TERRANOVA Tiziana

Curriculum Vitae

Tiziana Terranova
Professore Ordinario Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi (SPS/08)
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali
Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale'
Largo San Giovanni Maggiore n. 32
80132 Napoli
tterranova@unior.it




Titoli universitari

Goldsmiths’ College, University of London 1992-1996
Ph.D. in Media and Communications.


Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex 1991-1992
Ott 1991/Oct 1992 M.A. Communications and Technology

Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli. 1985-1991
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere 110 e lode
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Incarichi accademici

Posizione attuale
Professore Ordinario in Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, 2022-


Incarichi precedenti

2008-2021 Professore Associato in Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, 2008-2021
2006-2008 Professore Associato Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi, Dipartimento di Studi Americani, e Linguistici, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’
Lecturer B (Professore Associato) in Media, Culture and Film, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, 2000-2006

Lecturer A (Ricercatore) in Media Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London, UK, 1997-2000

Visiting Lecturer (Professore a Contratto), Department of Innovation Studies, University of East London, UK, 1996

Visiting Lecturer (Professore a Contratto) Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK 1993-1996

FINANZIAMENTI DI RICERCA E PARTECIPAZIONE A PROGETTI


2021-2023 Member Erasmus Strategic Partnership K2 project “Geophilosophy of the Balkans” (with American University of Europe, Skopje; Singidunum University, Belgrade; Panteion University Athens, University of Naples,‘L’Orientale’ and University of Verona)


2021- Scientific Board Horizon 2020 Project EUMEPLAT, European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture


2020- Member AHRC Network Advisory Group: "Law and the Human"


2019-2023 Management Committee Member European Forum for Advanced Practices, CA18136

2017-2020 Italian node of the Immediations network, Concordia University, Montreal Canada, sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2011-2019).

2017
Partner 'The Incomputable’, project IZK - Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, finanziato dall'Austrian Science Research Council (2017/2020) diretto da Antonia Majaca (IZK), in collaborazione con Luciana Parisi (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College, University of London)

2011-2013
MeLa: European Museums in an Age of Migration, funded by the European Commission under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Program (FP7th), coordinator Prof. Iain Chambers, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, 'L'Orientale', Napoli; role: research member.

2007-2010
EU-funded, local coordinator, A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics.
(NEST – 043415) Pathfinder Initiative: 2005/2006. Duration: 36 months, This project is supported by funding under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. 2007-2009;

2006-2008
Ministero Italiano per l’Universita’ e la Ricerca ‘Rientro cervelli’ (Braindrain programme) research grant ‘La guerra nella mente; soggettività postcoloniali e Internet’ January 2006- December 2008, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli, l’Orientale.


2005-2006
Ministero Italiano per l’Università e la Ricerca ‘Rientro cervelli’ (Braindrain programme) research grant ‘Information and Orientalism: the War on Terror’ January 2005-December 2006, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli, l’Orientale.


1998-2000
ESRC "From the Net to the Web and Beyond: Actors and Interests in the Construction of the Internet" (The Virtual Society? Programme) (Innovation Studies Department, UEL);


1994-1995
Fulbright Scholarship. American Studies Program, New York University, New York, USA.

1994-1995 Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, NYU, USA

1992-1994
Borsa di studio per corso di perfezionamento all'estero, Ministero dell'Istruzione, Italy

1990-1991
Erasmus Scholarship. Department of Cultural Studies, Middlesex Polytechnic, UK

BORSE DI RICERCA

2017 Fulbright Chair in Italian Studies, Department of French and Italian Studies, Northwestern University, IL, USA

2013-2014 Research Fellow Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

2008 Visiting Scholar ATACD , Centre for Humanities, Università di Utrecht, Olanda

2008 Visiting Scholar ATACD, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London




INCARICHI GESTIONALI

2021- Delegata alla Comunicazione di Ateneo (Università L’Orientale)

2018-2021 Membro commissione di ateneo 'Public Engagement'

2016- Membro della Commissione Ricerca, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Universtà 'L'Orientale'

2012-2016 Coordinatore Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici, Università 'L'Orientale', Napoli

2009-2016 Membro della giunta del Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, Dipartimento di Studi Americani, Culturali e Linguistici, Università 'L'Orientale', Napoli

2003-2004 Student support officer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex

2003-2004 Web officer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex

2002-2003 Director of MA in Sociology of Culture and Media, University of Essex.

2001 Staff representative for the MA in the Sociology of Culture, University of Essex

1998/2000 3rd Year coordinator of the degree in Media Studies, University of East London

1998/2000 Convenor of the new MA in Multimedia: culture, production, theories, (a joint venture of the Department of Cultural Studies, the Department of Innovation Studies, the Multimedia Production Center, and the School of Art and Design), University of East London

PHD THESES SUPERVISED

ONGOING

Edoardo Biscossi “Platform Labor”, Dottorato in Studi Internazionali, Università di Napoli, L’Orientale

Gioacchino Orsenigo “Beyond vitalism in post-digital culture: a study of Lithium” Dottorato in Studi Internazionali, Università di Napoli, L’Orientale



COMPLETED

Luca Recano “Utopia e Design. Innovazione sociale, tecnoculture radicali, e transizione socio-tecnica”, Dottorato in Studi Internazionali, XXXIII ciclo

