Alessandro Carrieri

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Carrieri, Alessandro

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-6204

Website: https://alessandrocarrieri.academia.edu/

Certified email address (PEC): alessandro.carrieri@pec.it

EDUCATION AND MAIN QUALIFICATIONS

• 17 June 2026: Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for appointment as Associate Professor in Academic Recruitment Field 11/C4 – Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language.
• 17 June 2026: Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for appointment as Associate Professor in Academic Recruitment Field 11/C3 – Moral Philosophy.
• 14 March 2025: Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for appointment as Associate Professor in Academic Recruitment Field 11/C1 – Theoretical Philosophy.
• 9 November 2021: Subject Expert (Cultore della materia) in Theoretical Philosophy, University of Turin.
• 24 March 2021: PhD in Philosophy, awarded cum laude. Theoretical Philosophy track: Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality, Phenomenology, Theories of Perception, Imagination and Emotion, Interreligious Dialogue, Philosophy of Art and New Media.
  Dissertation: Urban Eden: Garden, City, Utopia – University of Genoa / University of Turin, Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium – FINO.
• 8 November 2016: Master’s Degree in Theoretical Philosophy. Thesis: Progress and Dystopia: Technology and Ethics in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.
• 10 March 2014: Bachelor’s Degree in Theoretical Philosophy. Thesis: Love Consumption as Yourself! The Myth of Progress in Anders and Latouche – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.

Summer Schools

• 15–19 September 2020 – Cuneo, Italy: Spiritual Destinies: Myths, Religions and Practices of Contemporary Humankind – 13th CeSPeC Summer School, Religion and the Public Sphere – University of Turin, Cuneo Campus; Fondazione CRC. Scholarship recipient.
• 3–9 May 2018 – Bernkastel-Kues, Germany: Naturphilosophie nach dem Ende der Natur? – Cusanus Hochschule.
• 18–22 June 2018 – Rijeka, Croatia: Critique of Violence Now: From Thinking to Acting against Violence, with Judith Butler – University of Rijeka; Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE).

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2022: “Parini-Chirio” Award for Il cenciaiolo e il rabdomante. Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin e l’escatologia del profano, selected as one of the best original essays in the humanities. Publication grant: €2,000.
• 2020: “Parini-Chirio” Award for Urban Eden. Giardino Città Utopia, selected as one of the best original essays in the humanities. Publication grant: €2,500.
• 2017–2021: Doctoral scholarship, Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium – FINO.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2025/2026: Adjunct Professor – Aesthetics, 30 hours, 9 ECTS credits – University of Milan.
• 2025/2026: Adjunct Professor – Semiotics of Languages and Communication, 60 hours, 12 ECTS credits, combined for 30 hours with Contemporary Communication Semiotics – University of Cagliari
• 2017–2025: Teaching assistant for courses in Theoretical Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Foundations of Ecology, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophical Hermeneutics – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin. Activities included thesis supervision and participation in examination and graduation committees at the same institution.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 15 April–15 June 2026: Bibliographical research for the project Glossario delnociano [Augusto Del Noce Glossary] – Fondazione Centro Studi “Augusto Del Noce”, Savigliano, Italy.
• 1 September 2022–31 August 2025: Research Fellow in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language. Project: MatriCS: Corporeality and Spatiality in Extended Reality – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.
• 1 April 2021–31 March 2022: Research Fellow in Theoretical Philosophy. Project: Sylva forestis. The Imaginary of the Forest from the Fifteenth Century Onwards: Philosophy, Politics, Art, and Law – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.
• 2017–2021: PhD Candidate with scholarship in Theoretical Philosophy – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

• Member of SIFiT – Italian Society for Theoretical Philosophy.
• Member of AWB – Italian Walter Benjamin Association.
• Member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Renaissance Thought and Art.
• Member of the Cusanus Society.

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 2023: Member of the University of Turin research group for the UNITA project Urban Philosophy. Principal Investigator: Professor Antonio Dall’Igna. Partner institutions: Valladolid and Turin.
• 2018: Member of the University of Turin research group for the European project Luis Vives. Seminario de Estudios Europeos. Partner institutions: Valencia, Turin, Braunschweig and Opolski.
• 2017: Member of the University of Turin research group for the European project Transformations of Nature in Late Modernity: Ontological and Anthropological Dimensions. Partner institutions: Vilnius and Turin.

