Professor Dr. Žarko Paić, new member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) and recognized researcher in fields such as aesthetics, theory of media exposures, and social communication, has recently published the following books:

– Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event: At the Edge of Chaos (2020), a book in which, resuming Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics, he studies the relations between contemporary economics and politics, and addresses problems such as governmental cybernetic systems or the new sources of capitalism legitimacy in its neoliberal phase.

– White Holes and the Visualization of the Body (2019). In this book, based on Deleuze and Artaud’s reflection upon body, professor Paić states that human body remains obsolete in relation to the development of cybernetics and artificial intelligence.

– Theorizing Images (2016). This book theorizes the roll of pictures in contemporary world, bringing to light the difficulty of considering a unique theory on them for the current world.

Professor Dr. Carlos Másmela Arroyave, researcher member of the International Center of Studies in Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), and associate professor to the Philosophy Institute of the Universidad de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia), has just published a book entitled: Retroceso, retorno y paso atrás en la filosofía. Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger. The book deals with an inverse reading to the common representation of progress in philosophy, which is usually thought as something lineal, both in time and history: it is an analysis upon the conception of return to the foundation, of the eternal recurrence of the same and of the step back in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

In Lugano (Switzerland) will be held the Massive Open Access Course on interreligious dialogue. Organized by Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris, in the framework of the research work of the Istituto ReTe and the Master of Arts in Scieza, Filosofia e Teologia delle Religioni, this course, that is part of the “Religions from the inside” project, will feature the participation of rabbi Ephraim Meir, Imam Yayha Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, hinduist Svamini Hamsananda Giri, Buddhism expert Seung Chul Kim and a Christian, the rector of the University, René Roux. This course will be taught in English and is for free. More information in the informative links.

FutureLearn:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/religions-from-the-inside-interreligous-dialogue

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https://www.instagram.com/istitutoretelugano/

Since July Professor Dr. Žarko Paić has become a new researcher member the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism. Žarko Paić is a Full professor at the Faculty of Textile Technology, Department of Fashion Design, University of Zagreb, where he teaches aesthetics, fashion studies and media/visual studies. Graduated at the Faculty of Political Science of the Zagreb University, M.A. in philosophy at the same university, he completed a PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb.

The First International Conference of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism was held in November 2019 in Pisa (Italy). The lectures there presented are the basis of the articles published in TEORIA, Rivista di filosofía fondata da Vittorio Sainati 40/2020/1 (Terza serie XV/1). Many researchers of the CeNic published together with professors of the Università di Pisa in this issue:

On the Teoria’s website you can find the Table of Contents, as well as access the article directly:   http://www.rivistateoria.eu/

Professor Dr. Dean Komel, research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) has published the book Totalitarium, in which he has dealed the phenomenon of totalitarian structure; however, the discussion is not limited to the totalitarianisms of the 20^th century, but considers the ontological, metapolitical, biopolitical, and technoscientific aspects of the elevation of society to the state of unconditional subjectivity. The phenomenological unfolding of the archontics of the world as the whole of Being serves as the basis for a structural definition of the system of “social power,” which triggers the systematic “control of the world.”

In the first part, the research focuses on the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger, Vanja Sutlić, and Ivan Urbančič, insofar as they represent both a direct confrontation with the totalitarian reality in the 20^th century as well as an attempt to think totalitarianism from the viewpoint of key metaphysical elements (Absolute, Will to Power, Nihilism, Gestell, Imperialism, Totalitarium). On this basis, reflections are made on the totalitarian reverberations of past social revolutions and historical nihilism, which are also presented within the current debate on European future and global justice. Furthermore, it is important to consider the conjunction of capital, technology, and politics, which in the unbridled will to control the world concerns the balance between freedom and justice that affects not only sociability, but also the very humanness of the human being. The total functionalization of human resources for production and consumption is accompanied by existential indifference and thoughtlessness, which, as Hannah Arendt already indicated, fundamentally characterizes the totalitarian structure.

Prof. Dr. Steven Crowell, professor at Rice University and Research Member of CeNic, has been honored with the well-deserved Festschrift: Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology, edited by Matthew Burch, Jack Marsh & Irene McMullin and published by Routledge (New York, USA). A second volume, edited by Mathew Burch & Irene McMullin, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing under the title Transcending Reason: Heidegger’s Reinterpretation of Phenomenology.

The book can be found at the following link:

https://www.amazon.de/Normativity-Meaning-Phenomenology-Routledge-Research/dp/1138479918/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=Normativity%2C+Meaning%2C+and+the+Promise+of+Phenomenology%2C&qid=1585674545&s=books&sr=1-1

The International Center of Studies in Contemporary Nihilism publishes a list of the international journals edited by its researchers in order to invite all professors and students, who are interested in philosophy, to check their webpages and get to know them in deep.

• Teoria. Rivista di Filosofia fondata da Vittorio Sainati (Editor: Prof. Dr. Adriano Fabris)
  • http://www.rivistateoria.eu/
• Phainomena. Journal of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Editor: Prof. Dr. Dean Komel)
  • http://www.phainomena.com/en/
• Topologik. Rivista internazionale di scienze filosofiche, pedagogiche e sociali (Editor: Prof. Dr. Michelle Borrelli)
  • http://www.topologik.net/
• Trópos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica (Editors: Prof. Dr. Gaetano Chiurazzi / Prof. Dr. Gianni Vattimo)
  • https://troposonline.org/
• Theoria (Editor: Prof. Dra. Rebeca Maldonado)
  • http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/theoria
• Revista Signos (Editor: Prof. Dr. Rogerio Schuck)
  • http://www.univates.br/revistas/index.php/signos/index
• Cuestiones de Filosofía. (Editor: Prof. Dr. Alfredo Rocha de la Torre)
  • https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cuestiones_filosofia/index

Jorge Alberto Valcarcel Guzmán, member of the support group of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic), is doing a research internship at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Urs Sommer. This research internship is supported by the International Relations Office and the International Language Institute of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, as well as by the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic).

Professor Dr. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, research member of the International Center of Studies on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) and director of the International School for Intercultural Philosophy (EIFI), has just published his book Con la autoridad de la melancolía. Los humanismos y sus melancolías (With the authority of melancholy. Humanisms and its melancholies), in which he reflects on this subject in Sartre, Heidegger, Jaspers, Fromm, Lévinas, Zambrano and Christian and intercultural humanism, as well as going more deeply into melancholy phenomenon from multiple perspectives. This publication is part of the series Denktraditionen im Dialog: Studien zur Befreiung und Interkulturalität (Band 45) published by the EIFI.