Projects
Using textual analysis to assess the materiality of risk factor disclosures in company's financial reports KU Leuven
The increasing amount of corporate failures in recent years has spurred organisations to manage their risks more effectively. One approach that has gained prominence during this period is enterprise risk management (ERM), a process designed to identify and control business risks and ensure they are consistent with corporate strategies and risk appetite. Several surveys on ERM practices highlight the CFO’s primary role and ownership ...
Wired. The Materiality of Power in Palestine-Israel Ghent University
Materiality is back. After the turn to discourse, there is a new fascination with material stuff for
the study of contemporary political life. As part of this renewed emphasis, infrastructures are
making a conspicuous appearance and so is electricity –n infrastructure par excellence. Situated
at the intersection of urban studies, political economy, and Middle East studies, this project sets
out to ...
Re-assessing Human Agency in a More-Than-Human World. Towards a New Materialist Anthropology. University of Antwerp
Material matters: Towards a New Materialist Approach to Contemporary Performance Art. University of Antwerp
Material matters: Towards a New Materialist Approach to Contemporary Performance Art. University of Antwerp
The influence of materialism in price-quality perceptions Ghent University
The present research adds to this literature by examining if materialistic people more readily believe that price reliably signals quality than less materialistic people. The former may do so because this belief would help them justify their conspicuous consumption tendencies. In addition, The present research also aims to investigate how the belief that price reliably signals quality affects consumption.
The material body: medicine and materialism of the early modernity to the radical Enlightenment Ghent University
The Body Material is an investigation of the status of the body in materialist thought, from
early modernity until the late Enlightenment (17th-18th centuries). At first sight, this may
seem like familiar territory: the Scientific Revolution produced an idea of mechanistic analysis
which was gradually applied to the body by thinkers including Descartes, at the intersection
of philosophy and medicine. ...
Transcendental Materialism and its Disciplinary Concern' - On the Systematization, History and Practice of a Philosophy after the Žižekian Synthesis Ghent University
This project aims to systematize the contemporary, increasingly influential movement named ‘Transcendental Materialism’ (‘TM’) by philosopher Adrian Johnston. Associated with, among others, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, this philosophy eclectically draws from German idealist, psychoanalytical, and Marxist traditions. Recent scholarship shows that TM, despite earlier attempts at systematization, is currently still unable to reflect on its key ...