ACADEMIC ORGANISATION OF CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

• Study seminar Berlin, Open City: From Walter Benjamin to David Bowie, with Massimo Palma, Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples – University of Turin, 8 April 2026.
• International conference Forms of Thought: The Concept of Image in Renaissance Culture – Main Hall of the Rectorate Building, University of Turin, 8–9 May 2025.
• International seminar Augusto Del Noce and American Liberal Thought, with Carlo Lancellotti, College of Staten Island – CUNY, New York City – online.
• International conference Ecology of Human Spaces: Nature, Society, Religion – University of Turin, 5 December 2024.
• Presentation of Valentina Moro’s book Il Teatro della Polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2023 – University of Turin, 5 June 2024.
• Study seminar Materialism and Revolution: The Concept of History in Marx, with Piero Di Giovanni, Germana Pareti and Paolo De Lucia – University of Turin, 30 May 2024.
• International seminar Sphaera infinita: The Development of an Image of Thought in Renaissance Philosophy, with José González Ríos, Universidad de Buenos Aires – University of Turin, 16 May 2024.
• International seminar Ecology: Fundamental Concepts, with Markus Riedenauer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt – University of Turin, 7 December 2023.
• International seminar Music as Experience of Transcendence: Phenomenological Considerations, with Markus Riedenauer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt – University of Turin, 6 December 2023.
• International conference Urban Philosophy: Rethinking the Ecology of the City through Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches – University of Turin, 24–25 November 2023.
• Study seminar The Aesthetics of Waste: The Return of the Economically and Ecologically Repressed – University of Turin, 22 December 2022.
• Study seminar Rembrandt: Between the Concept of Representation and the Art of Government – University of Turin, 13 December 2022.
• Study seminar Forgetting Smart Cities? – University of Turin, 9 December 2022.
• International seminar Technology and Ecology: From Jonas to the Anthropocene, with Luca Valera – University of Turin, 2 December 2022.
• Study seminar Pictura: Truth and Seduction of the Image – University of Turin, 24 November 2022.
• Study seminar Mathematical Symbols in Fifteenth-Century Metaphysics – University of Turin, 28 October 2022.
• International seminar Spinoza as Ecosopher: Foundations of Environmental Ethics, with Luca Valera – University of Turin, 27 June 2022.
• International conference Imagination, Technology, Responsibility: The Renaissance and New Humanisms – University of Turin, 8–10 June 2022.
• Study seminar Intra moenia: City, Power and Utopia – University of Turin, 4 May 2022.
• International seminar Metaphysics and Theology of the Word: Reflections on Language in Nicholas of Cusa, with José González Ríos, Universidad de Buenos Aires – University of Turin, 27 May 2021.
• Study seminar Face and Portrait in European Culture between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries – University of Turin, 29 April 2021.
• Presentation of the volume d i s t a n z a, Quaderni di «Filosofia», no. 1, Mimesis, Milan–Udine, 2021 – University of Turin, 9 April 2021.
• International seminar Morphology of Thinking – University of Turin, 3 June 2020.
• International seminar Distance: An Online Philosophical Seminar – University of Turin, 9 April 2020.
• International seminar Forms of Thinking: Philosophy, Art, Law – University of Turin, 22 November 2019.
• International conference Thought, Technology, Creativity: Leonardo and the Renaissance – University of Turin, 7–8 November 2019.
• International seminar The Historical Sources of the Concept of Image in Nicholas of Cusa – University of Turin, 6 June 2019.
• International seminar From a Definition of Literature to a Theory of Perception: Reconsidering Marc-Mathieu Münch’s Aesthetics – University of Turin, 25 March 2019.
• International conference The Faces of Nature: Between Philosophy and Artistic Reflection – University of Turin, 22–23 May 2018.

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

• 2018–2020: Member of the Department Council as PhD student representative – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.
• 2018–2020: Member of the Third Mission Committee as PhD student representative – Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

• 2017–present: Editorial Board Member of the journal Filosofia, ranked by ANVUR as a Class A journal for Area 11. ISSN: 0015-1823.
• 2022: Peer reviewer for Literature. ISSN: 2410-9789.
• 2022: Peer reviewer for Sguardi connessi. Prospettive sull’immagine e il mondo digitale, edited by A. Osti, FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2022.
• 2020: Peer reviewer for InCircolo. Rivista di filosofia e culture. ISSN: 2531-4092.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES

