Dr. Alessandro D’Aloia

Alessandro Umberto D’Aloia is a film philosopher, researcher and writer from Melbourne, Australia. In 2025, he completed his doctorate in Media and Communication at RMIT University. His thesis, Autonomy and Time, began with a deceptively simple question: how does time affect the audience of the moving image? From this, his research developed an interdisciplinary philosophy of affect, temporality, spectatorship and the moving image, drawing variously on Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler, Baruch Spinoza and others, which is how he developed microphilosophy.

Alessandro also holds First Class Honours in Media and Communication and a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) with Distinction majoring in screenwriting from RMIT. His writing has appeared in M/C Journal and Screen Thought, addressing subjects ranging from film philosophy and Heidegger to affect, artificial intelligence and the experience of culture. His recent research extends these questions into generative AI and large language models, particularly the philosophical problem of meaning and cultural engagement without lived experience.

Alongside his writing and research, Alessandro has worked across teaching, screenwriting and practice-led media research, including with RMIT’s Hub for Digital Innovation and as an ACMI X resident. Whether writing about cinema, AI or the peculiarities of everyday experience, his work remains concerned with the same underlying problem: how time, technics and affect shape what something can mean to us—and how that meaning changes over time.

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