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 postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Humanities and Italian Studies at Universität St. Gallen, where she works on a project on the speculative aesthetics and material politics of plastics. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) and has worked extensively on plasticity and sculpture. She is the author of a monograph on the aesthetics and poetics of Giuseppe Penone.
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
Ernesto Giannoccaro holds a background in philosophy and works in digital communication and project design. He has focused on themes such as the crisis of Western thought and the relationship between technology, politics, and cultural imagination, collaborating with institutions like the Filippo Burzio Foundation and the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies. He also works with international organizations in the field of institutional communication.
Digital Communication Associate