Italian Philosophy

September 2, 2023

Aesthetics of the act of de-activation

The term “de-activation” in the title refers to that of Creazione e anarchia by Giorgio Agamben about the concept of the act of creation in an anarchic sense. In his work, Agamben describes a deactivating action that renders the operations of the functional, the pragmatic and the necessary inoperative, opening new possibilities to the human […]

July 20, 2020

Galileo on Secondary Qualities of the Matter

Is heat a quality of the matter which we feel when it is heated or it is in a sensation of a body? In The Assayer, Galileo starts with the proposition “Motion is the cause of heat”. So, he wants to undermine a commonly held conception that heat is a quality which resides in the […]