UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Welcome. This site is where I collect my writing, teaching and collaborative research.

In the Vault section of this web site you will find my publications, a library of things I read, my syllabi, and documentation from projects and collective processes I have been part of.

I work as an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the Centre for Advanced Studies Southeastern Europe, University of Rijeka. My research unfolds at the intersection of academic inquiry and collective practice, exploring how communities cultivate refusal of work, commoning of care, and the political uses of pleasure as embodied tactics for surviving and transforming the everyday violences of capitalist production. Rooted in the legacies of Italian operaismo, institutional analysis, and transfeminist materialism, my approach stays close to movement knowledges and the practical questions people face when systems fail.

Over the past two decades, I have been shaped by participation in organizing efforts across Europe. Beginning in the autonomist scenes of my hometown Turin during the early 2000s alter-globalization movements, I was later part of the Precarious Workers Brigade in London, a collective concerned with unpaid and compulsory free labour, including internships in the cultural sector and enforced workfare schemes for unemployed people and migrants. I was also among the co-initiators of the Micropolitics Research Group, which explored the legacies of institutional analysis and de-institutionalization (Tosquelles, Oury, Guattari, Basaglia, Fanon, Rolnik) in relation to artistic practice and collective care. These organizing experiences have fundamentally shaped my methods and commitments. My doctoral research, completed at Queen Mary University (2015), titled Common Pleasures: the Politics of Collective Practice from Sociability to Militant Conviviality, was an attempt to weave these trajectories together.

Today, collaborative research processes are primary sites of knowledge production for me. Since 2019, I have co-convened Pirate Care, an international research and creative project fostering a network of activists, scholars and practitioners who stand against the criminalization of solidarity and for a common care infrastructure. This work resulted in both an open-access syllabus and the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Pluto Press, 2025). I was also a lead researcher for Figure It Out: The Art of Living Through System Failures (a Creative Europe project, 2022–24), an inquiry into strategies of plebeian illegalism as tools for survival and resistance. I also coordinate the working group “Analysis, Theory & Politics of Care” for the COST Action Toolkit of Care.

My writing is published in journals including Cultural Politics, Theory & Event, ephemera, Gender, Work & Organization, and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, as well as in collections from MIT Press and Routledge. A book on militant conviviality is forthcoming from Bristol University Press.

Before my current position, I have worked at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, and the Art and Design Research Institute, Middlesex University. I also held fellowships at Duke University, Leuphana University, and the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Politics, and was a DAAD Visiting Lecturer at Justus-Liebig University Giessen.

My collaborative practice spans projects with cultural institutions including Kunsthalle Wien and MACBA, presentations at venues such as Documenta 14 and Venice Biennale, and workshops and pedagogical formats across artistic and community contexts.

This site runs on Sandpoints, with Markdown, Zotero and Calibre. Zotero is where much of the research phase happens: collecting, annotating, citing. Calibre is where I care for texts and files as a library. Markdown keeps things plain, editable and movable. Sandpoints connects these elements into a public website and publishing system. I use this infrastructure because free knowledge needs shared ways of reading, cataloguing, teaching, documenting and circulating work while it is still alive.