Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration

Michaela Fiserova is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of J. E. Purkyne in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic and researcher at Metropolitan University in Prague. She works in the fields of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, with specialisation in the problematics of media, arts, politics and animality. She is the author of Sharing the Visible: Rethinking Foucault (2013), Image and Power: Interviews with French Thinkers (2015), Deconstructing Signature (2016), Fragmentary Vision: Ranciere, Derrida, Nancy (2019), and Event of Signature: Jacques Derrida and Repeating of the Unrepeatable (SUNY, 2022).

Jakub Macha is researcher at the Metropolitan University Prague and Professor at the Department of Aesthetics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has published on philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015). His co-edited volumes include Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (2016), Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (2018), Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference (2019), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein (2024), and Platonism (2024). His most recent book is The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (Routledge, 2023).