Book Reviews by Ilaria Santoemma
Santoemma I. - RECENSIONE Donna Haraway Le promesse dei mostri a cura di A. Balzano, Roma, Derive... more Santoemma I. - RECENSIONE Donna Haraway Le promesse dei mostri a cura di A. Balzano, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2019, 171 pp.
Studi Culturali N. 2, Agosto 2020
Res Publica _ Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas , 2016
Papers by Ilaria Santoemma
Liberazioni. Rivista di Critica Antispecista, 2022
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S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2020
My Mother was a… Cyborg. New technologies and Hybrid Subjectivities This paper starts from the cu... more My Mother was a… Cyborg. New technologies and Hybrid Subjectivities This paper starts from the current querelle regarding the ethical and ontological status of techno-assemblages and embodied subjectivities. Critical aspects of New Technologies have been raised in a fertile debate from different perspectives, above all concerning the cutting-edge fields of life sciences and genetics. From this debate emerges how NT potentiality could act as a device to improve, enhance and exploit the embodied subject. Some of these critics lead to a dualistic understanding of the body, conceived as either natural or artificial. To overcome this dichotomy which polarize the debate, the hereby proposed essay assumes the notion of hybrid subjectivity as a category from which a deeper reflection may set off. Aiming at critically recognizing the multiple relations that the contemporary techno-hybrid subject experiences, the paper will examine different shades and declinations of the hybrid subjectivity,...
Uguaglianza - AREL La Rivista, 2021
Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 2016
Ramon Lull Journal of Applied Ethics, 2020
Paper part of the Monographic issue: "Technologies and Scopes of Human Bioenhancement. From gene ... more Paper part of the Monographic issue: "Technologies and Scopes of Human Bioenhancement. From gene editing to Moral Behaviour".
In this paper we focus on CRISPR-Cas9, a specific technique of genetic engineering. Our hypothesis is to consider it as a peculiar case of Human Enhancement Technology (HET), which we propose to frame within the Agency Approach. In the first section we analyse some peculiar features involved in CRISPR-Cas9 editing procedure and we address them as poiesis, au-topoiesis, sympoiesis. We try to understand both the biological and the practical philosophical implication of those concepts. We show how CRISPR-Cas9 is a phenomenon involving a double mechanism: (a) a poietic process, which implies the possibility to intentionally modify genomes, and (b) an autopoietic process, which is an unexpected or not totally predictable restoration or modification within the cell.
S&F - scienzaefilosofia, 2020
This paper is an introductory analysis concerning the potentialities of the cyborg's concept and ... more This paper is an introductory analysis concerning the potentialities of the cyborg's concept and non-conforming otherness as figurations opposed to the enhancing prototype of the transhumanist form of life. The argumentation is rooted in the current querelle regarding the ethical and ontological status of techno-assemblages and embodied subjectivities. Critical aspects of New Technologies have been raised in a fertile debate from different perspectives, above all concerning the cutting-edge fields of life sciences and genetics. From this debate emerges how NT potentiality could act as a device to improve, enhance and exploit the embodied subject. Some of these critics lead to a dualistic understanding of the body, conceived as either natural or artificial. To overcome this dichotomy which polarize the debate, the hereby proposed essay assumes the notion of hybrid subjectivity as a category from which a deeper reflection may set off. Aiming at critically recognizing the multiple relations that the contemporary techno-hybrid subject experiences, the paper will examine different shades and declinations of the hybrid subjectivity, following the two categories of “uncanny” and “enhancement”. The argumentative process will therefore present two ongoing research lines addressing the topic of hybrid subjectivity, also known as the Cyborg: Feminist Critical Posthumanism and Transhumanism. It will be considered how these brunches of thought are respectively connected to A)a teratological idea of the Cyborg and B)an enhanced sight of the artificial hybridization and, consequently, how the two have a different conception of the subjectivity and of technology’s ontological status. The thesis is that the resulting difference could inform the debate on NT by considering the latter a contingence and not the only feature of today’s hybrid forms of life.
