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Publication «Lay it into the open wounds». Art at war in Maria Kulikovska's performative sculpture(Firenze University Press, 2023)The paper addresses the work of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, who resorts to military equipment as artistic materials and to destruction as an artistic method. In the first section, I contextualize Kulikovska's performative sculpture within art history, claiming that it can be regarded as Destruction Art. In the second section, I turn to Catherine Malabou's concept of "destructive plasticity" as a philosophical tool of an aesthetics of war, which offers a sound theoretical framework to further understand the implications of Kulikovska's artistic activity. In the third section, I focus on the main material adopted by Kulikovska, ballistic soap, showing how the artist materially deconstructs inherited dichotomies that keep informing our understanding of wars. By considering the artistic practice of a feminist artist (M. Kulikovska) through the lens of feminist scholarship (K. Stiles, C. Malabou, J. Butler), the paper investigates the relations between war and the arts from a situated perspective.Type:Journal:Issue: - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Parasites at Work. An Essay in the Aesthetics of Glitch Art(2023)The paper considers the field of glitch art and aims to analyze it historically and theoretically. In the first section, the glitch is addressed in its general features, i.e., as a minor malfunction that calls into question the ordinary functioning of both technical and socio-political machines. Then (section 2), I sketch a history of the ways in which the glitch has circulated across different artistic media and genres. The third section draws attention to an often-overlooked aspect of glitching dynamics, i.e., the fact that the glitch differs logically and practically from the bug that generates it. While these three sections are also intended as a critical survey on the existing literature, the fourth section aims to outline an original proposal for an aesthetics of glitch art. Such account unfolds as an aesthetics of parasitism, where the bug plays the role of the parasite (the material and yet invisible element that perturbs the artwork's digital code) and the glitch plays the role of the symptom (the artwork's hyper-visible, disturbing phenomenal appearance).Type:Journal:Issue: - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication The art of the inexhaustible. Aesthetics and hermeneutics in Luigi Pareyson(2024)Piedmontese philosopher Luigi Pareyson played a major role in the Italian context of the twentieth century, developing a highly original philosophical perspective. The present paper focuses on his aesthetics, his hermeneutics, and the relationship between the two. After a first introductory section on Pareyson's life and on the different stages of his philosophical reflection, the article turns to Pareyson's aesthetic theory of formativity, with a focus on the aspects that most clearly enucleate its hermeneutic bases. The third section examines Pareyson's explicit contribution to hermeneutics, by drawing attention to the fact that art best exemplifies the dynamics that are at work in any act of interpretation. The fourth section takes into account the concept of "persona" as a trait d'union that runs through Pareyson's whole philosophy, shedding further light on the interpretative process as it involves both artworks and truth. Ultimately, the paper aims to show how in Pareyson's thought the hermeneutics, although outlined more than fifteen years after the aesthetics, logically precedes and underpins it. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Formatività e performatività. Sull’attualità dell’estetica di Luigi Pareyson(Ugo Mursia Editore, 2022)Formativity and performativity are notions arisen and developed within very different philosophical contexts; however, when it comes to investigate artistic phenomena the two concepts can profitably be related to one another. In this paper, I aim to bring together Luigi Pareyson’s aesthetics of formativity and the aesthetics of performativity outlined by Erika Fischer-Lichte. Not only do I intend to stress the relevance of formativity in relation to the most recent philosophical debates; I also claim that Pareyson’s aesthetic theses, when regarded in the light of their sources and legacy, can lead us to very important and radical conceptual solutions. In particular, formativity allows us to conceive of poietic artistic productions in a performative fashion, thus broadening the aesthetics of performativity as a whole. After an introductory section on the notions of formativity and performativity (§2), the paper considers some classic themes in modern aesthetics and discusses them from this twofold point of view. Tackled topics range from artistic production (§3) to the artwork’s activity (§4) and to artistic reception (§5). The combination of formativity and performativity ultimately leads to a non-representative, non-fictional account of art (§6). The artwork is no longer regarded as an object but rather as an event, whose materiality, far from being disavowed, is intended as a never-ending performance of morphogenesis.
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Publication Barnes & Noble: Turning the Page to Compete in a Digital Book Market(The Case Centre, 2020)This short case covers the recent strategic developments of Barnes & Noble, the largest US book chain, and puts them in the context of its peers worldwide (in the UK, Canada, Germany and France). The perspective of the case is the one of James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble since August 2019. Readers are put in his shoes and are asked to analyze Barnes & Noble's response strategy to an increasingly digital book market. This short case is intended to serve as part of a course session on digitalization strategies or strategic change responding to macro trends. The case can support a full 45-minute class session, or can be integrated into a 90-minute session that also includes theory input by the lecturer. The case questions are open-ended but intended to introduce frameworks to assess strategic change and response strategies to exogenous shocks. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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