PhD Student in Philosophy at Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" of Rome. Master's graduate at Ca' Foscari University of Venice in Philosophical Sciences with a thesis on "Stuttering Language: the Limits of Representation. Thought and Language in the philosophical trajectory of Gilles Deleuze". I got my Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and International Studies and Economics at Ca' Foscari with a thesis on "Rhetoric: a Bridge from Vth Century Athens to Algorithmic Societies" in 2021. My interests range from the roots of Greek-Western thought to rhizomatic philosophy, with particular regard to the posthuman perspective in relation to intersectional feminism and decolonial studies.
A study on how rhetoric has become a full τέχνη under the influence and the work of Aristotle. Th... more A study on how rhetoric has become a full τέχνη under the influence and the work of Aristotle. The aim of this bachelor's thesis is both to delineate how rhetoric has become so central in ancient Athens' political life, following its progressive philosophical theorization and development in the Sophists, Plato's "Gorgias" and Aristotle's "Rhetoric", and to find in Aristotle's topological methodology and appeal to passions an embryonal structure of what today has become algorithmic driven and mediated mass-media communication and social interaction.
Che cos’è l’irriverenza? È uno stile che fa balbettare il linguaggio e il pensiero, portandoli ag... more Che cos’è l’irriverenza? È uno stile che fa balbettare il linguaggio e il pensiero, portandoli agli estremi del proprio esercizio. Nessuno meglio di Gilles Deleuze è riuscito a formalizzare un pensare che, libero dalla tradizionale tassonomia della filosofia, possa non piegarsi ad alcun potere istituito. Il presente lavoro si propone di ripercorrere le tappe dell’itinerario del filosofo francese con l’obiettivo di emulare il metodo della perversione: isolare un problema e crearne un concetto attraverso il quale rileggere l’estensione del pensiero dell’autore in questione. Nel nostro caso, il problema isolato è quello del linguaggio, e il concetto che ci preme far emergere è quello del balbettìo, che affiora nel confronto costante di Deleuze con la letteratura e con la linguistica strutturalista: Deleuze fa balbettare la storia della filosofia. L’ipotesi di lavoro che sottende la nostra tesi è che ad una critica del pensiero rappresentativo corrisponda un’altrettanto strutturata critica del linguaggio come rappresentazione soggettiva del reale oggettivo. In questa dinamica, si gioca un’importante partita politica: il linguaggio incorpora le potenzialità rivoluzionarie del pensiero ed ogni sua reificazione lo rende sterile e asservito ai regimi di segni che incarnano le strutture di potere della modernità. È necessario mettere in variazione il linguaggio per mostrare un pensiero del fuori che crei inesplorati processi di soggettivazione: una lingua minore che enunci il concatenamento vitale del divenire popolo dello Stato, un popolo a venire, barbaro e straniero delle proprie origini. L’immanenza, il pensiero della vita. L’irriverenza, lo stile che la esprime.
Eng title: Stuttering Language: the Limits of Representation. Thought and Language in the philosophical trajectory of Gilles Deleuze.
English abstract: What is irreverence? It is a style that makes language and thought stutter, taking them to the extremes of their own exercise. No one has succeeded better than Gilles Deleuze in formalising a way of thinking that, free from the traditional taxonomy of philosophy, cannot bend to any established power. This thesis sets out to retrace the steps of the French philosopher's itinerary with the aim of emulating the method of perversion: to isolate a problem and create a concept from it through which to reread the extension of the author's thought. In our case, the isolated problem is that of language and the concept we wish to bring out is that of stuttering, which emerges in Deleuze's constant confrontation with literature and structuralist linguistics: Deleuze makes the history of philosophy stutter. The working hypothesis underlying our thesis is that a critique of representational thought corresponds to an equally structured critique of language as subjective representation of objective reality. In this dynamic, an important political game is at stake: language embodies the revolutionary potential of thought and any reification of it renders it sterile and subservient to the regimes of signs that embody the power structures of modernity. It is necessary to put language into variation in order to show a thought of the outside that creates unexplored processes of subjectivation: a minor language that enunciates the vital assemblage of becoming-people of the State, a people to come, barbarian and foreign to its origins. Immanence, the thought of life. Irreverence, the style that expresses it.
A study on how rhetoric has become a full τέχνη under the influence and the work of Aristotle. Th... more A study on how rhetoric has become a full τέχνη under the influence and the work of Aristotle. The aim of this bachelor's thesis is both to delineate how rhetoric has become so central in ancient Athens' political life, following its progressive philosophical theorization and development in the Sophists, Plato's "Gorgias" and Aristotle's "Rhetoric", and to find in Aristotle's topological methodology and appeal to passions an embryonal structure of what today has become algorithmic driven and mediated mass-media communication and social interaction.
