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Catholic University Ruzomberok
David Levente Palatinus is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies of the Catholic University in Ruzomberok, and at the English Department of Technical University of Liberec. In 2017 he set up the Anthropocene Media Lab which now functions as an inter-institutional hub for collaborations and work in the fields of media and Anthropocene studies. His research moves between and across digital media and cultural theory. He works on violence in serial culture, medicine and autopsy, autoimmunity and war, and digital subjectivity in the Anthropocene. A co-editor of the ECREA section of CSTOnline (the online arm of Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies), he sits on the editorial board of Americana – E-Journal of American Studies (Hungary) and Rewind: British and American Studies Series of Aras Edizioni (Fano, Italy). He edited the collective works: Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media (Peter Lang, 2020), and Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture (Americana Ebooks, 2018). He is the author of Spectres of Medicine: The Ethos of Contemporary Medical Dramas (forthcoming with Aras Edizioni, Italy).
Università di Torino
The Anthropocene is the contemporary version of Utopianism, of which it shares the illusions, albeit noble, and deceptions. In other words, it is what took the place of revolutionary hope in the last century, and it is with this eye that, in my opinion, we must look at it. Abandoning the workers, it became the defence of animals, then of plants, and now of the planet. In all this, we do not consider the robust anthropocentrism that pushes us to the fatal confusion between the salvation of the planet (indifferent to humanity and its manners) and the salvation of humanity, which is instead strictly dependent not on saving the planet, but on maintaining an environment where humanity can survive.
Keywords: Progress, Ecology, Responsibility, Humankind, Life.
University of Pisa
Carla Benedetti is full Professor of Italian Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Pisa. She has been fellow of Italian Academy at Columbia University, and Chair of Italian Culture at the University of California-Berkeley. She founded with others the blog “Nazione indiana” and the review “Il primo amore”. Among her books are: Pasolini contro Calvino (Bollati Boringhieri 1998); The Empty Cage. Inquiry into the Mysterious Disappearance of the Author (Cornell University Press 2005); Disumane lettere, Indagine sulla cultura della nostra epoca (Laterza 2011) and La letteratura ci salverà dall’estinzione (Einaudi 2021).
It is only a few years since the word “Anthropocene” has entered the common language, after being for a long time the exclusive domain of the scientific community. It is now progressively adopted in the humanities as the proper name of our age. This is in itself a rather extraordinary fact: it is the first time that a term used in geology is chosen over a cultural term as a definition of the age we live in. Over the past two centuries, the names that baptized the current epoch, modernism, postmodernism, came from art, architecture, sociology or philosophy; but to name this new age that has succeeded the postmodern, the humanities have had to take their cue from the sciences.What has prevented humanist culture from exerting its customary baptismal right over the new epoch? What has inhibited the normal methods of historical periodization and the typically modern way in which the movement through History is represented? This essay investigates this new and curious sense of being lost in history and the way in which the humanities have repressed over the past decades the greatest emergency mankind has ever faced: the risk of its own extinction.
Keywords: Modernity, Epoch-baptizing, Cultural history, History of the Earth, Earthlings.
Università della Calabria
Felice Cimatti insegna Filosofia del Linguaggio all’Università della Calabria. Fra le sue pubblicazioni Il volto e la parola; La vita che verrà. Biopolitica per “Homo sapiens”; Filosofia dell’animalità; Il taglio. Linguaggio e pulsione di morte; Sguardi animali; Cose. Per una filosofia del reale; La vita estrinseca. Dopo il linguaggio; A Biosemiotic Ontology. The Philosophy of Giorgio Prodi. Ha curato con Leonardo Caffo A come animale. Per un bestiario dei sentimenti. È docente dell’Istituto Freudiano, sede di Roma. Nel 2012 ha ricevuto il Premio Musatti dalla Società Psicoanalitica Italiana. È uno dei conduttori del programma radiofonico di attualità culturale Fahrenheit Radio3 e del programma televisivo Zettel (Fare filosofia e Zettel Debate) per il canale tematico Rai Scuola.
A critic of the concept of Anthropocene is proposed based on Viveiros de Castro’s notions of “multinaturalism” and “perspectivism”. The idea is that the biopolitical concepts of “emergence” is completely inadequate to understand the intrinsic dynamics of nature. On the contrary, life is intrinsically infectious, that is, life is nothing but a continual process of
migration between life forms.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Multinaturalism, Perspectivism, Infection, Involution.