• Intra Moenia: An Aesthetics of the Threshold and the Construction of the Other – International conference Crossing Borders: Migration, Diversity & Education – University of Turin, December 2025.
• Cartography of Desire: Mythical Geography, Paradise, Utopia – International conference Forms of Thought: The Concept of Image in Renaissance Culture – University of Turin, 8–9 May 2025.
• “Fields of Utopian Energy”: Urban Space between Ratio and Dream – International conference Urban Philosophy: Rethinking the Ecology of the City through Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches – University of Turin, 24–25 November 2023.
• Dialectics of the City: Ratio and Dream, Law and Mystery – International workshop Urban Philosophy – University of Valladolid, 20 September 2023.
• The City and the Forest: The Law and Its Shadow – International seminar Intra moenia: City, Power and Utopia – University of Turin, 4 May 2022.
• “The Purest of Human Pleasures”: The Garden as a Spiritual Aspiration – CeSPeC Summer School Spiritual Destinies: Myths, Religions and Practices of Contemporary Humankind – University of Turin, Cuneo, 16 September 2020.
• Relationship with Oneself, Relationship with the Other: The Survival of the Person during the Pandemic, dialogue with Elisa Destefanis – Culture, Relationship, Fear: Three Dialogues to Revisit 2020 – Piero Gobetti Study Centre, Polo del ’900, 14 July 2020.
• City, Garden and Utopia in the Renaissance – Theoretical Philosophy course taught by Professor Gianluca Cuozzo – University of Turin, 28 May 2020.
• Second Star to the Right: Distance as a “Reservoir of Unexploded Images” – International seminar Distance: An Online Philosophical Seminar – University of Turin, 9 April 2020.
• The Achievement of Heaven: The Garden as a Political Allegory – Doctoral Days 2019, organised by the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium and the Université du Luxembourg – University of Turin, Savigliano, 5–6 December 2019.
• Ethics and Aesthetics of the Garden – International seminar Forms of Thinking: Philosophy, Art, Law – University of Turin, 22 November 2019.
• The Garden of the Ideal City: Architecture, Landscape and Utopia in the Renaissance – International conference Thought, Technology, Creativity: Leonardo and the Renaissance – University of Turin, 7–8 November 2019.
• De caelo servare: Nature and Technology in Leonardo – International exhibition Pioneers: Explorers of the Unknown from Leonardo to the Present Day – Royal Museums of Turin, Royal Palace, 13 June and 11 July 2019.
• Remembrance Melodies: Music and Utopia in Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch and Luigi Pareyson – International conference Die geistige Macht der Musik – The Mental and Spiritual Power of Music – Luxembourg School of Religion and Society, Luxembourg, 7–9 February 2019.
• Techno-Nature and the City: From “Site-Specific” Nature to Augmented Reality – International conference Transformations of Nature and Anthropological Difference: Ontology, Ethics, Art – Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 6–8 December 2018.
• At the Edge of the Smart City: Between New Apartheid and Old Forms of Resistance – International Research Conference Cities, Territories and the Struggles for Human Rights – University of Padua, 26–27 November 2018.
• La desaparición de la tragedia. Hacia una crítica del nihilismo tecnocrático [The Disappearance of Tragedy: Towards a Critique of Technocratic Nihilism] – Luis Vives Seminar of European Studies – Escuela de Philosophia “Luis Vives”, Valencia, Spain, 24–26 October 2018.
• The Hydra’s Head: Bureaucracy and Violence – Summer School Critique of Violence Now: From Thinking to Acting against Violence, with Judith Butler – Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe, University of Rijeka and Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka, Croatia, 18–22 June 2018.
• Techno-Nature and the City: From Situated Nature to Augmented Reality – International conference The Faces of Nature: Between Philosophy and Artistic Reflection – University of Turin, 22–23 May 2018.

OTHER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES2026

• International seminar Paths of Thought between Europe and Argentina, with José González Ríos, Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONCET – University of Turin, 26–27 May 2026 – discussant.
• Study seminar Berlin, Open City: From Walter Benjamin to David Bowie, with Massimo Palma, Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples – University of Turin, 8 April 2026 – discussant.

2024

• Presentation of Valentina Moro’s book Il Teatro della Polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico, Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2023 – University of Turin, 5 June 2024 – chair.
• International seminar Materialism and Revolution: The Concept of History in Marx, with Piero Di Giovanni, Germana Pareti and Paolo De Lucia – University of Turin, 30 May 2024 – discussant.
• International seminar Sphaera infinita: The Development of an Image of Thought in Renaissance Philosophy, with José González Ríos – University of Turin, 16 May 2024 – discussant.

2023

• International seminar Ecology: Fundamental Concepts, with Markus Riedenauer – University of Turin, 7 December 2023 – discussant.
• International seminar Music as Experience of Transcendence: Phenomenological Considerations, with Markus Riedenauer – University of Turin, 6 December 2023 – discussant.

2022

• International seminar Technology and Ecology: From Jonas to the Anthropocene – University of Turin, 2 December 2022 – chair.