Curriculum Vitae
Paul Boshears
[email protected]
September, 2014
EDUCATION
2015
(expected)
Ph.D. in Communication (Concentration: Comparative Philosophy and Cultural Studies)
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien | the European Graduate School
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Dissertation: Confucianism and the Birth of Addiction (Chair: Avital Ronell, Ph.D.)
2011
M.A. in Communication With Distinction
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien | the European Graduate School
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
2006
B.S. in Sociology (Minor: Asian Studies)
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
2002
University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa
Studying social change in the subregion
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Articles
2014
Boeri, Miriam, David Gibson, P Boshears. 2014. Conceptualizing Social Recovery: Recovery
Routes of Methamphetamine Users. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology 2
(1): 538.
2011
Boshears, Paul, Liam Harbry, and Miriam Boeri. 2011. Addiction and Sociality: Perspectives
from Methamphetamine Users in Suburban USA. Addiction Research and Theory 19 (4): 289301.
2010
Boshears, Paul. 2010. Heavy Bored Cyborg: Attunement and Addiction. Journal of the
International Association of Transdisciplinary Psychology 2 (1): 17.
Book Chapters
2014
Boshears, Paul. 2014. Mass Shock Therapy for Atlanta's Psych(ot)ic Suburban Legacy. In
We're All Infected Essays on AMC's The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human edited by
Dawn Keetley. Jefferson: McFarland & Co.
Boshears, Paul. 2014. Para-Academic Publishing as Public-making. In The Para-Academic
Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting edited by Alex Wardrop and Deborah
Withers. HammerOn Press.
Book Reviews
2013
Boshears, Paul. Wang Hui's Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context: James Legge
and His Two Versions of the Zhongyong. Comparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (1): 166167.
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Boshears, Paul. Against Paraphrase, Graham Harman's Weird Realism: Lovecraft and
Philosophy. Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events March.
Edited Articles
2013
Boshears, Paul. Open Access as a Para-Academic Proposition: Besides OA as Labor
Relation. tripleCCommunication, Capitalism & Critique 11 (2): 589596.
2009
Boshears, Paul. Suicide Is Painless: Naphtha, Settembrini, and Jaspers. OtherWise:
Online Journal of Philosophy.
2007
Boshears, Paul. Univocity in the Confucian Project: Mengzi and Zisizi. In Quinta Essentia:
The Selected Proceedings from the North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, edited by J.
Bice, D. Jones, and A. Swanson. Marietta: Luxor Media.
2006
Boshears, Paul. Kudzu Kongzi: Harmonies Between Deleuze & Guattari and the Zhongyong
. Interplay: The Selected Proceedings from the 2006 NGSPC, edited by C. Aflague, D. Jones,
and A. Swanson. Marietta: Luxor Media.
2005
Boshears, Paul. Toward a New Rationality: Levinas and Marcels Conceptions of Peace and the
Other. In The Exquisite Corpse: The Selected Proceedings from the 2004 NGSPC, edited by C.
Aflague, D. Jones, and J. Sweeney New York: Global Humanities Press.
2004
Boshears, Paul. Social Responsibility and the Confucian li : A Cross-cultural Investigation.
In Beyond the Box: The Selected Proceedings from the 2003 NGSPC, edited by D. Jones, B.
Osoinach, and J. Sweeney. New York: Global Humanities Press.
Edited Commentary
2012
Boshears, Paul. Object-Oriented Philosophy and Performance Art. In Media Res September.
Allen, Jamie; Michael Austin; Paul Boshears; Paul Ennis; Thomas Gokey; Robert Jackson.
Discussions Before an Encounter. continent. 2 (2): 136147.
Boshears, Paul. Addiction and Actants: The Autonomy Possible in Assemblages. American
Journal of BioethicsNeuroscience 3 (2): 5961.
Boshears, Paul. 'The Walking Dead' as Mass Shock Therapy. In Media Res March.
Boshears, Paul. Machine Love: The Companionship of Technology. In Media Res January.
2011
Rommelfanger, Karen and Paul Boshears. The Ethical Use of Neuroscience. American
Journal of BioethicsNeuroscience 2 (2): 1921.
Manuscripts in Progress
Boshears, Paul. Spectacular Agency: A Theory of Political Action for Everyone and No One.
Brooklyn: punctum books. (In Preparation)
AWARDS
2013
HASTAC Scholarship
(Humanities, Arts, Science & Technology Alliance, and Collaboratory)
2008
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
2005
Gold Circle Award. Columbia Scholastic Student Press
Perfect Ten Award. HOW Magazines International Graphic Design Competition
2004
Best in Show. College Media Advisers, New York
Best of Collegiate Design. College Media Advisers
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
20092011
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien
Graduate Student, Interdisciplinary Studies
Thesis: Spectacular Agency: A Theory of Political Action for Everyone and No One.
