Chiara Bottici

Nov 25, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Chiara Bottici |Mitchell Abidor |Gwenda-lin Grewal |Adam Mansbach

Saint Christina of Bolsera (ca. 1650–1655)| Carlo Dolci / National Trust Images via Art UKI am doing it again. Teaching Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies. As I always do, I asked at the beginning of class who knew the work before our “Philosophy and Literature” class. This time, a positive surprise! One student had been introduced to de Pizan’s writing by her high school teacher—a woman, the student explained, who liked to do things outside of the box.

Apr 15, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Abby Merrick |Justin A. Joyce |Josephine Houman |Chiara Bottici

“Transsexual sandwich” (1995) | Pippa Garner / Courtesy of the authorPippa Garner is a fabulous, mercurial artist with an extrasensory attunement to cultural shifts, a habit of self-mythologization, and a taste for absurdity. Now in her 80s, she is experiencing something of a renaissance in visibility—and notoriety.

Mar 4, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Josephine Houman |Mat Cusick |Wendy Doniger |Chiara Bottici

Image credit: Henri-Edmond Cross “Venice: Night of the Festival of the Redeemer” (1903). Met Open Access. Content note: this piece contains extensive discussion of eating disorders. The summer I got my period was the summer I stopped eating.

Nov 6, 2023 | corriere.it | Chiara Bottici

Prima erano patrimonio solo di soggetti ai margini della società. Oggi non ha quasi più un carattere rituale ma è divenuto l’opposto: un modo per rivelare un sé autentico, che nessuno può sottrarci nel mondo globaleL’estate è finita da poco e il ricordo dei corpi tatuati è fresco nella memoria. Un fenomeno dilagante, eppure poco studiato, e persino completamente ignorato dai filosofi.

Oct 15, 2023 | radicalphilosophy.com | Chiara Bottici

I met Drucilla Cornell at the New School for Social Research, shortly after my arrival in the US at a time of political turmoil. I joined the Philosophy Department in 2010, and one of the first things I was invited to do was help organise an international conference called ‘The Anarchist Turn’. The conference took place in May 2011 and it gathered an uncharacteristically large audience by academic standards, leaving many of us quite surprised.