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In my academic career, I had the opportunity to study Philosophy 360 degrees, spanning from the classics of the history of philosophy to related disciplines, with a particular focus on biopolitics, the subject of my undergraduate thesis focused on the writings of Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose at Federico II, University of Naples. Subsequently, I specialised in Political Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, where I deepened the concept of Multitude developed by Antonio Negri. My MPhil thesis then explored the relationship between humanity and plant life.
These studies led me to develop a deep interest in understanding human nature in all its forms, both in the organic and bodily dimension and in the social, political and environmental ones. It is from this perspective that I decided to deepen the theme of organicity in cyborgs, starting from the emerging phenomenon of plantoids, to analyse the tenuous boundary that exists today between the organic and the artificial in technologically advanced bodies and societies. I am currently developing this research as part of my PhD in Philosophy at University of Liverpool.
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Rossella Vingelli , 2023
This dissertation examines the post-anthropocentric perspective of thinkers like Stefano Mancuso,... more This dissertation examines the post-anthropocentric perspective of thinkers like Stefano Mancuso, Emanuele Coccia and Stefano Boeri, who promote a new awareness of plants as active agents in urban environments. Mancuso shows that plants are autonomous living beings, challenging anthropocentrism. Coccia develops an ethics of plant life that recognises plants' intrinsic value beyond their usefulness to humans. He argues that plants independently perceive the world, rethinking human-nature relations toward ecology and sustainability. Boeri's urban planning highlights plants' ability to address the climate emergency in cities. He envisions green cities where plants improve quality of life, balancing humans life and the environment. The key insights are that plants should not be seen as decorative objects but as actors shaping urban spaces through their interactions. A post-anthropocentric awareness recognised plants' role in sustainable and harmonious cities, benefiting human and nonhuman inhabitants. This perspective could transform urban planning to integrate nature better and promote ecological well-being.
MSc. \ MA in Political Philosophy Royal Holloway, University of London
Tesi di laurea in Storia delle Dottrine Politiche Federico II, Università di Napoli
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The imaginary struggle as the affirmation of the will to domain and power
Michel Foucault is one of the most important figures of the mid-'900 in the philosophy world, sin... more Michel Foucault is one of the most important figures of the mid-'900 in the philosophy world, since he has assumed a marked position concerning arguments like society, power and knowledge. The interests of Foucault mostly depend on epistemological nature: to find the historical conditions from which the illness and madness became a science matter, giving birth to the psychopathology and the clinic medicine, which are strictly connected to the construction of closed buildings (the clinic and the asylum) in which a relationship of domain between the doctor and the patient is established. These are exactly the topics that Foucault undertakes in his first popular works entitled "The History of Madness" (1961) and "The Birth of Clinic" (1963). From this research, Foucault realises that history is not the result of the conscious actions of men and that the actual field of historical research it is not made by what men have said or done, but instead by the epistemological structures that determine which is the subject and object of history. The various epochs are characterized by an "episteme" 1 that has been conceived as an implicit, unconscious and anonymous system of rules and potential considerations on such rules, which define the space of possibilities, within the different fields of knowledge of this era are established. Foucault comes to hold the fact that the transition from an episteme to another it is not a continuous process that is ruled by an internal logic of progressive improvement and development, so it is not properly explainable. The task of what Foucault defines "archaeology of knowledge" is the act to bring the episteme of every era to the light.
Rossella Vingelli , 2023
This dissertation examines the post-anthropocentric perspective of thinkers like Stefano Mancuso,... more This dissertation examines the post-anthropocentric perspective of thinkers like Stefano Mancuso, Emanuele Coccia and Stefano Boeri, who promote a new awareness of plants as active agents in urban environments. Mancuso shows that plants are autonomous living beings, challenging anthropocentrism. Coccia develops an ethics of plant life that recognises plants' intrinsic value beyond their usefulness to humans. He argues that plants independently perceive the world, rethinking human-nature relations toward ecology and sustainability. Boeri's urban planning highlights plants' ability to address the climate emergency in cities. He envisions green cities where plants improve quality of life, balancing humans life and the environment. The key insights are that plants should not be seen as decorative objects but as actors shaping urban spaces through their interactions. A post-anthropocentric awareness recognised plants' role in sustainable and harmonious cities, benefiting human and nonhuman inhabitants. This perspective could transform urban planning to integrate nature better and promote ecological well-being.
MSc. \ MA in Political Philosophy Royal Holloway, University of London
Tesi di laurea in Storia delle Dottrine Politiche Federico II, Università di Napoli
The imaginary struggle as the affirmation of the will to domain and power
Michel Foucault is one of the most important figures of the mid-'900 in the philosophy world, sin... more Michel Foucault is one of the most important figures of the mid-'900 in the philosophy world, since he has assumed a marked position concerning arguments like society, power and knowledge. The interests of Foucault mostly depend on epistemological nature: to find the historical conditions from which the illness and madness became a science matter, giving birth to the psychopathology and the clinic medicine, which are strictly connected to the construction of closed buildings (the clinic and the asylum) in which a relationship of domain between the doctor and the patient is established. These are exactly the topics that Foucault undertakes in his first popular works entitled "The History of Madness" (1961) and "The Birth of Clinic" (1963). From this research, Foucault realises that history is not the result of the conscious actions of men and that the actual field of historical research it is not made by what men have said or done, but instead by the epistemological structures that determine which is the subject and object of history. The various epochs are characterized by an "episteme" 1 that has been conceived as an implicit, unconscious and anonymous system of rules and potential considerations on such rules, which define the space of possibilities, within the different fields of knowledge of this era are established. Foucault comes to hold the fact that the transition from an episteme to another it is not a continuous process that is ruled by an internal logic of progressive improvement and development, so it is not properly explainable. The task of what Foucault defines "archaeology of knowledge" is the act to bring the episteme of every era to the light.