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Research paper thumbnail of Mapmaking and Cartography as Philosophical Matters: An Introduction

JoLMA - The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 5 | 1 | 2024, 2024

In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with kn... more In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with knowledge specific to graphic or artistic disciplines. Since all maps are artifacts whose aesthetic qualities convey information that simultaneously engages the fields of ontology, epistemology, and politics, they are objects of undeniable interest for philosophical inquiry. This introduction to the 5th issue of the Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind, and the Arts reviews the latest literature and key topics surrounding the relationship between philosophy, cartography and mapmaking.

OPEN ACCESS: http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01

Research paper thumbnail of Why Joseph Margolis Has Never Been an Analytic Philosopher of Art

JoLMA - Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2022

In this paper, we support a continuistic reading of Joseph Margolis' philosophy, defending the cl... more In this paper, we support a continuistic reading of Joseph Margolis' philosophy, defending the claim that in the 1970s, Margolis tackled the issues suggested by the analytic philosophy of art from an original theoretical perspective and through conceptual tools exceeding the analytical framework. Later that perspective turned out to be a radically pragmatist one, in which explicitly tolerant realistic claims and non-reductive naturalism converged with radical historicism and contextualism. We will endorse this thesis by focusing on two important concepts appearing in Margolis' aesthetics essays from the late 1950s to the 1970s: the type-token pair and the notion of cultural emergence. On the one hand, we will emphasise Margolis' indebtedness to Peirce's first formulation of the type-token distinction, involving a strong interdependence between the two elements of the pair, as well as an anti-essentialistic, historicised, and contextualised notion of type. On the other hand, we will delve into Margolis' exploration of the concept of emergence and cultural emergence, involving a genuinely pluralistic view of ontology, as well as a non-reductive, continuistic form of naturalism. Finally, we will connect the criticism of the so-called closure of the physical world with Margolis' anti-autonomistic stance in defining artworks.

Research paper thumbnail of «Where Images Make Their Wonder: An Introduction», in The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, vol. 2, 1, 2021, pp. 7-20 (e-ISSN 2723-9640)

Research paper thumbnail of Vito A. in the Land of Whip. A Short Guide to Chiara Fumai’s "The Return of the Invisible Woman."

ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9), 2021

The essay is a chapter of ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9). The chapt... more The essay is a chapter of ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9).
The chapter provides an analysis of The Return of the Invisible Woman, a series of collages made by Italian artist Chiara Fumai in 2014. The ten sheets that constitute the series are presented as a hypertext where words and images reveal a feminist pantheon of contemporary muses. Through the study of the collages, it is explained how Fumai's post-performative art critically relates to Vito Acconci's performance practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Tra il foglio vuoto e lo schermo. Type e token alla prova dell’arte post-mediale

Taking and Denying Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy, 2020

What kind of entities are works of art from an ontological point of view? This question has becom... more What kind of entities are works of art from an ontological point of view? This question has become canonical in the framework of analytic philosophy. One way of answering the puzzle seemed to be conclusive. It is the hypothesis that all, or the majority of artworks can be identified with types embedded into tokens. To begin with, I will survey how the type-token distinction transitioned from semiotics to ontology. Secondly, I will consider how some contemporary art forms contributed to questioning this approach to the ontology of artworks. Lastly, I will suggest how the nature of types and tokens should be reassessed in order to properly describe artworks in their historical and socially construed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of Kenneth Goldsmith's Hillary

Vesper , 2020

At 10 am on 10 September 2019, Hillary Clinton made a visit to the iconic Teatro Italia in Venice... more At 10 am on 10 September 2019, Hillary Clinton made a visit to the iconic Teatro Italia in Venice. The balcony of this former early 20th-century movie theater, which has been converted into a supermarket in 2016, was temporarily serving as an exhibition space. Here, in conjunction with the Venice Biennale, American poet Kenneth Goldsmith printed out all 62,000 pages of Clinton's emails at the center of a violent political debate between 2015 and 2016. The duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, who curated Goldsmith's exhibition in Venice, operates on the press review generated by the event, transforming it into an automatic poem.

