Martina Ferrari
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Ferrari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrari |
| SIGNATURE | FERRARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5654-7396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonial Philosophy and Phenomenology
A Phenomenology of Limits: On the Decolonzing Reduction as a Method of Critical Phenomenology
In this article, I investigate the limits of a phenomenology of consciousness as generative of a radicalized phenomenological method capable of bearing its relationship with coloniality. I call this method “decolonizing reduction.” The contribution of this article is thus twofold. First, it contributes to conversations about the method of critical phenomenology, arguing that the normative goal of critique of critical phenomenology is achieved via…
Disobedient anonymity and the politics of protesting violence against women
This article accounts for a particular kind of politicised anonymity, namely 'disobedient anonymity', that operates as a liberatory response to the longue durée of gender violence. We examine the street performance Un violador en tu camino created by the Chilean feminist theatre collective LASTESIS, to show how disobedient anonymity is an embodied and collective disruption of colonial subjectification and state-sanctioned gender violence. Buildin…
Anagrammatical Time: On the Grammar of Temporal Harm in the Afterlife of Slavery
In this paper, I argue that lived time is anagrammatical. Anagrammatical time is a time that lands differently along race/gender/class lines. Its sens – its grammar – is rearranged by the context of its unfolding, at times effecting temporal harm while, at others, offering paths for temporal freedom. After introducing the notion of anagrammatical in part 1, in part 2, I turn to Merleau-Ponty’s notions of Stiftung and virtuality to account for the…
Fanon's revolutionary murmurs: Toward a critical phenomenology of listening
Decolonial, postcolonial, and postmodern criticism is indebted to Frantz Fanon for revealing the hegemony of vision and visual language in Western imperial discourse. Yet, the import of Fanon's critique of coloniality reaches beyond a focus on vision into the sonorous. Attending to the often overlooked auditory dimension of Fanon's work, I argue, brings attention to the role of listening as a condition of possibility of a revolutionary consciousn…
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Lockdown dreams: Dream content and emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic in an italian sample
Introduction In the current study, following the continuity hypothesis and considering the adaptive function of dreaming, dreams were investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective, focusing on how the COVID-19 restrictions impacted dream frequency, content, and emotions during the lockdown in an Italian sample [N=598, aged 18-70 years (M = 30.9; SD = 10.9)]. Methods The participants were recruited through an online survey in which …
Bearing witness beyond colonial epistemologies: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s critical phenomenology of deep silence
This paper is one in a series of attempts on my part to think through one of the central challenges left to us by Merleau-Ponty’s sudden death in 1961: if we understand the turn, in his later writings, toward an ontology of the flesh as “a radical rethinking of the experience of belonging from within, [as] a phenomenology of being-of-the-world” (Landes 2020, 141), how are we to bear witness to such an experience? What modalities are called forth …
Effortful control is associated with executive attention: A computational study
INTRODUCTION: Effortful control (EC) is the self-regulatory aspect of temperament that is thought to reflect the efficiency of executive attention (EA). Findings on relationship between EC and performance on EA tasks among adults are still contradictory. This study used a computational approach to clarify whether greater self-reported EC reflects better EA. METHODS: Four hundred twenty-seven healthy subjects completed the Adult Temperament Questi…
Questions of Silence: On the Emancipatory Limits of Voice and the Coloniality of Silence
This article begins at a (historical) crossroads; it straddles the difficult ground between the recent public outcry against sexual violence (a protest that, as championed by the #MeToo movement, seeks to break the “culture of silence” surrounding sexual violence) and concerns about the coloniality of voice made visible by the recent decolonial turn within feminist theory (Ruiz 2006; Lugones 2007; Lugones 2010; Veronelli 2016). Wary of concepts s…
On ne naît pas femme: On le devient
This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir’s “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient,” finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Two entangled controversies emerge in the life of this sentence: a controversy over the practice of translation and a controversy over the nature and status of sexual difference. Variously translated into Englis…
Unreflexive Medicine: The Unspoken “Goodness” of the Normal in the Case of Conjoined Twins’ Separation
In this article, I illustrate ways in which the concepts of the norm and normativity, as well as discourses about normality and the good life, are implicated in relations of power that inform individuals’ values. By analyzing the separation of conjoined twins as a paradigmatic example of practices of overmedicalization, I consider the implications of taking the “goodness” of normality for granted. I argue that overmedicalization procedures establ…
Questions of Silence: On the Emancipatory Limits of Voice and the Coloniality of Silence
This article begins at a (historical) crossroads; it straddles the difficult ground between the recent public outcry against sexual violence (a protest that, as championed by the #MeToo movement, seeks to break the “culture of silence” surrounding sexual violence) and concerns about the coloniality of voice made visible by the recent decolonial turn within feminist theory (Ruiz 2006; Lugones 2007; Lugones 2010; Veronelli 2016). Wary of concepts s…
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Fanon's revolutionary murmurs: Toward a critical phenomenology of listening
