Bernardo PACI

Position
Research contract
E-mail
bernardo.paci@unive.it
Academic discipline
Logic and Philosophy of Science [PHIL-02/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/people/bernardo.paci (personal record)
Office
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc
Where: Malcanton Marcorà

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Publication highlights

PACI B A Materialist Conception of Knowledge: The Colonial Roots of Cognitive Capitalism , Milano - Udine, Mimesis International, pp. 1-286 (ISBN 9788869774966)
2025, Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5107015

PACI B Democratic Confederalism and the Theory of History: Historical Ontologies of Political Alternative in Bookchin, Öcalan, and Graeber in PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO, vol. 18, pp. 468-482 (ISSN 1972-7623)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107012

PACI B What we have in common: David Graeber and the anthropological critique of philosophy in THESIS ELEVEN, vol. 187, pp. 94-115 (ISSN 0725-5136)
DOI - URL correlato 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107014

PACI B The Hidden Abode of Artificial Intelligence Production: Stretching the limits of AI ethics and critique in THESIS ELEVEN, vol. 184-185, pp. 152-166 (ISSN 1461-7455)
DOI - URL correlato 2024, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107011

PACI B Autistici laboriosi, autistici pericolosi. Neurodivergenze mostruose e dove trovarle in MINORITY REPORTS, vol. 16, pp. 101-123 (ISSN 2465-0315)
- URL correlato 2023, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107009

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Curriculum vitae

Bernardo Paci is Postdoctoral Researcher within the ERC Project ERC Consolidator "The Culture of Algorithmic Models: Advancing the Historical Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence" (Website: AIMODELS) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on critical genealogies of AI, especially from the point of view of neuronormativity in the knowledge society. He has been Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Naples Federico II, where he conducted research on the intellectual history and political philosophy of colonial chartered companies within the PRIN Project 2020 "Myths of Legitimation and Government of Difference in the European Imperial Regimes during the Modern and Contemporary Age" (PI: Teodoro Tagliaferri)". He is also a member of the Group of Critical Theory of Society at the University of Milan-Bicocca, of the Marxism and Disability Network, and of the Editorial Board of the journal Quaderni materialisti and of the book series Quaderni di Teoria Critica della Società (Mimesis) and Il Filorosso (PGreco). In 2026 he achieved the National Scientific qualification (ASN) as associate professor in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary fields of 11/C3 - Moral Philosophy and 14/A1 - Political Philosophy.

He is author of the monographs Razzismo, colonialismo e mitologie bianche. La storia rubata di Grande Zimbabwe (2022), A Materialist Conception of Knowledge: The Colonial Roots of Cognitive Capitalism (2025), and Sovereign Corporations: Intellectual History and Political Philosophy of the British South Africa Company (2026).

Among others, he published for Archivio di Storia della Cultura, Discipline Filosofiche, Materialismo storico, Minority Reports: Cultural Disability Studies, Partecipazione e Conflitto, Politica.eu, Quaderni di Teoria Sociale, Thesis Eleven. He was awarded the International Domenico Losurdo Prize 2020 for the essay La concezione neoliberale della storia: la saldatura tra neoliberalismo e revisionismo storico in Friedrich von Hayek and the Luigi Maria Turati Prize 2023 for his scientific contributions and publications during the PhD.

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