Spirit is a Bone

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Spirit is a Bone

Lisbon-based association. Thinking art together | Exploring the dialectics of reality SPIRIT IS A BONE is an association based in Lisbon.

Its name, taken from an infamous oxymoron (or "infinite judgment") by the German philosopher Hegel, underscores its commitment to exploring the productive potential of contradiction. The association aims to think together and explore how such infinite judgements function and especially how they relate to the dialectic, how far dialectic can think and what escapes the dialectic, what remains, what

gets separated, what gets stuck: the bone in the throat. The aim of the association is to propagate a thinking of these residual phenomena. Spirit is a Bone is currently curated by artists and researchers Luís Neiva and Björn Schmelzer. Alongside hosting a regular podcast, the association aims to organize readings, discussions, and live online events featuring other participants and guest speakers, as well as a summer and winter school, seminars, masterclasses, and other educational programs.

05/05/2026

After a long hibernation, Björn and Luís continue their reading of The Sublime Object of Ideology, turning to a strange question: Che vuoi?

From the quilting point to the formidable structure of Jacques Lacan’s graph of desire, they trace this enigma across a series of examples, from Don Giovanni to Mad Men, from Charlie Chaplin to Rogier van der Weyden.

As usual, the episode is available on Substack, Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

linktr.ee/spiritisabone

After a long hibernation, Björn and Luís continue their reading of The Sublime Object of Ideology, turning to a strange question: Che vuoi?

22/01/2026

Happy to announce the screening of EEN DONKERE SPIEGEL, a film Björn Schmelzer made with and about Belgian maverick philosopher Frank Vande Veire at KASKcinema, Ghent, on 2 February 20H30, followed by Q&A with Frank and Björn. The film premiered last August at our festival, “Not Only Are We Not Infinite, We Are Not Even Finite,” where it was met with great success.
Don't miss the oportunity to watch this unique portrait of one of the most important philosophers for the current moment!

(the film is subtitled in english)

https://www.kaskcinema.be/kaskcinema/vertoning/donkere_spiegel_2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawPfAh9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeaG5EAFuQwNL5evGHtWOCce8SQKyNM2oAB_RrCDpkfPyIzlju0s2FenI0YXM_aem_ReKkgb98dsKKVZf-9EsGRw

Musicoloog en antropoloog Björn Schmelzer staat bekend om zijn onorthodoxe omgang met polyfone muziek, maar minstens even eigenzinnig zijn de gedachten die hij errond weeft. Daar sluipt steeds weer hetzelfde beeld binnen: het monsterlijke. Abjecte identiteiten die niet passen, maar ontsporen en gev...

15/11/2025

And we're back! The sixth episode of Spirit is a Bone is now live!

What is a symptom? Luís and Björn continue their journey through Slavoj Zizek’s first book “The Sublime Object” traversing Freud, Lacan and plenty of social and cultural examples from Kafka, Wagner, Joyce, Josquin Desprez and theorists like Carlo Ginsburg, Erwin Panofsky, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mladen Dolar, Robert Pfaller, Gilles Deleuze and Lawrence Kramer…
They explore ways of interpreting the symptom from meaningful to meaningless and its relation to enjoyment.

As usual, the episode is available on Substack, Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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What is a symptom?

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