Ideas in writing.
Here we gathered all our writings that are the foundation to AIRE.
forthcoming
- Dianetti Michela, Elvis Lucy, Li Mandri Chiara & Ward Nora. “Climate Crisis as a Matter of Inattention: Practising Shared Attention to Invisible Beauty.” In Rethinking Emergency Through Aesthetics and Arts, edited by Enea Bianchi and Zhuofei Wang, Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics, Vol. 2, Brill.
- Dianetti Michela & Li Mandri Chiara. ‘From Becoming to Stillness: Posthuman Mysticism in Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro’, in Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press.
- Li Mandri, Chiara. “The Gaze from Nowhere: Imagining Human Extinction through Giacomo Leopardi.” In Traces of Extinction (Volume).
- Li Mandri, Chiara. “Eco-Ethical Reflections: How Leopardi Can Help Us Rethink Justice in the Era of Ecological Breakdowns.” Il Veltro.
- Li Mandri, Chiara. “Colliding Times: A Dark Pedagogy for Dark Futures.” Futures Reframed.
2026
- Li Mandri, Chiara. “Teaching the Uncanny: A Dark Pedagogy for Climate Disruptions.” In Beyond the Metacrisis: Educating for the Future World to Come, Special Issue, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 41(5).
2025
- Dianetti, Michela & Elvis, Lucy. “From desiring to inquiring: ‘setting the stage for attention’ through philosophical dialogue.” Attentionsw Journal (January 2025).
https://attentionsw.org/from-desiring-to-inquiringsetting-the-stage-for-attention-through-philosophical-dialogue/ - Ward, Nora & Broughton, Amber. “Witnessing Other Times: An Ecological Calendar and a Practice of Ecological Attention.” The Ecological Citizen 8(2). https://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-138.pdf
- Dianetti, Michela. “Against Unreality: A Literary Ethics of Attention to Suffering with Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch, and Elsa Morante.” PhD Dissertation. University of Galway, 2025.
- Dianetti, Michela & Elvis, Lucy. “Emotion, Disequilibrium and Attentive Compassion. Confronting Emotions in the Community of Philosophical Inquiry with Simone Weil & Ann Margaret Sharp.” Philosophy & Childhood.
2024
- Dianetti, Michela & Elvis, Lucy. “Attending to Adolescence Experience through Greek Tragedies.” JPS Philosophy and Literature in School, Special Issue (December 2024). https://jps.bham.ac.uk/22/volume/11/issue/2
- Dianetti, Michela. “Immaginarsi altrimenti nella pratica di dialogo filosofico.” In Per amore del mondo, Diotima (Edizione 20 – 2024/2025).
https://diotimafilosofe.it/larivista/immaginarsi-altrimenti-nella-pratica-di-dialogo-filosofico/ - Ward, Nora. “Attending to Animals and Animal Attention.” Journal of Animal Ethics 14, no. 2 (2024): 170-185. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944822.
2023
- Dianetti, Michela. “Exploring the connection between attention and literature through Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch.” Sofia Philosophical Review 16(1): 109–124. https://sphr-bg.org/16/134/512.html
- Elvis, Lucy. “Attentiveness, qualities of listening and the listener in the community of philosophical inquiry.” Childhood & Philosophy, 19: 01–22. https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/childhood/article/view/76451
- Ward, Nora. “Europe Has a Wolf Problem, and a Late Norwegian Philosopher Had the Solution.” The Conversation, December 21, 2023. https://theconversation.com/europe-has-a-wolf-problem-and-a-late-norwegian-philosopher-had-the-solution-220113
Here is a spanish version: https://theconversation.com/los-lobos-tienen-tanto-derecho-a-estar-aqui-como-nosotros-220494
Non-academic writing
Interview about us: ‘Most of our ideas and projects are born during our ‘Friday picnic’ in the garden’, by Dr. Mara-Daria Cojocaru.
Article about us: ‘The attention economy has made us less attentive, but there is a solution’, by Joe Humphreys, Irish Times.
Ideas in speaking.
Michela and Lucy talk about Iris Murdoch and public philosophy with Miles Leeson at The Iris Murdoch Society Podcast:
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