramenih, vode, ki nas vodi na pot – bomo lahko sledile in sle-dili štirim elementom (vodi, ognju, zraku in zemlji), ki se kristalizirajo v sol. S takim pristopanjem k odmevom mejnosti bo ta esej etiko poslušanja povezal s filozofijo elementov. Ključne besede: poslušanje-z, ritmi, tišine, solinarstvo, mejnost, okoljska (post)humanistika To raziskavo in predstavitev financira Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije (ARIS) v okviru raziskovalnega programa Mejna področja (P6-0279), raziskovalnega projekta Zrno soli, kristaliziranje sobivanja (J6-50196) ter bilateralnega raziskovalnega projekta Ritmi, tišine in mnogozvočja (BI-LV/25-27-003). 70 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Maja Bjelica je znanstvena sodelavka na Inštitutu za filozofske in religijske štu- dije Znanstveno-raziskovalnega središča Koper. Trenutno deluje v raziskovalnem programu o mejnih področjih v kulturnem in družbenem sobivanju v času tveganja in ranljivosti ter v transdisciplinarnem raziskovalnem projektu na področju okolj-skih humanističnih ved, ki se osredotoča na ekoetnografijo, filozofijo elementov in ekofenomenologijo, in ga aplicira v študiji primera solinarstva kot izkustvene okolj-ske modrosti. Interdisciplinarno navzkrižno oplaja raziskave na področjih etike po-slušanja, etike gostoljubnosti, (aplikativne) etnomuzikologije, skupnostne glasbe in okoljskih humanističnih ved. 71 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES THE MIRROR AS LIMEN: A NON-POROUS PATHWAY TOWARDS HUMAN POROSITY Tjaša ŠKORJANC ZRS Koper In times of his feverish obsession with optics, Goethe postulates the con-cept of Trübe (turbidity). Referring to a certain first limen of materiality that constructs the relation between the visible and the invisible, allowing for the former to be begotten through the dialectics of Trübe with the visual sense, Goethe’s turbidity circumvented strict domains of optical physics and be-came a philosophical concept. At the level of the onto-phenomenological for-mation of the human subject, a certain (necessarily material) threshold that defines a specific type of vision may be disentombed in the mirror. Human encounters with the mirror, which I situate in the kernel of this presentation, form a multilayered nexus of not only identification with the image, but also contribute to the wholeness of their haptic ontology (Jean-Luc Nancy): both through its material presence as well as its function to reflect, the mirror tells, intersubjectively, of other consciousnesses, and is laid at the border of semiotic organization of our and others’ subjectivities. If on the one hand, the mirror’s function is to safeguard what Roger Caillois operationalized as (mis)identification with the vast space as such and to secure a spatio-tem-poral organization of the human experience, then, on the other, the mirror’s haunting intrigues lie in its problems with symmetry and geometrical modi-fication that always direct towards the ambiguity nesting between a human and the mirror. My examination of this ambiguity and the role of the (non-porous) mate-riality of the mirror will be, in addition to some ruminations on the theory of mirroring (Kristeva, Lotman, Bakhtin), twofold. It will first pose the question of the skewed mirror proper to our online presence, where the lack of time-space precision opens the gates to a disembodied, perpetual state of liminal-ity. The second passage will be dedicated to selected fragments of Sartre’s novels, where mirrors are heavily inserted to address characters’ shattering and complex intersubjective relations. Keywords: mirroring, intersubjectivity, perpetual liminality, Sartre’s novels 72 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Tjaša Škorjanc holds a BA in International Relations and Cultural Studies and a MA in Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana). Since 2023, she has been working as a young researcher at the Science and Research Centre Koper. She is a PhD candidate in the field of Philosophy at the Alma Mater Europaea Univer-sity – Faculty ISH (Ljubljana, Slovenia). 