Che cos’è l’irriverenza? È uno stile che fa balbettare il linguaggio e il pensiero, portandoli ag... more Che cos’è l’irriverenza? È uno stile che fa balbettare il linguaggio e il pensiero, portandoli agli estremi del proprio esercizio. Nessuno meglio di Gilles Deleuze è riuscito a formalizzare un pensare che, libero dalla tradizionale tassonomia della filosofia, possa non piegarsi ad alcun potere istituito. Il presente lavoro si propone di ripercorrere le tappe dell’itinerario del filosofo francese con l’obiettivo di emulare il metodo della perversione: isolare un problema e crearne un concetto attraverso il quale rileggere l’estensione del pensiero dell’autore in questione. Nel nostro caso, il problema isolato è quello del linguaggio, e il concetto che ci preme far emergere è quello del balbettìo, che affiora nel confronto costante di Deleuze con la letteratura e con la linguistica strutturalista: Deleuze fa balbettare la storia della filosofia. L’ipotesi di lavoro che sottende la nostra tesi è che ad una critica del pensiero rappresentativo corrisponda un’altrettanto strutturata critica del linguaggio come rappresentazione soggettiva del reale oggettivo. In questa dinamica, si gioca un’importante partita politica: il linguaggio incorpora le potenzialità rivoluzionarie del pensiero ed ogni sua reificazione lo rende sterile e asservito ai regimi di segni che incarnano le strutture di potere della modernità. È necessario mettere in variazione il linguaggio per mostrare un pensiero del fuori che crei inesplorati processi di soggettivazione: una lingua minore che enunci il concatenamento vitale del divenire popolo dello Stato, un popolo a venire, barbaro e straniero delle proprie origini. L’immanenza, il pensiero della vita. L’irriverenza, lo stile che la esprime.
Eng title: Stuttering Language: the Limits of Representation. Thought and Language in the philosophical trajectory of Gilles Deleuze.
English abstract: What is irreverence? It is a style that makes language and thought stutter, taking them to the extremes of their own exercise. No one has succeeded better than Gilles Deleuze in formalising a way of thinking that, free from the traditional taxonomy of philosophy, cannot bend to any established power. This thesis sets out to retrace the steps of the French philosopher's itinerary with the aim of emulating the method of perversion: to isolate a problem and create a concept from it through which to reread the extension of the author's thought. In our case, the isolated problem is that of language and the concept we wish to bring out is that of stuttering, which emerges in Deleuze's constant confrontation with literature and structuralist linguistics: Deleuze makes the history of philosophy stutter. The working hypothesis underlying our thesis is that a critique of representational thought corresponds to an equally structured critique of language as subjective representation of objective reality. In this dynamic, an important political game is at stake: language embodies the revolutionary potential of thought and any reification of it renders it sterile and subservient to the regimes of signs that embody the power structures of modernity. It is necessary to put language into variation in order to show a thought of the outside that creates unexplored processes of subjectivation: a minor language that enunciates the vital assemblage of becoming-people of the State, a people to come, barbarian and foreign to its origins. Immanence, the thought of life. Irreverence, the style that expresses it.
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Eng title: Stuttering Language: the Limits of Representation. Thought and Language in the philosophical trajectory of Gilles Deleuze.
English abstract: What is irreverence? It is a style that makes language and thought stutter, taking them to the extremes of their own exercise. No one has succeeded better than Gilles Deleuze in formalising a way of thinking that, free from the traditional taxonomy of philosophy, cannot bend to any established power. This thesis sets out to retrace the steps of the French philosopher's itinerary with the aim of emulating the method of perversion: to isolate a problem and create a concept from it through which to reread the extension of the author's thought. In our case, the isolated problem is that of language and the concept we wish to bring out is that of stuttering, which emerges in Deleuze's constant confrontation with literature and structuralist linguistics: Deleuze makes the history of philosophy stutter. The working hypothesis underlying our thesis is that a critique of representational thought corresponds to an equally structured critique of language as subjective representation of objective reality. In this dynamic, an important political game is at stake: language embodies the revolutionary potential of thought and any reification of it renders it sterile and subservient to the regimes of signs that embody the power structures of modernity. It is necessary to put language into variation in order to show a thought of the outside that creates unexplored processes of subjectivation: a minor language that enunciates the vital assemblage of becoming-people of the State, a people to come, barbarian and foreign to its origins. Immanence, the thought of life. Irreverence, the style that expresses it.
Eng title: Stuttering Language: the Limits of Representation. Thought and Language in the philosophical trajectory of Gilles Deleuze.
English abstract: What is irreverence? It is a style that makes language and thought stutter, taking them to the extremes of their own exercise. No one has succeeded better than Gilles Deleuze in formalising a way of thinking that, free from the traditional taxonomy of philosophy, cannot bend to any established power. This thesis sets out to retrace the steps of the French philosopher's itinerary with the aim of emulating the method of perversion: to isolate a problem and create a concept from it through which to reread the extension of the author's thought. In our case, the isolated problem is that of language and the concept we wish to bring out is that of stuttering, which emerges in Deleuze's constant confrontation with literature and structuralist linguistics: Deleuze makes the history of philosophy stutter. The working hypothesis underlying our thesis is that a critique of representational thought corresponds to an equally structured critique of language as subjective representation of objective reality. In this dynamic, an important political game is at stake: language embodies the revolutionary potential of thought and any reification of it renders it sterile and subservient to the regimes of signs that embody the power structures of modernity. It is necessary to put language into variation in order to show a thought of the outside that creates unexplored processes of subjectivation: a minor language that enunciates the vital assemblage of becoming-people of the State, a people to come, barbarian and foreign to its origins. Immanence, the thought of life. Irreverence, the style that expresses it.