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What is the indispensable? What is indispensable to us? If I were to put forward a definition, I would say that it is that which, in our existence in the world, gives form and substance to the fundamental threads of meaning in our lives. Who we are, what we do with our time, what values…
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co-authored with prof. Markus Ophälders. Translated by Caterina Diotto. Preface to Forming to transform. On a pedagogy of Imagination (Mimesis, Milan 2022) […] 2. Some proposal for this Millennium (by Caterina Diotto) It is 1985: fifteen years barely separate us from the beginning of a new millennium. For now, I do not feel that the…
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co-authored with C. Zamboni, M. Spagnolli, G. Longobardi, E. Jankowski. Translated by Caterina Diotto. Originally published in italian here. In the war in Ukraine we recognise the expression of a particular clash in the symbolic, between world-forms and languages, which pervades our time and represents a political threshold between the realisation of one world or…
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Co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Chiara Zamboni, Annamaria Piussi. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. We would like to get to know some of the paths taken by feminism in areas and places in South America. We are interested in how women, whom we have met or read about, bring…
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It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with. It matters wherehow ouroboros swallows its tale, again. Donna Haraway […] Feminist theoretical elaboration has questioned the deep-seated logic of patriarchy – its archetypes, structural mechanisms and recurring patterns – especially since…
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Co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Annamaria Piussi, Chiara Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. Antonietta Potente: Thank you for the great trust you have shown in my story. It is a part of me that I feel very strongly, that I can never shake off, that has truly shaped…
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Walter Benjamin considered reading – along with thought, dreams, waiting, opium and intoxication – a source of “profane illumination” . Moments of intuited truths, connections between horizons of apparently distant meanings, flashes and glimmers, fragments, instants. A contact with truth that indifferently weaves aesthetic impressions, hallucinations, dialectical images and logical reflections into kaleidoscopes of meaning.…
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co-authored with Mariateresa Muraca, Annamaria Piussi, Chiara Zamboni. Translated by Caterina Diotto. The original version, in italian, was published here. This column stems from a desire to explore issues concerning ecology, which are essential in the times we live in, through the embodied and relational lens of gender difference. We are looking for a method,…
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What are populisms? What are their main characteristics, what narrative mechanisms do they deploy that are capable of gathering the feelings of the multitude? Through the historical-political reflections of Ernesto Laclau, Pierre-André Taguieff, Marco Revelli, Chantal Mouffe, Donatella Di Cesare, Valentina Pazé and Roberto Esposito, and the philosophical thought of Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy, Walter…
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Faced with the spread of the populist right in Italy and Europe, this article proposes, as part of the Great Diotima Seminar 2018 “Sbilanciamoci dalla parte della politica delle donne” a philosophical reading of the phenomenon through the works of Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy. Three authors and three imbalances towards the politics…
