Program

• July 17^th, 2023

  One-day symposium

  • Opening the symposium

    • 9:00 - 9:15
      Opening

      By Igor Galligo

  • First Session

    • 9:20 - 10:50
      Discussion

      Computational capitalism: a politico-epistemic enterprise?

      Talk 1 : Antoinette Rouvroy
      Talk 2 : David Bates
      Discussant: Anna Longo
      Followed by collective discussion with the audience.

      Session moderated by & Igor Galligo

      By Antoinette Rouvroy, David Bates & Anna Longo

  • Second Session

    • 11:00 - 12:30
      Discussion

      How can exosomatization territorialized information design?

      Talk 1 : Ludovic Duhem
      Talk 2 : Noël Fitzpatrick
      Discussant: Viviana Lipuma
      Followed by collective discussion with the audience.

      Session moderated by & Igor Galligo

      By Ludovic Duhem, Noël Fitzpatrick & Viviana Lipuma

  • Third Session

    • 14:00 - 15:30
      Discussion

      Platform, territory and truth problems: what solutions for UX Design?

      Talk 1 : Harry Halpin
      Talk 2 : Samriddho Ghosh
      Followed by collective discussion with the audience.

      Session moderated by & Igor Galligo

      By Harry Halpin & Samriddho Ghosh

  • Fourth Session

    • 15:40 - 17:10
      Discussion

      Is computational capitalism part of the “post-truth crisis”?

      Talk 1 : Nils Gilman
      Talk 2 : Igor Galligo
      Followed by collective discussion with the audience.

      Session moderated by & Igor Galligo

      By Nils Gilman & Igor Galligo

Guests

• Anna Longo
• Antoinette Rouvroy
• David Bates
• Harry Halpin
• Igor Galligo
• Ludovic Duhem
• Nils Gilman
• Noël Fitzpatrick
• Samriddho Ghosh
• Viviana Lipuma

• Anna Longo

  Doctor of aesthetics

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  Doctor of Aesthetic Philosophy. She is program director at the International College of Philosophy (CIPh, Paris) and affiliated with the Laboratory for Social and Political Change (EA7335 — University of Paris Cité). Deleuze, a Philosophy of Multiplicity, Paris, Ellipses, 2024. The Game of Induction.

• Antoinette Rouvroy

  Doc­tor of Laws of the Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty In­sti­tu­te (Flo­rence)

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  Antoinette Rouvroy is per­ma­nent re­se­arch as­so­cia­te at the Bel­gi­an Na­tio­nal Fund for Sci­en­ti­fic Re­se­arch (FNRS) and se­ni­or re­se­ar­cher at the Re­se­arch Cent­re In­for­ma­ti­on, Law and So­cie­ty, Law Fa­cul­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of Na­mur (Bel­gi­um). She is also mem­ber of the French CNIL (Com­mis­si­on In­for­ma­tique et Li­bertés)’s Fo­re­sight com­mit­tee. She aut­ho­red Hu­man Ge­nes and Neo­li­be­ral Go­ver­nan­ce: A Fou­caul­di­an Cri­tique (Rout­ledge-Ca­ven­dish, 2008) and co-edi­ted, with Mi­reil­le Hil­de­brandt, Law, Hu­man Agen­cy and Au­to­no­mic Com­pu­ting: Phi­lo­so­phers of Law meet Phi­lo­so­phers of Tech­no­lo­gy (Rout­ledge, 2011). In her wri­tings, she has ad­dres­sed, among other things, is­su­es of pri­va­cy, data pro­tec­tion, non-dis­cri­mi­na­ti­on, equa­li­ty of op­por­tu­nities, due pro­cess in the con­text of ‘data-rich’ en­vi­ron­ments (the so-cal­led ge­ne­tic re­vo­lu­ti­on, the so-cal­led in­for­ma­ti­on/sur­veil­lan­ce so­cie­ty) with an ap­proach com­bi­ning le­gal and po­li­ti­cal phi­lo­so­phy. Her cur­rent in­ter­di­sci­pli­na­ry re­se­arch in­te­rests re­vol­ve around the con­cept of al­go­rith­mic go­vern­men­ta­li­ty. Un­der this fou­caul­di­an neo­lo­gism, she ex­plo­res the se­mio­tic-epis­te­mic, po­li­ti­cal, le­gal and phi­lo­so­phi­cal im­pli­ca­ti­ons of the com­pu­ta­tio­nal turn (Big Data, al­go­rith­mic pro­filing, in­dus­tri­al per­so­na­liza­t­i­on). She ex­plo­res the im­pact of al­go­rith­mic go­vern­men­ta­li­ty on our mo­des of pro­duc­tion of what counts and ac­counts for “rea­li­ty”, on our mo­des of go­vern­ment, and on the mo­da­li­ties of cri­tique, re­sis­tan­ce or re­cal­citran­ce.

• David Bates

  UC Berkeley, Rhetoric Department

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  David Bates is professor at the Rhetoric Department, of the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in European History from the University of Chicago. Since coming to Berkeley in 1999, he has been working on two main research tracks: one on the history of legal and political ideas, and the other on the relationship between technology, science, and the history of human cognition. He is now completing a book, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence, that probes the emergence of human thinking as an entanglement of machine technologies, somatic processes, media practices, and social/political organization. Beginning with an examination of Cartesian robotics and early modern reflections on automaticity, he goes on to show how “artificial intelligence” in fact marks a peculiar stage in the history of reason, one that privileges the isolated mind and/or computer. A critique of contemporary models of automatic cognition requires unwinding a certain history of automaticity spawned by this moment, in order to rediscover another, longer history of the “human” constituted within and against technical systems.

