Present Position:

2009 January (to present) Ph.D – Aesthetics and Theory of Art, University of Palermo (supervisors Proff. R. Schembri and S. Tedesco). Title of Dissertation: "Aesthetics of Montage in the Surrealism. Luis Buñuel and Surrealist Film".

Education:

2003/2006 BA. – Philosophy, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (supervisors Proff. P. Vinci and M. Ponzi). Title of the Dissertation: "Historic Apocatastasis. Ineffectuale Redemption in Walter Benjamin" (vote: 110/110 cum laude); 2006/2008 MA. – Philosophy (Aesthetics), University of Rome “La Sapienza” (supervisors Proff. P. Montani and F. Bassan). Title of the Dissertation: Anachronism and Persistence of the Images. Georges Didi-Huberman and Archaeological Critique of Art History" (vote: 110/110 cum laude);? 2007/2008 Socrates/Erasmus Program, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Ehess) – Paris (supervisor Prof. G. Careri); 2008 Ph.D – Theory of Visual Representation (one year) Istituto di Scienze Umane (SUM) – Siena, Ph.D under the direction of O. Calabrese.

Foreign languages:

French: very good knowledge in spoken and written;

English: good knowledge in spoken and written.

 

Membership:

2011 Member of "Sensibilia. Colloquium on Perception and Experience";

2009 (to present) – Member of SIE (Società Italiana di Estetica);

2007 (to present) Member of the editorial and directing council of the Philosophical Association and Review "Syzetesis".

Areas of competence:

Aesthetics, Theories of Contemporary Art, Film Theory and Criticism, Film Philosophy, Surrealist Art Theory, Jewish Philosophy.

Topics:

Aesthetics and Theories of Art (A. Warburg, W. Benjamin, G. Bataille); History of Film Theories (S. M. Ejzenštejn, L. Buñuel, L. Moholy-Nagy); Philosophy of Art and Art criticism (G. Didi-Huberman, R. Krauss); Surrealist Art Theory (A. Breton, M. Ernst, Man Ray).

Foreign Research:

2011 – forthcoming – (July) Séminaire international d’été «Création et histoire», organized by École des hautes études en sciences sociales – Paris.

2010 (July) Archive André Breton, Bibliothèque Jacques Doucet.

2008 (August) Aby Warburg Archive – The Warburg Institut London.

Publications:

Essays:

2011 – forthcoming – Essay review: J. Rancière, Il disagio dell'estetica, "Rivista di Estetica", Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino.

2011 – forthcoming – Essay review: P. Montani, L'immaginazione intermediale. Perlustrare, rifigurare, testimoniare il mondo visibile, (www.giornaledifilosofia.it).

2011 Essay review André Breton, Il surrealismo e la pittura, (http://www.syzetesis.it/Recensioni2011/Il%20Surrealismo%20e%20la%20Pittura.htm).

2010 Essay review: Georges Didi-Huberman, Quand les images prennent position, (http://www.giornaledifilosofia.net/public/scheda_rec.php?id=148);

2009 Essay review: Rosalind Krauss, L'inconscio ottico, (http://www.syzetesis.it/Recensioni2009/InconscioOttico.ht).

2009 Introduction exhibition catalogue of Cristiano Pinna: Internoventidue Gallery, Rome, (http://www.internoventidue.com/public/file/eventi/comunicato9.pdf).

2008 Essay review: Fritz Saxl, La fede negli astri. Dall'antichità al Rinascimento, (http://www.ariannaeditrice.it/articolo.php?id_articolo=22440).

Articles and Interviews:

2011 – forthcoming – Article: "La théorie du montage entre synthèse et discontinuité", Actes du Colloque ""Philosophie en contre champ", MISHA – Strasbourg 2010.

2010 Interview: Georges Didi-Huberman, "Connaissances à travers le montage" (http://www.giornaledifilosofia.net/public/scheda.php?id=140).

2008 Article: "Benjamin e Heidegger. Un confronto sul linguaggio poetico e l'esperienza del divino in Hölderlin". (http://www.syzetesis.it/Articoli/BenjaminHeidegger.html)

Conferences and Seminars:

2011 (12-14 July) – forthcoming – "Theory of montage", " The First Annual London Film and Media Conference", The Institute of Education, University of London.

2010 (14-16 October) – "Philosophie du montage entre synthèse et discontinuité, Conference: "Philosophie en contre champ", Parlement des Philosophes – Maison interuniversitaire des sciences de l’homme (MISHA), Alsace – Strasbourg, (http://culturestrasbourg.hypotheses.org/files/2010/10/philociné_PROGRAMME.pdf).

2010 October – "Il potere delle immagini", University of Rome "La Sapienza" – Faculty of Philosophy, Seminar organized by Philosophical Association "Syzetesis" (http://www.filosofia.uniroma1.it/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=334:il-potere-delle-immagini&catid=24:iniziative-culturali&Itemid=25).

2010 April – "Estetica del montaggio nel Surrealismo. Tempo delle immagini e memoria dell'inconscio", University of Rome "La Sapienza" – Faculty of Philosophy, Seminar organized by Philosophical Association "Syzetesis" (http://www.filosofia.uniroma1.it/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=285:estetica-del-montaggio-nel-surrealismo-tempo-delle-immagini-e-memoria-dellinconscio&catid=24:iniziative-culturali&Itemid=25).