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

• Postgraduate Member in the Centre for Culture and Ecology

• 0000: 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/
• 0000: Member in the Editorial Board of Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey: www.kaiak-pj.it/
• 0000: Member in the transdisciplinary scientific collective Internation: https://internation.world

Book review

• Pavanini, Marco (2019). La funzione N: Sulla macchinazione filosofica in Gilles Deleuze. Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey 6: 1-3.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019). Negare il mondo? Sullo spirito dell’India e la gnosi occidentale. Inschibboleth: 2019. Kaiak: A Philosophical Journey 6: 1-3.
• Pavanini, Marco (2018). Filosofia dell’automatismo: Verso un’etica della corporeità. Orthotes: 2018. Philosophy Kitchen
• Pavanini, Marco (2017). Il quinto “Vangelo” di Nietzsche: Sulla correzione delle buone notizie. Mimesis: 2015. Agalma 13: 113-115.

Chapter in book

• Pavanini, Marco (2023). Elementi di filosofia della nascita: Soggettivazione intrauterina e gestazione extrauterina. In La filosofia e il suo fuori. Marra, Emilia Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici Press. 149-175.
• Pavanini, Marco (2021). Digital Individuation and the Occlusion of the Protentional System. In Cyberpolitics: Political Philosophy of the Future. Pereira Martins, Constantino Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos. 186-195.
• Pavanini, Marco (2021). Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza: Contributi a un'antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk. In Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6. de Conciliis, Eleonora Kaiak Edizioni. 161-184.
• Moore, Gerald, Mylonas, Nikos A., Pavanini, Marco, Bossiere, Marie-Claude & Alombert, Anne (2021). Planetary Detox and the Neurobiology of Ecological Collapse. In Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative. Stiegler, Bernard & The Internation Collective Open Humanities Press. 220-248.
• Pavanini, Marco (2020). Produzione dello spazio del vizio: Il termotopo come fattore antropogenetico in Sloterdijk. In Caldo/Freddo: Annuario Kaiak 5. Cuomo, Vincenzo Kaiak Edizioni. 143-170.
• Pavanini, Marco (2018). Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk. In Ecologia: Teoria, natura, politica. Pelgreffi, Igor Kaiak Edizioni. 207-222.
• Pavanini, Marco (2016). Collettivi antropotecnici: La specificità della cultura mediterranea compresa attraverso le riflessioni di Peter Sloterdijk e Philippe Descola. In Azioni parallele: Mediterranei. Baptist, Gabriella, Bonavoglia, Andrea & Meccariello, Aldo Aracne. 157-169.

Conference Paper

• Pavanini, Marco (2023), Human Constitutive Technicity: The Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology, Phenomenology of Human-Technology Relation: A New Perspective on Technological Design. University of Bremen.
• Pavanini, Marco (2022), Sloterdijk’s and Stiegler’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Technology: The Paleoanthropological Turn, DesignLab. University of Twente.
• Pavanini, Marco (2022), Stiegler's Hyper-Materialism and the Laws of Matter, Law, Technology and the Human Conference. University of Kent.
• Pavanini, Marco (2022), The Paleoanthropological Turn in the Philosophy of Technology, Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Filosofia da Tecnologia. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.
• Pavanini, Marco (2021), Four Conflating Paradigms on Human Technicity, The Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference. Catholic University of Lille.
• Pavanini, Marco (2021), The Twofold Dimension of Human Constitutive Technicity, Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology. Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
• Pavanini, Marco (2021), Postumanismo e tecnicità costitutiva umana, Il postumanismo contemporaneo tra filosofia, cinema e letteratura. Collegio Ghislieri.
• Pavanini, Marco (2020), La filosofia della tecnica di Bernard Stiegler, Seminari di filosofia contemporanea. University of Milano.
• Pavanini, Marco (2020), Stereotipia e frammentazione nell'individuazione digitale, Seminario Realismo Digitale. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.
• Pavanini, Marco (2020), Anthropogenesis as a Technical Process, Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations. University of Twente.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019), Can Inner Individuation Be Acquired Only through Outer Deindividuation? An Immunological Approach to the Question of Locality, Internal Seminar on Locality, Real Smart Cities Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE Action Programme. Universidad de las Artes Guayaquil.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019), The Occlusion of the Protentional System and the Stake of Digital Technologies, Cyberpolitics: Political Philosophy of the Future. University of Coimbra.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019), Occlusione del sistema protenzionale e cortocircuito motivazionale, Summer School di Filosofia Teoretica 'Pensare il Futuro/Pensare al Futuro'. Aldo Moro University of Bari.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019), Contaminazioni e ibridazioni tra umanità e animalità, Dizionario #Frontiera. MACRO.
• Pavanini, Marco (2018), Welt- und Menschwerdung durch prototechnische Schaffung von Innenräumen: Ein bio-ontologischer Versuch ausgehend vom Denken Dieter Claessens, dia:logos – 3. Studentische Tagung für Philosophie. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
• Pavanini, Marco (2017), Co-immunologia: La declinazione ecologica del pensiero di Peter Sloterdijk, Le parole del Novecento - XI Edizione 'Ecologia'. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.

Edited book

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

Edited Journal

• Marra, Emilia & Pavanini, Marco (2020). Sul divenire immateriale/On Becoming Immaterial. Esercizi Filosofici, 15 (2): Edizioni Università di Trieste.

Journal Article

• Ferreira de Barros, Matheus, Pavanini, Marco & Lemmens, Pieter (2023). Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Technology: From Anthropogenesis to the Anthropocene. Technophany: A Journal for Philosophy and Technology 1(2): 84-123.
• Pavanini, Marco (2022). Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology. Philosophy & Technology 35(1).
• Pavanini, Marco (2020). Cosmotechnics from an Anthropotechnological Perspective. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 25(4): 26-38.
• Pavanini, Marco (2019). L’istituzione come proprio dell’umano: Un approccio antropo-tecnologico. Discipline Filosofiche 29(2): 31-50.
• Pavanini, Marco (2018). Non siamo mai stati carenti. La tecnicità costitutiva dell’esistenza umana secondo Paul Alsberg. S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it 19: 144-154.
• Pavanini, Marco (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, Marco (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, Marco (2016). Corpi, linguaggio e verità. Il materialismo dionisiaco di Sloterdijk. Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey 3: 1-12.
• Pavanini, Marco (2016). Per un’etica co-immunologica. La questione dell’Antropocene in Sloterdijk tra sferologia e antropotecnologia. Lo Sguardo 22(3): 109-122.

Translated Book

• Pavanini, Marco (trans.) (2019). Christoph Tücke. Cripto-ontologia della scrittura . Kaiak Edizioni

Translated Chapter in Book

• Pavanini, Marco (trans.) (2021). 'Gerald Moore. Il pharmakon, l'estrazione di dopamina e la società della dipendenza '. In Psicotropie: Annuario Kaiak 6. de Conciliis, Eleonora (ed.). Kaiak Edizioni. 61-68