73 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ZRCALO KOT LIMEN: NEPREPUSTNA POT K ČLOVEŠKI POROZNOSTI Tjaša ŠKORJANC ZRS Koper V razdobju svojega navduševanja nad optiko je Goethe postuliral koncept Trübe (turbidnost, motnost). Trübe, s katero je avtor napotoval na določen prvi limen materialnosti, ki izgrajuje odnos med vidnim in nevidnim, pri če-mer prvi vznikne v dialektiki med turbidnostjo in čutilom vidnega, je znotraj avtorjevega opusa sčasoma zaobšel strogo domeno optične fizike in privzel lastnosti filozofskega koncepta. Na ravni onto-fenomenološkega zasnutja človeškega subjekta je določen (nujno materialen) prag, ki opredeljuje speci-fičen način gledanja, moč natipati v zrcalu. Človeška srečevanja z zrcalom, ki ga postavljam v središče tega prispevka, spletajo mnogoplastno infrastruk-turo, ki ne pelje le do istovetenja s podobo, ampak napeljuje tudi na celoto človeške haptične ontologije (Jean-Luc Nancy): ogledalo skozi materialno prisotnost in funkcijo odslikavanja spregovarja, intersubjektivno, o zavesti drugega, in se nahaja na razvodnici semiotične organizacije nas samih in drugih. Če je po eni plati funkcija zrcala obvarovati to, kar je Roger Caillois operacionaliziral kot (zmotno) enačenje z nezamejenim prostorom ter jača-ti trdno prostorsko-časovno organizacijo človeškega izkustva, potem druga plat iztirjajoče dvoumnosti zrcala, ki gnezdi v odnosu med slednjim in su-bjektom, sestoji iz problema simetrije in geometrične modifikacije podobe. Moje motrenje te dvoumnosti in vloge (neporozne) materialnosti ogle- dala, bo, onstran nekaterih premislekov na polju teorije zrcaljenja (Kristeva, Lotman, Bakhtin), dvoslojno. Sprva si bom zastavila vprašanje »popačene-ga zrcala«, ki je lasten spletnemu svetu. Tozadevno me bo zanimal manko prostorsko-časovne določenosti, ki napaja neko raztelešeno in neprekinjeno stanje liminalnosti. Druga pasaža pričujoče predstavitve bo v presek jemala izbrane odseke Sartrovih romanov (še zlasti zgodnjih), kjer se ogledala po-gosto pojavljajo kot sredstvo naslavljanja razcepljenosti likov ter zapletenih medosebnih odnosov. Ključne besede: zrcaljenje, intersubjektivnost, neprekinjena liminalnost, Sartrovi romani 74 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Tjaša Škorjanc je diplomirala in mednarodnih odnosov in kulturologije ter ma-gistrirala iz sociologije na Fakulteti za družbene vede Univerze v Ljubljani. Od leta 2023 je zaposlena kot mlada raziskovalka na Inštitutu za filozofske in religijske štu-dije ZRS Koper. Je doktorska študentka na področju filozofije na Univerzi Alma Mater Europaea – Fakulteti ISH. 75 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES A BREATHING–VOICING CURE: INTRODUCING THE ORALINE AND RESPIRATORY–SONOROUS FIELD TO PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC RELATING Rebecca BRUNO Alma Mater Europaea University Although psychotherapy’s origins in the “talking cure” position relation-ship at the centre of practice and efficacy in analysis, inclusivity, and inter-relatedness are areas that continue to be challenged based on a lineage of implicit and explicit practices of exclusion in psychotherapeutic relating. Through heuristic methodology—with a poetic lens and phenomenological sensibility—this paper considers possibilities for vast inclusion and inter-connection through a breathing–voicing cure, as well as implications around object-relations and attachment, intersubjectivity, embodiment, character structure, and treating pre-reflective trauma by highlighting the mouth as a portal from which to orient in psychotherapy. Namely, the oraline and res-piratory–sonorous field are introduced to psychotherapeutic relating. By orienting towards orality through the expansive and contractive nature of breath and sensual aspects of vocalization, elements of rhythm and register become active partners in the practice