Filippo FIMIANI | Curriculum

Docteur ès Lettres at the University of Paris VIII-Saint-Denis (France) and in Philosophy at the University of Naples (Italy), Filippo Fimiani is Full Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Salerno. He was Visiting Professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris (EHESS), the University of Paris Diderot Paris 7, and at the University of Pau. Member of the Italian Philosofical Society (SFI), of the University Council of Cinema (CUC), of the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE), former member of the Center of Research on Arts and Language (CRAL) of the EHESS/CNRS, of the Institute of Arts, Creations, Theories, Aesthetics (ACTE) of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne-CNRS, of the Canter Inter-Critical of Arts and Discourses on Arts (CICADA) at the University of Pau, of the Center The Antique, of the Modern (LAMO) at the University of Nantes, of the networks Atmospheric Spaces. Aura Stimmung Ambiance, currentely Fimiani is member of the International Laboratory for Research in Art (LIRA) of the University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, of the Center for Image Studies PUNCTUM of the University of Bergamo, of the Society for Research in Video and Filmmaking Therapy (REFIT), and of the network Visual Studies-Rome Network (ViStuRN). Fimiani is co-editor of Aisthesis, contributing editor of Figures de l’Art. Révue d'Etudes esthétiques and WikiCréation (France), member of the the advisory board of La Part de l’Œil (Belge) and Kaiak. A Philosophical Journal (Italy).
Always, Director of the PhD Program in Language Sciences, Society, Politics and Education in the University of Salerno, currently he is Coordinator of the PhD Scool in Human Sciences + Cultures (SCU) and delegated by the Dean to the PhD and graduate Schools in Humanities. He is Director of the Audiovisual Storytelling Lab (LABSAV).
Devoted to critical theory in the images, visual culture and aesthetics, Fimiani especially works on the relations of visual and rhetoric representations in the literature and media issues. His publications include: The Event’s Sovereignty (1994), Poetics and Genealogies (2000), Poetica Mundi (2001), Formlessness Forms (2005), Ghosts of Art (2012), My beautifull and cloudless blu Sky: Myths and legends of Yves Klein, Artist without Works of Art (2021), Pictures and Senses (with Pina De Luca, 2009), Physiognomic of the Sense. Signs Pictures Discourses (with Antonella Trotta, Marina De Palo, 2010), Labeling, Describing, Exhibiting (with Pietro Kobau, 2011), The Aesthetic at work (with Pierre-Henry Frangne, 2011), Facts and Values in Aesthetics: Contemporary Stakes and Approaches (with Vangelis Athanassopoulos, Barbara Formis, Jacinto Lageita, 2016), Je est un autre. Mimicry in Nature, Art and Society (with Pietro Conte, Michael Weemans, 2016), Aesthetics in Times of Contagion (with Andrea Mecacci and Vincenzo Zingari, 2021). He edited Gaston Bachelard’s Lautréamont (1989, new critical edition 2009), Paul Claudel’s Poetic Art (2002) and Introduction to Dutch Painting (1999).