Giovanbattista Tusa
Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist. He has collaborated as a guest lecturer, academic advisor and scientific consultant for the development of educational, research and art projects with the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual (IDSVA), Maumaus School of Arts in Lisbon, Villa Vassilief, Centre for Art and Research in Paris, École nationale d'art (ENDA) in Paris, Biennale, National University of Singapore and many other international institutions and schools. In 2014-2016, he coordinated and designed scholarly and research activities for the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) in Athens, Paris, Madrid, Slovenia, and New York, including seminars with Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, and Luce Irigaray. During these years, he co-taught the Deconstruction series with Jean-Luc Nancy. He currently works at the Nova Institute of Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the X-Centric Futures research programme X-Centric Futures.
His recent texts focus on philosophy and environmental crisis and include His most recent publications include Terra Cosmica: Traces of Georealism (2024), Ciò che rimane del futuro. Il tempo della decostruzione (What remains of the future: the time of deconstruction, 2024), Quasi Niente: il tempo cosmico di Claude Debussy (Almost Nothing: Claude Debussy's cosmic time) and De la Fin, co-authored with Alain Badiou, was published in France in 2017 and subsequently translated into English (The End, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2019), Portuguese (Do Fim, Cultura e Barbárie, Florianopolis, 2020), and Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limon, Buenos Aires, 2019). He is co-editor of Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023), Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022). He is currently editing, with Michael Marder, Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2023).
Giovanbattista Tusa has also worked as an editor and translator for the Italian editions of L’equivalence des catastrophes and Exclu le juif en nous by Jean Luc-Nancy, Á la recherche du réel perdu, by Alain Badiou, Be my body for me. Domination and Servitude in Hegel by Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European, and the French edition of Les mots et les choses by Roberto Esposito.
Giovanbattista Tusa has been a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore, the Federal University of Amazonas, the Ryukoku University of Kyoto, and the Energy Humanities research group at The Spanish National Research Council in Madrid, among others.
He is the director of the Futures. Of Philosophy Series at Planetary Conversations. He is currently editor-in-chief, with Michael Marder, of the series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy at Bloomsbury. He is also the coordinator of the political ecology, postcolonial and indigenous studies seminar ECOPRAXIS, in collaboration with the Zé Dos Bois Gallery in Lisbon.
