Humanism, Anti-Humanism, and Post-Humanism
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Il saggio intende dimostrare che, subito dopo la pubblicazione, da parte di Alberico Gentili, dei De iuris interpretibus Dialogi sex (1582) e delle Lectiones et Epistolae (1583-1584) i rapporti fra Jean Hotman e il giurista di San Ginesio... more
The question of ethics posits, at its core, an idea of the other. But what is this other? What is it made of? What is the meaning of its power over the human subject? The paper looks at the idea of otherness as its appears in Levinas and... more
This (preprint) chapter argues that the 'thick' constructivism to which many prominent Feminist Security Studies authors currently subscribe is incapable of providing this sub-field of International Relations with adequate philosophical... more
The first instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, an existential crisis unfolds in lunar mega-city ‘Eidopolis.’ Death... more
Most contemporary scholarly work on posthumanism and transhumanism rests on the idea that both perspectives are part of an ontological continuum. This article, however, acknowledges and explores the differences between them. In order to... more
Resumen El discurso posthumanista está empezando a hacerse sentir en el contexto educativo y particularmente en el ámbito escolar. Una de las primeras cuestiones que esas transformaciones paradigmáticas suscitan en este contexto se... more
Although he has been publishing since the early 1970s, François Laruelle’s project of non-philosophy has only recently received any sustained attention in English-language scholarly work, spurred in large part by the writings of Ray... more
In: Journal Phänomenologie, Nr. 34 (2010) Sonderdruck: Philosophische Anthropologie – Anspruch und Kritik, S. 42-61.
The Seventeen Contradictions is an x-ray of tensions, trends and tendencies in capital and capitalism that empowers us to look forward. Taking the still ongoing 2008 economic crisis as a starting point, Harvey investigates how the... more
Androids, if they were to come into existence, would be the outcome of scientific and engineering ingenuity and thus be products of past living labour. Although the androids might be Turing-compatible, Voight-Kammpf cheating and... more
This paper suggests that humanism is a decisionism in contemporary critical political theory. Despite obvious and multiple differences, leading critical theorists like Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, Eric Santner, and Jürgen Habermas,... more
Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only exceeded by the diverse... more
7/31 small additions: p 8 Weber, and p 98, both ref. academic freedom. p 176 Fried and photography. and minor fixes 1/28/23 minor fixes. 1/12/2023 pages 110-121 are new. 2/3/22 small mistakes. a couple of missed photos. 3/31 On... more
"Contemporary 'Singularity' thinking has its origins in Vernor Vinge’s influential proposal of the emergence of greater-than-human artificial intelligence (AI) as an ‘event horizon’ in human history. This notion finds its technological... more
1. Introducción: Giros y paradigmas críticos en la antropología y en las ciencias sociales 2. El giro pos-(macro)sociológico de mediados de los sesenta 3. El giro de la antropología crítica o dialéctica de los tardíos sesenta (y su... more
Dans leur ouvrage controversé de 1985 intitulé La Pensée 68: essai sur l'anti-humanisme contemporain, Luc Ferry et Alain Renaut réclament avoir cherché à opérer une critique avant tout philosophique et non idéologique des penseurs... more
Ce mémoire de maîtrise déposé à l'Université de Bologne et à l'Université de Strasbourg en 2014 propose une analyse de L'œuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (1968) dans le cadre d'une étude théorique portant sur les modes de... more
In Nihil Unbound and other shorter works, Ray Brassier develops his contemporary transcendental realism by adopting the nihilistic aspects of thinkers such as Laruelle, Sellars and Badiou, while leaving behind their anthropic residuals.... more
Dal 23 al 27 settembre Lesbos ha ospitato la Conferenza Internazionale sul Postumanesimo: “Audiovisual Posthumanism. Aesthetics, Cultural Theory and the Art”, organizzata dall'Universitá dell'Egeo insieme all'Eurosa (The European Society... more
This paper argues that when it comes to thinking about work and labour, Marxism experiences a continued difficulty in holding theory and politics together without reliance on the concept of 'social labour': a humanist ideological concept... more
Prólogo a la traducción del libro de cuentos de Clarice Lispector, Lazos de Familia.
The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish... more
I argue that the philosophy of Jean-Francois Lyotard and the film "Brazil" are mutually enriching and illuminating when read in conjunction, particularly around issues of technocapitalism, private selfhood, nostalgia, and the concept of... more
Edmund Husserl and Michel Foucault are two philosophers quite different from each other in terms of style and themes. While one may appreciate the first for a humanistic motive which materializes in an appeal to self-determination, such... more
This paper is an investigation into the posthuman influence on postmodern art and the potential for art production in a posthuman context. It emphasises one particular period in art history. The period spanning from the late twentieth... more
Draft of the paper published in Splendore Marciano. Il restauro della legatura già del codice LAT. III, 111 (=2116) della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia, a cura di Maria Letizia Sebastiani [e] Paolo Crisostomi, Padova, Nova... more
Roberto Esposito claims that biopolitics characterizes the entire modernity, and that it is built on the immunity dispositive. Im-munity is the negation of the munus which animates and builds com-munity: inside the immunitarian paradigm,... more
Humanism, Drama, and Performance: Unwriting Theatre examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and... more
In the wake of both 9/11 and the financial crisis of 2008, the humanities have been offered as constituents of higher education which, if more prominent and more strenuously promoted, might have prevented both events. At the same time,... more
Les enjeux de ce travail avant tout théoriques : il s’agit de comprendre quel a pu être l’apport spécifique des romans historiques contemporains dans la réception de l’héritage humaniste au XXe siècle. Nous nous proposons d’aborder ce... more
Sažetak: Autorka se u ovom radi bavi problemom humanizma u filozofiji egzistencije. Razmatraju se odredbe humanizma u tekstovima Jaspersa, Sartra, Merlo-Pontija i Hajdegera, te mogućnosti odstupanja od klasičnih formi humanizama ili... more
This text speculates on the limits of kinship towards non-human otherness via the figure of a toxic fish that migrated from the Red Sea into Mediterranean waters over the last decade. In post-anthropocentric approaches to otherness, the... more
Este seminario incluye una serie de obras que podrían entrar dentro de un posible canon de lo poshumano latinoamericano. Si se entiende lo poshumano como una combinación entre humano y máquina, veremos que de un tiempo a esta parte la... more
Estratto del saggio pubblicato nel volume "Vita, politica, contingenza", a cura di Laura Bazzicalupo e Salvo Vaccaro, Quodlibet 2016
Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 – Londra 1608). Giurista di fama, esule in Inghilterra nel 1580 per motivi religiosi e regius professor di civil law a Oxford dal 1587, il Gentili è noto alla letteratura specialistica soprattutto per... more
Sommario: 1. Premessa.- 2. Gentili e il diritto canonico.- 3. Gentili e il diritto civile.- 4. Da interpres iuris Iustiniani a simpliciter interpres iuris.- Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio, 1552 – Londra, 1608), uno dei maggiori giuristi... more
This paper discusses issues of research design and methods in new materialist social inquiry, an approach that is attracting increasing interest across the social sciences as an alternative to either realist or constructionist ontologies.... more
Volume pubblicato con il contributo del Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa e del Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale dell’Università di Salerno.
"Brower explores the way philosophers were inspired by entomological social systems and communication to reflect on human psyche, social behavior, community organization, communication, and inter-individual relationships. His essay... more