Se il mondo torna uomo. Le donne e la regressione in Europa. Cirillo L. (a cura di), Edizioni Alegre, 2018., 2018
Capitolo del libro a cura di Cirillo L., Se il mondo torna uomo. Le donne e la regressione in Eur... more Capitolo del libro a cura di Cirillo L., Se il mondo torna uomo. Le donne e la regressione in Europa. Edizioni Alegre, 2018.
This paper is a class I gave for the course "Filosfía y Feminismo" lead by Prof. Maria Luisa Posa... more This paper is a class I gave for the course "Filosfía y Feminismo" lead by Prof. Maria Luisa Posada that I've been attending in 2016 in Universidad Complutense de Madrid within the Master en Estudios Avanzados de Filosfía. The paper is a short presentation of the concept of clinical labour emerging in the researches of Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby and tries to underline how clinical labour affects women's bodies in late biocapitalism reproductive medicine.
Talks by Ilaria Santoemma
This intervention is part of the Panel which I proposed during the 11th Beyond Humanism Conferenc... more This intervention is part of the Panel which I proposed during the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference: "Critical Posthumanism and Transhumanism. The posthuman paradigm shift", held in the Catholic University of Lille, July 9/12, 2019.
The Panel title was: «The Posthuman shift in the Anthropocene: a question of Space and Time» given by Ilaria Santoemma, Paolo Missiroli, Angela Balzano, Elisa Bosisio.
My talk tries to tackle the status of the so called Posthuman Hybrid Present with the current framework of the Anthropocene Era. In the frame of the growing bio-info-technologies it is now playing a groundbreaking game: in the last century new technologies, bio.info.communication.enhancing.robotic, have entered our lives, reshaped most of our relations, and we present cyborg lives are experimenting this changes.
My argument’s focus - within the whole panel framework - is to trace the well-known dualism that define the paradigms Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism in the double line of Space and Time, trying to give a new reading on the topic.
This talk has been held in Lille the 10/07/2019 during the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference within... more This talk has been held in Lille the 10/07/2019 during the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference within the panel "The posthuman shift in the Anthropocene. A question of space and time" with Ilaria Santoemma, Elisia Bosisio and Angela Balzano.
This intervention has the aim to root the general topic of the panel by giving a critical overview of the concept of Anthropocene in the contemporary debate and precisely will focus on the ecological subjectivity who might takes place in this era. In the first part my will is to delineate and criticize the meaning of the expression “good Anthropocene”: an expression used by some authors and scientists that approached this theme. The good Anthropocene would be, according to these scholars, the age of the realization of the essence of Man, which is to dominate nature, or to totally conquest and dominates it through the instrumental use of technology, as if it were his destiny from the Stone Age.
XVI edizione del Corso di Etica e Politica nella prospettiva degli studi di genere, organizzato d... more XVI edizione del Corso di Etica e Politica nella prospettiva degli studi di genere, organizzato da Ass. Orlando Centro delle donne di Bologna e Unibo, realizzato con la collaborazione delle prof.sse Carla Faralli e Raffaella Lamberti e le tutor didattiche dott.sse Ilaria Santoemma e Deborah Sannia. Il corso per l'anno 2018/19 mira a identificare tratti peculiari del pensiero e dei movimenti di donne e femministi in Italia; una trama definita dalle soggettività, dalle relazioni di genere e politiche, dall’elaborazione teorica e scientifica e dall’evoluzione giuridica promossa dall’azione di donne. 16 interventi con relatrici e relatori ospiti e non solo, che affronteranno le diverse sfaccettature dei movimenti e delle soggettività femministe in Italia: da Carla Lonzi al Queer, dall'aspetto giuridico a quello storico-politico e scientifico.