Research paper thumbnail of Chiara Fumai. Medium, Media, Medium

Testo e immagine. Un dialogo dall'antichità al contemporaneo Текст и образ. От античности к современности, 2019

Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been... more Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been shown at both the Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion and Documenta. In her practice, the performer often quoted feminist texts while playing the role of a woman possessed. I give an account of Fumai’s use of video, comparing it to Rosalind Krauss’s essay Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism. I explain the artist’s work as a dialectic overcoming of the analogy the critic institutes between the notion of art medium and the figure of the Medium. Highlighting that both Fumai and Krauss see Acconci’s early works as a benchmark, I illustrate how the two built an archeology of contemporary mediality.

Books by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Research paper thumbnail of The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind

JoLMA. The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 5 | 1 | 2024, 2024

In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with kn... more In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with knowledge specific to graphic or artistic disciplines. Since all maps are artifacts whose aesthetic qualities convey information that simultaneously engages the fields of ontology, epistemology, and politics, they are objects of undeniable interest for philosophical inquiry. Following what has been termed “the cartographic turn in social sciences”, 'The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind' delves into two intertwining issues. On one side, it examines how the aesthetic properties of maps convey cognitive, cultural, and political meanings. On the other, it explores the role of visual arts in reflecting on cartographic thought, shaping both its methods and motivations. The volume is divided into four sections. Embracing the point of view of both the philosopher and the geographer, the first one sheds light on the relationship between epistemology and cartography (Kukla; Costantini; Tanney). The second addresses mapmaking as an art form (Tanca; Haugdal) or, conversely, considers maps from the perspective of their aesthetic properties (Török; Ogundiwin; Elhaik). The third focuses on the digital condition of today’s cartography (Tschochohei; Quaranta; Keller). Finally, the last section includes two contributions that represent attempts to guide cartography toward its future (Bosca; Ianniello). Opening this issue, a special essay by Elizabeth Povinelli offers a generous précis of her upcoming book.

OPEN ACCESS: http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01

Research paper thumbnail of Jonas Mekas. Images Are Real. ISBN: 978-88-99776-38-1

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (ed.), Jonas Mekas. Images Are Real, Rome: Cura Books, 2023

Jonas Mekas, Images Are Real was published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition curated b... more Jonas Mekas, Images Are Real was published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and realized at Mattatoio di Roma from November 7, 2022, to February 26, 2023.
The book collects sixty years of activity of Jonas Mekas (Biržai 1922 – New York 2019) within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema. Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, the book aims to read the Lithuanian filmmaker’s work as a Dantean journey from the hell of History to happiness through an everyday film exercise.
In addition to an essay by the curators of the exhibition, the volume includes contributions by poet Hollis Melton and film historian P. Adams Sitney, who have followed the Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker throughout his life in the United States, and timely essays by Ieva Jasinskaite and Philipp Scheid, representatives of a new breed of researchers capable of interpreting Mekas's work according to contemporary perspectives.

Research paper thumbnail of LIAF 2022 Fantasmagoriana. Lofoten International Art Festival

LIAF 2022. Fantasmagoriana, 2022

This book is the catalogue of the XVII edition of the Lofoten International Art Festival, the lon... more This book is the catalogue of the XVII edition of the Lofoten International Art Festival, the longest-running biennial in Scandinavia. Entitled Fantasmagoriana, the exhibition took place at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Svolvaer and at five sites in Kabelvåg, above the Arctic Circle, in 2022. The volume describes the works exhibited by the thirty-seven artists participating in the festival, as well as the research background, residency programs, and preview projects in Venice and Oslo that preceded the inauguration of the biennial. Texts by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Marianne Hultman, Helga-Marie Nordby are included in the catalogue, together with a short novel by Kurt Schwitters which was translated into English and Norwegian for the first time on this occasion.

