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 lecturer 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,
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. 

Working Papers - not (yet) for citation or quotation without prior request

Books

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Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology (with Mireille Hildebrandt), Routledge (2011)

Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experience, challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of...

 

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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

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Pour une defense de l’éprouvante inopérationnalité du droit face à l’opérationnalité sans épreuve du comportementalisme numérique., Dissensus. Revue de Philosophie Politique de l'Université de Liège, N.4 (2011)

Il ne sera pas question, ici, d’aborder les épreuves que le tournant numérique, et le...

 

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Détecter et prévenir : les symptômes technologiques d’une nouvelle manière de gouverner, Etat des Droits de l'Homme en Belgique. Rapport 2009-2010 (2010)
 

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Gouverner: détecter et prévenir!, Politique. Revue de débats. (2009)
 

Popular press

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Que les données peuvent-elles nous aider à prévoir ?, France Culture - Emission Place de la Toile - ré-écoutable en podcast (2010)
 

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La gouvernementalité algorithmique., France-Culture. Place de la Toile (par Xavier de La Porte). Emission du 21 mai 2010. (2010)

Emission en direct sur France-Culture, le 21 mai 2010, ré-écoutable en podcast.

 

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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...

 

Conference presentations

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Inconscience de la norme et efficacité: data-mining, profilage et environnements intelligents., Centre de Philosophie morale et politique, Université de Liège (2009)

Audio recording available online / Enregistrement audio disponible en ligne.

 

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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...