A background in practice
He has practised tea ceremony since 2003 and taught contact improvisation since 2015. He has also created spaces and situations for practice. These activities bring questions of perception, timing, material, support and shared action into concrete life.
AESTHESYS brings this experience into philosophical work. Tea, Contact and Mute offer different conditions in which to examine a larger inquiry into embodied agency. The philosophy continues to develop in relation to experience rather than treating a practice as proof of its claims.
Writing and working with AI
He is writing a book and developing AESTHESYS through sustained work with AI. This collaboration is also material for the inquiry: how do memory, the organisation of context, the pace of thought and the authorship of a direction change when some operations are delegated?
He remains responsible for the system’s philosophical and methodological decisions. A proposed formulation or a productive conversation does not become an established result merely because it is convincing.
Research and its status
The research materials include a proposal for doctoral research, candidate assessment protocols and working hypotheses. They ask how some of the relations proposed by AESTHESYS could be investigated. This programme is in development; its proposed measures and effects remain to be tested.
The book remains authorial work in progress. This website presents the philosophy and related materials without announcing a publication date or a finished curriculum.
Conversation
For questions about the philosophy, practice, possible participation or research:
aesthesyspace@gmail.com
The clearest starting point for a conversation is a specific passage, question or observation.