Giulia
Suzzi
I am a medical student and interdisciplinary researcher working across medicine, psychiatry, ophthalmology, neuroscience, philosophy and literary-cultural analysis. My scientific work examines neuropsychiatric disease, self-harm and developmental and relational processes; my theoretical and cultural work explores identity, agency, embodiment and the limits of classification.
Three practices.
Medicine provides the empirical ground; theory and cultural analysis open other ways of asking what those findings mean.
Research
Medicine, neuroscience, psychiatry and ophthalmology, with current work on retinal biomarkers, NSSI and developmental processes.
Theory
Philosophy and critical theory, including posthumanism, embodiment, identity and the limits of the human.
Culture
Literary, psychological and cultural analysis, from speculative fiction to questions of care, testimony and responsibility.
Six directions for collaboration.
Some are active projects; others are questions still taking shape.
Recent work.
The Labor of Becoming a Person
An essay on capacity, coercion, consent and personhood in Annalee Newitz's Autonomous.
The Monster That Isn't Watching You
An essay on Lovecraftian cosmic horror, indifference and the collapse of anthropocentric meaning.
A connected practice.
Scientific research, theoretical inquiry and cultural reading are different methods for attending to related questions.
I am a final-year medical student and researcher at the University of Florence, with an interdisciplinary background spanning medicine, psychology, neuroscience and earlier studies in mathematics.
Alongside scientific research, I pursue independent work in philosophy and critical theory, as well as literary and cultural analysis.
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For publications, academic collaboration and related correspondence.