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Book Reviews by Ilaria Santoemma
Studi Culturali N. 2, Agosto 2020
Papers by Ilaria Santoemma
In this paper we focus on CRISPR-Cas9, a specific technique of genetic engineering. Our hypothesis is to consider it as a peculiar case of Human Enhancement Technology (HET), which we propose to frame within the Agency Approach. In the first section we analyse some peculiar features involved in CRISPR-Cas9 editing procedure and we address them as poiesis, au-topoiesis, sympoiesis. We try to understand both the biological and the practical philosophical implication of those concepts. We show how CRISPR-Cas9 is a phenomenon involving a double mechanism: (a) a poietic process, which implies the possibility to intentionally modify genomes, and (b) an autopoietic process, which is an unexpected or not totally predictable restoration or modification within the cell.
Talks by Ilaria Santoemma
The Panel title was: «The Posthuman shift in the Anthropocene: a question of Space and Time» given by Ilaria Santoemma, Paolo Missiroli, Angela Balzano, Elisa Bosisio.
My talk tries to tackle the status of the so called Posthuman Hybrid Present with the current framework of the Anthropocene Era. In the frame of the growing bio-info-technologies it is now playing a groundbreaking game: in the last century new technologies, bio.info.communication.enhancing.robotic, have entered our lives, reshaped most of our relations, and we present cyborg lives are experimenting this changes.
My argument’s focus - within the whole panel framework - is to trace the well-known dualism that define the paradigms Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism in the double line of Space and Time, trying to give a new reading on the topic.
This intervention has the aim to root the general topic of the panel by giving a critical overview of the concept of Anthropocene in the contemporary debate and precisely will focus on the ecological subjectivity who might takes place in this era. In the first part my will is to delineate and criticize the meaning of the expression “good Anthropocene”: an expression used by some authors and scientists that approached this theme. The good Anthropocene would be, according to these scholars, the age of the realization of the essence of Man, which is to dominate nature, or to totally conquest and dominates it through the instrumental use of technology, as if it were his destiny from the Stone Age.
Studi Culturali N. 2, Agosto 2020
In this paper we focus on CRISPR-Cas9, a specific technique of genetic engineering. Our hypothesis is to consider it as a peculiar case of Human Enhancement Technology (HET), which we propose to frame within the Agency Approach. In the first section we analyse some peculiar features involved in CRISPR-Cas9 editing procedure and we address them as poiesis, au-topoiesis, sympoiesis. We try to understand both the biological and the practical philosophical implication of those concepts. We show how CRISPR-Cas9 is a phenomenon involving a double mechanism: (a) a poietic process, which implies the possibility to intentionally modify genomes, and (b) an autopoietic process, which is an unexpected or not totally predictable restoration or modification within the cell.
The Panel title was: «The Posthuman shift in the Anthropocene: a question of Space and Time» given by Ilaria Santoemma, Paolo Missiroli, Angela Balzano, Elisa Bosisio.
My talk tries to tackle the status of the so called Posthuman Hybrid Present with the current framework of the Anthropocene Era. In the frame of the growing bio-info-technologies it is now playing a groundbreaking game: in the last century new technologies, bio.info.communication.enhancing.robotic, have entered our lives, reshaped most of our relations, and we present cyborg lives are experimenting this changes.
My argument’s focus - within the whole panel framework - is to trace the well-known dualism that define the paradigms Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism in the double line of Space and Time, trying to give a new reading on the topic.
This intervention has the aim to root the general topic of the panel by giving a critical overview of the concept of Anthropocene in the contemporary debate and precisely will focus on the ecological subjectivity who might takes place in this era. In the first part my will is to delineate and criticize the meaning of the expression “good Anthropocene”: an expression used by some authors and scientists that approached this theme. The good Anthropocene would be, according to these scholars, the age of the realization of the essence of Man, which is to dominate nature, or to totally conquest and dominates it through the instrumental use of technology, as if it were his destiny from the Stone Age.