Issue 1.3. Transgression, difference, and the non-sense of the outside, by Ben Overlaet

Ben Overlaet is Master in Philosophy, Master in Visual Research, writer and musician. He studied philosophy and literature at the university of Ghent and the university of Antwerp, and completed his academic studies with a dissertation on Derrida’s thoughts on difference and the topicality of deconstruction, with distinctive attention to the deconstructive character of irony and the deconstruction of the term ‘terror’. 

He just finished the postgraduate program Visual Research at St. Lucas in Antwerp with honors, and will start his doctoral study at the University of Brussels in the Fall of 2010. This study will involve a critique on the metaphysical contents in art and theory, i.e. dualism, the problem of presence, interpretation and meaning. 

Ben Overlaet is also author of several essays that discuss topics that act on the metaphysical idea of presence and the dualistic character of art interpretation. 

He is also founder and editor-in-chief of (Con)text. An internet-run magazine for art and philosophy, through which he ambitions to establish an even more differentiated image as an answer to the modernistic desire for unambiguous presence and singularity. 

Ben Overlaet is a member of the experimental, noise-grunge band Tithonus. 

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