all forms of creative production born of an intimate and individual urge, often secretive, unbound from the conventional art system rules. Through short descriptions of the Outsider art work of prominent artists and new protagonists often hosted in community mental health services, this section intends to investigate the latest developments of the contemporary art scene, where the distances bet...

This chapter proposes one definition of critical materialism and a critique politics based on several authors from Marx to Foucault. occurs in stages unfolds as criticism universals such human freedom, general interest, political rationality, or reconciled community. The decisive materialist-historical question, then, is which the different materialities dominant at certain point time. I argue ...

Anne Conway’s philosophy has been categorized as “vitalism,” “vital monism,” “spiritualism,” “monistic spiritualism,” “immaterial vitalism,” and “antimaterialism.” While there is no doubt that she a monist vitalist, problems arise with the categories of Conway conceives created substances gross fixed spirit, or rarefied volatile matter. interpreters agree “spirit” shares characteristics traditi...