The Philosophy & Art Collaboratory (PAC) is dedicated to uncovering the modern and postmodern Western modes of inquiry cast in discourses on philosophy, culture, knowledge, and art. We explore the narrative that modernity presupposes the currency of premodernity, and/or that postmodernism is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Learning, thinking, and laboring should be nothing other than the practice of shifting a life situation from a discordant condition to a harmonious one, so that this practice is practically mediated by actual experience. We therefore focus on a complementary approach of vigorously conceptual work and disciplined participation from the perspective of French post-structuralism with American literary criticism, intercultural philosophy, and material culture studies. Our quest concerns the understanding of ordinary life and its relations to philosophy, culture, knowledge, and art, and the ways in which these relations may be reassembled, a form of fieldwork in philosophy.