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Andrea Colamedici
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Andrea Colamedici

Philosopher, publisher and artist. Co-founder of Tlon, he works on philosophy of artificial intelligence, media theory and cemetery studies.

Rome, 1987 President of GenIALAB, AI Hub at AANT Philosophical Director, Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo Philosophical Director, Carnevale di Putignano

Biography

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Andrea Colamedici is a philosopher, publisher and essayist. In 2014 he founded Tlon together with Maura Gancitano: a cultural project that manifests itself through the organization of festivals and events, a publishing house, two bookstores and an activity of outreach online and in person, mixing high and popular culture, analyzing needs and meanings of our time and connecting the academic environment with popular culture.

He teaches Prompt Thinking at IED Roma and the 24Ore Business School, and Borges y la Inteligencia Artificial at the Universidad del Sur in Buenos Aires. He has taught Social Media Theory at IULM University in Milan. He is a faculty member of the 24Ore Business School and has collaborated with numerous Italian and international universities, including Politecnico di Milano, University of Bologna, San Raffaele, Roma Tre and LUISS.

He is president of GenIA, an interdisciplinary hub on artificial intelligence at AANT – Academy of Arts and New Technologies in Rome, where he coordinates applied research and training activities on generative AI for art, design and communication. In 2024–2025 he held a research fellowship at the University of Foggia on artificial intelligence and systems of thought, with a project centered on the philosophical-editorial experiment of Jianwei Xun and the genesis of Ipnocrazia.

Together with Maura Gancitano he is the philosophical director of the Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo in Piacenza and the Carnevale di Putignano. He is the creator of the Festa della Filosofia at the Triennale in Milan and Rome, of the online marathon Prendiamola con Filosofia (created at the request of the Ministry of Health) and of the Italian Podcast Awards. He has given speeches for TEDxRoma on the philosophy of artificial intelligence and for TEDxBarletta on the relationship between art and AI.

Books

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Individual works and collaborations
2025
Ipnocrazia Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality as Jianwei Xun
Tlon
2024
L'algoritmo di Babele Stories and Myths of Artificial Intelligence with Simone Arcagni
Solferino
2021
La responsabilità della rivolta The Responsibility of Revolt with Miguel Benasayag
Tlon
2019
Il codice del mito Plato's Dream and the Nightmare of the West
Mursia
With Maura Gancitano
2025
Botanica della meraviglia Botany of Wonder
HarperCollins
2023
Ma chi me lo fa fare? How Work Has Deceived Us: The End of the Spell
HarperCollins
2022
Il gioco del pensiero The Game of Thought
Zanichelli
2021
L'alba dei nuovi dèi From Plato to Big Data
Mondadori
2021
Prendila con filosofia A Manual for Personal Flourishing
HarperCollins
2019
Liberati della brava bambina Eight Stories to Flourish
HarperCollins
2018
La società della performance How to Escape the Cave
Tlon
2017
Lezioni di meraviglia Journeys Between Philosophy and Imagination
Tlon
2016
Tu non sei Dio Phenomenology of Contemporary Spirituality
Tlon

Translations

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Botanica della meraviglia
Spanish (forthcoming), French (forthcoming)
Ipnocrazia
Spanish, French, English
L'alba dei nuovi dèi
English (forthcoming)
Liberati della brava bambina
Chinese, Korean
Prendila con filosofia
Chinese, Spanish, Polish, Korean
La società della performance
Chinese (forthcoming)
Ma chi me lo fa fare?
Chinese (forthcoming)

Podcasts

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Scuola di Filosofie
Audible · with Maura Gancitano
A journey in two seasons through the great thinkers of the twentieth century, from phenomenology to existentialism, from philosophy of mind to critical theory, to apply their insights to everyday life.
Pensare Europeo
European Parliament · with Maura Gancitano
A series of conversations designed to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European community, connecting MEPs with philosophers, activists, historians and Italian artists.
Meno per meno
RaiPlaySound · with Niccolò Fabi and Maura Gancitano
Ten episodes that start from the songs chosen by Niccolò Fabi to celebrate his 25 years of career, transforming the lyrics into sparks for addressing disparate themes.
Audible Club
Audible
The first audiobook listeners' club in Italy: two seasons dedicated to the great classics of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, narrated and discussed together with the community.

Activities

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Artistic Direction

Philosophical director of the Festival del Pensare Contemporaneo in Piacenza and the Carnevale di Putignano. Creator of the Festa della Filosofia at the Triennale in Milan and Rome, the Prendiamola con Filosofia marathon and the Italian Podcast Awards.

Research

President of GenIA at AANT in Rome. Research fellow at the University of Foggia on AI and systems of thought. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Intrecci series (Firenze University Press) and of the Visual Education / ASTERA conference.

Teaching

Teaches Prompt Thinking at IED Roma and the 24Ore Business School. Teaches Borges y la Inteligencia Artificial at the Universidad del Sur in Buenos Aires. Has collaborated with Politecnico di Milano, IULM and Bologna.

Outreach

Together with Maura Gancitano he curates the column "Prendila con filosofia" for Vanity Fair and participates in the program "Matteo Caccia racconta" on Radio24. Supervisor for the conscious use of AI at United Network.

Theater

Philosophical consultant for Salveremo il mondo prima dell'alba, a play by Carrozzeria Orfeo with dramaturgy by Gabriele Di Luca and direction by Di Luca, Massimiliano Setti and Alessandro Tedeschi. The play, co-produced by Marche Teatro, Teatro dell'Elfo, Teatro Nazionale di Genova and Teatro Bellini, addresses the paradoxes of the contemporary world through the stories of guests at a space rehabilitation clinic specializing in the treatment of contemporary addictions.