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DESCRIPTION:<strong>CFP 2026 &middot\; De/Naturated</strong>\n<p><em>Genealogies of the Natural\, Forms of the Artificial\, Ecologies of the Limit</em></p>\n<p>What do we call &ldquo\;nature&rdquo\;? And what political\, social\, biological\, and symbolic orders are historically legitimized in its name?</p>\n<p>The theme for the 2026 issue of Etica-mente stems from a semantic and visual play: De/Natured. It features two poles separated (and united) by a slash ( / ) that graphically signals a fault line\, a threshold\, a fracture. On one side\, there is being natured (part of an ecosystem\, children of a biological and terrestrial origin\, bound to a physis)\; on the other side\, there is being denatured or un-natured\, understood as a process of extraction\, dematerialisation\, hybridisation\, and the radical artificialisation of existence.</p>\n<p>Modernity has often been founded on a series of reassuring &ldquo\;naturalisations&rdquo\;: the idea of the nation as an original community\, of the market as a spontaneous order\, and of social and gender hierarchies as reflections of &ldquo\;natural&rdquo\; biological differences. Today\, conversely\, the contemporary age shows us a dizzying process of denaturalisation: the ecological crisis and the advent of the Anthropocene\, the artificialization of life\, algorithmic delegation\, community uprooting\, and the dissolution of the boundaries between human and non-human.</p>\n<p>Can the dichotomy between nature and artifice (or the Freudian &ldquo\;discontents of civilisation&rdquo\;) still withstand the impact of the present? What ethics can guide us when what we consider &ldquo\;natural&rdquo\; turns out to be a political construct\, and what appears &ldquo\;unnatural&rdquo\; becomes our everyday technological habitat?</p>\n<p>The editorial board of Etica-mente invites scholars to contribute to the 2026 issue. Given the hybrid nature of our publishing ecosystem\, we welcome both scientific essays (destined for the double-blind peer-reviewed ANVUR Journal) and more streamlined\, essayistic\, or narrative contributions (destined for the Magazine and Blog).</p>\n<p>Contributions may develop (by way of example but not exclusively) along the following research axes:</p>\n<p><strong>1. Ontologies and Genealogies of Nature</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>The conceptualisation of physis from ancient philosophy to Renaissance naturalism\, up to the modern tension between naturalism and historicism.</li>\n<li>Deconstruction of the concept of the &ldquo\;state of nature&rdquo\;: genealogies of political naturalization and the crisis of modern ontologies (Marx&rsquo\;s alienation\, Marcuse&rsquo\;s one-dimensional man\, the construction of the enemy in Schmitt).</li>\n<li>Gender studies and biopolitics: the deconstruction of the naturalness of bodies\; the institutional and disciplinary control over biological life (from Foucault to Agamben&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;bare life&rdquo\;).</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>2. Ecology\, Habitat\, and New Geographies of Belonging</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>From Deep Ecology to philosophical posthumanism (Braidotti\, Marchesini): overcoming anthropocentrism\, interdependence\, and new forms of multispecies coexistence.</li>\n<li>The de/natured habitat: the ethics of dwelling at the border between ontology\, phenomenology\, and urban ethics. The construction of the contemporary polis and the alienation of hyper-connected space.</li>\n<li>Political ecology: the inseparable link between climate justice and social justice\; the illusion of &ldquo\;natural&rdquo\; borders in the face of migrations.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>3. Bioethics\, Transhumanism\, and Synthetic Corporeality</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>The redefinition of the human limit: eugenics\, techno-scientific enhancement\, transhumanism\, and the defense of vulnerability. The imperative of responsibility (Jonas) in the Anthropocene.</li>\n<li>The contested body: the frontier between natural\, prosthetic\, and entirely synthetic corporeality. Who or what defines the integrity of the human body today?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>4. Intelligence\, Communication\, and the Crisis of the Imaginary</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropology of technology: the human between technological orthopaedics and the loss of the natural referent. Human-machine interaction and the use of the digital twin.</li>\n<li>Communicative denaturalization: the reduction of relationships to data exchange (Harari&rsquo\;s Dataism)\, filter bubbles\, and algorithmic disembodiment. The fate of empathy in pedagogical and social spheres.</li>\n<li>De/naturing the imaginary: science fiction literature as a mirror and anticipation of technological realities. The loss of friction with reality in favor of a &ldquo\;velvet serendipity&rdquo\; generated by artificial intelligences.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Submission Guidelines and Deadlines</strong><br>The deadlines for submission are:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abstract: September 15\, 2026</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Full Paper: December 15\, 2026</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>For information about the journal\, please visit:<br>https://rivista.etica-mente.org</a><br>For submission procedures and editorial guidelines\, please visit:<br>https://ojs.etica-mente.org</a></p>\n<p>For any further inquiries:<br>rivista@etica-mente.org</a><br>submission@etica-mente.org</a></p>\n<p><em>Please note: Proposals not submitted via OJS or submitted via e-mail will not be considered.</em></p>
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