Recent Publications

We are pleased to share the news of recent publications by graduates and faculty affiliated with IDSVA. Stay tuned for upcoming online book launches in the fall!

Dr. George Orwel (IDSVA Alumn 2022), published his PhD dissertation as the monograph Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape (Routledge, 2025).

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Dr. Keren Moscovitch (IDSVA Alumna 2020), published her PhD dissertation as the monograph Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood (Bloomsbury, 2024).

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Dr. Silvia Mazzini (Director of the School and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory) published the article "Dreams from the Past as Signs from the Future " in the journal La Maleta, 70, 2025; the book chapter "For a Posthuman, Ecological Economy" in Humane Ökonomie (2025); and the article "Per un’ecologia ermeneutica. Dall’oltreuomo al postumano in Gianni Vattimo” in: Iride, 37, 101, 2024.

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Dr. Simonetta Moro (President and Professor of Art, Philosophy, and Visual Studies) published The Vattimo Dictionary: Some Reflections, In California Italian Studies, 13(2), 2024, and Vattimo’s Legacy of Freedom, in Common Knowledge, 30:3, September 2024.

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Dr. George Smith (IDSVA Founder and President Emeritus, Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy) published The Artist-Philosopher in the Age of Addiction: Heidegger’s Climatology (Routledge, 2025).

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Dr. Elina Staikou (Dean of Students and Chair of Independent Studies and Dissertation Committees) published the chapter Erotics of Decomposition: Cells and their Oceans, in the publication Erotics of Deconstruction: Auto-Affection after Derrida, edited by Lynn Turner (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

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Dr. Giovanbattista Tusa (Independent Study and Dissertation Director) published Terra Cosmica / Traces of Georealism (Tenement Press #13, 2024).

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Dr. Santiago Zabala (Independent Study and Dissertation Director) published Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings (Columbia University Press, 2025).

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Dr. Marcelo Guimarães Lima published Augusto Matraga, the Divine Warrior in the CEPAOS Journal, July 13, 2025.

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