Staff profile

I am a PhD student and teaching assistant based at the Centre for Culture and Ecology, Durham University (UK). My research concerns the relationship between technology and human existence, with a particular focus on the role played by technologies in both shaping the process of human evolution and structuring scientific knowledge of this process. Following insights developed by contemporary philosophers such as Bernard Stiegler and Peter Sloterdijk, my research starts from the idea that our understanding of technology needs to be reconceived if we are to meet the challenges posed by the ongoing climatic, economic and social crises. I am a member of the transdisciplinary scientific collective Internation and on the editorial board of the journal Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey. My research has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Philosophy and Technology and Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology.

• Philosophy of Technology
• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• World-Ecology
• Philosophical Anthropology
• Contemporary French and German Philosophy

• 2000: Member in the Editorial Board of Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey: www.kaiak-pj.it/
• 2000: Member in the transdisciplinary scientific collective Internation: https://internation.world
• 2000: Co-convener of the CCE Reading Group, Centre for Culture and Ecology: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/culture-ecology/reading-group/

Book review

• Pavanini, M. (2019). La funzione N: Sulla macchinazione filosofica in Gilles Deleuze. Kaiak, 6, 1-3
• Pavanini, M. (2019). Negare il mondo? Sullo spirito dell’India e la gnosi occidentale. Inschibboleth: 2019. Kaiak, 6, 1-3
• Pavanini, M. (2018). Filosofia dell’automatismo: Verso un’etica della corporeità. Orthotes: 2018. Philosophy kitchen,
• correzione delle buone notizie. Mimesis: 2015. Agalma (Testo stampato), 13, 113-115

Chapter in book

• Pavanini, M. (2023). Elementi di filosofia della nascita: Soggettivazione intrauterina e gestazione extrauterina. In E. Marra (Ed.), La filosofia e il suo fuori (149-175). Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press
• Pavanini, M. (2021). Gerald Moore. Il pharmakon, l'estrazione di dopamina e la società della dipendenza. In E. de Conciliis (Ed.), Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6 (61-68). Kaiak Edizioni
• Moore, G., Mylonas, N. A., Pavanini, M., Bossiere, M., & Alombert, A. (2021). Planetary Detox and the Neurobiology of Ecological Collapse. In B. Stiegler, & T. I. Collective (Eds.), Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative (220-248). Open Humanities Press
• Pavanini, M. (2021). Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un'antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk. In E. de Conciliis (Ed.), Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6 (161-184). Kaiak Edizioni
• Pavanini, M. (2021). Digital Individuation and the Occlusion of the Protentional System. In C. Pereira Martins (Ed.), Cyberpolitics: Political Philosophy of the Future (186-195). Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos
• Pavanini, M. (2020). Produzione dello spazio del vizio: Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk. In V. Cuomo (Ed.), Caldo/Freddo: Annuario Kaiak 5 (143-170). Kaiak Edizioni
• Pavanini, M. (2018). Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk. In I. Pelgreffi (Ed.), Ecologia: Teoria, natura, politica (207-222). Kaiak Edizioni
• Pavanini, M. (2016). Collettivi antropotecnici: La specificità della cultura mediterranea compresa attraverso le riflessioni di Peter Sloterdijk e Philippe Descola. In G. Baptist, A. Bonavoglia, & A. Meccariello (Eds.), Azioni parallele: Mediterranei (157-169). Aracne. https://doi.org/10.4399/978882550366113

Conference Paper

• Pavanini, M. (2023). Human Constitutive Technicity: The Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology.
• Pavanini, M. (2022). Sloterdijk’s and Stiegler’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Technology: The Paleoanthropological Turn.
• Pavanini, M. (2022). Stiegler's Hyper-Materialism and the Laws of Matter.
• Pavanini, M. (2022). The Paleoanthropological Turn in the Philosophy of Technology.
• Pavanini, M. (2021). Four Conflating Paradigms on Human Technicity.
• Pavanini, M. (2021). The Twofold Dimension of Human Constitutive Technicity.
• Pavanini, M. (2021). Postumanismo e tecnicità costitutiva umana.
• Pavanini, M. (2020). Anthropogenesis as a Technical Process.
• Pavanini, M. (2020). La filosofia della tecnica di Bernard Stiegler.
• Pavanini, M. (2020). Stereotipia e frammentazione nell'individuazione digitale.
• Pavanini, M. (2019). Occlusione del sistema protenzionale e cortocircuito motivazionale.
• Pavanini, M. (2019). The Occlusion of the Protentional System and the Stake of Digital Technologies.
• Pavanini, M. (2019). Can Inner Individuation Be Acquired Only through Outer Deindividuation? An Immunological Approach to the Question of Locality.
• Pavanini, M. (2019). Contaminazioni e ibridazioni tra umanità e animalità.
• Pavanini, M. (2018). Welt- und Menschwerdung durch prototechnische Schaffung von Innenräumen: Ein bio-ontologischer Versuch ausgehend vom Denken Dieter Claessens.
• Pavanini, M. (2017). Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk.

Edited book

• Pavanini, M. (Ed.). (2020). Lo spazio dell'umano: Saggi dopo Sloterdijk. Kaiak Edizioni
• Pavanini, M. (Ed.). (2020). Tecnica: Figure e strutture dell'artificio. Kaiak Edizioni

Journal Article

• Ferreira de Barros, M., Pavanini, M., & Lemmens, P. (2023). Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Technology: From Anthropogenesis to the Anthropocene
• Pavanini, M. (2022). Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology. Philosophy & Technology, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00501-x
• Pavanini, M. (2020). Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 25(4), 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2020.1790833
• Pavanini, M. (2019). L’istituzione come proprio dell’umano: Un approccio antropo-tecnologico. Discipline filosofiche (Testo stampato), 29(2), 31-50
• Pavanini, M. (2018). Non siamo mai stati carenti. La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg. S&F scienzaefilosofia.it, 19, 144-154
• Pavanini, M. (2017). Genealogia dell’esercizio. L’influenza del pensiero di Nietzsche nello sviluppo del concetto di antropotecnica in Peter Sloterdijk. Esercizi filosofici, 12(2), 231-244
• Pavanini, M. (2017). Anthropotechnical Collectives: Sloterdijk’s and Descola’s Insights as an Interpretive Tool in Order to Understand Cultural Specificity. Philosophical news, 15, 137-147
• Pavanini, M. (2016). Corpi, linguaggio e verità. Il materialismo dionisiaco di Sloterdijk. Kaiak, 3, 1-12
• Pavanini, M. (2016). Per un’etica co-immunologica. La questione dell’Antropocene in Sloterdijk tra sferologia e antropotecnologia. Lo Sguardo, 22(3), 109-122

Scholarly Edition

• Pavanini, M. (2019). Christoph Tücke. Cripto-ontologia della scrittura