• Harry Halpin

  Professor

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  CEO of Nym Technologies, a company that aims to end mass surveillance. He is also a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut. He was involved in the Indymedia movement before earning a PhD in computer science from the University of Edinburgh and working at MIT under Tim Berners-Lee on decentralized social media standards. He completed his postdoctoral studies with Bernard Stiegler at the Institute for Research and Innovation and co-led the Nextleap project at INRIA Paris with Stiegler.

• Igor Galligo

  Founder

  Université Paris 8, Université de Technologie de Compiègne COSTECH , Université de Leuphana ICAM

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  Igor Galligo was born in France to families of French, Italian, and Tunisian descent. He received extensive university research education and experience in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, as well as in art and design, in France (Paris Sorbonne University, Paris 5 University, Paris 8 University, Paris 10 University, EnsadLab, EHESS, ENSAPV, UTC Costech, Ministry of Culture and Communication DREST), Switzerland (IXDM, FHNW), Germany (Technische Universität Berlin; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), and the United States (University of California, Berkeley). Regardless of the country or university, the research institutions with which he worked suffered from a problem of social representation. Most often, these institutions concentrated creative and production power according to cultures and forms imagined and designed by an elite, rather than according to democratic principles and rules in which other social groups could also find themselves reflected. However, his experiences working within social and cultural associations in working-class neighborhoods have shown him that it is not only possible to democratize the production of knowledge, arts, and technologies, but also urgent to work towards this goal in order to enable the collective construction of societies, beyond the issues of emancipation. To this end, he proposes thinking of democracy and democratization as questions and issues of production, that is to say, as questions pertaining to design, economics, and politics. This is what he is currently working on with Automedias. His aim is to collectively invent and experiment with new contributory designs of information, which must be new ways of informing and communicating in order to reshape the media production of democratic societies.

• Ludovic Duhem

  Artist & philosopher

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  Ludovic Duhem is an artist and philosopher, his research focuses on the relationships between aesthetics, technology, and politics within the context of current ecological challenges. More specifically, he develops a “techno-aesthetics” for both human and non-human worlds through a relational, processual, and scalar approach, drawing on both contemporary post-phenomenological philosophy and the contributions of the humanities and life sciences. In parallel, he develops an eco-social theory of art and design applied to territory, based on social ecology, bioregionalism, and mesology. His artistic work centers on landscape as an expression of the tensions inherent in human-altered environments, which he formalizes through drawing, sculpture, and performance. He exhibits regularly in France and abroad.

  Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin

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• Nils Gilman

  Historian

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  Nils Gilman is an historian, futurist, and author who is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, a think tank based in Los Angeles. He holds a BA, an MA, and a doctorate in history from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2014 to 2017, he was Associate Chancellor at UC Berkeley. As an intellectual historian he is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America and Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises. As a futurist, he is known as the cofounder with Rosa Brooks of the Transition Integrity Project. He is also a fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

• Noël Fitzpatrick

  Professor

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  Noel Fitzpatrick is a Professor of Philosophy, Academic Lead of GradCAM, Research Centre for Creative Arts and Media, he is Academic Lead of the European Culture and Technology Lab (ECT Lab+). He teaches Critical Theory, Philosophy and Aesthetics to undergraduate students at the school and supervises PhD students and Post Doctoral Candidates in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities . Noel is a Senior Marie-Curie Research Fellow with the GradCAM where he gives seminars on Phenomenology, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology and Hermeneutics. He was also the Prinicpal Investigator for MSCA RISE ‘Real Smart Cities’ project (2017-2022) and MSCA RISE ‘Networking ecologically smart territories’ (2021-2025) and is Principlal Investigator on MSCA SE EPISTEAM (2023-2027).

• Samriddho Ghosh

  Designer

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  Samriddho Ghosh is a designer hailing from Calcutta, India trying to create empathetic experiences for my users with the help of technology. During his undergrad, he co-founded a deep tech startup in the clean water domain, designing low cost water purification solutions for the underserved. Following this direction, he is keen to design meaningful solutions to advance in the realm of entrepreneurship.

• Viviana Lipuma

  Philosopher

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  Viviana Lipuma holds a doctorate in aesthetics (University of Paris Nanterre), is a qualified teacher of philosophy, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal Fluminense University (Brazil) and an associate researcher at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). She works at the intersection of political philosophy, art history, and the sociology of communication, with a particular focus on the neoliberal turn of capitalism, the crises it provokes in terms of mental, social, and environmental ecology, and the emancipatory potential of the visual arts. Drawing on reflections on clichés, semiotics, and control societies in the work of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, she conducted a research project on critical media (Automedias, 2022–2024) and has notably published “Producing Reality: Images Tested by Their Political Efficacy” (Hybrid, 2017) and “From Mass Media Act to the Creation of Free Media.” What is a minority media strategy? » (Hermann, 2019), “The lures of post-media autonomy” (Cahiers Costech n° 6, 2024), “Territories. Expressive semiotics, nation and racism” (Ellipses, 2024) and “Politicizing desire in times of disaster” (Puf, 2025).

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