Francesco Emilio Restuccia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Aesthetics at “Sapienza” University of Rome. He has held research periods at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici in Rome. He translated essays and books from German, French and Portuguese to Italian. His main interests include the history of aesthetics, media theory and the philosophy of technology. He has worked on the thought of Flusser, Benjamin, McLuhan, Kapp, Farocki, among others, and has recently published on the concepts of externalization, secularization, illusion, and the theory of play. He is the author of a book entitled Il contrattacco delle immagini. Tecnica, media e idolatria a partire da Vilém Flusser (Meltemi, Milano 2021).
Aesthetics and Therapeia 