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Emanuele Coccia is a lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociale (EHESS) in Paris since 2011. His books, translated in numerous languages, include Sensible Life (2010), The life of plants (2016), Metamorphoses (2020) and Philosophy of the home (2021). He published a book of phototheory with the photographer Viviane Sassen (Modern Alchemy, 2022). He made animation videos as Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and The Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). In 2019, he participated in the exhibition Nous les arbres, presented at the Fondation Cartier for contemporary art in Paris. He edited the catalogs of the 23rd Triennale of architecture and design in Milan: Unknowns Unknowns. An introduction to mysteries. He now writes a book about the relation between fashion and philosophy with the Gucci creative director, Alessandro Michele.