#  Emanuele Coccia 

Philosopher and Lecturer, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)

 

 

 



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Emanuele Coccia is a philosopher and lecturer at EHESS and the author of *La Vie sensible* (Éditions Rivages, 2013), *The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture* (Polity, 2018), *Métamorphoses* (Rivages, 2020), and *Philosophie de la maison* (Payot & Rivages, 2021).  
He recently participated in the making of animated videos, including *Quercus* (2020, with Formafantasma), *Heaven in Matter* (2021, with Faye Formisano), and *The Portal of Mysteries* (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019, he participated in the “Trees” exhibition at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. He edited the 23rd Triennale di Milano catalog, “Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries.” He is currently working alongside Alessandro Michele, Creative Director of *Gucci,* on a publication exploring the relationships between fashion and philosophy.