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Giovanbattista Tusa, philosopher, and visual artist.

He is currently working on the manuscript of his book Minima Planetaria, and he is the director of the Futures. Of Philosophy Series Planetary Conversations at the Philosophical Salon.

Giovanbattista Tusa is Researcher in Philosophy and Ecology at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa where he coordinates the research program X-CENTRIC FUTURES.

His latest work, De la Fin, co-authored with Alain Badiou, has been published in France in 2017 and then translated with new original essays in English (The End, Polity Press, Cambridge 2019), Portuguese (Do Fim, Cultura e Barbárie, Florianopolis 2020), and Spanish (Acerca del fin, Tinta Limon Ediciones, Buenos Aires 2019). He recently co-edited Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022), and Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2023). He is currently editing, with Michael Marder, Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, Forthcoming).

He worked as an editor and translator for the Italian edition of L’equivalence des catastrophes and Exclu le juif en nous by Jean Luc-Nancy, Á la recherche du réel perdu, by Alain Badiou, Be my body for me. Domination and Servitude in Hegel by Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European, as well as for the French edition of Les mots et les choses by Roberto Esposito

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