Giovanbattista Tusa
Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist. He collaborated as Visiting Faculty, Academic Consultant and scientific advisor for the development of education, research, or artistic 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 of Paris, National University of Singapore, and many other international institutions and schools. In the years 2014-2016, he coordinated and designed scientific and research activities for The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) in Athens Paris, Madrid, Slovenia, and New York, including past seminars with Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, and Luce Irigaray. During those years he co-taught the Deconstruction Series with Jean-Luc Nancy.
His most recent texts are focused on Philosophy and Environmental Crisis and include, among others, "Vertigos. Climates of Philosophy", "De-limitations. Of Other Earths", and "Anarkhía. The Return of the Air" (Forthcoming).
His latest work, De la Fin, co-authored with Alain Badiou, has been published in France in 2017 and then translated with new original essays in English (The End, Polity Press, Cambridge 2019), Portuguese (Do Fim, Cultura e Barbárie, Florianopolis 2020), and Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limon Ediciones, Buenos Aires 2019). He coedited 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 edition 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, as well as the French edition of Les mots et les choses by Roberto Esposito.
He is the director of the Futures. Of Philosophy Series at Planetary Conversations.
