Román Domínguez Jiménez

Román Domínguez Jiménez worked and studied in France, where he finished a Ph. Degree in Philosophy, in 2012 at the Paris 8 University with a thesis guided by Professor Alain Brossat: »Rhythm, Gesture and Montage, Towards a technologico‐politics by the means of cinema.« Afterwards he joined the Faculty Staff at the Aesthetics Institute of The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2013. Before he was a Bachelor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and was granted a scholarship in order to enable his doctorate degree in France by the Mexican Council of Science (CONACYT). During his Parisian years, Mr. Dominguez founded with the then Ph. Candidate Adolfo Vera, and Professor Emeritus Jean-Louis Déotte a Film and Philosophy Seminar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, an Institution supported by the Paris 8 and Paris 13 Universities along with the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS). Mr. Dominguez uses to write in Spanish an French about, film, contemporary continental philosophy, and the new forms of subjectivity that arises from the use of new digital technologies in reviews such as »Appareil.org« and »El Resplandor«, »Revista de cine de la Universidad de Valparaíso«. Right now, he is preparing the publication of the adaptation of the French and Spanish versions of his Ph. D. Thesis. His philosophical interests are mainly in the field of the relationship between aesthetics, technology, popular culture and politics, and between his most beloved authors and directors we can found Borges, Ozu, Lyotard, Deleuze, Murnau, Béla Tarr, Mikio Naruse, Nietzsche, Lars Von Trier, Godard, Simondon, Bergman, Georges Bataille, Gilbert Simondon, Harmut Rosa, Carlos Monsivais and Octavio Paz. Besides his intelectual interests, Mr. Dominguez also loves Mexican and French cuisines, Mexico City popular slang and is, »malgré lui«, a hard‐die fan of NFL American Football.