Valentina Antoniol

Valentina Antoniol is a political theorist whose work lies at the intersection of contemporary political theory, Foucauldian studies, and feminist theory. Her research focuses on the relationship between war, conflict, and power, with particular attention to processes of subjectivation. A central line of her work consists in critically rethinking the distinction between war and peace through the proposal of a theoretical reconfiguration in terms of war/conflict, developed through a genealogical engagement with Michel Foucault and a critical dialogue with Carl Schmitt. Her research also extends to the political implications of digital technologies, the redefinition of security regimes, and the spatial dimensions of power, with particular attention to the relationship between architecture and conflict.

She has developed her research within an international academic environment, with research stays and collaborations at institutions such as EHESS (Paris), Brown University, The New School, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Full Curriculum Vitae attached

PhD in Political Philosophy, University of Bologna / EHESS (Paris), 2019
Final grade: Excellent with honors

MA in Philosophy, University of Bologna, 2014
Final grade: 110/110 with honors

Since October 1, 2025
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Political Philosophy
University of Bologna

2023–2025
Junior Assistant Professor (RTDa) in Political Philosophy
University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (PNRR Project: Cyber Social Security)

2020–2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Departments of Political and Social Sciences; Architecture; History, Cultures and Civilizations
University of Bologna

National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for Associate Professor
(14/A1 – Political Philosophy)
Validity: 2024–2036

Visiting Research Scholar, Graduate Center – CUNY (New York), 2022–2023

Visiting Research Fellow, Brown University (USA), 2016

Research stays at the Fonds Michel Foucault, Bibliothèque nationale de France (2017), and at The New School (New York) (2017)

Participant in the PNRR project Cyber Social Security (CSS)
University of Bari (SERICS Project – NextGenerationEU)

Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie e guerra, Rubbettino, 2024 (monograph).

Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimésis, 2023 (monograph).

(with S. Marino, eds.), Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 (edited volume).

(with S. Marino, eds.), Foucault’s Legacy in Contemporary Thinking: Forty Years Later (1984–2024), special issue of «Foucault Studies», 2024 (edited volume).

Who, in Our Present, Might the Pierre Rivières Be? Political Subjectivation and the Construction of a Collective ‘We’, «Foucault Studies», 36, 2024, pp. 107–126 (peer-reviewed journal article).

Esercizio del potere e spazio urbano. Per una riflessione teorico-politica su architettura e urbanistica, in «Scienza & Politica», n. 64, vol. XXXIII, 2021, pp. 129-146 [The Exercise of Power and Urban Space. Toward a Philosophical-Political Reflection on Architecture and Urban Planning] (peer-reviewed journal article).

Biopolitics Beyond Foucault. A Critique of Agamben's Analysis on the Pandemic, «Soft Power», 9.2, 2022, pp. 261–276 (peer-reviewed journal article)

Tra l’impossibile e il necessario. Per una lettura di “Bisogna difendere la società” come critica di Foucault a Schmitt, in «Filosofia Politica», n. 3, 2020, pp. 499-516. [Between the Impossible and the Necessary. A Reading of “Society Must Be Defended” as Foucault's Critique of Schmitt] (peer-reviewed journal article).

(For a full list of publications:
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/valentina.antoniol3/pubblicazioni )

Member, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)

Member, Italian Society of Political Philosophy (SIFP)

Member, Italian Society of Critical Theory (SITC)

Member, LIER-FYT Research Center (EHESS, Paris)