Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy Recent documents in Antoinette Rouvroy en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:01:24 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/35 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/35 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:01:08 PST Audio recording available online / Enregistrement audio disponible en ligne. Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/34 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/34 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:58:26 PST Autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, reconfiguring human perceptions and experience, challenge traditional philosophical conceptions of both self-constitution and agency of the human subject in relation to its human and nonhuman environment, with crucial consequences for the theory and practice of constitutional self-government. Perturbing and/or emancipatory as they may appear to philosophers and lawyers, these issues provide an unprecedented occasion for interdisciplinary exchanges and cross-fertilization, and allow a new field of inquiry to emerge, combining the approaches and methods of philosophy of technology and philosophy of law. Exploring the transformations of self-constitution, individual agency and constitutional self-government in the advanced information society on the cusp of an age of autonomic computing and ambient intelligence, provides a litmus test for a trans-disciplinary philosophical inquiry enriching current debates in the fields of both legal philosophy and philosophy of technology. The proposed volume brings together philosophers of both disciplines to reflect and launch a dialogue around the theme of autonomic computing and the transformations of human agency. With contributions from Roger Brownsword, Rafael Capurro, Jos de Mul, Massimo Durante, Mireille Hildebrandt, Don Ihde, Jannos Kallinikos, Hyo Yoon Kang, Paul Mathias, Stefano Rodotà, Antoinette Rouvroy, Bibi Van den Bergh and Peter-Paul Verbeek. Mireille Hildebrandt Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/33 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/33 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:43:42 PST Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/32 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/32 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:42:13 PDT Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/31 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/31 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:27:48 PDT Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/30 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/30 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:31:21 PDT D'une manière quelque peu intempestive sans doute eût égard au thème général de l'ouvrage - gouverner par les corps - et aux pensées de la biopolitique qui s'y déploient, il s'agit ici de tenter d'identifier en quoi les nouvelles technologies de l'observation, de l'information, de la communication et de la réseautique, procédant à la digitalisation de la vie même, intensifiant la 'dispersion' ou la 'dividualisation' du sujet humain , tout en alimentant le mythe de sa prévisibilité, donnent lieu à une nouvelle forme de gouvernementalité irréductible aux « arts de gouverner » décrits par Foucault sous les traits du pastorat, de la raison d'État, de la police ou du libéralisme, et dont il importe d'identifier les spécificités épistémologiques, stratégiques et tactiques. Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/29 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/29 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:38:41 PDT S'il est question de « corps statistique », c'est dans la mesure où l'on veut ici analyser la gouvernementalité contemporaine, dans ce qu'elle tente de dire, de prédire et d'orienter des comportements (et intentions), et en ce que, à ce titre, elle se présenterait 1) comme statistique, au sens où elle repose fondamentalement sur l'exploitation de grandes quantités de données - signifiantes ou non aux yeux des individus eux-mêmes - recueillies dans une multitude de contextes de vie et d'action hétérogènes les uns aux autres, et sur la 'découverte' algorithmique de corrélations prédictives des comportements futurs et 2) comme capable d'éradiquer l'incertitude et l'imprévisibilité des comportements individuels grâce au traitement de leur multiplicité, laquelle serait de la sorte objectivée comme si la totalité de l'agir humain pouvait être bel et bien prise en considération, comme si nous n'avions affaire qu'à un ensemble de corps et que des opérations de calcul - la découverte de corrélations - sur l'ensemble devait permettre de prédire le comportement de chaque individu. Nous entendons donc corps non pas dans son sens biologique et sa positivité matérielle considérée comme objectivement distincte de l'esprit, mais comme ce qui, quelle qu'en soit la nature réelle, est le résultat d'une réduction « politique » à un ensemble de corrélations pouvant être abstraites de toute intentionnalité et même de toute causalité. Le corps statistique en ce sens évacue les dimensions « physique » et « linguistique » qui caractérisent notamment le corps subjectif : ni l'expérience physique du corps, ni le récit autobiographique du sujet ne sont plus « autorisés », ne font plus « autorité », au sens où leur « auteur » détiendrait l' « autorité » nécessaire pour en contrôler l'intelligibilité et l'interprétation. Cette génération quasi-spontanée du « corps statistique » à partir du « réel brut » - nonobstant l'intermédiation technologique nécessaire au calcul et aux opérations algorithmiques qui en constituent le « métabolisme » - cache sa puissance normative sous l'apparente neutralité de l'immanence ou de l' « adéquation » à un réel entendu dès lors comme proprement « physique ». Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/27 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/27 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:21:46 PDT In the advanced Information Society, (de)regulation of human actions and interactions, both on- and off-line, requires and attests to increasingly unavoidable and complex interactions between law and technology. Whereas these interactions may take a variety of forms going from mutual reinforcements and transformations to harsh competition, this paper is an attempt to map the respective specificities of legal and technological normativities in order to enlighten current debates about the stable or changing, fundamental or residual roles and functions of Laws and legal systems. Against hasty delegations (from Law to technology) motivated by a current concerns for effectiveness and efficiency, the paper attempts to pave the way towards a democratically sustainable articulation of legal and technological normativities. Designing such an articulation, we argue, presupposes one has a clear perception of the respective contributions of legal and technological normativities to the framing or preconditioning (affordance) of individual and collective reflexivity and agency. Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/26 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/26 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:13:51 PST This paper attempts to identify the repercussions, for our understanding of human identity and legal subjectivity, of an increasingly statistical governance of the 'real' resulting from a strategic convergence of technological and socio-political evolutions. Epitomized by the rise of autonomic computing in the sectors of security and marketing, this epistemic change in our relation to the 'real' institutes a specific regime of visibility and intelligibility of the physical world and its inhabitants. This new perceptual regime affects a specific and arguably essential attribute of the human subject, which may be called his 'virtuality' (as opposed to 'actuality'). This 'virtuality', which acts as preserve for individuation over time, presupposes the recognition of 'différance' (being over time) and potentiality (spontaneity) as essential qualities of the human being. This virtual quality of the self, being a precondition to the experience of 'utopias' (spaces without location, according to Foucault), also conditions cultural, social and political vitality. Seeing the impacts of autonomic computing on human personality and legal subjectivity in terms of the governmental rationality these new technological artefacts implement allows for a normative evaluation of the impact of autonomic computing on both individual self-determination and collective self-government. Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/24 http://works.bepress.com/antoinette_rouvroy/24 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:54:43 PST The MIAUCE research consortium, funded by the European Commission (2006-2009), gathers European industrial, techno-scientific and human sciences research teams focused on the development of technologies of multimodal observation of persons for security, marketing or entertainment purposes. Inscribed in the prospective innovation field of "ambient intelligence", the technological innovations envisioned in the MIAUCE project rely on a variety of networked sensors and ICT terminals embedded in daily environments and allowing the "autonomic" adjustment and adaptation of that environment, the automatic triggering of alerts and safety or security measures, or an individualized and customized provision of services and goods, automatically adapted to fit the user's profile, his gestures and attitudes, his emotions (as detected through emotion detection algorithms embedded in 'intelligent' observation systems).These innovations raise a series of ethical, legal and sociological issues, which must be addressed from the early stage of technological design, and not merely after the technology has been developed up to the industrial dissemination stage. Indeed, the specificities of these technologies, and their potential societal impacts would jeopardize the efficiency of merely post hoc societal regulation. In this "value sensitive design" perspective, the interdisciplinary CRID-CITA research group has been involved for the last two years in the highly interdisciplinary MIAUCE project as to attune the technological design and the application scenarii construction to the relevant ethical, legal and societal considerations involved. In this sense, the MIAUCE project constitutes a timely and original endeavour towards the development of a relevant methodology to develop fruitful interactions between human scientists, technological scientists, and the industrial sector. This endeavour, explicitly mandated by the European Commission, is particularly important on the threshold of a converging technology era. The CRID-CITA team's efforts in the MIAUCE project therefore also provide a fruitful contribution to the current debates on the theorization and implementation of new modes of technological governance in Europe. Antoinette Rouvroy Legal, political & philosophical issues raised by the new Information Technologies