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Xia Kejun
Xia Kejun is a philosopher, art critic and curator born in 1969. He studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany and University of Strasbourg in France. He is a professor in the School of Liberal Arts in Renmin University of China, Beijing. Xia Kejun has published more than a dozen works of people, around the key concept of ‘Useless’. He has also published several related works: A Waiting and Useless Nation – Zhuangzi and Heidegger’s Second Turn; Useless Theology – Benjamin, Heidegger and Zhuangzi; and Useless Literature – Kafka and China. Xia tries to let Zhuangzi or Daoism enters into deep dialogues among Heidegger, Benjamin, Kafka and Derrida, in order to open up the possibility of a cross-cultural philosophical dialogue, and let these concepts: Useless (‘Wuyong’), Chora (‘Xu’) and Remnant (‘Yu’) become the core concepts of contemporary philosophy. In addition, as a very influential critic and curator of contemporary art, Xia has also proposed the concepts of Infra-mince Art, Infra-image and Enchorial-topia, and has curated a series of related important exhibitions in China and Europe.
Contact: School of Liberal Arts 205, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China.