Participating artists: Nora Al-Badri, Bassam Al-Sabah, Marianne Berenhaut, Alessandra Cianchetta, Kirstine Colban Aas, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tomaso De Luca, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Cheryl Donegan, Kaare Espolin Johnson, Gaia Fugazza, Aage Gaup, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shadi Habib Allah, Auriea Harvey, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Tomáš Kajánek, Lars Laumann, Sonia Leimer, Olof Marsja, Mary Haugen, Jonas Mekas, Haroon Mirza, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Eivind H. Natvig, New Mineral Collective, Thebe Phetogo, Christine Rebet, Sille Storihle, Tine Surel Lange, Emma Talbot, Tsai Ming-liang, Stan VanDerBeek, Rimaldas Vikšraitis, Elina Waage Mikalsen, Jennifer West.

Research paper thumbnail of FUORI!!! 1971 - 1974

FUORI!!! 1971 - 1974, 2021

With a powerful exclamation and a comic bomb on the cover, FUORI!!! is a book that makes accessib... more With a powerful exclamation and a comic bomb on the cover, FUORI!!! is a book that makes accessible for the first time after 50 years the pages of FUORI!, the legendary magazine published by the Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (United Front of Italian Revolutionary Homosexuals). It is edited by Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi for NERO Editions. Adding two exclamation marks to the original title, FUORI!!! brings FUORI! back to the present day, putting the reader in front of a historic transition whose importance is often underestimated. If the freedom of sexual expression is an increasingly accepted and shared value in Italy today, we owe it to the group of women and men who 50 years ago – starting from Turin and then throughout the country – have courageously undertaken a struggle for liberation, clashing with the violence, obtuseness and conformism of an entire society. FUORI!!! consists in the faithful reprinting of the first thirteen issues of the magazine. The book thus documents a glorious moment in the struggle for civil rights: the one that goes from 1971 to 1974. This new editorial project therefore proceeds from issue 0, distributed almost like a punk fanzine in the cruising places of the time, to FUORI! DONNA, the thirteenth issue and the first to be produced by women only. The book contains photostatic reproductions of the original papers and collects them in a single, gigantic almanac. Accompanying the book is a critical introduction signed by the project’s editors Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and a long interview with the founder of FUORI!, Angelo Pezzana. FUORI!!! avails itself of the scientific collaboration of Fondazione Sandro Penna / Fuori!

Research paper thumbnail of Image/Images: A Debate Between Philosophy and Visual Studies, JOLMA special issue, vol.2, 1, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2021 (e-ISSN 2723-9640)

Research paper thumbnail of CHIARA FUMAI: LESS LIGHT (ISBN 978-1-7320876-2-0)

CHIARA FUMAI: LESS LIGHT, 2019

Catalogue of the exhibition "Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT" curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and Ka... more Catalogue of the exhibition "Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT" curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and Kari Conte at ISCP- International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York). February 12–May 17, 2019.

Drafts by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Research paper thumbnail of Chiara Fumai Reads Rosalind Krauss: May the spectator who wants to witness a miracle please step forward

Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai 2007-2017, 2021

Last draft before publication. The essay is included in "Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai... more Last draft before publication. The essay is included in "Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai 2007-2017", the first monograph dedicated to the work of the Italian feminist artist Chiara Fumai.
ISBN: 978-88-8056-120-0

Talks by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Research paper thumbnail of "Ritorno all'estetico" - Ciclo di seminari - CLAVeS

CLAVeS (Seminario Veneziano di Cognizione, Linguaggio, Azione e Sensibilità) è un centro di ricer... more CLAVeS (Seminario Veneziano di Cognizione, Linguaggio, Azione e Sensibilità) è un centro di ricerca dipartimentale aperto a docenti, ricercatori, dottorandi, studenti di Ca' Foscari per fare ricerca sui rapporti tra linguaggio, pensiero, azione e affettività. Il centro promuove attività di formazione e offre supporto scientifico alla didattica nel campo della filosofia del linguaggio, della mente, dell'emozione e le loro applicazioni interdisciplinari.

