Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based at the Institute of Philosophy of the NOVA University Lisbon in Portugal, where he coordinates the research seminar X-CENTRIC FUTURES. His research focuses on the new possibilities opened up by ecological thought, as well as the connection between artistic praxis, economic and aesthetic mutations, and contemporary philosophy.
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), Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limón Ediciones, Buenos Aires, 2019), and Italian (Dalla fine, Mimesis, Milano, 2024). He co-edited Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022), and Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023). He is also co-editor, with Michael Marder, of Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2024).
He 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, and Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European as well as for the French edition of Les mots et les choses by Roberto Esposito.
He is currently completing his manuscript for the book Minima Planetaria, and he is the director of the Futures. Of Philosophy Series at Planetary Conversations in collaboration with The Philosophical Salon.
