Gregorio Tenti is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author of Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon (“Aesthetics and Morphology in Gilbert Simondon”, 2020), L’estetica di Friedrich Schleiermacher (“Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Aesthetics”, 2023) and Bracha Ettinger’s Notebooks. Another Aesthetics for Psychoanalysis (forthcoming 2024). He is also the co-editor, along with Andrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari and Anaïs Nony, of the Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (forthcoming 2025). His interests span from speculative aesthetics to postnature, hypergenealogies and planetary thinking.
Principal investigator
Santiago Zabala is philosopher and cultural critic. Since 2010 he has been ICREA Research Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He is the author of Being at Large. Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (McGill’s-Queen University Press 2020), Why Only Art Can Save Us. Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (Columbia University Press 2017) and The Remains of the Being. Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics (Columbia University Press 2009) among others.
Supervisor
Alice Iacobone is PhD candidate in Philosophy at FINO Consortium (Genoa-Turin) and Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Art and Image History of Humboldt University (Berlin). Her dissertation is titled Plasticity and Sculpture. Forms – Materials – Imprints. She is the author of a monograph on the aesthetics and poetics of Giuseppe Penone. Her research interests include, among others, material aesthetics, bioart and speculative evolution, eco- and xenofeminism.
Graphics & organization
Chiara Caiazzo is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University and a visual artist. Her dissertation, titled Can Art Spark a Revolution? Confronting Rancière’s Aisthesis, navigates the intersection of artistic and political practices through a hermeneutic perspective, in view of the disclosure of contemporary states of crisis. Her interests include emergency aesthetics, continental political philosophy, queer ecology, indigenous ecocriticism, and experimental film.
Video editing & organization