Giovanbattista Tusa (9A17-3415-C66A)

Curriculum Vitae

Giovanbattista Tusa

Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based at the Nova Institute of Philosophy of the Universidade Nova of Lisbon in Portugal, where he coordinates the research program X-CENTRIC FUTURES. 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, UK), Portuguese (Do Fim, Cultura e Barbárie, Brazil), and Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limon Ediciones, Argentina). He recently co-edited Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022), Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023), and Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2024). He is the director of Planetary Conversations, in collaboration with The Philosophical Salon (https://www.planetaryconversations.com). He worked as an editor and translator from French and English 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, and Edward Said's Freud and the Non-European. His current multidisciplinary research focuses on radical politics, cinema, ecocriticism, ontological realism, and animal studies. He is an integrated member of the research groups "Practices of Philosophy and Forms of Life" and the "Lisbon Nietzsche Group" in the Culture and Value Laboratory (CultureLab), as well as an integrated member of the "Thinking Documentary Film working group" in the CineLab at the IFILNOVA Institute of Philosophy. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Continental Philosophy; Political philosophy; German Idealism; History of Philosophy; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Cinema; Ecological Thought, Critical Theory; Contemporary Arts.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Giovanbattista Tusa
Date of birth: 1979/10/06
Gender: Male

Citation names

Tusa, Giovanbattista
Tusa, Giovanni
Tusa, G.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9A17-3415-C66A
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8370-5580
Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=5ybHU90AAAAJ
Researcher Id: B-1776-2018
Scopus Author Id: 57219514569

Email addresses

giovannitusa@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Avenida de Berna 26 C, 1069-061, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.amazon.com/Giovanbattista-Tusa/e/B07GGY5KGV%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share (Scholar)
https://www.ifilnova.pt/en/pages/giovanbattista-tusa (Professional)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ybHU90AAAAJ&hl=fr (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Humanities - Arts
Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Literary Theory
Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Humanities - Other Humanities
Humanities - Arts
Humanities - Arts
Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Media and Socio-cultural Communication

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Italian (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011 Concluded	PhD in Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) Università degli Studi di Palermo Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Italy "Derrida, Pensare l'à-venir (Derrida, Thinking the to-come)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007 Concluded	Master of Arts in Interactive Media: Critical theory and practice (Master) Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom "Critical Spaces: sound and new media" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Pass with Distinction
2006 Concluded	Postgraduate Diploma In Contemporary Arts Theory (Postgraduate Certificate) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain "On Kawara" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004 Concluded	Laurea in Lettere Moderne (Laurea Magistrale) Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy ""Presque Rien" Il tempo e la morte nella musica di Claude Debussy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	110/110 Cum Laude

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/02/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2019/01/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15	Visiting Researcher (Research)	National University of Singapore Department of English Language and Literature, Singapore
	National University of Singapore, Singapore
2017/05/01 - 2018/02/01	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Scuola Normale Superiore Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Italy
	Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
2015/09/10 - 2016/05/20	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Biennale de Paris, France

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2016/06/01 - 2018/11/01	Visiting Professor (University Teacher)	Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
	Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2014/09/01 - 2016/12/31	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland

2016/09/29 - 2016/11/30	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Alma Mater Europaea Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis Fakulteta za podiplomski humanisticni študij, Slovenia

2016/01/01 - 2016/06/01	Lecturer (University Teacher)	The Paris College of Arts, France

2015/09/10 - 2016/05/20	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Ecole nationale d’art (ENDA), France

