Philosophy

Philosophy

Ex mente potentia.

From the mind, power. A life of reading, writing, argument, and intellectual seduction.
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Formation

An education organized around difficult questions.

Giulia received an elite accelerated private education at a small school for gifted students and began university unusually early, excelling in advanced philosophy seminars from the beginning. Her subsequent graduate-level philosophical training and sustained independent work have centered on Continental European ethical and political philosophy, developed through close study and guidance from distinguished faculty at a leading liberal-arts college and through advanced programs including recent study in Paris on the value of humanistic education in the age of artificial intelligence.

She describes herself as a perennial student of philosophy: rigorous without being doctrinaire, learned without treating thought as a credentialing exercise. Her work joins philosophy to visual art, film, dance, writing, education, sexuality, and the lived problems of power.

“Desert islands are either from before or for after humankind.”
Gilles Deleuze · Desert Islands
Specializations

The philosophers are companions in thought, not decorative names.

  • Nietzsche — feminism, sexual difference, ressentiment, morality, biography, the pre-Socratics, and the art of becoming.
  • Foucault — gender, sexuality, discipline, confession, power, truth, and parrhesia.
  • Kant — reason, autonomy, ethics, judgment, and the limits structuring human experience.
  • Deleuze and Derrida — desire, difference, interpretation, creation, and the futures opened by thought.
  • Arendt and Heidegger — political life, action, world, technology, mortality, and being.
  • Posthumanism — artificial intelligence, human-machine intimacy, neuroscience, cryptography, and the political conditions of technology.
Selected archived writing

An intellectual history in public.

Aged Thoughts on Marine Lover of Nietzsche

Nietzsche, Luce Irigaray, feminism, sexual difference, Deleuze, ressentiment, and the pre-Socratic sea.

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The Parrhesiastes

Foucault’s fearless speech and the courage required to tell the truth.

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The Forbidden Truth Sex Work Teaches on Love

Autonomy, intimacy, the couple form, and what Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze make visible in desire.

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AI, Galatea, and Dangerous Technology

Relationship chatbots, artificial intimacy, ethics, and the posthuman threshold.

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Her interests extend across politics, ethics, history, biology and neuroscience, visual culture, sexuality, friendship, the unconscious, and the perennial questions of what we can know and how we ought to live.
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La Principessa Filosofa Giulia Ricci

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