| Antonio Caronia |
Biography |
Antonio
Caronia (Genova, 1944) teaches "Design of Social Communication"
at the Accademia di Belle Arti (Fine Arts Faculty) of Brera,
and "Aesthetics of Media" at 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).
During the sixties and seventies, while studying mathematics,
logic and linguistics, he was a political activist and leader
in left-wing Italian groups. After 1977, he turned to the study
of mass culture and communication theory, especially to the
relationship between science, technology and imagination.
He
researches philosophy and anthropology, as related to science
fiction, comics, digital images, virtual reality and telematic
networks.
He now writes for the left-wing newspaper L'Unita,
and the reviews Millepiani, Pulp, Cyberzone.
He translates novels, essays and articles from English into
Italian. Besides many essays published in anthologies and reviews,
he has written Nei labirinti della fantascienza (The
Mazes of Science Fiction, 1979), Il cyborg. Saggio
sull'uomo artificiale (The Cyborg. Essay on 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).
He is
currently writing books on Philip K. Dick and James G. Ballard.