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021 - 2025	COST ACTION Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (TRACTS) CA20134 Researcher The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium	Horizon 2020 The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Ongoing
2022/01/13 - 2024/01/12	Philosophy and Documentary Film. Mediating Reality. EXPL/FER-FIL/0045/2021 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2022 - 2023	On Abstraction (curatorial research) https://onabstraction.com/ - project supported by the Ministry of Culture /Dgartes. International project. ON ABSTRACTION Invited Scientist Fellow	Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes Concluded
2017 - 2021	Nietzsche, o niilismo e o valor da arte? - Fragmentos (NVDA) PTDC/FER-FIL/30172/2017 Researcher Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Nova Institute of Philosophy UID/FIL/00183/2019 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Tusa, Giovanbattista; Marder, Michael. Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press. 2024. Published • Editor Tusa, Giovanbattista. Quasi Niente. Il tempo cosmico di Claude Debussy. Palermo, Italy: Il Palindromo. 2024. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista; Badiou, Alain. Dalla Fine. Milan, Italy: Mimesis. 2024. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. Dispositif. A Cartography. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press. 2023. Published • Editor Tusa, Giovanbattista; Badiou, Alain. De la fin. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Édition Mimesis. 2023. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. PPPP: Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher. Mimesis International. 2022. Published • Editor Tusa, Giovanbattista; RYAN, BARTHOLOMEW; Cardiello, Antonio. Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. London, United Kingdom: Rowman and Littlefield International. 2021. Published • Editor Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou. Do fim. Florianopolis, Brazil: Cultura e Barbarie. 2020. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou. The End. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press. 2019. Published Badiou, Alain; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Acerca del fin. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Tinta Limon. 2019. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista; Alain Badiou. De la fin. Conversations. Paris, France: Editions Mimesis. 2017. Published
Book chapter	Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Nietzsche e a filosofia contemporânea". In Introdução a Nietzsche, edited by Gori, Pietro, 191-213. Lisbon, Portugal: IFILNOVA Edições, 2024. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Anarkhía. The Return of Air". In Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Michael Marder; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Boston, United States: MIT Press, 2024. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Défaillance: Of Philosophy". In Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Michael Marder; Tusa, Giovanbattista, 337-344. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT Press, 2024. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Deep Life. Reimagining our Fossil Modernity". In Stone Alive. A Cultural Interpretation Of Stone, edited by Marta Jecu. Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect Books, 2024. Under revision Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Mystical Matter". In Under the Ground: Imaginaries for the Subterranean Worlds, edited by Hugo de Almeida Pinto. Berlin, Germany: Archive Books, 2024. In press Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Terrafictions". In Parafictions, Vol. 2, edited by Salomé Lamas. Milan, Italy: Mousse Publishing, 2024. Accepted Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'Goodbye Athens'. La Grecia de Jacques Derrida". In Jacques Derrida, 1967-2017: un tiempo sin vejez. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Ediciones, 2023. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Cartographies of disorientation". In Dispositif. A Cartography, edited by Tusa, Giovanbattista; Greg Bird, 487-502. Cambridge, MA, United States: MIT PRESS, 2023. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "A razão canibal. O tempo de Pier Paolo Pasolini". In Pier Paolo Pasolini 100 Anos, edited by Rita Marnoto; Ana Beatriz Andrade, 33-43. Universidade de Coimbra, 2023. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "L'insoutanable. Pour en finir avec les fins du monde". In De la fin. Nouvelle édition augmentée, 7-24. Éditions Mimesis, 2023. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "The Pasolinian Century". In PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher, edited by Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. Mimesis International, 2022. Published Giovanbattista Tusa. "The Pessoa Event". In Notes on Philosophy and Poetry, edited by Bartholomew Ryan; Giovanbattista Tusa; Antonio Cardiello, 311-323. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'Do fim dos fins. A raiz errante'". In Do Fim. Florianopolis, Brazil: Cultura e Barbarie, 2020. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "'As an Object...'". In Parting with the Bonus of Youth. MAUMAUS as Object, edited by Simon Thompson; Jürgen Bock, 80-83. Lisbon, Portugal: Maumaus / Lumiar Cité, 2020. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Fondazioni. Freud, Said, e il non europeo". In Freud e il non europeo, 65-104. Milano, Italy: Meltemi Editore, 2018. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. "Grammatéion und Black Box". In Visualität und Abstraktion. Eine Aktualisierung des Figur-Grund-Verhältnisses, 30-45. Hamburg, Germany: Materialverlag HFBK, 2017. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Bordeland. Europe at the limit". In UNLIMIT. Rethinking the Boundaries Between Philosophy, Aesthetics and Arts, edited by Greg Bird; Dario Giugliano. Milano, Italy: Mimesis International, 2017. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Techné e senso". In Natura della tecnica e tecnica della natura, edited by Rosaria Caldarone. Brescia, Italy: Morcelliana, 2015. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "La questione ultima: il tema del sacrificio tra Derrida e Nancy". edited by Perone. Ugo, 121-126. Turin, Italy: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2012.
