Gregorio Tenti

Gregorio Tenti is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at Università del Piemonte Orientale. His research spans the history of modern thought and the contemporary infrastructures of sensibility.

Books

The Pathos of the Earth: A Critique of the Planetary Syntax

Mimesis International (OA)

As the global nomos disperses, the planet comes forth as a new grand narrative that assimilates zones of extinction, extraction and isolated resistance.

Schleiermacher’s Aesthetics

ETS

The first study of a major modern philosopher’s aesthetic thought, in the wake of the publication of his aesthetic writings.

The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon (ed. with A. Bardin, M. Ferrari, A. Nony)

Edinburgh University Press

A landmark collection of essays on a key figure of 20th-century French philosophy.

Aesthetics and Morphology in Gilbert Simondon

Mimesis

A pioneering study of two underexplored aspects of Simondon’s philosophy.

Articles

What Is Extinction? Ecopolitics of the End

Routledge Open Research

Extinction is neither annihilation nor mere grief, but a planetary biocapitalist process that calls for new categories.

Performance Art in the Age of Extinction

Philosophies

The current epoch is transforming performance art by repopulating and reanimating its field. Extinction entails new ways of moving.

Art and Mutation on a Postnatural Planet

Technoetic Arts

What does it mean to ‘create’ today? An effort in going beyond French theory through the lesson of contemporary art.

Biophilia Aesthetics: Ungrounding Experience

Aisthesis

The human tendency towards nature uncovers the ancestrality of our perceptual habits.

DeepDream Aesthetics: Artificial Imagination and Machine Creativity

Trópos

The experimental program DeepDream offered of a glimpse into the visual unconscious of AI.

Xenosemiotics: Toward an Alienist Materialism

Linguistic Frontiers

Xenobiology presents us with forms of alterity that call for new semiotic models.

Riscrivere la Terra. Poetiche del terraforming

Studi di Estetica

How to experience the Earth’s post-landscape? The case of the DOM- collective.

Dialogo sul pianeta. Intervista a Giuseppe Genna e Pino Tripodi

Itinera

A dialogue with a protagonist of contemporary Italian literature and a key figure of Italian Autonomy on the planetarization of literature and consciousness.