Valentina Antoniol

Biography

Valentina Antoniol is a Researcher in Political Philosophy at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She has been a postdoctoral researcher for three years at the University of Bologna, within the Departments of Political Science, History, Cultures and Civilizations, and Architecture. She held her PhD in Political Theory from the University of Bologna, in joint supervision with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, focusing her dissertation on the concept of war in the works of Michel Foucault and Carl Schmitt. Her recent research primarily explores the relationship between conflict, urban spaces, and architecture, beginning with a critical redefinition of the concept of stasis. She is also actively working on a project related to Cyber Social Security, critically examining issues of social control and user profiling within digital technologies. Valentina Antoniol is the author of various essays and two books: Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie e guerra (Rubbettino, 2024) (Foucault as a Critic of Schmitt. Genealogies and War), and Foucault et la guerre. À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt (Les Éditions Mimésis, 2023), (Foucault and War. From Schmitt, Against Schmitt).