Agency non umana in un Medioevo postumano: la teoria di Biagio Pelacani sulla generazione spontanea dell'umano dalla materia

I propose to investigate the posthuman idea of non-human agency by creating a contact zone with the thought of the Thirteenth Century philosopher Biagio Pelacani. In a ‘medieval posthumanist’ style, I put in place a creative dialogue with Pelacani on the non-human agency in order to attract critical attention on the relevance, implications, histo- ricity of the posthuman idea of non-human agency. In such a perspec- tive I grasp in Pelacani an idea of material agency that is embodied in a metaphysical-cosmological doctrine according to which there’s an a unique material living animated principle from whose power all that is, including the human with its intellect, is taken from (human spon- taneous generation from matter). In this idea of material agency with its attempt to articulate the boundaries of the human within a vibrant matter it therefore seems to me that I can read a significant trigger for the posthuman idea of agency in its implications of destabilizing the notion of human exceptionality.