Aesthetics of the Anthropocene

Authors

• Pierpaolo Ascari University of Bologna

  Pierpaolo Ascari teaches Aesthetics at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna. He received his master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Bologna, and his Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He is author of Ebola e le forme (Rome: Manifestolibri, 2017), Attraverso i confini. Lettura, storia ed esperienza estetica in Stendhal e Flaubert (Milan: Mimesis, 2018), Corpi e recinti. Estetica ed economia politica del decoro (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2019) and The Adventure of Form: Aesthetics, Nature and Society (Delft: BK Books, 2021). He was a fellow at the Alsos Foundation in Bologna for the research program “Migrations and migrants in Italy” and he edited the volume Oggetti contesi. Le cose nella migrazione (Milan: Mimesis 2020).

• Andrea Borsari University of Bologna

  Andrea Borsari is full professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, directs the book series “Life and Forms” (Bup) and is deputy editor of “Iride. Journal of Philosophy and Public Discussion” (Il Mulino). He has recently been a visiting professor at UCLA, ENSA-Paris La Villette, the 4 Cities Unica Euromaster in Urban Studies - University of Copenhagen and the University of Sichuan. His publications include Mondo, cose, immagini. Sulle forme dell’esperienza estetica [World, Things, Images. On the forms of aesthetic experience, Bup, 2018], Mimicry. Estetica del divenire animale [Mimicry. Aesthetics of Animal Becoming, Mimesis, 2018], together with G. Leoni, Hypermnesia and Amnesia: Remembering (with) the Body and Post-Conflict Memorials and Architectures, «Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal», 2022, and, co-curated, Temporary. Citizenship, Architecture and City (Springer, 2022).