University of St. Gallen
Federico Luisetti is Associate Professor of Italian Culture and Society at the University of St. Gallen. From 2005 to 2017 he taught Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he has been the chair of the Department of Romance Studies from 2014 to 2017. He is the author of books and essays on philosophy, literature, visual studies, the Avant-gardes, and political thought. He has also worked on decolonial thought and anthropology. His publications include The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas, edited with J. Pickles and W. Kaiser (Duke University Press 2015) and Una vita. Pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell’intensità (Mimesis 2011). He is currently writing a monograph on the Anthropocene as the state of nature of neoliberalism.
The human flows of the neoliberal planet are categorized according to a continuum of mobility forms and managed through framings that construct migration as a threat multiplier, a challenge to human security, and an opportunity to increase the “adaptive capacity” of vulnerable populations. This vision reflects the synthesis of good and bad circulation patterns, good and bad versions of the Anthropocene that characterizes the neoliberal Earth system worldview. The planet as a geochemical entity is a repository of environmental life-cycles that the stewards of the Anthropocene are committed to regulate. In the speculative logic of risk, environmental destruction and species salvation, desperate climate refugees and entrepreneurial climate migrants are two faces of the same coin.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Climate migrants, Speculative methodologies, State of nature, Extinction.
University of Naples, L’Orientale
Delio Salottolo is Research Fellow at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and professor of philosophy and history in high schools. His research focuses on the relationship between nature and culture in the construction of the knowledges of modernity and on issues of political ecology and environmental ethics. Since 2009 he has been editor of the web magazine “S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it”, and he edited a dossier on the Anthropocene issue in 2019. He has published essays on Foucauldian philosophy, historical epistemology, French sociology and anthropology, and on issues related to the environmental crisis and the Anthropocene. Among his publications: Una vita radicalmente altra. Saggio sulla filosofia di Michel Foucault (Mimesis 2013); Solidarietà e modernità. Saggio sulla filosofia di Émile Durkheim (Meltemi 2018); Claude Lévi-Strauss. Un viaggio iniziatico alla scoperta dell’uomo (Hachette 2016), and the italian translation of C. Bernard, Un determinismo armoniosamente subordinato (Mimesis 2015).
Abstract
This essay aims at analysing the relationship between the Anthropocene as fashionable concept and the migrant issue as the return of the repressed in the self-absolving Western narrative. First of all, we will deconstruct the mainstream concept of Anthropocene (starting from a well-known essay by W. Steffen, J. Grinevald, P. Crutzen and J. McNeill), showing its disquieting continuity with the conceptual and political devices of Western modernity; then, we will analyse the migrant issue, starting from the problematization of climate refugee and Achille Mbembe’s conceptualization about the becoming-Negro of the world. Secondly, we will address the concept of un-appropriable (Mbembe and Agamben): the thesis is that the Negro (in its wider meaning) can become the subject of emancipation starting from new perspectives of “use” beyond capitalist property and appropriation. Thirdly, we will show how the un-appropriable needs a new realism starting from a renewed cosmology and an ontology of mixing (Margulis and Coccia). The conclusions will investigate the implications between the two fundamental political questions: how is to be? and what is to be done?
Keywords: Anthropocene, Migration, Western Modernity, Climate Refugee, Un-appropriable
Catholic University Ruzomberok
David Levente Palatinus is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies of the Catholic University in Ruzomberok, and at the English Department of Technical University of Liberec. In 2017 he set up the Anthropocene Media Lab which now functions as an inter-institutional hub for collaborations and work in the fields of media and Anthropocene studies. His research moves between and across digital media and cultural theory. He works on violence in serial culture, medicine and autopsy, autoimmunity and war, and digital subjectivity in the Anthropocene. A co-editor of the ECREA section of CSTOnline (the online arm of Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies), he sits on the editorial board of Americana – E-Journal of American Studies (Hungary) and Rewind: British and American Studies Series of Aras Edizioni (Fano, Italy). He edited the collective works: Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media (Peter Lang, 2020), and Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture (Americana Ebooks, 2018). He is the author of Spectres of Medicine: The Ethos of Contemporary Medical Dramas (forthcoming with Aras Edizioni, Italy).