Advisor, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Ph.D.
20092010
Kennesaw State University
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Sociology
(NIDA Award Number 1R15DA021164-01A1)
Principal Investigator, Miriam Boeri, Ph.D.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends theoretical, methodological, and experiential
viewpoints to solve enduring social problems related to drug addiction.
20082009
Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology Graduate University (Japan)
Research Technician, Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Principal Investigator, Gail Tripp, Ph.D.
Clarifying the nature and extent of altered sensitivity to positive reinforcement in children
whose behavior is consistent with a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014
Georgia Perimeter College
Guest Lecturer for Andy Rogers, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of English.
Introducing Analects . ENGL 2111 World Literature I.
Introducing Dao De Jing . ENGL 2111 World Literature I.
Introducing The Zhuangzi . ENGL 2111 World Literature I.
2013
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)Atlanta
Guest Lecturer for Casey Lynch, MFA, Sculpture Faculty.
Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory and Studio Practice.
2011
Eastern Mennonite University
Guest Lecturer for Paulette Moore, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and
Peacebuilding.
Pop Culture and Mass Communications. Visual and Communication Arts Department.
Graduate seminar: The Role of Social Media in Contemporary Protest. Center for Justice &
Peacebuilding.
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien | the European Graduate School
Heidegger, Art, and Thought: Introduction to Heidegger
Teaching Assistant to Christopher Fynsk, Ph.D.
2010
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien | the European Graduate School
Schopenhauer Living Disaster
Teaching Assistant to Wolfgang Schirmacher, Ph.D.
2009
Europische Universitt fr Interdisziplinre Studien | the European Graduate School
Cinematic Geopolitics
Teaching Assistant to Mike Shapiro, Ph.D.
2007
Accin USA (Americorps*VISTA)
Financial Literacy Coordinator
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STUDENT ADVISING
Undergraduate Students
Harrison Farina, Philosophy, Emory University
Emily Friedman, Art History, McGill University
Graduate Students
Nick Bable, Fine Arts in Studio, Georgia State University
INVITED TALKS
2014
Georgia Perimeter College, Sarah Larson Lecture
Atlanta's White Eschaton: White Flight and AMC's The Walking Dead October.
Emory University
Metabolizing the Psychic Legacy of White Flight in Atlanta Zombies and Zombethics 3rd Annual
Symposium. Emory Center for Ethics, October.
Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta, Goethe Zentrum/Alliance Franaise
Invited discussant. The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD. Martin Witz, dir. The Atlanta Science Tavern.
London School of Economics
Rudderless Piloting, Unwavering Pivoting, Governing without Coercion Governing Academic Life.
June.
Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies ISSN: 1923-5615
Embrace the Spontaneity Special video-based edition of the journal 2014. 0: What Is Anarchist
Studies?
2013
The Public School New York
Para-Academic Publishing as Public-making. The Public School New York. February.
New York University
Open Platforms, Para-Academic Practices, and Possible Futures for the University. Para|Sites:
Locations and Dislocations of Media, The 2013 Neil Postman Graduate Conference, February.
2012
University of Basel
The Aesthetics of Para-Academic Practice. Aesthetics in the 21st Century. September.
Living Walls Conference
Panel Discussion on Gender and Street Art. Atlanta, August.
The Public School New York
Panel Discussion on Para-Academic Publishing. April.
Kennesaw State University
The Aesthetics of Protest. Peace Studies Department, March.
2011
{Poem 88} Gallery
What Is a Thing? Speculative Realism and Agency. October.
Roland Barthes' Camera Obscura and Franois Laruelle's The Concept of Non-Photography.
2006
Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle
The Step Back: Ethics and Politics After Deconstruction by David Wood. April.
2004
Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle
The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time by Jason Wirth. April.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2014
Being-on-Drugs and Thinking Chinese Tenth Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference.
Kennesaw State University, March.
2013
Mass Shock Therapy for Atlanta's Psych(ot)ic Suburban Legacy Popular Culture Association in the
South & American Culture Association in the South (PCAS/ACAS) Conference, Savannah, GA,
October.
2012
Marina Abramovic: What Is Present When the Artist Is Absent? Aesthetics in the 21st Century,
University of Basel, September.
Economimesis and Desubjectification. International Interventions, Symposium organized by the
Autonomous School of Zrich.
A Genealogy of Occupy Wall Street. Ninth Annual Suburban Studies Conference. Kennesaw State
University, April.