Dictionary entry	Tusa, Giovanbattista; Raluca Bejan. "In the land of blood and honey". In The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films, edited by Salvador Jimenez Murguia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. Published
Edited book	Jean-Luc Nancy. Escluso l'ebreo in noi. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2019. Published Edward W. Said; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Freud e il non-europeo. Italy: Meltemi Editore. 2018. Published • Editor Roberto Esposito. Les personnes et les choses. Paris, France: Editions Mimesis. 2018. Published • Editor Judith Butler; Catherine Malabou. Che tu sia il mio corpo. Per una lettura contemporanea della servitù e della signoria in Hegel . Milano, Italy: Meltemi. 2017. Published • Editor Jean-Luc Nancy. L'equivalenza delle catastrofi. Dopo Fukushima. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2016. Published • Editor Alain Badiou. Alla ricerca del reale perduto. Milano, Italy: Mimesis. 2016. Published • Editor
Journal article	Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Ecocosmism: Finitude Unbound". Philosophies 9 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9010027. Open access • Published • 10.3390/philosophies9010027 Giovanbattista Tusa. "Astral Bodies. Elements of Georealism". Itinera 25 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2039-9251/20822. 10.54103/2039-9251/20822 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Somatocene. Noi corpi del mondo". Post-filosofie. Rivista di pratica filosofica e scienze umane 15 (2023): 214-224. https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/postfil/article/view/1834. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.15162/1827-5133/1834 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Georealismo : contingências da filosofia". Azimuth : philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age 1 21 (2023): 19-33. https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5614208?digital=true. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Vertigos. Climates of Philosophy". Philosophies (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/7/1/7. 10.3390/philosophies7010007 Marder, Michael; Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Heidegger Tonight: A Philosophical Dialogue". Diacritics 50 2 (2022): 26-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2022.a900899. 10.1353/dia.2022.a900899 Marder, M.; Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Heidegger Tonight: A Philosophical Dialogue". Diacritics 50 2 (2022): 26-37. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85165128721&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Tusa, Giovanbattista. "De-limitations. Of other Earths". Stasis. An International Journal in Social and Political Philosophy and Theory 9 1 (2020): 166-183. http://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/166. Open access • Published • 10.33280/2310-3817-2020-9-1-166-183 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Politica e finitudine. Note per un ecologia delle verità". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 1 20 (2020): 205-2022. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14648/97313. Published • 10.14648/97313 Tusa, Giovanbattista; Dario Giugliano; Stefania Achella. "Foreword". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 2 2020 (2020): 479-480. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.14648/99202. Published • 10.14648/99202 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "L'inconciliabile: Il secolo di Alain Badiou e Pier Paolo Pasolini". Scenari. CINEMA, ESTETICA E NUOVI MEDIA 1 7 (2018): 100-109. https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/article/view/1215. Published Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Geografie. Della frontiera occidentale". Estetica. Studi e ricerche VII 2 (2017): 313-334. Published • 10.14648/88232 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Senza riserva. Note dopo il sacrificio". EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics 3 2 (2013): 259-281. DOI: 10.7408/epkn.v3i2.57. Open access • Published • 10.7408/epkn.v3i2.57
Journal issue	Tusa, Giovanbattista; Dario Giugliano; Stefania Achella. "Futures of hegel.". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche 2 2020 (2020): https://www.rivisteweb.it/issn/2039-6635. Published • Invited editor Tusa, Giovanbattista; Toni Hildebrandt. "Geografie meridiane. Pensare a Sud". Estetica. Studi e Ricerche VII 2 (2017): Published • Invited editor Tusa, Giovanbattista; Patrizia Cecala. "Jean-Luc Nancy. L'iperbole del finito". EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics 3 2 (2013): Published • Coeditor
Magazine article	Tusa, Giovanbattista. "Heilige Steine, profane Werte", Kunst und Kirche, 2017 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "“Wie ein offener Mund”", Kunst und Kirche, 2016 Tusa, Giovanbattista. "I’m still alive. Los días de On Kawara. El destino de la modernidad", Interartive, 2013
Online resource	Baumann, Stefanie; Tusa, Giovanbattista. Of Other Realities. 2023. https://www.visibleevidence.org/article/of-other-realities/.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition

