ANTONIO CARONIA (Genova, 1944) teaches “Multimedial Communication” in the Accademia di Belle Arti (Fine Arts Faculty) of Brera, and “Aesthetics of Media” in the NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), both in Milan. He is Director of Studies of online PhD courses in the M-Node (Planetary Collegium, Plymouth, GB). In the Sixties and the Seventies, while studying mathematics, logic and linguistics, he was a political activist and leader in the left-wing italian groups. After 1977 he turned to the study of mass culture and communication theory, especially of the relationship between science, technology and imagination. He researchs in philosophy and anthropology, in regard to science fiction, comics, digital images, virtual reality and telematic networks. He writes now for the left-wing newspaper L’Unità, and the reviews Millepiani and Cyberzone. He translates novels, essays and articles from English to Italian language. Besides many essays published in anthologies and reviews, he wrote Nei labirinti della fantascienza (The Mazes of Science Fiction, 1979), Il cyborg. Saggio sull’uomo artificiale (The Cyborg. Essay about the Artificial Man, 1985; new revised edition 2001), Il corpo virtuale (The Virtual Body, 1996), Houdini e Faust. Breve storia del cyberpunk (Houdini and Faust. A Short History of Cyberpunk, 1997, with D. Gallo), Archeologie del virtuale (Virtual Archaeologies, 2001), Philip K. Dick: La macchina della paranoia (Philip K. Dick: The Paranoia Machine, 2006, with D. Gallo), L’arte nell’era della producibilità digitale (Art in the Eve of Digital Producibility, 2006, with E. Livraghi and S. Pezzano).

occupation: Researcher

city: Milano

state: Italy