Marco Pavanini
Research fellow
- Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
- SSD: M-FIL/03 - moral philosophy
- ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5720-1426
Selected research products
Journal articles
Pavanini, M. (2026). The Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. Continental Philosophy Review.
Pezzano, G., & Pavanini, M. (2025). Understanding Philosophical Media: From Philosophy of Technology to “Technologies of Philosophy”. Philosophy & Technology, 38(3)
Pavanini, M. (2024). Postphenomenology and Human Constitutive Technicity: How Advances in AI Challenge Our Self-Understanding. Journal of Human-Technology Relations, 2(1)
Ferreira de Barros, M., Pavanini, M., & Lemmens, P. (2023). Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Technology: From Anthropogenesis to the Anthropocene. Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology, 1(2), 84–123
Pavanini, M. (2022). Multistability and Derrida’s différance: Investigating the Relations between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology. Philosophy & Technology, 35(1)
Pavanini, M. (2020). Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 25(4), 26–38
Pavanini, M. (2019). L’istituzione come proprio dell’umano: Un approccio antropo-tecnologico. Discipline Filosofiche, 29(2), 31–50
Pavanini, M. (2018). Non siamo mai stati carenti: La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg. S&F_, 19, 144–154
Pavanini, M. (2017). Anthropotechnical Collectives: Sloterdijk’s and Descola’s Insights as an Interpretive Tool in Order to Understand Cultural Specificity. Philosophical News, 15, 137–147
Pavanini, M. (2017). Genealogia dell’esercizio: L’influenza del pensiero di Nietzsche nello sviluppo del concetto di antropotecnica in Peter Sloterdijk. Esercizi Filosofici, 12(2), 231–244
Pavanini, M. (2016). Per un’etica co-immunologica: La questione dell’Antropocene in Sloterdijk tra sferologia e antropotecnologia. Lo Sguardo, 22(3), 109–122
Pavanini, M. (2016). Corpi, linguaggio e verità: Il materialismo dionisiaco di Sloterdijk. Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey, 3
Commentaries
Pezzano, G., & Pavanini, M. (2025). How to Design Concepts: On the Media of Philosophy. Philosophy & Technology, 38(4)
Book chapters
Pavanini, M. (2023). Elementi di filosofia della nascita: Soggettivazione intrauterina e gestazione extrauterina. E. Marra (ed.), La filosofia e il suo fuori (149–175). Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press
Moore, G., Mylonas, N.A., Pavanini, M., Bossière, M.-C., & Alombert, A. (2021). Planetary Detox and the Neurobiology of Ecological Collapse. B. Stiegler & the Internation Collective (eds.), Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative (220–248). Open Humanities Press
Pavanini, M. (2021). Digital Individuation and the Occlusion of the Protentional System. C. Pereira Martins (ed.), Cyberpolitics: Political Philosophy of the Future (186–195). Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos
Pavanini, M. (2021). Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un’antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk. E. de Conciliis (ed.), Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6 (161–184). Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (2020). Produzione dello spazio del vizio: Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk. V. Cuomo (ed.), Caldo/Freddo: Annuario Kaiak 5 (143–170). Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (2018). Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk. I. Pelgreffi (ed.), Ecologia: Teoria, natura, politica (207–222). Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (2016). Collettivi antropotecnici: La specificità della cultura mediterranea compresa attraverso le riflessioni di Peter Sloterdijk e Philippe Descola. G. Baptist, A. Bonavoglia & A. Meccariello (eds.), Azioni parallele: Mediterranei (157–169). Aracne
Edited books
Pavanini, M. (ed.) (2020). Tecnica: Figure e strutture dell’artificio. Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (ed.) (2020). Lo spazio dell’umano: Saggi dopo Sloterdijk. Kaiak Edizioni
Edited journal issues
Marra, E., & Pavanini, M. (eds.) (2020). Sul divenire immateriale/On Becoming Immaterial. Special Issue, Esercizi Filosofici, 15(2)
Book reviews
Pavanini, M. (2019). P. Vignola, La funzione N: Sulla macchinazione filosofica in Gilles Deleuze. Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey, 6
Pavanini, M. (2019). P. Sloterdijk, Negare il mondo? Sullo spirito dell’India e la gnosi occidentale. Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey, 6
Pavanini, M. (2018). I. Pelgreffi, Filosofia dell’automatismo: Verso un’etica della corporeità. Philosophy Kitchen
Pavanini, M. (2017). P. Sloterdijk, Il quinto “Vangelo” di Nietzsche: Sulla correzione delle buone notizie. Agalma, 13, 113–115
Translations
Pavanini, M. (trans.) (2023). Y. Hui, Sulla cosmotecnica: Per una relazione rinnovata tra tecnologia e natura nell’Antropocene. L. Cabassa & F. Pisano (eds.), Epistemologie: Critiche e punti di fuga nel dibattito contemporaneo (325–348). Mimesis
Pavanini, M. (trans.) (2021). G. Moore, Il pharmakon, l’estrazione di dopamina e la società della dipendenza. E. de Conciliis (ed.), Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6 (61–68). Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (trans.) (2019). C. Türcke, Cripto-ontologia della scrittura. Kaiak Edizioni
Introductions to edited collections
Pavanini, M. (2023). Commento introduttivo a Sulla cosmotecnica di Yuk Hui. L. Cabassa & F. Pisano (eds.), Epistemologie: Critiche e punti di fuga nel dibattito contemporaneo (319–324). Mimesis
Marra, E., & Pavanini, M. (2020). Introduzione. E. Marra & M. Pavanini (eds.), Sul divenire immateriale/On Becoming Immaterial. Special Issue, Esercizi Filosofici, 15(2), 51–53
Pavanini, M. (2020). Introduzione. M. Pavanini (ed.), Tecnica: Figure e strutture dell’artificio (9–21). Kaiak Edizioni
Pavanini, M. (2020). Introduzione. M. Pavanini (ed.), Lo spazio dell’umano: Saggi dopo Sloterdijk (7–17). Kaiak Edizioni
Conference papers
Pezzano, G., & Pavanini, M. (2026). FilosofIA: L’intelligenza artificiale come “filosofia sperimentale”. La filosofia della tecnica e della tecnologia in Italia: Genealogie, orientamenti, prospettive. Università di Torino & Politecnico di Torino, 13–14 febbraio.
