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Francesco Deotto, 5th November ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist

Francesco Deotto, 21st December ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist

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Francesco Deotto, 27th October ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist

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Francesco Deotto, 24th February ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist
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Francesco Deotto, 24th September ‘20, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist
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Francesco Deotto, 3rd November ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist
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Francesco Deotto, 28th April ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist
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Francesco Deotto, 6th March ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist

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Francesco Deotto, 10th November ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist

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Francesco Deotto, 28th July ‘21, c-print, 2021, courtesy the artist
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Francesco Deotto was born in 1982 in Motta di Livenza (Italy), Francesco Deotto is a
philosopher, poet, photograph, and translator based in Friuli.

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Some of his photos have been published in websites and magazines as Doppia
Esposizione and Antinomie. He was awarded (second place) in the photo
competition “100 scatti d’Italia” (organised by the Geneva’s Committee of Italians
Abroad, the Department of Media Communications & Photography of Webster
University, and the magazine La Voce di Ginevra).
He is the author of a book of poetry: Nella prefazione d’una battaglia. Degli esercizi di
una ‘labirintica Bestia’, o, quantomeno, di qualcuno che potrebbe non esserle troppo
dissimile (Italic, 2018). This book has been selected as a finalist for the “Premio Elena
Violani Landi 2019” and for the “Premio Nabokov 2019”.
Some of his poems have been published in magazines and anthologies as L’Ulisse.
Rivista di poesia, arti e scritture, ipoetisonovivi.com, Poesia Ultracontemporanea,
Antarem’s Antologia poetica and gammm (literature, criticism, installation(s),
post-poetry, asemic writing, research).
Francesco Deotto’s works (photos and poems) have been exhibited at the PAB Punto
Arte Benandante (Portogruaro, Italy) and at the Tirana Art Center (Tirana, Albania).

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As a scholar, he is the author of a doctoral dissertation (at the Université de Genève,
Switzerland) on the utopian dimension of literature and poetry in the works of
Abensour, Levinas, Celan and Derrida.
Some of his academic articles:
      •       “‘Se vedi immondizia dappertutto è perché è davvero dappertutto’. Sul
rapporto tra letteratura e rifiuti, a partire da Georges Bataille, Don DeLillo, Nada
Gordon e Fabio Pusterla”, in L’Ulisse. Rivista di poesia, arti e scrittura, Lietocolle, n° 24,
2021
      •       “Una certa ‘speranza nel passato’. Peter Szondi e il futuro dell’ermeneutica
letteraria”, in Le parole e le cose, 2021
      •       “Quando un filosofo legge un poeta. Su Levinas interprete di Celan”, in
Officinapoesia Nuovi Argomenti, 2021
      •       “‘Le poème va vers l’autre’. Levinas lecteur de Paul Celan”, in Po&sie, n°
174, Paris, Belin, 2020
      •       “Sur le ‘nouvel esprit utopique’ et la ‘déconstruction de la souveraineté’.
Entre Miguel Abensour et Jacques Derrida”, in MaLiCE, le Magazine des Littératures
et des Cultures à l’ère numérique, n° 10, Aix-Marseille, 2020
      •       “Ironie e utopie della decostruzione. Su Rorty e il ‘modo di scrivere nuovo,
splendidamente ironico’ di Derrida”, in F. A. Clerici, S. Di Alessandro, R. Maletta (eds.),
L’utopia alla prova dell’umorismo. Per una prassi e una poetica del discorso
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universitario, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2018
       •     “Segreti e idealità degli oggetti letterari. Su J. Hillis Miller e Jacques
Derrida”, in B. Bonato (ed.), La trasparenza e il segreto, Mimesis, Milano, 2017
       •     “From Rotor to Utopia? On Rotor, Fourier and the relation between
architecture and utopia”, in Utopia(s) - Worlds and Frontiers of the Imaginary, Taylor &
Francis Group, 2017
       •     “Literature as utopia: Between Jacques Derrida and Ingeborg Bachmann”,
in Sapere Aude, Belo Horizonte, 2013
       •     “Su Blanchot, la letteratura, la vita, la morte”, in C. Furlanetto, E. Villalta
(eds.), Animali, uomini e oltre. A partire da La Bestia e il Sovrano di Jacques Derrida,
Mimesis, Milano, 2012
He has taken part in numerous conferences and symposia in different countries
(Johann Wolfang Goethe-Universität, University of California, Fordham University,
Goldsmiths University, University of Tilburg, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Università
degli Studi di Milano, Université de Genève, Université de Berne, Université de
Lausanne, Ghent University) and has co-organized two conferences at the Université de
Genève:
       •     “Paul Celan et la traduction. Pratiques, poétiques, résistances / Paul Celan
in Translation. Praxis, Poetics, Résistances” (9-10 May 2019)
       •     “Quels espaces? Quels publics? L’espace public: constructions,
dispersions, inversions” (27 October 2017)
He is the Italian translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Être soufflé” (in Le parole e le cose,
2021) and Jean-Patrice Courtois’s “Imaginer depuis le document” (in Le parole e le
cose, 2022, forthcoming).

Francesco Deotto’s areas of specialization and interest include: Contemporary Italian
and French Philosophy, Contemporary Italian and French Poetry, Deconstruction,
Political Philosophy, Utopias, Critical Theory, Theories of Literature, Theories of Poetry,
Theories of Translation, History and Theory of Rhetoric.

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http://unige.academia.edu/FrancescoDeotto
https://www.instagram.com/f_deotto/
E-mail: fdeotto@gmail.com

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