Decolonial, postcolonial, and postmodern criticism is indebted to Frantz Fanon for revealing the hegemony of vision and visual language in Western imperial discourse. Yet, the import of Fanon's critique of coloniality reaches beyond a focus on vision into the sonorous. Attending to the often overlooked auditory dimension of Fanon's work, I argue, brings attention to the role of listening as a condition of possibility of a revolutionary consciousn…
Unreflexive Medicine: The Unspoken “Goodness” of the Normal in the Case of Conjoined Twins’ Separation
In this article, I illustrate ways in which the concepts of the norm and normativity, as well as discourses about normality and the good life, are implicated in relations of power that inform individuals’ values. By analyzing the separation of conjoined twins as a paradigmatic example of practices of overmedicalization, I consider the implications of taking the “goodness” of normality for granted. I argue that overmedicalization procedures establ…
On ne naît pas femme: On le devient
This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir’s “On ne naît pas femme: on le devient,” finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Two entangled controversies emerge in the life of this sentence: a controversy over the practice of translation and a controversy over the nature and status of sexual difference. Variously translated into Englis…
Questions of Silence: On the Emancipatory Limits of Voice and the Coloniality of Silence
This article begins at a (historical) crossroads; it straddles the difficult ground between the recent public outcry against sexual violence (a protest that, as championed by the #MeToo movement, seeks to break the “culture of silence” surrounding sexual violence) and concerns about the coloniality of voice made visible by the recent decolonial turn within feminist theory (Ruiz 2006; Lugones 2007; Lugones 2010; Veronelli 2016). Wary of concepts s…
Bearing witness beyond colonial epistemologies: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s critical phenomenology of deep silence
This paper is one in a series of attempts on my part to think through one of the central challenges left to us by Merleau-Ponty’s sudden death in 1961: if we understand the turn, in his later writings, toward an ontology of the flesh as “a radical rethinking of the experience of belonging from within, [as] a phenomenology of being-of-the-world” (Landes 2020, 141), how are we to bear witness to such an experience? What modalities are called forth …
Effortful control is associated with executive attention: A computational study
INTRODUCTION: Effortful control (EC) is the self-regulatory aspect of temperament that is thought to reflect the efficiency of executive attention (EA). Findings on relationship between EC and performance on EA tasks among adults are still contradictory. This study used a computational approach to clarify whether greater self-reported EC reflects better EA. METHODS: Four hundred twenty-seven healthy subjects completed the Adult Temperament Questi…
Lockdown dreams: Dream content and emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic in an italian sample
Introduction In the current study, following the continuity hypothesis and considering the adaptive function of dreaming, dreams were investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective, focusing on how the COVID-19 restrictions impacted dream frequency, content, and emotions during the lockdown in an Italian sample [N=598, aged 18-70 years (M = 30.9; SD = 10.9)]. Methods The participants were recruited through an online survey in which …
Fanon's revolutionary murmurs: Toward a critical phenomenology of listening
Decolonial, postcolonial, and postmodern criticism is indebted to Frantz Fanon for revealing the hegemony of vision and visual language in Western imperial discourse. Yet, the import of Fanon's critique of coloniality reaches beyond a focus on vision into the sonorous. Attending to the often overlooked auditory dimension of Fanon's work, I argue, brings attention to the role of listening as a condition of possibility of a revolutionary consciousn…
Toward a Feminist Phenomenology of Temporal Harm
This essay offers a feminist phenomenology of temporal harm in order to track the ways the historical past shows up in an individual’s present to displace and alter experiences of time. We argue that temporal harm is a key dimension of historical modes of domination and subordination. Temporal harm, although rooted in the historical past, causes intense suffering in the present in both chronic and acute forms. We draw attention to experiences of …
Anagrammatical Time: On the Grammar of Temporal Harm in the Afterlife of Slavery
In this paper, I argue that lived time is anagrammatical. Anagrammatical time is a time that lands differently along race/gender/class lines. Its sens – its grammar – is rearranged by the context of its unfolding, at times effecting temporal harm while, at others, offering paths for temporal freedom. After introducing the notion of anagrammatical in part 1, in part 2, I turn to Merleau-Ponty’s notions of Stiftung and virtuality to account for the…
Decolonial Philosophy and Phenomenology
A Phenomenology of Limits: On the Decolonzing Reduction as a Method of Critical Phenomenology
In this article, I investigate the limits of a phenomenology of consciousness as generative of a radicalized phenomenological method capable of bearing its relationship with coloniality. I call this method “decolonizing reduction.” The contribution of this article is thus twofold. First, it contributes to conversations about the method of critical phenomenology, arguing that the normative goal of critique of critical phenomenology is achieved via…
Disobedient anonymity and the politics of protesting violence against women
This article accounts for a particular kind of politicised anonymity, namely 'disobedient anonymity', that operates as a liberatory response to the longue durée of gender violence. We examine the street performance Un violador en tu camino created by the Chilean feminist theatre collective LASTESIS, to show how disobedient anonymity is an embodied and collective disruption of colonial subjectification and state-sanctioned gender violence. Buildin…
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