The Research Center

With its multidisciplinary approach, FICTA draws on contributions from feminist philosophical tradition and engages in dialogue with aesthetics, cognitive sciences, biology, political philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and mythology.

Its lines of research highlight the ways in which our “abilities” change through interaction with other bodies, artifacts, discourses, and media, and explore performativity as a practice of resistance and critical reworking through the concepts of plasticity and incorporation.

Forms of subjectivation, control devices, situated biologies, and biopolitics of (re)production are the epistemic, aesthetic, and political processes that FICTA investigates, valuing the sociopolitical, cultural, and ecological trajectories in which we operate.

This clarifies the agentive nature of human bodies, which embody and shape the norms and constraints that traverse them.

The art-based nature of the research is fundamental, guaranteed by the participation of Marco D’Agostin and Chiara Bersani.