Shannon Bell

 ( 1955 Births ) 

Shannon Bell (born 5 July 1955) is a Canadian performance art philosopher who lives and writes philosophy-in-action, experimental philosophy. Bell is also professor and graduate programme director in the York University Political Science Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She teaches postmodern theory, fast feminism, sexual politics, cyberculture, identity politics and violent philosophy.

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Research Bell is researching extreme science and art for her book entitled Fast Bodies; this research is funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Bell's most recent on-going research project Shooting Theory (2007–23) brings together digital video technology and print textual philosophy/theory through imaging philosophical/theoretical concepts such as Heidegger's stillness and Deleuze's deterritorialization. Bell's research also includes: applying continental and post-structural theory to bio, techno and performance artists' artwork and thinkers' body of work; aspects of sexuality; and, General Semantics.

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Bibliography

Books

• Shannon Bell (1994). 9780585000992, Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780585000992
• Shannon Bell (1995). 9781570270222, Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570270222
• (1997). 9781282045750, University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781282045750
• (2025). 9780203390894, Routledge. ISBN 9780203390894
• Shannon Bell (2025). 9781570271892, Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570271892
• (2025). 9781442645325, University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442645325
• Gad Horowitz and Shannon Bell, eds (2016). The Book of Radical General Semantics (Delhi: Pencraft International) .

Co-authored Book

Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross (2017) Bad Attitude\s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
     

Republished.

Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross (1997) Bad Attitude\s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
     

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See also

• Posthumanism

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External links

• York University page

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