Giovanbattista Tusa
Appointed Research Fellow

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.

Publications
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books
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2023
CultureLab • books
X-Centric Futures
X-Centric Futures
Bartholomew Ryan & Giovanbattista Tusa (Eds.)
(forthcoming)
2021
CultureLab • books
Défaillance
Défaillance
Jean-Luc Nancy and Giovanbattista Tusa
Florianópolis: Cultura e Barbárie (bilingual edition French-Portuguese, forthcoming).
2018
CultureLab • books
Freud e il non-Europeo
Freud e il non-Europeo
Giovanbattista Tusa and Roberto Esposito (Eds.)
Roma: Meltemi Editore
book chapters
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2024
CultureLab • book chapters
Deep Life. Reimagining our Fossil Modernity
Deep Life. Reimagining our Fossil Modernity
Giovanbattista Tusa
M. Jecu (Ed.), Stone Alive. A Cultural Interpretation Of Stone. Bristol: Intellect Books (forthcoming).
2024
CultureLab • book chapters
Mystical Matter
Mystical Matter
Giovanbattista Tusa
H. de Almeida Pinto (Ed.), Under the Ground: Imaginaries for the Subterranean Worlds. Berlin: Archive Books (forthcoming).
2024
CultureLab • book chapters
Terrafictions
Terrafictions
Giovanbattista Tusa
S. Lamas (Ed.), Parafictions (Vol. 2). Milan: Mousse Publishing (forthcoming).
2023
CultureLab • book chapters
‘Goodbye Athens’. La Grecia de Jacques Derrida
‘Goodbye Athens’. La Grecia de Jacques Derrida
Giovanbattista Tusa
Jacques Derrida, 1967-2017: un tiempo sin vejez. Madrid: UAM Ediciones.
2021
CultureLab • book chapters
Nietzsche e a filosofia contemporânea
Nietzsche e a filosofia contemporânea
Giovanbattista Tusa
P. Gori (Ed.), Introdução a Nietzsche. Lisbon: Tinta-da-China (forthcoming).
2020
CultureLab • book chapters
“As an Object…”
“As an Object…”
Giovanbattista Tusa
S. Thompson & J. Bock (Eds.), Parting with the Bonus of Youth – Maumaus as Object. Lisbon: Maumaus / Lumiar Cité.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
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2021
CultureLab • Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Heidegger’s Midnight
Heidegger’s Midnight
Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa
Diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism (forthcoming)