Antoinette Rouvroy, Doctor of Laws of the European University Institute (Florence), is research associate at the Belgian FRS - FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) and senior researcher at the Information Technology and Law Research Centre (CRID) of the University of Namur, Belgium. She is particularly interested in the mechanisms of mutual production between sciences and technologies and cultural, political, economic and legal frameworks. Her doctoral research at the European University Institute of Florence (Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance: A Foucauldian Critique. Abingdon and New-York, Routledge-Cavendish, 2008, recently nominated for the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics 2009), looked at the knowledge-power relations in the post-genomic era. Her current interdisciplinary research interests revolve around the ethical, legal and political challenges raised by the new information, communication and surveillance technologies (biometrics, RFIDs, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, persuasive technologies,…) and their convergence. Her approach to the topic combines a revisited foucauldian governmentalist perspective with inspirations from critical legal studies, sciences and technology studies, gender and critical race theory, and agonistic theories of law and politics.
Books
Autonomic Computing and Transformations of Human Agency. Philosophers of Law meet Philosophers of Technology (FORTHCOMING!) (with Mireille Hildebrandt), Routledge-Cavendish (under review) (2010)
Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experience, challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of...
Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance. A Foucauldian Critique. (NEW PAPERBACK EDITION, SEPT. 2009), Routledge-Cavendish (2008)
Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, among others, Human Genes and Neoliberal Governance shows...
Articles and book chapters
Détecter et prévenir: les symptômes technologiques d'une nouvelle manière de gouverner., Politique. Revue de débats. (2009)
Détecter et prévenir : de la digitalisation des corps et de la docilité des normes. (with Thomas Berns), (Se) gouverner. Entre souci de soi et action publique. (2009)
D’une manière quelque peu intempestive sans doute eût égard au thème général de l’ouvrage –...
Le corps statistique (with Thomas Berns), Réflexions sur la bioéthique (provisional title) (2009)
S’il est question de « corps statistique », c’est dans la mesure où l’on veut...
Le droit à l'autodétermination informationnelle et la valeur du développement personnel: une réévaluation de l'importance du droit à la protection de la vie privée pour la démocratie. (with Yves Poullet), Etat de droit et virtualité (2009)
Popular press
Plus on est observé, moins on est sensible aux atteintes à la vie privée, Libération, Mardi 18 novembre 2008 (2008)
Voir ce qui se passe dans sa rue, sur une plage aux Maldives ou au...
Repenser le sens du droit à la protection de la vie privée dans la société de surveillance : une urgence démocratique., Mediapart (2008)
Conference presentations
Inconscience de la norme et efficacité: déta-mining, profilage et environnements intelligents., Centre de Philosophie morale et politique, Université de Liège (2009)
Audio recording available online / Enregistrement audio disponible en ligne.
Regulation through law vs. regulation through technology: the virtues of the explicit., Vox Internet Workshop: Technical regulation of the Internet - From Standardization to Behavioural and Societal Norms. Paris, 31 March 2009 (2009)
In the advanced Information Society, (de)regulation of human actions and interactions, both on- and off-line,...
Research projects
Multimodal Interactions of and Observation of Users in a Controlled Environment (MIAUCE) (2009)
The MIAUCE research consortium, funded by the European Commission (2006-2009), gathers European industrial, techno-scientific and...
Polycentric governance of normative technologies: democratic and constitutional issues / Gouvernance polycentrique des technologies normatives: enjeux démocratiques et constitutionnels. (2008)
English abstract:
This personal project, funded by the FNRS, addresses the relationships between Law...