“Tympanum”. Sound Installation dedicated to the “Margins of Philosophy “ of Jacques Derrida. 2007.

Visual artwork

Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Le Rire de Derrida”. Video Performance avec Jean-Luc Nancy, Maison de la Poesie, College Internationale de Philosophie (Ciph), Paris, December 2014.
Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Imagometia” Video collaboration with Rafau Sieraczek. Commissioned by the Arts & Humanities Festival, “Metamorphoses, Transformations and Conversions” at King's College London, 2012.
Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Memoire Vertige”. Video performance with Jean-Luc Nancy. Coimbra, October 2014.
Tusa, Giovanbattista. “Crepusculo”. Documentary (7 min.). Directed in collaboration with the Escuela Internacional de Cinema y Television de Cuba (EICTV) and the Instituto Cubano de Arte y Industria Cinematográficos, July 2010.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/12/13	Remembering the future: Fragments for an anarchaeology of injustice/Recordar o futuro: Fragmentos para uma anarqueologia da injustiça	Benjamin in Amazonia Universidade Federal do Amazonas (Manaus, Brazil)
2023/11/20	Ecology Unbound. Rethinking Finitude	Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
2023/11/17	Fossil animism	Modernity, Energy and Power. An Eco-energy and Cultural History of Southern Europe Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid, Spain)
2023/10/11	Cannibal Ecologies. Images from the Past yet to Come	Autumn 2023 Anthropology Departmental Seminar of the Centre of Visual Anthropology Centre of Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2023/09/20	The challenges of sustainable ecosystems: How sustainability needs to be?	Hacking Sustainability", Reconstructing Sustainability for the 21st Century Department of Knowledge and Communication Management, Faculty of Economics and Globalization, Universität für Weiterbildung Krems.
2023/09/14	Air Matter: Benjamin in the Anthropocene	5th International Congress of The Portuguese Philosophical Society University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/06/29	"Memories of Air". Presentation at the 4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network Political Ecology: North, South, and Beyond	4th Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa)
2023/04/28	Ancestral Futures	Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Collections Workshop Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (HZK), the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) and the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) (Berlin, Germany)
2022/10/29	Pier Paolo Pasolini: Una Riflessione Filosofica	Festival Mimesis 2022 – 9th edition Philosophy And Digital Transformation Università di Udine (Udine, Italy)
2022/10/27	Transits of time. Aesthetics of Climate Justice	VIII Iberian Meeting On Aesthetics: Spaces And Times In Aesthetics And In Art Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10/20	Ekstasis. Of Time	Continental Glissement: German Idealism & the French Inhuman Seminar Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, (Portland, Maine, United States)
2022/10/13	The Real and The Inexistant. Ontologies & Mathematics	SLOW READING Seminar by Cymene Howe Rice University (Houston, United States)
2022/09/30	Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher	International Conference PPP/RRR: Pier Paolo Pasolini/ Riprese, Reprises, Retake Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
2022/07/08	"Deep Life: Reimagining our Fossil Modernity". Invited talk at the exhibition STONE ALIVE	National Geology Museum of Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06/17	A Common Singularity. Of The Thing Itself	International colloquium Objects, Abstractions and Detours ESAP- Escola Superior Artística do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/30	Breathing. Philosophy Again	Institute of Doctoral Visual Arts (Paris, France)
2022/03/16	Designing A New Planet. Post-Global Aesthetics	Masterclass at the ESAD School of Arts and Design Polytechnic of Leiria (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)
2021/12/17	In-Human Aesthetics	Seminar of Aesthetics Accademia di Belle Arti (Naples, Italy)
2021/11/05	A Cosmic Experience. Walter Benjamin in the Anthropocene	2021 Conference of the international Walter Benjamin Society Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
2021/06/23	The Ungovernable. Philosophy and Climate Change	Faculty Colloquium of the Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) Erasmus University Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2021/05/21	Geo-Anarchies. Masterclass at the New Political Ecologies Seminar of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)	New Political Ecologies Seminar Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2021/04/17	Revolution Anthropocene: Geoaesthetics of the Planetary Condition. Masterclass for the Spring lecture series "ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or" at Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA)	Spring lecture series "ON THE ANTHROPOCENE: Either/Or" Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA)
