Luis de Miranda

‘Esprit de Corps’: Birth and Evolution of a Polemical Notion (France, UK, USA; 1721–2017)

Biography

Background

Luis de Miranda has been previously identified as an independent philosopher and novelist. Paris has published his first 13 books (essays or fiction – for example L’Art d’être libres au temps des automates). Some of his texts have been translated into English, Arabic, Spanish, Turkish. After Is a new life possible? was published in English (Deleuze studies), he was offered a University of Edinburgh Research Scholarship Award  to study for a PhD programme. Luis de Miranda is in the final stage of his thesis on the intellectual history of the notion ofEsprit de corps. At the University of Edinburgh, he is also the initiator of The Crag (Creation of Reality Group) and of the Anthrobotics Cluster. 

CV

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Qualifications

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, HEA, UK.

Undergraduate teaching

Teaching experience and accreditations

  • 2017 | Creative Thinking, University of Edinburgh Summer School.
  • 2014 – 2016 | French literature, French language, University of Edinburgh.
  • 2015 | Creative Writing and Ethics, Oxbridge Academic Program, Paris, France.
  • 2015 | Associate Fellowship Accreditation (UK Higher Education Academy)
  • 2014 | Creativity, Ecole Media Art, Châlon-sur-Saône, France.
  • 2013 | Literature and French class, substitute teacher, Lycée Saint-Louis, pupils aged 10 to 17, Stockholm, Sweden.

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In the press

Recent interviews of Luis de Miranda and articles

  • 2016 | Interview of Luis de Miranda on anthrobotics, Futurism.
  • 2016 | Interview of Luis de Miranda on anthrobotics, Robohub.
  • 2016 | Portrait of Luis de Miranda’s career, Pantheon-Sorbonne Magazine.
  • 2015 | General interview of Luis de Miranda, The Oxford Philosopher.
  • 2015 | Interviews of Luis de Miranda on the philosophy of videogames, The Hard Core Gamer, Dark Zero, Digitally Downloaded.
  • 2015 | Interview of Luis de Miranda on Versailles and contemporary art: Atlantico.
  • 2015 | ‘La République ne fait plus rêver? La France a besoin de foi’, opinion article on French politics and society, Le Nouvel Obs.
  • 2014 |‘Access and aesthetics’, article on Luis de Miranda’s publishing start-up project Haute Culture Books, Reading in Translation.
  • 2014 | ‘On translating and publishing’, article on Luis de Miranda, Literalab.
  • 2014 | Interview of Luis de Miranda as editorial director, Typographical Era.
  • 2012 | Radio interview of Luis de Miranda on the philosophy of computers and the digital, Open Democracy.
  • 2012 | Radio interview of Luis de Miranda on the philosophy of computers and the digital, France Culture.
  • 2011 | General interview of Luis de Miranda, La Tribune.
  • 2011 | Radio interview of Luis de Miranda on Google, France Culture.
  • 2011 | ‘Pour un moratoire sur les prix littéraires’, opinion article on literary prizes, Le Monde.
  • 2011 | ‘Un héros philosophique’, opinion article on French politics, Libération.
  • 2011 | Radio interview of Luis de Miranda on crealism, BFM.
  • 2011 | ‘La speculation, maladie mentale de la Terre’, opinion article on capitalism, Libération.
  • 2010 | ‘Wikileaks: Qui règne par le code tombera par le code’, opinion article on Wikileaks and The Anonymous, Libération.
  • 2010 | Radio Interview of Luis de Miranda on crealism, France Culture.
  • 2008 | ‘Une civilisation de la fête et de l’oubli, opinion article on Auschwitz, WW2, and memory, Le Monde.

  • 2012 | L’être et le néon, cultural and intellectual history of neon signs, Max Milo, Paris, France.
  • 2011 | Qui a tué le poète?, philosophical novel, Max Milo. Translated into Turkish (Galata Editions, 2012). Currently being translated into English.
  • 2010 | L’art d’être libres au temps des automates, cultural and intellectual history of digital machines, Max Milo.
  • 2008 | Paridaiza, philosophical novel, Plon, Paris, France.
  • 2008 | Une vie nouvelle est-elle possible? Deleuze et les lignes, academic essay, Nous, Caen, France. Translated into English as Is a New Life Possible? Deleuze Studies, Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
  • 2007 | Peut-on jouir du capitalisme?, philosophical essay, Punctum, Paris, France.
  • 2003 | Ego trip, ou La Société des artistes sans oeuvre, philosophical essay, Max Milo.
  • 2002 | Moment magnétique de l’aimant, philosophical novel, La Chasse au Snark, Paris, France.
  • 2001 | A vide, philosophical novel, Denoël, Paris, France.
  • 2000 | Le Spray, philosophical tale, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, France
  • 1998 | La Mémoire de Ruben, philosophical novel, Gamma Press, Belgium. Translated into Arabic (Walidoff Editions, Tunisia, 2010).
  • 1997 | Joie, philosophical novel, Le Temps des Cerises, Paris, France.

  • 2016 | ‘We, Anthrobot: Learning from Human forms of Interaction and Esprit de Corps to Develop More Diverse Social Robotics’, Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016, IOS Press. With Dr. Ram Ramamoorthy and Dr. Michael Rovatsos.
  • 2016 | Life is Strange and ‘Games are Made’: A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator (accepted), Games and Culture.
  • 2015 | ‘Esprit de Corps and the French Revolutionary Crisis: A Prehistory of the Concept of Solidarity’, University of Vienna Forschungsportal.
  • 2013 | ‘Is a new life possible? Deleuze and the lines’, Deleuze Studies.
  • 2003 | ‘La société existe’, Anthropolis, Revue du Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales.
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