Felice Cimatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 461830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felice Cimatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felice |
| FAMILY NAME | Cimatti |
| SIGNATURE | CIMATTI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calabria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Biosemiotic affects
Biosemiotics suggests that every vital relation is, in fact, a semiotic relation. Consider the case of a virus “selecting” the “correct” cellular receptor to enter a cell. This behavior does not imply the existence of preferences, consciousness, or subjectivity; rather, the virus “selects” a receptor by excluding all other possibilities through specific semiotic relationships. To avoid the common risk of vitalism – the fallacious assumption that …
The Biopolitical Animal
The two issues around which this collection revolves are that it is impossible to address biopolitics without taking the animal question into account, and that the animal question inherently concerns the politics of life beyond species barriers. Although biopolitical theories are necessarily structured around animal metaphors, they predominantly refer to human corporeality. On the other hand, the animal question is typically treated as an ethical…
The Biopolitical Animal
Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions Remedies the inherent species blindness of biopolitical theories that have so far mostly excluded nonhuman subjects Contributes to the 'political turn' in animal studies that problematises and expands the scope of inquiry beyond the traditional comfort zone of ethics and ecology Clarifies and concretises into new, powerful interventions the impo…
The Anthropologic Machine
Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Unbecoming Human
Explores the Deleuzian idea of becoming animal Proposes a philosophical concept of animality that applies to both human and nonhuman living beings Draws the first fully detailed cartography of the complex field of animality as it appears in continental philosophy, literary studies, environmental humanities, anthropocene studies, feminist studies, posthumanism, and critical animal studies Covers two points that have never before been addressed: th…
The challenge of abstract concepts
concepts ("freedom") differ from concrete ones ("cat"), as they do not have a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract concepts are represented has recently become a topic of intense debate, especially because of the spread of the embodied approach to cognition. Within this framework concepts derive their meaning from the same perception, motor, and emotional systems that are involved in online interactio…
Beyond the human/non-human dichotomy

Il taglio
Filosofia della psicoanalisi
Il senso della mente
The circular semiosis of Giorgio Prodi
Prodi's semiotics theory comes into being to answer a radical question: if a sign is a cross-reference, what guarantees the relation between the sign and the object to which it is referring? Prodi rebukes all traditional solutions: a subject's voluntary intention, a convention, the iconic relation between sign and object. He refutes the fIrst answer because the notion of intention, upon which it is based, is, indeed, a fully mysterious entity. Th…
The challenge of abstract concepts
concepts ("freedom") differ from concrete ones ("cat"), as they do not have a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract concepts are represented has recently become a topic of intense debate, especially because of the spread of the embodied approach to cognition. Within this framework concepts derive their meaning from the same perception, motor, and emotional systems that are involved in online interactio…
Unbecoming Human
Explores the Deleuzian idea of becoming animal Proposes a philosophical concept of animality that applies to both human and nonhuman living beings Draws the first fully detailed cartography of the complex field of animality as it appears in continental philosophy, literary studies, environmental humanities, anthropocene studies, feminist studies, posthumanism, and critical animal studies Covers two points that have never before been addressed: th…
Beyond the human/non-human dichotomy

The circular semiosis of Giorgio Prodi
Prodi's semiotics theory comes into being to answer a radical question: if a sign is a cross-reference, what guarantees the relation between the sign and the object to which it is referring? Prodi rebukes all traditional solutions: a subject's voluntary intention, a convention, the iconic relation between sign and object. He refutes the fIrst answer because the notion of intention, upon which it is based, is, indeed, a fully mysterious entity. Th…
The circular semiosis of Giorgio Prodi
Prodi's semiotics theory comes into being to answer a radical question: if a sign is a cross-reference, what guarantees the relation between the sign and the object to which it is referring? Prodi rebukes all traditional solutions: a subject's voluntary intention, a convention, the iconic relation between sign and object. He refutes the fIrst answer because the notion of intention, upon which it is based, is, indeed, a fully mysterious entity. Th…
Il senso della mente
Filosofia della psicoanalisi
Il taglio
Beyond the human/non-human dichotomy

The challenge of abstract concepts
concepts ("freedom") differ from concrete ones ("cat"), as they do not have a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract concepts are represented has recently become a topic of intense debate, especially because of the spread of the embodied approach to cognition. Within this framework concepts derive their meaning from the same perception, motor, and emotional systems that are involved in online interactio…
The Anthropologic Machine
Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Unbecoming Human
Explores the Deleuzian idea of becoming animal Proposes a philosophical concept of animality that applies to both human and nonhuman living beings Draws the first fully detailed cartography of the complex field of animality as it appears in continental philosophy, literary studies, environmental humanities, anthropocene studies, feminist studies, posthumanism, and critical animal studies Covers two points that have never before been addressed: th…
The Biopolitical Animal
The two issues around which this collection revolves are that it is impossible to address biopolitics without taking the animal question into account, and that the animal question inherently concerns the politics of life beyond species barriers. Although biopolitical theories are necessarily structured around animal metaphors, they predominantly refer to human corporeality. On the other hand, the animal question is typically treated as an ethical…
The Biopolitical Animal
Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions Remedies the inherent species blindness of biopolitical theories that have so far mostly excluded nonhuman subjects Contributes to the 'political turn' in animal studies that problematises and expands the scope of inquiry beyond the traditional comfort zone of ethics and ecology Clarifies and concretises into new, powerful interventions the impo…
Biosemiotic affects
Biosemiotics suggests that every vital relation is, in fact, a semiotic relation. Consider the case of a virus “selecting” the “correct” cellular receptor to enter a cell. This behavior does not imply the existence of preferences, consciousness, or subjectivity; rather, the virus “selects” a receptor by excluding all other possibilities through specific semiotic relationships. To avoid the common risk of vitalism – the fallacious assumption that …
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Biopower (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Language and languages (2 works)