2011
The Challenge of Hannah Arendt's 'Banality of Evil.' Georgia Perimeter College, October.
Economy, Isonomy, and Autonomy: Becoming Ungovernable. International Interventions,
Symposium organized by the Autonomous School of Zrich and the Cabaret Voltaire, August.
2010
Heidegger's Profound Boredom and Addiction. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society,
Atlanta, April.
Suburban Methamphetamine Use. Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta,
April.
Sites of Spectacular Agency: A Theory of Political Action for Everyone and No One. Seventh Annual
North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State University, April.
Identity Migration Among Methamphetamine Users. Society for Applied Anthropology, Mrida,
Mexico, March, 2010.
2009
Relationality and Identity Migration Among Methamphetamine Users: An Exploratory Study. Georgia
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Morehouse College, October.
Heavy Bored Cyborg: Attunement and Addiction. Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition.
Seattle University, October.
Social Bonds in the Initiation of Methamphetamine Use. Seventh Annual Suburban Studies
Conference. Kennesaw State University, April.
2008
Graham Parkes as Social Philosopher. Third Annual Comparative-Continental Philosophy Circle.
EastWest Center, University of Hawai`i, April.
2007
Univocity in the Confucian Project: Mengzi and Zisizi. Fifth Annual North Georgia Student
Philosophy Conference. Kennesaw State University, April.
A Rhizomatic Zhongyong . Thirteenth National Asian Studies Development Program. Seattle,
March.
Gender Differences in Response to a Prejudice Reduction Program. Annual Meeting of the Southern
Sociological Society, Atlanta, April.
2006
Kudzu Kongzi: Harmonies Between Deleuze & Guattari and the Zhongyong . Fourth Annual
North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, April.
Suicide Is Painless: Desiring Human Rights. Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of
Memphis, February.
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2004
Toward a New Rationality: Levinas and Marcels Conceptions of Peace and the Other. Second Annual
North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, April.
2003
Social Responsibility and the Confucian li : A Cross-cultural Investigation. First Annual North
Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, April.
Appreciating Values: Weber's Protestant Work Ethic and Master Kong's li . Sociology Student
Symposium. Kennesaw State University. March.
Conferences Attended
2013 Critical Juncture Conference. Emory University. March.
2012
35th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society. Nagoya, Japan. September.
The Nonhuman Turn. Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. May.
SERVICE
Service to the Profession
2012
Advisory Board, Itineration: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Rhetoric, Media, and Culture
2010
Referee, Deleuze Studies
20102013
Peer Reviewer, American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal
20102012
Treasurer, Student Committee for the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
Service to the University
2014
Co-founder, Negotiating the Disciplines Project. The European Graduate School
2010
Co-founder and Co-editor, continent. ISSN: 2159-9920. The European Graduate School
20052006
Editor in Chief, OtherWise: a journal of student philosophy
20042005
Editor in Chief, Share Magazine
2003-2006
Vice President, Philosophy Student Association, Kennesaw State University
20032006
Selection Committee Chair, North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw State
University
Founder & President, Campus Green Party, Kennesaw State University
20032004
Service to the Community
20112013
BURNAWAY, Editorial Board
20112012
Emerging Arts Leaders of Atlanta
2011
Atlanta Harm Reduction Coalition, grant writing assistant
2010
International Rescue Committee, IRS VITA site volunteer
2009-2010
The Poncey-Highlands Reading Group, Founder
20072008
Accin USA, Americorps*VISTA
2007-2008
The Atlanta Prosperity Campaign, Representative
2006
The Anti-Prejudice Consortium, Research Internship
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GRANT WRITING
2014
$3,000 from Statens Kunstrds (Danish Arts Council) for continent. publishing.
2013
$5,000 from Power2Give for Art Papers, Inc. for computer upgrades.
$3,000 from Statens Kunstrds (Danish Arts Council) for continent. redesign.
2010
$20,000 from The Imlay Foundation to Art Papers, Inc. for ART PAPERS LIVE!
2012
Emory University Visual Arts Department and Gallery; National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works
Opportunity 2012NEA01AW for Creating Our Visual History: Re-Imagining Atlanta in the 21 st
Century.
gloATL; National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works Opportunity 2012NEA01AW for Liquid
Culture.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Comparative-Continental Philosophy Circle
National Communication Association
Popular Culture Association in the South & American Culture Association in the South (PCAS/ACAS)
Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition
Society for Applied Anthropology
Southern Sociological Society
LANGUAGES
English (native speaker, U.S. citizen)
Reading and writing proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish
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REFERENCES
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