Research paper thumbnail of Mapmaking and Cartography as Philosophical Matters: An Introduction

JoLMA - The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 5 | 1 | 2024, 2024

In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with kn... more In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with knowledge specific to graphic or artistic disciplines. Since all maps are artifacts whose aesthetic qualities convey information that simultaneously engages the fields of ontology, epistemology, and politics, they are objects of undeniable interest for philosophical inquiry. This introduction to the 5th issue of the Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind, and the Arts reviews the latest literature and key topics surrounding the relationship between philosophy, cartography and mapmaking.

OPEN ACCESS: http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01

Research paper thumbnail of Why Joseph Margolis Has Never Been an Analytic Philosopher of Art

JoLMA - Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 2022

In this paper, we support a continuistic reading of Joseph Margolis' philosophy, defending the cl... more In this paper, we support a continuistic reading of Joseph Margolis' philosophy, defending the claim that in the 1970s, Margolis tackled the issues suggested by the analytic philosophy of art from an original theoretical perspective and through conceptual tools exceeding the analytical framework. Later that perspective turned out to be a radically pragmatist one, in which explicitly tolerant realistic claims and non-reductive naturalism converged with radical historicism and contextualism. We will endorse this thesis by focusing on two important concepts appearing in Margolis' aesthetics essays from the late 1950s to the 1970s: the type-token pair and the notion of cultural emergence. On the one hand, we will emphasise Margolis' indebtedness to Peirce's first formulation of the type-token distinction, involving a strong interdependence between the two elements of the pair, as well as an anti-essentialistic, historicised, and contextualised notion of type. On the other hand, we will delve into Margolis' exploration of the concept of emergence and cultural emergence, involving a genuinely pluralistic view of ontology, as well as a non-reductive, continuistic form of naturalism. Finally, we will connect the criticism of the so-called closure of the physical world with Margolis' anti-autonomistic stance in defining artworks.

Research paper thumbnail of «Where Images Make Their Wonder: An Introduction», in The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, vol. 2, 1, 2021, pp. 7-20 (e-ISSN 2723-9640)

Research paper thumbnail of Vito A. in the Land of Whip. A Short Guide to Chiara Fumai’s "The Return of the Invisible Woman."

ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9), 2021

The essay is a chapter of ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9). The chapt... more The essay is a chapter of ON FIGURE/S. DRAWING AFTER BELLMER (ISBN 978-1-910055-77-9).
The chapter provides an analysis of The Return of the Invisible Woman, a series of collages made by Italian artist Chiara Fumai in 2014. The ten sheets that constitute the series are presented as a hypertext where words and images reveal a feminist pantheon of contemporary muses. Through the study of the collages, it is explained how Fumai's post-performative art critically relates to Vito Acconci's performance practice.

Research paper thumbnail of Tra il foglio vuoto e lo schermo. Type e token alla prova dell’arte post-mediale

Taking and Denying Challenging Canons in Arts and Philosophy, 2020

What kind of entities are works of art from an ontological point of view? This question has becom... more What kind of entities are works of art from an ontological point of view? This question has become canonical in the framework of analytic philosophy. One way of answering the puzzle seemed to be conclusive. It is the hypothesis that all, or the majority of artworks can be identified with types embedded into tokens. To begin with, I will survey how the type-token distinction transitioned from semiotics to ontology. Secondly, I will consider how some contemporary art forms contributed to questioning this approach to the ontology of artworks. Lastly, I will suggest how the nature of types and tokens should be reassessed in order to properly describe artworks in their historical and socially construed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of Kenneth Goldsmith's Hillary

Vesper , 2020

At 10 am on 10 September 2019, Hillary Clinton made a visit to the iconic Teatro Italia in Venice... more At 10 am on 10 September 2019, Hillary Clinton made a visit to the iconic Teatro Italia in Venice. The balcony of this former early 20th-century movie theater, which has been converted into a supermarket in 2016, was temporarily serving as an exhibition space. Here, in conjunction with the Venice Biennale, American poet Kenneth Goldsmith printed out all 62,000 pages of Clinton's emails at the center of a violent political debate between 2015 and 2016. The duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, who curated Goldsmith's exhibition in Venice, operates on the press review generated by the event, transforming it into an automatic poem.

