Giovanni Tusa, philosopher and video artist

Giovanni Tusa is currently Researcher in Philosophy and Ecology at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has studied in philosophy, contemporary arts, cinema and has worked as lecturer in many institutions in Europe and US. As a documentary filmmaker and video artist, he has had his works screened in Cuba, London documentary film festival, Biennale della Danza in Venice, Coimbra and Paris.

His latest work, De la Fin, co-authored with Alain Badiou, has been published in France in 2017
and then translated with new original essays in English (The End, Polity Press, 2019), Portuguese
(Do Fim, Cultura e Barbárie, 2020), and Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limon Ediciones, 2019). He worked as an editor and translator from French and English for the Italian edition of L’equivalence des catastrophes and Exclu le juif en nous by Jean Luc-Nancy, Á la recherche du réel perdu, by Alain Badiou, Be my body for me. Domination and Servitude in Hegel by Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, and Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European.
His current multidisciplinary research focuses on philosophy, radical politics, cinema, ecology, contemporary arts, media theory, and animal studies.

He is the Director of the Planetary Conversations at the Philosophical Salon https://www.planetaryconversations.com/