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Summary of research interests and expertise

• Modern French Philosophy and Culture  
• History of Political Thought
• Phenomenology
• Cybernetics  

Giovanni Menegalle is a specialist in modern French philosophy and culture with a wider expertise in European intellectual history and political thought.  

His research explores ethical, political, and aesthetic questions arising out of the mid-century intersection between ‘first-person’ philosophical discourses, such as phenomenology and existentialism, and the new technological ideas of information and computation, which were promoted by the cybernetics movement and introduced into France around the 1950s as the basis for a transdisciplinary retheorization of living and non-living systems. He is currently writing a book on these themes, Parallel Circuits, focusing on the work of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Raymond Ruyer. His writing has appeared in a number of academic publications, including in the journals and , and he is co-editor with Mauro Senatore of Life and Metaphor in Derrida, a special issue of the (2024).  

Before joining the 91app Institute in Paris in 2021, he was British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King’s College London. Prior to that, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (King’s College), completing a thesis on Derrida’s reading of Husserl, and taught at Paris-Diderot (Paris 7).  

Giovanni is also an elected member of the Society for French Studies’ executive committee and serves as the Society’s Publicity Officer.