Federico Luisetti

Abstract

Fantasmi dei viventi is a meditation on the experimental photograph by Anton Giulio Bragaglia entitled Un gesto del capo (1911). The essay recreates the Bergsonian vitalism underlying Bragaglia’s aesthetics of change and illustrates the avantgardist challenge against post-Kantian transcendentalism. With reference to Bergson and Deleuze, Fantasmi dei viventi analyzes also the paradoxes of immanence and Bragaglia’s aesthetics of «intermovemental» intervals.

Federico Luisetti is associate professor of Italian Studies, Comparative Literature and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of the monographs Una vita. Pensiero selvaggio e filosofia dell’intensità (Mimesis, 2011), Estetica dell’immanenza. Saggi sulle parole, le immagini e le macchine (Aracne, 2008), and Plus Ultra. Enciclopedismo barocco e modernità (Trauben, 2001).