2019/11/04	"The Ecological Turn". Invited lecture	Digital Humanism Lecture Series Code University of Applied Science (Berlin, Germany)
2019/03/27	Invited talk with Judith Barry (MIT, Boston) on Philosophy and Cinema at the Goethe-Institut of Lisbon.	Problematising reality - encounters between art, cinema and philosophy, session 7 Goethe-Institut (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/07/14	Sob O Signo Da Catástrofe	Ecologia e política do nosso tempo Festival de Teatro de Almada, Casa da Cerca Centro De Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/06/09	"Unkwown Planets, Cosmic Marxism"	4th Annual Conference, Performing Arts Forum The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) (Reims, France)
2016/09/24	Education and Epistemology in the Time of Monsters	University of Podemos Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2016/07/09	Invited talk on Architecture and Writing	Architecture & Ecriture research workshop Villa Vassilieff Center of Art and Research, The Architectural Association School of London (Paris, France)
2016/06/05	Invited Lecture: “Ways of seeing”, Swiss Institute of Rome, June 2016.	Intensive Seminar Montages: Film, Video Art, And Critical Aesthetics Swiss Instiute (Roma, Italy)
2016/02/04	“Krisis. Lands of Philosophy”.	Invited lecture at the University of South Florida Philosophy Colloquia University of South Florida, Philosophy Department (Tampa, United States)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/04/06 - Current	Imbizo Ka Mafavuke / Mafavuke’s Tribunal. X-Centric Futures # debate 3 with Uriel Orlow: . (2022/04/06 - 2022/04/06) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2021/11 - 2023/10	X-Centric Futures research seminar, coordinated by Giovanbattista Tusa at IFILNOVA (2021/02/19) Seminar	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07	"Documentary and the Real", Workshop at the XXIX Visible Evidence Conference (2023/09/07 - 2023/09/07) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
2023/07/08 - 2023/07/08	"Art and Cosmotechnics". X-centric futures advanced seminar with Yuk Hui (2023/07/08 - 2023/07/08) Seminar (Other)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27	"The World of the Middle Voice: Archaeology of Will and Responsibility". X-Centric Future Advanced Seminar with Koichiro Kokubun. (2023/03/27 - 2023/03/27) Seminar	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25	Arts of Living in the Anthropocene Workshop, organised by the Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy Research Group at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (2022/11/25 - 2022/11/25) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/09/23 - 2022/09/23	"Pasolini and Philosophy". Workshop at the Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu Do Cinema, Lisbon. (2022/09/23 - 2022/09/23) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal
2022/08/12 - 2022/08/12	"Can the Subaltern film?" Workshop at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference (2022/08/12 - 2022/08/12) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Politechnika Gdanska, Poland
2022/05/10 - 2022/05/10	"After Scarcity and The Red City of the Planet Capitalism". X-Centric Futures Session #4 with Bahar Noorizadeh. (2022/05/10 - 2022/05/10) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/02/19 - 2022/02/19	Collective Claire Fontaine. The Method of Magic Materialism Session 1, X-Centric Futures Debates at Carpintarias de São Lázaro (2022/02/19 - 2022/02/19) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2022/02/13 - 2022/02/13	"Green Mass. e Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen". X-CENTRIC FUTURES – DEBATE #2 with Peter Schuback, Márcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback and Michael Marder (2022/02/13 - 2022/02/13) Concert (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia (IFILNOVA), Portugal
2020/11/27 - 2020/12/04	"Ecologia e Visualidade. Imagens do futuro". Postgraduate Research seminar in Filmmaking, Philosophy and the Arts. (2020/11/27 - 2020/12/04) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociedade e Cultura na Amazônia, Brazil
2019/09/10 - 2019/09/13	Co-organizer of the international research workshop “Ecology and Visuality”. (2019/09/10 - 2019/09/13) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15	"Still Life. Radical Ecologies". Research Seminar at the English Department of the National University of Singapore. (2018/11/05 - 2018/11/15) Workshop (Co-organisor)	National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12	"The end of philosophy", Masterclass with Jean-Luc Nancy at the Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts in Paris. (2018/06/11 - 2018/06/12) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2018/01/01 - 2018/05/30	Member of the organizing Committee of the International Symposium Cinema and Philosophy: Critical May 68 (2018/05/29 - 2018/05/30) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2015/10/15 - 2015/10/16	“Negativity at Work. French Theory and In-visuality”. Biennale de Paris at Apexart, New York. (2015/10/15 - 2015/10/16) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques (Iheap), France