Pavanini, M. (2025). Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. The Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, Third Wave Continental Philosophy of Technology Symposium, Eindhoven University of Technology, 25–28 June
Pezzano, G., & Pavanini, M. (2024). Comic Ideas: The Nonhuman Constitution of Philosophical Cognition. Engaging the Contemporary—Intersections: Human/Nonhuman Relations, University of Torino, 20–22 November
Pezzano, G., & Pavanini, M. (2024). From the Empirical Turn to the Mediatic Turn: Philosophizing through Screens? The Society for Phenomenology and Media 25th Annual Conference, Tallinn University, 14–19 May
Pavanini, M. (2023). Human Constitutive Technicity: The Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relation: A New Perspective on Technological Design, University of Bremen, 7–8 July
Pavanini, M. (2022). The Paleoanthropological Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Filosofia da Tecnologia, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 9 November
Pavanini, M. (2022). Sloterdijk’s and Stiegler’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Technology: The Paleoanthropological Turn. DesignLab, University of Twente, 22 September
Pavanini, M. (2022). Stiegler’s Hyper-Materialism and the Laws of Matter. Law, Technology and the Human Conference, University of Kent, 6–8 April
Pavanini, M. (2021). The Twofold Dimension of Human Constitutive Technicity. Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 9–10 December
Pavanini, M. (2021). Postumanismo e tecnicità costitutiva umana. Il postumanismo contemporaneo tra filosofia, cinema e letteratura, Collegio Ghislieri, 17 November
Pavanini, M. (2021). Four Conflating Paradigms on Human Technicity. The Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference, Catholic University of Lille, 28–30 June
Pavanini, M. (2020). Anthropogenesis as a Technical Process. Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations, University of Twente, 4–7 November
Pavanini, M. (2020). Stereotipia e frammentazione nell’individuazione digitale. Seminario Realismo Digitale, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF), 17 June
Pavanini, M. (2020). La filosofia della tecnica di Bernard Stiegler. Seminari di filosofia contemporanea, University of Milano, 14 May
Pavanini, M. (2019). The Occlusion of the Protentional System and the Stake of Digital Technologies. Cyberpolitics: Political Philosophy of the Future, University of Coimbra, 15–16 November
Pavanini, M. (2019). Contaminazioni e ibridazioni tra umanità e animalità. Dizionario: #Frontiera, MACRO, 17 September
Pavanini, M. (2019). Occlusione del sistema protenzionale e cortocircuito motivazionale. Summer School di Filosofia Teoretica: Pensare il Futuro/Pensare al Futuro, Aldo Moro University of Bari, 3–7 September
Pavanini, M. (2019). Can Inner Individuation Only Be Acquired through Outer Deindividuation? An Immunological Approach to the Question of Locality. Real Smart Cities Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE Action Programme: Internal Seminar on Locality, Universidad de las Artes, 15 July
Pavanini, M. (2018). Welt- und Menschwerdung durch prototechnische Schaffung von Innenräumen: Ein bio-ontologischer Versuch ausgehend vom Denken Dieter Claessens. Dia:logos: 3. Studentische Tagung für Philosophie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 19–20 January
Pavanini, M. (2017). Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk. Le parole del Novecento, XI Edizione: “Ecologia”, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (IISF), 20 May
Courses
- Etica della tecnica (FIL0458)
Corso di laurea magistrale in Filosofia
Research topics
I have earned my PhD at the Centre for Culture and Ecology, Durham University (UK), with the thesis Human Constitutive Technicity: The Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology. My research concerns the relationship between technology and human existence, with a particular focus on the role played by technologies in shaping the process of human evolution, structuring scientific knowledge of this process and mediating philosophical practice. Following insights developed by contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Stiegler and Peter Sloterdijk, my research starts from the idea that our understanding of technology needs to be reconceived if we are to meet the challenges posed by the ongoing climatic, economic and social crises. I am on the editorial board of the journal Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey and my research has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Philosophy & Technology and Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology.
As a postdocoral research fellow at UniTo, I have partaken in the research projects New Habits in Mind: In Search of a Graphic Philosophy (GraPhil) and PhiloGraphics: How to Do Concepts with Images, led by Dr Giacomo Pezzano and funded by National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)—Seal of Excellence and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
I am a member of the Ethical Research Center on Anthropology and Technology (EraTO) and co-convener of the Seminar in the Philosophy of Technology. I currently teach Technology Ethics on UniTo's Master's programme in Philosophical Sciences and Philosophical Anthropology on Antonianum's Ethics and Artificial Intelligence advanced programme.
Areas of specialism:
– Philosophy of Technology
– Ethics of AI
– Philosophical Anthropology
– Media Studies
– Contemporary French and German Philosophy
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