Federico Luisetti

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Professor Emeritus of Italian

federico.luisetti@unisg.ch |

At UNC since 2005

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Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2001.
Doctorate in Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino, 2000.

Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature and Communication Studies

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Federico Luisetti’s essays, books, and teaching are situated at the intersection of philosophy and literary criticism, visual studies and the history of ideas. His research interests and publications range from the Avant-gardes and vitalisms to political thought and current debates in “Italian Theory.” He is currently writing a monograph examining, across disciplinary fields and national traditions, the modern genealogy and contemporary redefinition of the epistemic device of the state of nature.

SELECTED INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES, CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

• After the Leviathan. From Biopolitics to Political Animism, The Politics of Life: Rethinking Resistance in the Biopolitical Economy, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2017
• Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Political Animism, Post-Humanism in the Anthropocene, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures Mellon Seminar, University of Virginia, 2016
• Anthropocene and the Humanities: An Open Conversation, with Elizabeth Povinelli, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2016
• Anomie/Animism: On the Decolonial State of Nature, Du colonial au mondial : littératures et études littéraires nationales à l’épreuve, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, 2015
• Decoloniality, Modernity and the Anthropological Perspective, Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies, Amsterdam, 2015
• Cultural Modernism III: The French and Italian Avant-Garde, Vanderbilt University, 2014
• Poetik und Rhetorik des Barbarischen, Université de Genève, 2014
• Italian Theory. Categorie e problemi della filosofia italiana, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Napoli, 2014
• L’Italian theory existe-t-elle?, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense, 2014
• “Here Be Primitives, Savages, and Barbarians,” Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis, Amsterdam, 2013
• Italian Biopolitical Theory, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, 2013
• Present and Future of Digital Imaging, Kyoto University Museum, 2013
• Avoir le courage de l’incertitude, Les cultures de la précarité, Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre La Défense, 2012
• The Anomie of the Earth, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2012
• Post/autonomia, University of Amsterdam, 2011
• “On Deleuze,” The Center for the Humanities, City University of New York, 2011
• Power, Life, and Subjectivation, Universidad de los Andes, 2011
• Eurocentrism or Euro-Crisis?, Duke University, 2010
• “Non Human Intervals: Marinetti’s Radio Syntheses,”Taylorian Institution, Oxford, 2010

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BOOKS

• The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas, Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser, editors, Duke University Press, 2015
• Una vita. Pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell’intensità, Mimesis, 2011. In Italian
• A Century of Futurism: 1909-2009, Federico Luisetti and Luca Somigli, editors, “Annali d’Italianistica,” 27, 2009
• Estetica dell’immanenza. Saggi sulle parole, le immagini e le macchine, Aracne, 2008. In Italian
• Dopo il museo, Federico Luisetti and Giorgio Maragliano, editors, Trauben, 2006. In Italian
• Plus Ultra. Enciclopedismo barocco e modernità, Trauben, 2001. In Italian
• Museo, Federico Luisetti and Giorgio Maragliano, editors, a special issue of “Rivista di Estetica,” ns 16, 1/2001. In Italian

OTHER SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “Decolonizing the State of Nature: Notes on Political Animism,” Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, editors Debashish Banerji and Makarand R. Paranjape, Springer, 2016
• “Demons of the Anthropocene. Facing Bruno Latour’s Gaia,” Philosophy Kitchen, 3, 5, 2016
•  “Dimenticare l’Occidente: stato di natura e mistagogia in Giorgio Agamben,” in Giorgio Agamben. La vita delle forme, editors A. Lucci and L. Viglialoro, il melangolo, 2016
• “Notes on the Biopolitical State of Nature,” Paragraph. A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, vol. 39, n. 1, 2016
• “A Futurist Art of the Past: Anton Giulio Bragaglia’s Photodynamism,” AmeriQuests, vol 12, n. 1, 2015
• “Italian Theory and the Biopolitical State of Nature,” in L’Italian Theory Existe-t-elle?, eds. S. Contarini and D. Luglio, (Milano: Éditions Mimésis, 2015)
• Stato di natura. L’Italian Theory e il quarto nomos della terra, in Differenze italiane. Politica e filosofia: mappe e sconfinamenti, DeriveApprodi, 2015. In Italian
• Sauvagerie, nomadisme, précarité. Un récit primitiviste, in Précariat. Pour une critique de la société de la précarité, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014. In French
• The Kantian Sleep. On the Limits of the “Foucault Effect,” “Revista de Estudios Sociales,” 2012
• Nietzsche’s Orientalist Biopolitics, 2011 
• Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben: From Biopolitics to Political Romanticism, “Journal of Philosophy of Life,” 2011
• A propos de Rire. Essai sur la signification du comique de Henri Bergson, in Incongru. Quand l’art fait rire, 2011. In French
• Fantasmi dei viventi, “Estetica. Studi e ricerche,” 2011. In Italian

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He offers courses on the Avant-gardes and neo-Avant-gardes, modern and contemporary Italian literature, Italian cinema and visual culture, biopolitics and critical theory, postcolonial studies and literary theory.

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He has directed dissertations on topics such as: Representations of China in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema; Crepuscular Poetry; Futurists’ Communicative Strategies; The Intellectual as a Detective: from Leonardo Sciascia to Roberto Saviano; Fascism and the Politics of Representation in Interwar America; Representation of Political Violence in Post-War Italy; Reading the Other in Women Playwriting; Post-Neorealist Italian Film; Marguerite Caetani and the International Literary Review “Botteghe Oscure;” The Child in Neorealist Literature and Cinema; Pirandello’s Theater.

Professor Luisetti is not currently accepting new advisees.