Research paper thumbnail of Chiara Fumai. Medium, Media, Medium

Testo e immagine. Un dialogo dall'antichità al contemporaneo Текст и образ. От античности к современности, 2019

Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been... more Chiara Fumai was one of the most relevant Italian artists of her generation, her work having been shown at both the Venice Biennale’s Italian Pavilion and Documenta. In her practice, the performer often quoted feminist texts while playing the role of a woman possessed. I give an account of Fumai’s use of video, comparing it to Rosalind Krauss’s essay Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism. I explain the artist’s work as a dialectic overcoming of the analogy the critic institutes between the notion of art medium and the figure of the Medium. Highlighting that both Fumai and Krauss see Acconci’s early works as a benchmark, I illustrate how the two built an archeology of contemporary mediality.

Research paper thumbnail of The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind

JoLMA. The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts, 5 | 1 | 2024, 2024

In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with kn... more In the creation of maps, scientific knowledge related to mathematics and physics combines with knowledge specific to graphic or artistic disciplines. Since all maps are artifacts whose aesthetic qualities convey information that simultaneously engages the fields of ontology, epistemology, and politics, they are objects of undeniable interest for philosophical inquiry. Following what has been termed “the cartographic turn in social sciences”, 'The Art of Mapping Between Land and Mind' delves into two intertwining issues. On one side, it examines how the aesthetic properties of maps convey cognitive, cultural, and political meanings. On the other, it explores the role of visual arts in reflecting on cartographic thought, shaping both its methods and motivations. The volume is divided into four sections. Embracing the point of view of both the philosopher and the geographer, the first one sheds light on the relationship between epistemology and cartography (Kukla; Costantini; Tanney). The second addresses mapmaking as an art form (Tanca; Haugdal) or, conversely, considers maps from the perspective of their aesthetic properties (Török; Ogundiwin; Elhaik). The third focuses on the digital condition of today’s cartography (Tschochohei; Quaranta; Keller). Finally, the last section includes two contributions that represent attempts to guide cartography toward its future (Bosca; Ianniello). Opening this issue, a special essay by Elizabeth Povinelli offers a generous précis of her upcoming book.

OPEN ACCESS: http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2024/01

Research paper thumbnail of Jonas Mekas. Images Are Real. ISBN: 978-88-99776-38-1

Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (ed.), Jonas Mekas. Images Are Real, Rome: Cura Books, 2023

Jonas Mekas, Images Are Real was published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition curated b... more Jonas Mekas, Images Are Real was published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and realized at Mattatoio di Roma from November 7, 2022, to February 26, 2023.
The book collects sixty years of activity of Jonas Mekas (Biržai 1922 – New York 2019) within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema. Through a wide selection of works from the 1960s to the late 2010s, the book aims to read the Lithuanian filmmaker’s work as a Dantean journey from the hell of History to happiness through an everyday film exercise.
In addition to an essay by the curators of the exhibition, the volume includes contributions by poet Hollis Melton and film historian P. Adams Sitney, who have followed the Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker throughout his life in the United States, and timely essays by Ieva Jasinskaite and Philipp Scheid, representatives of a new breed of researchers capable of interpreting Mekas's work according to contemporary perspectives.

Research paper thumbnail of LIAF 2022 Fantasmagoriana. Lofoten International Art Festival

LIAF 2022. Fantasmagoriana, 2022

This book is the catalogue of the XVII edition of the Lofoten International Art Festival, the lon... more This book is the catalogue of the XVII edition of the Lofoten International Art Festival, the longest-running biennial in Scandinavia. Entitled Fantasmagoriana, the exhibition took place at the North Norwegian Art Centre in Svolvaer and at five sites in Kabelvåg, above the Arctic Circle, in 2022. The volume describes the works exhibited by the thirty-seven artists participating in the festival, as well as the research background, residency programs, and preview projects in Venice and Oslo that preceded the inauguration of the biennial. Texts by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Marianne Hultman, Helga-Marie Nordby are included in the catalogue, together with a short novel by Kurt Schwitters which was translated into English and Norwegian for the first time on this occasion.

