Paolo Piccirillo is currently a Semiotics PhD Student (cycle XL), in the PhD course Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics (PSCS) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bologna.
He is also a member of the International PhD College (I-PhD), a 3rd cycle academic and research track organised by the Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna, complementary to the University's PhD programmes.
Education
· 2024 - ongoing: PhD Student in Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics (Department of Philosophy, curriculum Semiotics (M-FIL/05), Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna). Title: The creativity of human and machinic instances. Around the enunciation of aesthetic artifices between plastic and digital.
· 2022 - 2024: Master's Degree in Semiotics, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, thesis in Media Semiotics, title: The Pornographic Discourse. Medial vectors of meaning between experience, dress and enunciation. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
· 2019 - 2022: Master's Degree in Philosophical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, thesis in History of Philosophy, title: Beyond the Renaissance Subject. The awakening of the perceived world. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
· 2016 - 2019: Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, thesis in Semiotics, title: Aesthetic Experience in the Contemporary. Generative paths in the performance of Marina Abramović. Final evaluation: 110/110 cum laude
· 2011 - 2016: Classical High School Diploma, Liceo Ginnasio “G. Asproni”, Nuoro
Participation in conferences
· 09/11/2024 - Communication “A Peculiar Case of Machinic Enunciation. Performing Silence in the World of Noise”, for LII conference Italian Association of Semiotic Studies, Forms of Silence. In collaboration with: Department of Philosophy, Department of the Arts (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna), Nov. 7-9, Bologna.
· 12/09/2024 - Communication “Light as a Narrative Attant. Toward a semiotic reinterpretation of Cusanus between visible and intelligible”, for international conference XI Jungcusaner Tagung 2024, Nicholas of Cusa and the Metaphor(s) of Light. In collaboration with: Academy of Sciences of the Bologna Institute, Italian Cusanian Society, Kueser Akademie für Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Sept. 11-13, Bologna.
· 14/03/2022 - Communication “Beyond Rational Sensibility. The medietas of chiaroscuro in Plato and Cusanus”, for international conference The Humanism of Quadrivium. In collaboration with: Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna, Department of Philosophy (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna), CESR - Université de Tours, March 14, Bologna.
Memberships
· 2019 - 2020; 2024 - ongoing: Member of the Italian Association of Semiotic Studies (AISS)
· 2024 - ongoing: Member of Collegio Superiore, University of Bologna (I-PhD)
