ABOUT
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Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher and writer based in London.
His is the author of Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History (Bloomsbury, 2025), Prophetic Culture: recreation for adolescents (Bloomsbury: 2021), Technic and Magic: the reconstruction of reality (Bloomsbury, 2018), and The Last Night (Zero Books, 2013).
He is a Lecturer in World-Building at Diploma 19 at the Architectural Association (London), Lecturer in Intellectual History at the MA Fine Arts at ECAL (Lausanne), Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute (London) and was previously Critical Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools (London) and Frances A Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute (London). He works as rights director at the UK/US radical publisher Verso, and as editorial co-director at the Italian philosophy publisher Timeo, which he co-founded.
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He has a PhD from the Royal College of Art (London), with a thesis on Metaphysics and Metaethics in the Design of Strategy Video Games (available here), an MSc and BSc in Economics and Management of the Arts from Bocconi University (Milan) and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths University (London).
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He spent over twenty years in Milan, where he was active in the anarchist/autonomist networks and co-founded the street-poetry collective Eveline. In 2007 he moved to London, where he lives. In 2009 he started a long-term collaboration with the Italian Autonomia philosopher Franco Berardi 'Bifo'. In that same year, he co-founded the (now defunct) multilingual platform for critical theory Through Europe.
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He was the creator of the library of worlds at the Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Summer Exhibition 2024 (video interview), and the host of the podcast Overmorrow's Library, produced by the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.
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He was philosopher in residence at LUMA Museum in Arles, April-June 2024, and at Castello di Rivoli Contemporary Art Museum (Turin) for the year 2022.
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His book Magia e Tecnica was the winner of the Premio Nazionale Frascati Filosofia Elio Matassi XIII Edizione, categoria esordiente, 2022.