Combining cultural theory- and screen research, this article examines the important but underexplored role ‘bestialization’ plays in the proliferation of contemporary films and television narratives about the relation between terrorism, war and the Anthropocene. I will argue that, on the one hand, film and television texts circulating cultural perceptions of conflicts in the Middle East mobilize conventional narratives of political justifications (or criticisms) of violence, but also subvert the conventions that function as vehicles of the cultural iconography of the war on terror. Similarly, these texts, as products of cultural symbolization, re-engage ethics and agency in the context of transgression, re-inscribing the logic of ‘us vs. them’ into processes of victimization, and to a sense of perpetual crisis in the Anthropocene epoch.
Keywords: Bestialization, Autoimmunity, Anthropocene, symbolism, media
Sorbonne Université, Paris
Davide Luglio is full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at Sorbonne Université (Paris), where he is Director of the Department of Italian Studies and Chief of the Research Center on Italian Studies. He is Director of the “Revue des Études Italiennes” and co-director of the international Journal “LaRivista”, he taught at the Universities of Florence, Bonn, University College of London and Paris Sorbonne in Abou Dhabi. He is Author of several articles on Giambattista Vico, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian Theory.
Literature in the age of the Anthropocene: the stakes of a new narrative of reality
The questions opened by the Anthropocene require a new vision of reality, a vision that is able to go beyond the ideological opposition between nature and culture. This opposition must therefore be opposed by a realistic vision; that is, the overcoming of dualism must pass through a re-narration of the human–world relationship that considers humans no longer in anthropocentric terms, but as part of a whole without boundaries. This repositioning of the human being presupposes a new form of aesthetics; that is, a new way of feeling and representing reality.
The essay questions the contribution that the arts, and literature in particular, can make to this new narrative of the relationship between man and the world, underlining how the realistic tradition of literature, from Dante to Pasolini, has always been an anti-ideological operation. It is in the Barthian theorization of this anti-ideological power of literature that the essay proposes to draw the tools to build a representation of reality able to accompany the great changes introduced by the Anthropocene.
Keywords: Gaïa, Nature, Culture, Language, Representation, Power, Resistence.
Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
The essay aims to analyze the relationship between new feminist thinking and the Anthropocene. Although many feminist thinkers point out the risks and difficulties hidden behind the reference to a generic Anthropos in the expression “Anthropocene,” feminism has made important contributions to the birth of ecological sensitivity and continues to provide valuable input in attempts to rethink the relationship between human beings, non-humans and the planet. While reviewing in particular some of the most recent trends within feminism, which have tried to imagine new forms of relationship between the human and the non-human based on the principles of recognition and justice, the essay also discusses the materialistic orientation and its potential in addressing issues related to the Earth and all its inhabitants.
Keywords: Epistemology, Ontology, New Feminism, Historical Materialism, Incorporeal.
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa
Barbara Henry is full Professor of Political Philosophy at the Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies (SSSUP), Pisa/Italy. Her main areas of expertise are German classical philosophy, Neo-kantianism, Political judgement and hermeneutics, Modern political myths, Jewish studies on the artificial anthropoids, Philosophy of technology, Posthuman studies.Among her works: Dal Golem ai cyborgs. Trasmigrazioni nell’immaginario (Belforte 20162); Islamic feminism(s) in the Mediterranean Area: a Hermeneutical Approach, “Journal of Balkan and near Eastern Studies”, 19,2017, pp. 464-482; “Ask the Other Questions”. How to Make a Good use of Intersectionality, in “Iride”, 30, 3, 2018, pp. 319-326; El sometimiento voluntario como lado oscuro de la preferencia adaptiva. La contribución del psicoanàlisis relational a la filosofia politica, in “Soft Power”, 6, 1, pp. 99-117; From Golem to Cyborg. Symbolic Reconfigurations of an ancient Monstrum, in D. Compagna, S. Steinhart (Eds.), Monsters, Monstrosities and the Monstrous in Culture and Society, pp. 233-256 (Vernon Press 2019);With A. Loretoni, A. Pirni, M. Solinas (Eds.), Filosofia politica (Mondadori 2020).
