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    Cet article explore l’expérience esthétique particulière que nous procurent les promenades sonores. En partant d’une étude d’un cas paradigmatique – les tournées audio Remote X du collectif Rimini Protokoll – et par le biais d’une réflexion sur la perception opérant à partir de Husserl et Merleau-Ponty, je m’intéresse en particulier aux renversements perceptifs qui émaillent le parcours déambulatoire du spectateur ainsi qu’au brouillage entre le réel et l’imaginaire, qu’il éprouve au niveau même…Read more
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    Questioning the “We” in Times of Global Threats with Butler and Levinas
    Research in Phenomenology 53 (1): 83-104. 2023.
    Today, the “we” has not lost its place in contemporary debates. On the contrary, it has become a crucial question in the political and philosophical debates relating to global-scale disasters and traumatic events, which expose all of humanity to the same risks and same threats. In a dramatic and paradigmatic way, these events invite us to “mourn” the fantasy of self-sufficiency of the I and remind us to which extent our lives are immediately linked to those of others. At the same time, however, …Read more
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    The intentionality of improvisation represents surely one of the most pressing and controversial issues in contemporary action theory: how do we find the way to characterize the proper intentionality of improvisation, which is an unplanned yet intentional action? This article will address this question bringing together Merleau-Ponty’s motor intentionality and Bergson’s conception of duration. My argument will unfold in three main stages. First, I will briefly describe the traditional scheme tha…Read more
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    Drawing on many areas of expertise, from paleontology to psychology, Tomasello offers a plausible, evolutionary story abouthow our ancestors are likely to have developed cooperative behaviors and collaborative lifeways in order to survive and thrive.He also claims that this narrative explains why they would have begun to think in characteristically cooperative and moral ways,developing a “we is greater than me” [we>me] psychological orientation. Do the arguments offered support this extra claim? T…Read more
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    L'œil de Merleau-Ponty
    Mimesis. 2013.
    Cet ouvrage vise à montrer que la question de la réflexion et de son éveil au sein de la vision occupe une place centrale dans la pensée de Maurice Merleau-Ponty et apparaît comme la source secrète d'une énigme et d'une interrogation fondamentales, à partir desquelles son oeuvre entière peut être relue et révéler une nouvelle cohérence. Mais qu'il s'agisse de la perception, de l'expression ou de la chair, c'est à chaque fois la question de la conscience et de son éveil réflexif qui est repensée …Read more
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    The Role of the Third in the Genesis of a We-perspective
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (2): 185-203. 2021.
    According to a recent and prominent view, a ‘we-perspective’ arises out of a dyadic I-you relation involving a special form of reciprocity in which I relate to another as a you – as somebody who is also attending and addressing me. As important as this argument might be, one obvious limitation lies in that it typically applies to dyadic forms of ‘we’ which are bound to the here and now of face-to-face interactions between ‘ad hoc pairs of individuals’. Drawing inspiration from Sartre’s Critique …Read more
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    Collective intentionality and the further challenge of collective free improvisation
    Continental Philosophy Review 53 (1): 49-65. 2020.
    The kind of collective improvisation attained by free jazz at the beginning of the sixties appears interesting from the perspective of contemporary debates on collective intentionality for several reasons. The most notable of these, is that it holds a mirror up to what analytical philosophers of action identify as “the complexly interwoven sets of collective intentions” that make a group more than the sum of its parts. But at the same time, free jazz poses a challenge to these philosophical theo…Read more
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    The intentionality of improvisation represents surely one of the most pressing and controversial issues in contemporary action theory: how do we find the way to characterize the proper intentionality of improvisation, which is an unplanned yet intentional action? This article will address this question bringing together Merleau-Ponty’s motor intentionality and Bergson’s conception of duration. My argument will unfold in three main stages. First, I will briefly describe the traditional scheme tha…Read more
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    The kind of collective improvisation attained by the “free jazz” at the beginning of the sixties sets a challenge to analytic theories of collective intentionality, that emphasize the role played by future-directed plans in the interlocking and interdependent intentions of the individual participants, because in the free jazz case the performers’ interdependence or [interplay] stems from an intuitive understanding between musicians. Otherwise said: what happens musically is not planned in advanc…Read more
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    Le « mouvement qui trace et laisse derrière lui les figures du sillage »
    Alter: revue de phénoménologie 21 279-297. 2013.
    On demande : où l’histoire se fait-elle? […] Quel est ce mouvement qui trace et laisse derrière lui les figures du sillage? Il est du même ordre que le mouvement de la Parole et de la Pensée, et enfin que l’éclatement du monde sensible entre nous : partout il y a sens, dimensions, figures par-delà ce que “chaque conscience” aurait pu produire […]. Cette interrogation et cette ébauche de réponse nous placent au cœur de la conception merleau-pontienne du mouvement de l’expression, le mouvemen...
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    Les frontières entre réel et imaginaire à l’épreuve des promenades sonores in situ
    Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 12 (1): 189-203. 2019.
    This article examines the particular aesthetic experience brought about by soundwalks. In each case, the point of departure is the phenomenological analysis of two case study: Janet Cardiff’s Walks and the audio-tours Remote x by Rimini Protokoll. Drawing upon Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, I will examine the conflicts of perception and the peculiar shift from one order of perception to another that punctuate the spectator’s walking, as well as the intertwining of the real and the imaginary coming i…Read more
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    Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
    Philosophy Today 52 (Supplement): 63-73. 2008.
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    L'a priori du corps chez Merleau-Ponty
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 2 167-187. 2008.
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    Merleau-Ponty's Thinking Eye
    Philosophy Today 58 (2): 265-278. 2014.
    The general aim of this paper is to reach a better understanding of the dynamic process that gives rise to a self and its conscious activity. In order to meet this overall goal, I will analyse in detail the three main stages of the creative process, taking Merleau-Ponty’s reflections on the painter’s experience provided in Eye and Mind as my starting point. My argument will unfold in three main stages. First, I will focus on his notion of flesh, in order to explore the experience of bodily feeli…Read more
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    Drawing from Merleau-Ponty’s Conception of Movement as Primordial Expression
    Research in Phenomenology 45 (2): 288-302. 2015.
    _ Source: _Volume 45, Issue 2, pp 288 - 302 In this paper I intend to show that Merleau-Ponty’s conception of movement as primordial expression, whereby movement is a shaping force that can be discerned in the forms it creates, allows us to go beyond the superficial definition of movement as “change of place” and discover its most essential characteristic: that is the expression of a motion—intrinsic to feeling—which can take on the form of either a generative thrust or an act that traces out an…Read more
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    L'espace comme ouverture enveloppante
    Studia Phaenomenologica. forthcoming.
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