Limiti e confini del  Postumano

EDITORIALE / Giovanni Leghissa, Carlo Molinar Min, Carlo Salzani / Il termine ‘postumanesimo’ è stato usato per la prima volta...

TESTI / 1 / Thomas Macho / The question concerning the relationship between humans, animals and machines has been often...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Roberto Marchesini / The past thirty years saw intense discussions about the concept of «post-human» or...

TESTI / 2 / Francesca Ferrando / ‘Posthuman’ has become an umbrella term to refer to a variety of different...

INTERVISTE / 1 / a cura di Giovanni Aloi / Since the very beginning, rethinking human/animal relations has entailed reconsidering epistemology, ontology, and ethics. Along the way, on this ambitious journey, contemporary art has constantly...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alberto Giustiniano / This article examines American philosopher Cary Wolfe’s considerations on the need to redefine the notion of ‘posthuman’. The analysis is focused on the reflection over the difference between...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Carlo Salzani / The so-called ‘animal turn’ of the past couple of decades brought about a new focus on animals and animality that traverses the whole spectrum of the Humanities and...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Felice Cimatti / Homo sapiens has always been an animal species which somewhat ‘exceeds’ its own nature. Therefore, transhumanism is not that different from humanism. In fact, the latter is but...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Ida De Dominicis / How would the hybridization between Homo sapiens and machine be considered if this concept could be traced back to the thought of Leroi-Gourhan? The article reviews the...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Giovanni Aloi / This essay addresses the growing importance of materiality in relation to posthumanist discourses in contemporary art. It traces a genealogy of materiality in the histories of classical, modern, and...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Davide Sisto / This paper analyzes the concept of Digital Death as related to post-humanism. In the first part, the article highlights the features of the dialectic between life and death and...

ARTICOLI / 6 / Boria Sax / This article will look at four scholars who belong, at least broadly speaking, to the ‘posthumanist’ tradition, and at the ways in which they endeavor to correct mistakes...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Veronica Cavedagna e Daniele Poccia / This article focuses on vegetal life as paradigmatic alternative to animal and human existence in terms of systematic organization. Through the analysis of three symptomatic...

TESTI / 4 / Karin Harrasser / The article starts with an outline of the current debate on the technical extension and modification of the body. Subsequently, I will argue in favor of adopting a skeptical stance...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Gabriele Scardovi / Interpreting the transition from human beings to human-robotic hybrids, this paper considers the two opposite tendencies of keeping the biological form of life and its neglect in favor of...

ARTICOLI / 7 / Roberto Manzocco / One of the main concepts promoted by the transhumanist ideology is what we can call ‘self-directed evolution’: the idea that using more and more sophisticated technologies, we will be...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Tommaso Guariento / With this article, I intend to propose a comprehensive introduction to Nick Land’s philosophy, taking into account all of his philosophical writings and identifying three main phases of his...

TESTI / 4 / Nick Land / Meltdown, here offered in its first Italian translation, is an experimental essay originally performed by British philosopher Nick Land in 1994, successively disseminated online, and recently republished in...