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/10/06 - 2022/10/07	"Fossil Memories". Invited presentation at the Reina Sofia Museum Madrid. Workshop	Tracing (Climate) Crisis, Visualizing Change: Imagining & Activating A Counter Atlas Of The Trace Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2021/10/14 - 2021/10/14	Invited Keynote Speaker at the exhibition. 'À flor da pele ¿ práticas da fotografia contemporânea em tempos incertos'. Exhibition	À flor da pele – práticas da fotografia contemporânea em tempos incertos Jardim Botânico do Porto. Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade de Porto, Portugal
2021/06/14 - 2021/06/14	"The Origin Of The Work Of Art". Ecological Interpretations. Seminar at the International Residencies Program of The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts Seminar	International Residencies Program of The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2020/02/20 - 2020/02/21	Keynote Speaker: "Planetary Visions: Contemporary Approaches to Visuality". Workshop	WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH METHODS IN FILM STUDIES Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019/12/11 - 2019/12/13	Invited Lecturer in Ecology and Arts at the international workshop "Ecology as Economy of Relationship of Living Being and Environment" Workshop	"Ecology as Economy of Relationship of Living Being and Environment" Interdisciplinary workshop Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Italy
2019/12/12 - 2019/12/12	Invited Talk "Actuality' s dreams": Michael Marder e Giovanbattista Tusa in conversation Seminar	Public Seminar on Hegel’s Actuality Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, Italy
2019/11/04 - 2019/11/08	"For a New Mapping", invited presentation. Conference	International Interdisciplinary Conference "Philosophy and Cartography" Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Poland Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wroclawiu, Poland
2019/06/18 - 2019/06/19	New Ecologies. A lexicon for the XXI century. Seminar at the Venice Biennale Sessions International Program Seminar	Biennale of Venice Sessions, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts session, June 18, 2019. Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Italy Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2019/05/30 - 2019/06/01	“In-human truths. On politics and literature”. Invited presentation at the Association of Philosophy and Literature conference at the Alpen-Adria-Universität. Conference	International Conference "Truth, Fiction, Illusion, Worlds and Experience”. Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Austria
2017/10/25 - 2017/10/25	«Vergleich über ein Drittes». Montage, Film, Praxis, Invited Talk at the Film/Philosophy Group. Workshop	Permanent Seminar, Film/Philosophy Group, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/06/19 - 2017/06/20	“Topographies of social politics”, Invited Lecture at the Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts (New York), Athens. Seminar	Summer School of the Institute for Doctoral in the Visual Arts Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2017/03/11 - 2017/03/11	“Touching at distance: Marx, Harun Farocki, and Einfühlung” Conference	Historical Materialism Conference Beirut, Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) American University of Beirut Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Lebanon
2016/07/03 - 2016/07/04	“Die Gegenpartei”. On Film and Empathy. Workshop	Harun Farocki and the Notion of Einfühlung Institute for cultural inquiry (ICI), Germany
2016/05/05 - 2016/05/07	“For in it every second was the narrow gate”. Messianism and revolution between Walter Benjamin and Radical Materialism Conference	9th International Critical Theory Conference Loyola University Chicago - John Felice Rome Center, Italy

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2023/11/27	Freedom And Connection: An Eco-Aesthetic Process President of the jury	Rachael M. Rollson (PhD) Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2021/12/03	No Sentir das Máquinas: Inteligência Artificial. A Origem de uma Nova Espécie Supervisor	Paulo José Oliveira Alcobia (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/09/25	La máquina antropológica. Límites de una singularidad impersonal Thesis Member	Irene Ortiz Gala (PhD) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2019/06/07	The Anartist and its intervention-machines (Thesis) Arguer	Gianluigi Biagini (PhD) Aalto-universitetet Högskola för konst design och arkitektur, Finland

