Chiara Cappelletto
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Chiara Cappelletto is a Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan. She has been fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, the Princeton University, the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, NY.
She takes a materialistic and feminist approach to discuss the aesthetic processes by which the Self is construed through different types of media and artifacts. She investigates the performative dynamics of identity by examining the epistemic conditions, devices and artefacts that participate in the processes of subjectivation. She works with an interdisciplinary approach between aesthetics, cognitive science, media theory and anthropology and runs her research on a theoretical and experimental (qualitative) level. She has opened research leads on thermal and fetal imaging, on face masks and on digital and material prosthesis to investigate their feedback effects on human agents.
She joins the Paris IAS in April 2025 for a one-month writing residency.
Research topics
Theories of embodiment ; Theories of self ; Human agency ; Performance and public discourse
Face Mask-Wearing: An Entanglement of Material Artifacts and Living Bodies
The project intends to develop a first person based research on Self-awareness. It will favor a heuristics based on the feedback loop of material artifacts, such as face masks, with which the bodily and situated Self is entangled. Such a heuristic is valuable for an ecological understanding of the Self's cognitive and affective agencies displayed in interpersonal relationships. This is all the more crucial today as the current technological advancements in the implementation of human cognitive processes need to be understood for the feedback effect they exert on the subject involved.
Key publications
Cappelletto, C., Embodying Art. How we see, think, feel and create, Columbia UP, 2022.
Cappelletto, C., "The Mask: Expressing the Scattered Human Identity, in Ecologies of Expression", in Ökologien des Ausdrucks, eds. F. Fehrenbach and M. Vollgraf, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 165-178, 2022.
Calbi, M., Cappelletto, C., "How face mask wearing affects the sense of self: breathing as a case of disrupted bodily self- consciousness", Philosophical Psychology, 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2341791
 Online conference by Chiara Cappelletto, Full Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, as part of the "Paris IAS Ideas" series |
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