Email: jakesova [dot] marketa [at] gmail [dot] com
Phone: CA +1 587 5459747 | CZ/EU +420 703 138 814
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Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Charles University in Prague; University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (2023)
Thesis: On Changing and Differing Types of Bodies and Their Relationships to Their Souls and/or Minds in Western Culture (in English) – in French | Czech Repository
Supervisors: Prof. Jean-Christophe Goddard, doc. Martin Ritter, Ph.D.
M.A./B.A. Religious Studies and Comparative Literature, Charles University in Prague (2017)
Thesis: Ways of Breaking the Hegemonic Language Game in the Novels by Elfriede Jelinek, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Thomas Bernhard (in Czech) – in Czech Repository
Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Blanka Činátlová, Ph.D.
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Awards, Scholarships, & Research Stays
- Wirth Doctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (2019–2021)
- Mobility scholarship, UFA-DFH (2018–2019)
- International cooperation scholarship, Charles University (2018–2019)
- Mobility scholarship, Charles University (2017–2019)
- "a.r.t.e.s. international" scholarship, University of Cologne (2018)
- Scholarship of Charles University and University of Cologne partnership, University of Cologne (2018)
- Erasmus mobility scholarship, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (2016–2017)
- Outstanding academic performance scholarship, Charles University (2016)
- CEEPUS mobility scholarship, University of Vienna (2010–2011)
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Refereed Publications
- Bodies in Multiple Worlds: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2025) – Fulltext Paper
- Joy of Devouring: Metabolism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Satoshi Kon’s Paprika (2024) – Fulltext Paper
- Critique of the Power of Judgment in the Context of Art’s Technological Reproducibility (2021) – Paper | Preprint
- Mass of Bodies, Body as a Mass: The Other of the Other in Jean-Luc Nancy (2020) – Paper | Preprint
- The Question of Reflexivity (2019) – Fulltext Paper
- Rethinking the Body as a Network: Japanese Animated Cyborg Bodies (2018) – Fulltext Paper
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Papers in Progress
- Abnormality as Creative Drive: The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek as a Challenge to the Normal
- What Does it Mean to Be Inuit? (co-written with Theodore Bonnah)
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Conference Presentations
- Joy of Devouring: Metabolism, Desire, and Subjectivity in Satoshi Kon's Paprika (Lisbon 2025) – Slides
- Plasma, Non-Instituted, Kinships of Fire (Perth 2024)– Slides
- Ethical Non-Monogamy and the Truth Adoration: A Foucaultian Perspective (Claremont 2022) – Video | Slides
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Historical and Artistic Reflections of Massacres of Jews during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (Edmonton 2020) – Slides
- Critique of the Power of Judgment in the Context of Art’s Technological Reproducibility (Oslo 2019) – Slides
- Identity as an Abstraction of (Micro-)Events (Giessen 2018) – Slides
- Rethinking the Body as a Network: Drawing Inspiration from Japanese Animated Cyborg Bodies (Graz 2018) – Paper | Slides
- Phenomenologically Disturbing Time: Nightmares, Cities and Anime (Gdańsk 2018) – Paper | Slides
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Other Writing
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On Cinema
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Unsettled Reality, Tomorrow’s Imagination (2025) – English
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There Is So Much I Want to Say (2024) – English | Persian
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Insignificant Lives (2022) – Czech
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On Literature
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We Don’t Need to Do Anything: A Commentary on Margaret Atwood (2017) – Czech
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Perceiving Myself as a Process Through Fantasy (2016) – Czech
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Review of Elfriede Jelinek's Winter’s Journey (2012) – Czech
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Review of Peter Stamm's In Strange Gardens (2011) – Czech
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Decolonialism
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The Pope's Apologies for Colonialism Were Valuable, but the Church Must Not Stop There (2025) – Czech
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University Students Defend the Rights of Palestinian Civilians. This Is Not Anti-Semitism (2024) – English | Czech
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Ways to End the World (2023) – English | Slovak
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“Having a British Monarch is Absurd.” Will the Caribbean States Choose Independence? (2023) – Czech
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The Pope Made a Significant Gesture. European Settlers Stole the Land From the Indigenous People (2023) – Czech
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Another Attempt to Right Wrongs Against Canada's First Peoples (2023) – Czech
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Jaguar Beer – An Essay on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2022) – Czech
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Resistance Against the Iranian Regime Unites Home With Exile, Left With Right (2022) – Czech
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The Death of Elizabeth II: A Historic Crossroads for Commonwealth Countries (2022) – Czech
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The Burden of the Papal Visit to Canada (2022) – Czech
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Barbados: The Separation of “Little England” From the British Crown Is Not Without Shadows (2021) – Czech
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Does the Rule “What Was Stolen Must be Returned” Apply to Africa as Well? (with Milan Kroulík) (2018) – Czech
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New Caledonia Will Remain French. The Indigenous People Would Prefer Independence (with Milan Kroulík) (2018) – Czech
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The Overlooked Genocide in Namibia as a Concealed Mirror of Our World (with Milan Kroulík) (2018) – Czech
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Review of Dalibor Knapp's Digital Blacks: Ethnographic Dictionary (with Milan Kroulík) (2018) – Czech
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The Hope of Aboriginal Australians for Their Own Voice (with Milan Kroulík) (2017) – Czech
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Stories of Usual Paternalism (with Milan Kroulík) (2016) – Czech
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Blue, Sea, Mosque (with Milan Kroulík) (2015) – Czech
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Feminism
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The Subversiveness of Invisibility: Identity of the “Non-White Woman” and her Political Potential (2021)
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Review of Silvia Federici's Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women (2020) – Czech
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“Strajk kobiet” Under the Canadian Flag (2020) – Czech
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The Logic of Care Versus the Logic of Choice (2019) – Czech
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When “Pro-Life” American States Attack the Federal Laws (2019) – Czech
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Trump Could be Replaced by Elizabeth Warren. She Would Be the First Female President of the USA (2019) – Czech
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Review of Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (2018) – Czech
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Trump’s Abortions (2017) – Czech
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A Vote For Hillary? (2016) – Czech
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Temptation of a Young Secretary (2016) – Czech
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Are We Really More Free Than the Muslim Women? (2015) – Czech
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Dead Ends of Feminism (2015) – Czech
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The Lens That We Have Inside Us (2015)
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Other Political Topics
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Liberal Victory and a Divided Country: Anatomy of the 2025 Canadian Election (2025) – Czech
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Canada as the “European” United States? (2025) – Czech
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Canadian “Golden Boy” Resigned (2025) – Czech
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Other Philosophical Topics
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And the Word Was Made Meat, And Dwelt Among Us (2023) – Czech
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In Memory of Bruno Latour (2023) – Czech
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Review of Kateřina Krtilová's and Kateřina Svatoňová's Medienwissenschaft (2020) – Czech
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How Covid-19 Brought Us Into Latour’s World (2020) – Czech
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Review of Bruno Latour's Down to Earth (2019) – Czech
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Translations
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From French to Czech
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From English to Czech
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Languages
Czech (native), English (IELTS: 8), French (B2), German (B2)
Basic competency: Italian, Slovak, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Persian
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Personal Creative Work