Matilde Ferrucci
“I invite the reader to consider embracing utopia—worn out though it may be—at once as indeterminate speculation about a qualitatively better future for human society and as a hypothesis, by assuming it to be possible” (Sylvia Dominika Chrostowska)
Before joining this project, I studied Theoretical Philosophy in Turin, where I have also been a part of an interdisciplinary program offered by the University (Scuola di Studi Superiori Ferdinando Rossi).
My main interest lies in a critical approach to capitalism, and I believe that the environmental crisis offers the most radical and holistic starting point for developing an effective critique of contemporary societies.
Contact: matilde.ferrucci@uni-a.de
My project addresses the global environmental crisis by contrasting the current "realized utopia" of Western capitalist societies with a proposed "utopia in fieri." While the former thrives on exploitation and consumerism, the latter offers a pluralistic, open-ended alternative. My thesis advocates for a dynamic worldview rooted in solidarity, indignation, and irony, replacing destructive assumptions with a vision that embraces contingency, plurality, and deep, social, transformative human possibility.
Realized Utopia and Utopia in fieri. From what-is-already-here to what-is-yet-to-come
My project addresses the global environmental crisis by contrasting the current “realized utopia” of Western capitalist societies with a proposed “utopia in fieri.” While the former thrives on exploitation and consumerism, the latter offers a pluralistic, open-ended alternative. My thesis advocates for a dynamic worldview rooted in solidarity, indignation, and irony, replacing destructive assumptions with a vision that embraces contingency, plurality, and deep, social, transformative human possibility.