Participating artists: Nora Al-Badri, Bassam Al-Sabah, Marianne Berenhaut, Alessandra Cianchetta, Kirstine Colban Aas, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Tomaso De Luca, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Cheryl Donegan, Kaare Espolin Johnson, Gaia Fugazza, Aage Gaup, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shadi Habib Allah, Auriea Harvey, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Tomáš Kajánek, Lars Laumann, Sonia Leimer, Olof Marsja, Mary Haugen, Jonas Mekas, Haroon Mirza, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Eivind H. Natvig, New Mineral Collective, Thebe Phetogo, Christine Rebet, Sille Storihle, Tine Surel Lange, Emma Talbot, Tsai Ming-liang, Stan VanDerBeek, Rimaldas Vikšraitis, Elina Waage Mikalsen, Jennifer West.

Research paper thumbnail of FUORI!!! 1971 - 1974

FUORI!!! 1971 - 1974, 2021

With a powerful exclamation and a comic bomb on the cover, FUORI!!! is a book that makes accessib... more With a powerful exclamation and a comic bomb on the cover, FUORI!!! is a book that makes accessible for the first time after 50 years the pages of FUORI!, the legendary magazine published by the Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (United Front of Italian Revolutionary Homosexuals). It is edited by Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi for NERO Editions. Adding two exclamation marks to the original title, FUORI!!! brings FUORI! back to the present day, putting the reader in front of a historic transition whose importance is often underestimated. If the freedom of sexual expression is an increasingly accepted and shared value in Italy today, we owe it to the group of women and men who 50 years ago – starting from Turin and then throughout the country – have courageously undertaken a struggle for liberation, clashing with the violence, obtuseness and conformism of an entire society. FUORI!!! consists in the faithful reprinting of the first thirteen issues of the magazine. The book thus documents a glorious moment in the struggle for civil rights: the one that goes from 1971 to 1974. This new editorial project therefore proceeds from issue 0, distributed almost like a punk fanzine in the cruising places of the time, to FUORI! DONNA, the thirteenth issue and the first to be produced by women only. The book contains photostatic reproductions of the original papers and collects them in a single, gigantic almanac. Accompanying the book is a critical introduction signed by the project’s editors Carlo Antonelli and Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, and a long interview with the founder of FUORI!, Angelo Pezzana. FUORI!!! avails itself of the scientific collaboration of Fondazione Sandro Penna / Fuori!

Research paper thumbnail of Image/Images: A Debate Between Philosophy and Visual Studies, JOLMA special issue, vol.2, 1, Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2021 (e-ISSN 2723-9640)

Research paper thumbnail of CHIARA FUMAI: LESS LIGHT (ISBN 978-1-7320876-2-0)

CHIARA FUMAI: LESS LIGHT, 2019

Catalogue of the exhibition "Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT" curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and Ka... more Catalogue of the exhibition "Chiara Fumai: LESS LIGHT" curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi and Kari Conte at ISCP- International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York). February 12–May 17, 2019.

Research paper thumbnail of Chiara Fumai Reads Rosalind Krauss: May the spectator who wants to witness a miracle please step forward

Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai 2007-2017, 2021

Last draft before publication. The essay is included in "Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai... more Last draft before publication. The essay is included in "Poems I Will Never Release. Chiara Fumai 2007-2017", the first monograph dedicated to the work of the Italian feminist artist Chiara Fumai.
ISBN: 978-88-8056-120-0

Research paper thumbnail of "Ritorno all'estetico" - Ciclo di seminari - CLAVeS

CLAVeS (Seminario Veneziano di Cognizione, Linguaggio, Azione e Sensibilità) è un centro di ricer... more CLAVeS (Seminario Veneziano di Cognizione, Linguaggio, Azione e Sensibilità) è un centro di ricerca dipartimentale aperto a docenti, ricercatori, dottorandi, studenti di Ca' Foscari per fare ricerca sui rapporti tra linguaggio, pensiero, azione e affettività. Il centro promuove attività di formazione e offre supporto scientifico alla didattica nel campo della filosofia del linguaggio, della mente, dell'emozione e le loro applicazioni interdisciplinari.