In this contribution, I aim to develop a philosophical account of ‘posthuman’ that enables us to conceive a future society of humanoids, humans, hybrids, artificial beings, who are free and equal. This analysis will help me to answer the paradoxical question: what does it means to be human in the Anthropocene (the era of the Anthropos). This expression – ‘posthuman’ or ‘posthuman condition’ is to be understood as referring to symbols and phenomena different from those associated with ‘transhuman’. (Critical) Posthumanism is the corresponding line of thought, necessary for the paradigm shift we are in need of. According to this, posthuman is to be interpreted here as material, not anthropocentric, but rather interspecist, osmotic and relational, a horizon of effective sharing of experiences, dangers and challenges. In contrast, ‘transhuman’ (as the transhumanist ideal movement is advocating with strong mediatic influence) is meant to refer to the ultimate transcending of humans into the pure ether of an ‘ideal’, immaterial network made up only of software, and lacking in relations with any material beings in the ecosystem or cosmos.
Keywords: Conceptual Clarification, Anthropocene, Posthuman Horizon, (Critical)Posthumanism versus Transhumanism .
Università di Roma Tre
Is the Anthropocene near the end? Some reasons suggest that it may be so, because of the way machines – and especially intelligent machines – are dramatically changing our lives. Firstly, for the first time in history, new machines may be generating a dramatic increase in unemployment, which can cause severe economic and social problems. Secondly, human error or malice, applied to military or industrial machines can produce terrible consequences for humans and the natural environment. Thirdly, and more importantly, a time may come (the so-called “Singularity”) in which artificial intelligence may become uncontrollable and very dangerous for us. Against a common opinion according to which machines cannot do what we do not tell them to do, I will discuss a case in which machines are not just much better than us, but are already creative in ways that we cannot anticipate or even understand.
Keywords: Anthropocene, Machinocene, Singularity, Artificial intelligence, Ethics of
technology.
University of Tennessee
Jason Collins recently finished his PhD in Comparative Literature, Italian Specialization at the Graduate Center of New York, CUNY. Areas of research and focus are Italian dialectology and dialect literature, the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Antonio Gramsci, genre studies, and discursive and rhetorical analysis. Recent scholarship includes The Sicilian School of poetry and the evolution of genre in the vernacular, and the linguistic epistolary polemic regarding the use of Milanese versus Tuscan that occurred between members of the Milanese Enlightenment. He currently teaches Humanities at RMCAD and begins a new position as Italian Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in January.
Antonio Gramsci’s The Southern Question has been studied as an instrument to understand what happened, not what is happening, within the dynamics of the dialectic regarding industry, government, and Italy’s southern regions. This survey resituates Gramsci’s The Southern Question and his own preceding journal articles that fostered its theories to examine the journalistic mouthpieces of the historic blocs and their opponents, and how these dailies echo the empty narratives used to foster consent to environmental calamity. Under examination are articles reporting on ArcelorMittal’s Taranto Steelworks from The New York Times, Il Corriere della Sera, and Il Manifesto. A contemporary application of Gramsci’s work to these narratives reveals the relevance of his thought in deconstructing hegemonic discourses and their authors’ intentions.
Keywords: The Southern Question, Arcelor Mittal, Mezzogiorno, Media Dialectic, Environmental Calamity.
Università LUSPIO di Roma
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Università “Federico II” di Napoli
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Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
Francesco Paolo Ciglia Is full professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università «Gabriele d’Annunzio» of Chieti-Pescara. He is a member, at times with an executive role, of numerous Societies, Istitutions, Scienti c Commitees, and Redactional Boards of national and international reviews (among which: Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, Istituto di Studi Filoso ci «Enrico Castelli», European Society for Moral Philosophy; Reviews: «Archivio di Filoso a / Archives of Philosophy, «Nuovo Giornale di Filoso a della Religione», Redazione Romana «Filoso a e teologia»), and author of 140 publications, of which seven are monographies, in different languages (Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese). He is a specialist in gures and themes of philosophy of existence (L. Pareyson) and of 20th century Jewish thought (F. Rosenzweig; E. Levinas).
Universität Tübingen
Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
University College of London
Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
Università “Carlo Bo” di Urbino
University of Notre Dame, USA
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
Universität Baierbrunn
University of New York
Università “La Sapienza” di Roma
Universität Innsbruck
Università “Ca' Foscari” di Venezia
Universität München
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
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Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
Università “G. d'Annunzio” di Chieti-Pescara
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