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Federica Buongiorno is an Assistant Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Phenomenology of Technology at the University of Florence, Italy. Her research interests include Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology, the philosophy of technology (with a special focus on AI, algorithmic thinking and the digital culture), psychoanalysis, and cyberfeminism. She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2013 from Sapienza University of Rome and has been a post-doctoral researcher at several academic institutions in Italy and Germany, including the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry in 2021-2022. She is the co-founder and co-editor in chief of the philosophical book series Umweg (Inschibboleth editions) and the editor-in-chief of the international journal of philosophy 'Azimuth'. Her latest book is titled Iperindividualità. L'individuazione nel presente tecnologico (Meltemi 2025). She is also a translator from German and collaborates with several Italian publishers. Alberica Maria Bazzoni is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, and then held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Warwick and a Research Fellowship at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. She is the author of Il presente vivo. Temporalità del divenire e del trauma in Lispector, Ortese e Philip (2025) and Writing for Freedom: Body, Identity, and Power in Goliarda Sapienza's Narrative (2018), and co-editor of 'The Politics of Translation', Comparative Critical Studies (2023); Gender and Authority (2020); and Goliarda Sapienza in Context (2016). Her current research explores textual performativity and feminist and decolonial literary imaginaries of trauma and resistance.
Performing Embodiment belongs to a growing tradition of philosophical inquiry that foregrounds embodiment as a heuristic strategy, affirming the epistemic value of first-person experience. Under the guidance of editors Alberica Bazzoni and Federica Buongiorno, seven women thinkers compellingly argue that literature, dance, and sports are not merely expressive forms but active performances of thought. At the heart of their exploration is the living body - both biological and cultural - which, when critically examined, reveals and challenges the very social and intellectual conventions that shape it. This collection of essays ultimately offers a transformative perspective on labour, understood as inherently cognitive and affective because it is fundamentally embodied. - Chiara Cappelletto, Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan Performing Embodiment offers a compelling demonstration that our corporeal condition is far from the 'prison of the soul' that Plato took it to be. Rather, our body emerges as a testing ground for explorative practices that reshape both personal and collective identities. Drawing on a series of case studies on the speaking body, the dancing body, and the social body, this volume advances a forceful account of corporeality not as a given, but as something to be enacted and performed. Instead of simply declaring, 'this is my body; this is who I am, ' the contributions make a strong case why we should think of the body as something we do - and as something we are never done with. - Emmanuel Alloa, author of Resistance of the Sensible World
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