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021 - Current	Philosophies (2409-9287)
2020 - Current	Stasis	European University at St Petersburg (Russia)
2023/06 - 2023/06	Krisis. Journal for Contemporary Philosophy (1875-7103)
2022/10 - 2022/10	Arts	MDPI

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2019 - Current	Association for Philosophy and Literature (APL)	Member
2017 - Current	Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy	Member
2017 - Current	Royal Institute of Philosophy	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Series Co-Editor of the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy Advisor / Consultant	Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, United Kingdom
2023 - Current	Management Committee member of COST ACTION CA20134 - Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice (TRACTS) Member	The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), Belgium
2023 - Current	Review Editor in Climate, Ecology and People at Frontiers in Climate Other
2023 - Current	Research Member of Laboratory for the global perspectives of Italian Thought at the Center for Global Studies of the Aberta University of Lisbon Member	Universidade Aberta, Portugal
2022 - Current	Editorial board member of the journal "Estetica. Studi e ricerche" Advisor / Consultant
2018/01 - Current	International Advisory Board Member of POSTUMANI, ecology and anthropology, Mimesis Edizioni, Milan, Italy. Member	Edizioni Mimesis, Italy

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2020/01/06 - Current	Encontro internacional O Cinema e as outras Artes	Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Artes e Letras, Departamento de Comunicação e Artes

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/01 - 2023/01	Philosophical consultant for the international film production company "O Som e a Fúria"

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/07 - 2023/07	Summer School in Environmental Humanities	(Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/03 - 2023/03	Lecturer - Arts and Ecology	Independent Program of Visual Studies (Postgraduate Certificate)	Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Portugal
2022/01 - 2022/01	Winter School in Future Aesthetics	Future Aesthetics (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/07/12 - 2021/07/16	Summer School in Political Ecologies	Political Ecologies (Outros)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2018/01/21 - 2018/04/09	Lecturer of Continental philosophy, art theory, and critical thinking,: "Toward an Ethico-Aesthetics"	Visual Arts (Doctor of Philosophy)	Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, United States
2018 - 2018	Lecturer - Media and Ecology course: "Posthumanism, Deep Ecology and Enviromental thinking in Contemporary art and Cinema".	Independent Study Programme in Visual Arts (Postgraduate Certificate)	Maumaus School of Visual Arts, Portugal
2017/01/13 - 2017/04/10	Philosophy and Media "Politics of Profanation, Pasolini, Benjamin and the Memory of the Nameless"	MA in Philosophy (Master)	The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland
2016/01/09 - 2016/05/21	Lecturer in Gender Studies: Cinema, Performance	(Bachelor)	The Paris College of Arts, France
2016/01/04 - 2016/01/06	Professor of Philosophy, Epistemology and Media Studies at The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) - Alma Mater University (AMEU) - Slovenia/Austria/US	(Master)	The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland
2015 - 2015	"The Deconstruction Serie". Political Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics D106b (co-taught with Jean-Luc Nancy)	MA in Philosophy (Master)	The Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS), Ireland

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2016/09/09	Bejan, Raluca. “Democracy rising - Athens 2015: A Conference report and a conversation with Giovanbattista Tusa and Creston Davis”. Transnational Social Review, 2016.	Transnational Social Review

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2017/08/09 - 2017/08/09	Fahrenheit. Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI)	Hegel on mastery and slavery

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2023/09/01 - 2024/12/01	ESTÉTICA DE FUTURO - Programar sobre o abismo	Catarina Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/06/30	Aesthetic sensibility in an age of crisis: radicalizing environmental styles	Matteo Savoldelli
2022/11/01 - 2023/03/30	The question of aesthetic expression in Kant	Cecilia Cavalcante Schuback

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/20	Visiting Researcher	Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil
2023/11/03 - 2023/11/30	Visiting Researcher at the Energy humanities research group	Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/01	Affiliated Researcher at The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Spring Semester 2022	Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/23	Visiting Scholar. Seminar of Aesthetics	Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Italy

Distinctions

Award

2018	Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship National University of Singapore, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Singapore
2017	Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) Post-doc Research Fellowship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2014	Sicilia Futuro Postgraduate Global Excellence Award
2008	Phd Full award Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy