From September 1, 2023, I will join the Institute of Communication and Media at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France, as an associate professor of communication and media.
Conferences in May-June 2023
On May 23rd, I will be at the University of Turin where I will give an invited talk, together with Paolo Furia (University of Turin), titled “Immagini della città: immagini di stock e l’anestetizzazione del paesaggio urbano (Images of the city: stock images and the anesthetization of the urban landscape)” within the conference “Abitudini Estetiche (Aesthetic Habits)”.
On May 25th, I will be in Rome where I will participate in the workshop “Semiotic Chorologies? Critical and Generative Spaces in an Intercultural World” organized within the 23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023. My presentation is titled “Visual Politics of Science and Technology: on the Narratives about Immersive Narratives”.
On June 2nd, I will be at the University of Burgundy where I will give an invited talk titled “IA et interprétation dans le domaine du soin : le cas des applications pour la détection automatique de la douleur (AI and interpretation in healthcare: the case of applications for automatic pain detection)” within the conference “De l’IA à l’intelligence clinique : ce que le numérique fait au soin (From AI to clinical intelligence: what digital technology is doing to care)”.
On June 7th-10th, I will participate in the biennial meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Technology in Tokyo. My presentation is titled “Ethics of science communication on digital mobility: the role of images”.
On June 14th-16th, I will participate in the XXIII conference of the French Society of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. My presentation is titled “Images de l’intelligence artificielle dans la communication scientifique : des signifiants flottants (Images of artificial intelligence in science communication as floating signifiers)”.
On June 22nd-24th, I will participate in the 3rd Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies in Crete (Greece), where I will give an invited talk titled “Digital Hermeneutics in Organization Studies”.
New book on Digital Habitus
My new monograph titled Digital Habitus: A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence will be released soon by Routledge.
Assistant editor for Philosophy & Technology
I’m delighted to announce that I have joined the executive editorial board of Philosophy & Technology. I’ll be the associate editor for the “philosophy of technology” area.
New book chapter: a critique of critical constructivism
A new book chapter of mine has been published as part of the volume edited by Darryl Cressman, The Necessity of Critique: Andrew Feenberg and the Philosophy of Technology (Springer). The chapter is on Feenberg, Bourdieu, Mouffe, and the possibility of an agonistic philosophy of technology
Interview for La revue des médias
I was interviewed by Audrey Chabal on the use of stock images for science communication on AI. An article has been now released by La revue des médias, the magazine of the French National Audiovisual Institute:
Dictionary entry: numérique
I wrote the entry “numérique” (digital) for this wonderful book/dictionary published by Vrin
Joining Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University
On September 1st, I will join the Department of Communication and Media of Paris Sorbonne University as a fixed-term assistant professor of digital communication studies
Book chapter on automatic pain detection
In the context of the project LOUISA (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/204595), I published a book chapter titled “Automatic Pain Detection or the Evidential Paradigm Reversed”, in S. Gerlek, S. Kissler, T. Maemecke, and D. Moebus (dir.), Von Menschen und Machinen : Mensch-Machine-Interaktionen in digitalen Kulturen, Hagen University Press 2022, 31-49.
The entire book is available in open access at https://ub-deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/mir_derivate_00002340/DK_Von_Menschen_und_Maschinen_2022.pdf
Philosophy of Technology and the French Thought
The special issue of the journal Philosophy & Technology on “Philosophy of Technology and the French Thought” I have edited with François-David Sebbah (Paris Nanterre University) is out. The special issue is one of the outputs of the ImaTeC project (EUR ArTec 2019-2022): https://link.springer.com/journal/13347/topicalCollection/AC_c1552176e86cf5b72fe34d42c3b789ab/page/1.
Other articles and an introduction will be soon added to the collection.