Daniel Shabetaï Milo

(1953, Tel Aviv, Israel)

Dov Hoz 35, Tel Aviv, 63416, Israel

Teleph.: 011-972-3-5231918

&

25, Bld du Temple, 75003, Paris, France

Teleph.: 011-33-1-44593363

E-mail: dsmilo@gmail.com.

EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor

École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France (since 1990)

Visiting professor

University of Chicago, Mills College, University of Berkeley, Wissenschafkolleg Berlin, and Tel Aviv University.

EDUCATION

Habilitation in Philosophy,

École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1993

(Fiction as a scientific experimental protocol)

Ph.D. in History and Civilizations

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1986.

"Aspects of Cultural Survival" (The Darwinian selection of writers, poets, painters, given that there are a million times too many of them for posterity to retain, a fortiori to cherish. (All chapters were published in Annales E.S.C., 1984, Revue française de Sociologie, 1986, and Les Lieux de Mémoire, 1986.)

M.A. in Cinema Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1981.

"The Culinary Aspect of Cinematic Language" (published in Semiotica, 1986.)

B.A. in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, 1978

PUBLICATIONS

            Articles

            30 papers in the journals and collective books afore cited as well as in Strategies, Annales, Histoire & Mesure, Common Knowledge, History & Theory, The Sites of Memory and others (in French, English, Hebrew, German, Russian, Japanese)

            Books

• Trahir le temps (Betraying Time). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1991. (Ten essays in historiography triggered by a thought experiment: What if the Christian Era started with the Crucifixion instead of Jesus' birth? Every century would have started 33 years later...)
• Alter Histoire. Essais d'Histoire Experimentale. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1991. (An exercise in anarchistic history that impoverishes the past and its vestiges. Cf. the manifest "For a Gay - experimental - History", published in Strategies, as well as in German, Russian and French.)
• Clefs (Keys). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1993. (A philosophical poem in prose. The cornerstone of my philosophy, a jam session on one idea: Intensity goes with less, pleasure goes with more, orgasm comes with One and entropy with remote-control.) (Published in Spanish as Llaves. Ediciones Catalejo, Miami, 2005)
• Pour Narcisse (For Narcissus). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1995 (An essay on the cognitive foundations of objectivity.)
• Heros & Cobayes (Heroes & Guinea Pigs). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1997. (Works of fiction as experimental protocols. Cf. paper in Common Knowledge).
• La dernière mort de Socrate (The Last Death of Socrates). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2003. (A philosophical play inspired by three Plato's dialogues.)
• Les Porteurs de cerveau (The Brain Bearers). Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2004. (A philosophical Sci-Fi novel in which the N.I.E.T—New Institute for EThical engineering—puts all of humanity on a diet: writers and film-makers are forbidden from inventing new characters, cat-lovers have only three races to choose from, fewer and fewer brands of cereals are to be found on the shelves, all but three sexual positions are legally prohibited, only two among the hundreds of available psychotherapy techniques are permitted …)

ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

            Cinema

• "Between Sofa and Ceiling", video-art, shown in a group exhibition, "Men at Home," Tel Aviv, Kalisher Gallery, 2001 (Under six minutes in length, this plastic-philosophical essay features a man lying on a sofa and gazing at the ceiling. The sound-track is from Blaise Pascal: “All men’s misery has only one reason: they don’t know how to stay at rest, how to keep to their room.” The ceiling gets lower and lower, the man’s stubble grows and grows. With Pascal’s last sentence: “Yet having given it more thought, I have discovered that nothing is as unbearable to man as full respite, without passions, without affairs, without diversions,” the ceiling comes down on the man and crushes him. Reduction is a risky venture, for it rarely stops at 1. One aims at oneness but ends up with less, much less.)
• "Grandpa, What Have You Done During Summer 2002?" (An "ethical clip" on the shame to be Israeli nowadays. Tel Aviv, 2002.)
• "Hunger as Art", video-art, shown in a group exhibition, "Hunger," Tel Aviv, Kalisher Gallery, 2005. (This homage to Kafka's "Hunger Artist" is a "60 Minutes"-like documentary and panel on a retired hunger artist —a woman— making a comeback in 2005.)

            Theater

• "A Lesson in Violence", Tel Aviv, 2000 (A philosophic stand-up, two actors and one philosopher perform and comment upon violent scenes from Shakespeare’s well-known plays. Variations on: Say as many "No!" as you can, maybe "Yes!" will come your way.)
• Translation and direction of the first third of Hamlet in Ha’bima, Israel's National Theater, 1998.
• Playwriting of Farewell and not Goodbye, Haifa Theater. (1999)
• Adaptation for two actors and direction of The Taming of the Shrew, Tel Aviv, 2000.