Body to Body

Body to Body. Meeting with Vittorio Lingiardi and Maurizio Ferraris Thursday 09 October | 7.00 pm | Piazza del Sole, Bellinzona Sconfinare Festival 2025

What does it mean, today, to inhabit a body? Where does the flesh end and the code begin? In the age of artificial intelligence and digital identities, the boundaries between reality and representation, between human and machine, are becoming increasingly blurred. But the body remains there - vulnerable, sensitive, desiring - to remind us who we are, and how much we are still made of skin, memory and presence.

The opening event of the sixth edition of the Sconfinare Festival brings together two of the most significant and original voices of contemporary thought: Vittorio Lingiardi, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, author of the recent Corpo, umano (Einaudi, 2024), and Maurizio Ferraris, philosopher, author of La pelle (Il Mulino, 2025), a philosophical reflection on the human condition in the era of artificial intelligence.

Starting from their latest books, the two authors will guide us on a journey through the body in all its dimensions: biological and symbolic, concrete and narrated, exposed and pulsating. A dialogue that will focus on the body as a living border between the self and the world, and that will question us on the new (and very ancient) forms of our identity. A journey between philosophy and psychoanalysis to rediscover the body - as Vittorio Lingiardi would say - in the words that tell it.

Full: CHF 25 AHV/IV: CHF 20 Students, children 6-16 years: CHF 15 AG Culture holders and children up to 5 years: free of charge

Vittorio Lingiardi is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and essayist. He teaches Dynamic Psychology at Sapienza University of Rome and is Senior Research Fellow at the Sapienza School of Advanced Studies (SSAS). Past-president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research-Italy Area Group (SPR-IAG), he has published more than 200 articles in leading international scientific journals. His latest books include: Corpo, umano (Einaudi 2024); La personalità e i suoi disturbi (Cortina 2024); L'ombelico del sogno (Einaudi 2023); Arcipelago N. Variazioni sul narcisismo (Einaudi 2021). He has received numerous awards including the Musatti Prize of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (2018), the Sigourney Award (2023) and the Bagutta Prize (2025). He collaborates with la Repubblica, D di Repubblica and il Venerdi (where he has held the ‘Psycho’ column on cinema and psychoanalysis since 2015).

Maurizio Ferraris is a philosopher and full professor at the University of Turin, where he directs the Ontology Laboratory. He is the author of over sixty books translated into various languages. After a long collaboration with Jacques Derrida, he developed a philosophy of realism and documentation, founding New Realism and, more recently, Positive Realism. He collaborates with La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa. Among his latest publications, Webfare. A Manifesto for Digital Well-Being (Transcript, 2024), Imparare a vivere (Laterza, 2024), La pelle. Che cosa significa pensare nell'epoca dell'intelligenza artificiale (Il Mulino, 2025), in which he reflects on the role of the body and will in the digital age.