of relating, highlighting the need for increased syntax around sensory and psychological experiences perceived during the therapeutic encounter. Keywords: respiration, vocalization, orality, psychotherapeutic relating, intersubjectivity Rebecca Bruno is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Lenart Škof and Bracha Ettinger at Alma Mater Europaea University – Faculty ISH. Bruno is an artist and psychotherapist working across dance, visual art, and depth and body-centred psychotherapy. In 2012, Bruno founded homeLA, a performance project dedicated to dance process in private space partnering with body-based artists and Los Angeles residents. Bruno collaborates with Mak Kern on Objects for Others, a project that embraces chance and meditation by pairing a dance sensibility with kinetic sound sculptures. Bruno’s works have been presented by such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the 76 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Lloyd Wright Sowden House, the Neutra VDL House, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, FLAX Foundation at Tin Flats, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Na-vel LA, Springbreak Art Show, Compound (Yucca Valley), Eden’s Expressway (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Ponderosa (Germany), Dance Studies Association (Malta), and the LAB (Jerusalem). 77 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES TERAPIJA Z DIHANJEM IN GLASOM: UVEDBA ORALNEGA IN DIHALNO-ZVOČNEGA PODROČJA V PSIHOTERAPEVTSKO VZPOSTAVLJANJE ODNOSOV Rebecca BRUNO Univerza Alma Mater Europaea Čeprav psihoterapija izvira s pozicije odnosa »govorne terapije«, ki je v središču prakse in učinkovitosti analize, sta vključujočnost in medsebojna povezanost področji, ki sta še vedno pod vprašajem zaradi vrste implicitnih in eksplicitnih praks izključevanja v psihoterapevtskem vzpostavljanju od-nosov. S pomočjo heuristične metodologije – s poetičnim pogledom in feno-menološko občutljivostjo – ta prispevek obravnava možnosti za široko vklju-čevanje in medsebojno povezovanje prek zdravljenja z dihanjem in glasom, pa tudi posledice za objektne odnose in navezanost, intersubjektivnost, ute-lešenje, strukturo značaja in zdravljenje predrefleksivne travme, pri čemer poudarja usta kot vhod, po katerem usmerjamo psihoterapijo. Oralno in di-halno-zvočno področje uvaja v psihoterapevtsko vzpostavljanje odnosov. Z usmerjanjem v oralnost prek ekspanzivne in kontraktivne narave diha ter čutnih vidikov vokalizacije postanejo elementi ritma in registra aktivni par-tnerji v praksi vzpostavljanja odnosov, kar poudarja potrebo po večji sintaksi okoli senzoričnih in psiholoških izkušenj med terapevtskim srečanjem. Ključne besede: dihanje, vokalizacija, oralnost, psihoterapevtsko povezovanje, intersubjektivnost Rebecca Bruno je študentka doktorskega študija pod mentorstvom Lenarta Škofa in Brache Ettinger na Fakulteti ISH univerze Alma Mater Europaea. Je ume-tnica in psihoterapevtka, ki deluje na področju plesa, vizualne umetnosti ter glo-binske in telesno usmerjene psihoterapije. Leta 2012 je v sodelovanju z umetniki, ki delajo s telesom, in prebivalci Los Angelesa ustanovila projekt homeLA, posvečen plesnemu procesu v zasebnem prostoru. Sodeluje z Makom Kernom pri projektu Objects for Others , ki združuje naključje in meditacijo ter plesno občutljivost s kine-tičnimi zvočnimi skulpturami. Njena dela so bila predstavljena v ustanovah, kot so Hammer Museum, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Lloyd Wright Sowden House, Neutra VDL House, REDCAT Theater, Bootleg Theater, FLAX 78 PHILOSOPHY, POETICS, AND ARTS OF LIMINALITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Foundation at Tin Flats, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Navel LA, Springbreak Art Show, Compound (Dolina Yucca), Eden’s Expressway (New York), Judson Church (New York), Palais de Tokyo (Pariz), Ponderosa (Nemčija), Dance Studies Associati-on (Malta) in LAB (Jeruzalem). 79