Felice Cimatti - Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

is Professor of Ethics and Bioethics at the University of Genoa and the University Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples. In Genoa she founded the Istituto Italiano di Bioetica, of which she is scientific director, and from 1999 is a member of the Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica. She is a co-founder and since 2017 director of the Festival di Bioetica. Her publications include Etica e diritti degli animali (1997); Alle origini delletica ambientale. Uomo, natura, animali in Voltaire, Michelet, Thoreau, Gandhi (2002); Bioetica senza dogmi (premio Le Due Culture 2010); Unetica per il mondo vivente. Questioni di bioetica medica, ambientale, animale (2011); Poterenegato. Approcci di genere al tema delle diseguaglianze (2014); and Uomo, Natura, Animali per una bioetica della complessit (2016).

was Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Salerno and has retired in 2018. She works on the crossing of aisthesis and politics. Her main topics of investigation are biopolitics, the economy of the governance, the productivity of power, and the crisis of democracy. She is on the editorial board of several political philosophical journals and is editor-in-chief of Soft Power: Euro-American Journal of Historical and Theoretical Studies of Politics and Law. Her recent publications include Il governo delle vite. Biopolitica ed economia (2006); Superbia (2008, latest edition 2018; translated into Spanish and Bulgarian 2015); Biopolitica, una mappa concettuale (2010; translated into Spanish 2016 and Portuguese 2017); Eroi della libert (2011); Politica. Rappresentazioni e tecniche di governo (2013); and Dispositivi e soggettivazioni (2014). Quite recently she has published in English the essays Economy as Logic of Government (Paragraph, 2016) and The Scene of Politics in an Atonal World: Hegemony, Contagion, Spectrality (Politica Comn 9, 2016).

is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of COSMOS (Centre on Social Movement Studies). His main research interests are political sociology and social movement studies. He recently published the monograph I movimenti animalisti in Italia. Strategie, politiche e pratiche di attivismo (2018). He also investigated other social movements, protests and forms of participation, and in particular the one against Expo 2015. His articles appeared in some international journals such as Modern Italy (The Contemporary Italian Animal Advocacy, 2018), Social Movement Studies (No Expo Network: A Failed Mobilization in a Post-political Frame, 2017), Interface (No Expo Network: Multiple Subjectivities, Online Communication Strategies, and the World Outside, 2017), Relations (Veganism: Lifestyle or Political Movement? Looking for Relations Beyond Antispeciesism, 2017), and Revista Crtica de Cincias Sociais (Urban Regimes and the Right to the City: An Analysis of No Expo Network and Its Protest Frames, 2017).

is Adjunct Professor of Ontology at the Polytechnic University of Turin and of Philosophy of Contemporary Art at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. His primary research is focused on animal philosophy, in the sense of a possible philosophy outside the human atmosphere. In this framework he has worked and is working on simplicity, the relation between form of life and space for life (philosophy of architecture), ontology and individuals versus ecology and relations, a new concept of posthuman and antispeciesism, and philosophy as a practice of life. His latest books include