Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based in Portugal, where is currently a Researcher in Philosophy and Ecology at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at the Nova University of Lisbon

He has lectured in many institutions in Europe and US. As a documentary filmmaker and video artist, he has had his works screened in Cuba, the London documentary film festival, and Biennale della Danza in Venice, Coimbra, and Paris.

He is the author, with Alain Badiou, of The End (Polity Press, 2019). He recently co-edited Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy. Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), PPPP. Pier Paolo Pasolini Philosopher (Mimesis International, 2022), and Dispositif. A Cartography (MIT Press, 2022). He is currently editing, with Michael Marder, Contemporanea. A Glossary for the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2023) and completing his manuscript Minima Planetaria.

He worked as an editor and translator from French and English for the Italian edition of L’equivalence des catastrophes and Exclu le juif en nous by Jean Luc-Nancy, Á la recherche du réel perdu, by Alain Badiou, Be my body for me. Domination and Servitude in Hegel by Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, and Edward Said’s Freud and the Non-European. 

He is the director of Planetary Conversations, in collaboration with The Philosophical Salon.