Pierluigi Vattimo “Governo e potere dei commons nel capitalismo cognitivo: esperienze di autogoverno dei commons a Napoli e in Italia”, Dottorato in Studi Internazionali, XXXII ciclo (co-tutela ECOLE DOCTORALE D'ECONOMIE DE LA SORBONNE, MAISON DE SCIENCES ECONOMICS, Université Paris, Panthéon Sorbonne), 2021


Vittorio Milone 'Biohackerspaces: A Research into the European DYIbio movement' Dottorato in Studi Internazionali, Ciclo XXIX Bis, 2019

Roberta Colavecchio 'Estetica Residuale: Ecologia Politica della Materia e Tecnologie del Ri-Ciclo nel Paesaggio dell'Arte Contemporanea', Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, 2014

Maria Domenica Arcuri 'A Journey Towards an Elsewhere: Street Art e visioni alternative di città', Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (IX ciclo N.S.), 2012 (con Iain Chambers)

Viola Sarnelli 'Al Jazeera English: Mappe e riscritture dell'informazione satellitare' Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (IX ciclo N.S.), 2012 (con Iain Chambers)

Beatrice Ferrara “Afrofuturismo” Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (IX ciclo N.S.), 2011 (con Iain Chambers)


Michaela Quadraro 'L'arte digitale postcoloniale' Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono (IX ciclo N.S.), 2011 (con Iain Chambers)

Clelia Clini “"Bollyscape: Il cinema popolare indiano fra diaspora e globalizzazione" Dottorato in Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali del Mondo Anglofono, 2009




COMMISSIONI DOTTORATO MEMBRA ESTERNA

Ofri Cnaani-David “Active Residues” PhD Visual Cultures/Advanced Practices, Department of Visual Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London, November 2022

Moritz Altenried 'The Digital Factory', Phd in Cultural Studies, Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK, 2018

Emrah Karakilic 'The Limits of Cognitive Capitalism', Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College, University of London 2015

Thomas A. Rodgers 'Toward a Critique of a New Media Industry: An Investigation into Value, Values and Valorization in the Video-Games Industry', Department of Humanities and Social Science, University of York, 2015

Franco Berardi 'A Phenomenology of the End', Department of Media, University of Helsinki, 2014

Kirsten Forkert ‘Artistic Labour and the Changing Nature of Work: a two-city study’, Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, 2011

Restitua Castiello e Monica Soldà, membro esterno, commissione di uscita Phd in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Trento, 2012




PARTNERSHIPS

Coordinatore Convenzione/Partnership tra Università L’Orientale e Goldsmiths’ College University of London, 2011-

Coordinatore e responsabile locale: Immediations: A Network of Research Creation, SSHRC funded, SenseLab, University of Montreal. Canada

Research Evaluation

2002- 2004 External Examiner of the MA in Interactive Media, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.

Expert COST projects European Union (2013-)

Membership Editorial Boards of Refereed Journals

Studi Culturali (Il Mulino)
Theory, Culture and Society (Sage Publications Ltd)
Dark Matter (http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/)
Subjectivity, (Palgrave MacMillan)
Fibreculture (online)
New Formations (Lawrence and Wishart)
Media Theory (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/i)
Critical Gambling Studies (Open Access, University of Alberta Libraries)

Manuscript reader for: The MIT Press; Stanford University Press; Palgrave/MacMillan; Routledge; .


Comitato Editoriale di Collane

Mutamenti – società e culture in transizione, Mimesis Edizioni
Cinema e Studi Culturali, Meltemi Editore
Cultural Studies and Marxim (Rowman and Littlefield International, London)



Membership of Academic Networks
Member of the 'Donne e Multiculturalismo' network

Member of the Hermeneia Network for the study of electronic text (organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Membro del Centro Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere (Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, L’Orientale, Napoli)

Terza Missione Public Engagement

2020: Femtech. Tecnologia e mutazioni sul corpo delle donne
Domenica, 15 Novembre 2020 – 17:30, Biennale di Tecnologia, Torino
2020- Collaborator Fundacion Saber Futuro Foundation, Chile

3.6.2020 Partecipazione su invito a relazionare all'Assemblea Pubblica Online 'Critica della ragion tecnologica: per un dibattito pubblico sulla DAD?' (un'iniziativa promossa dall'Assessorato Scuola e Istruzione del Comune di Napoli con il supporto e la collaborazione di LabEd, AdiSD Insegnare, Centro Iniziativa Democratica Insegnanti Napoli)

2020 'Progetto 2501: Il discorso del presidente' contributo al progetto Fase 25 un iniziativa a cura del network Art is Open Source, della fondazione Her Loves Data, e del quotidiano il Manifesto; tavola rotonda con Guido Vetere, direttore del Centro di Studi Avanzati IBM; iniziativa di Public Engagement APEnet per il DSUS ai tempi del Covid

2019 Dialogo pubblico con Ingrid Gardiola "Esfera pùblica i identitat cultural en l'era digital" Palau Macaya de Barcelona, Fundacio Ernest Lluch, Barcelona, 3.10.2019

2019 'The Future of Learning: a debate with Anil Seth' Nobel Prize Foundation Dialogue, Santiago del Cile, 17.1.2019

2019 'An infrastructure for the commons' presentazione Congreso Futuro, Santiago del Chile, 13.1.2019

2019 Produzione video per il canale YouTube de L'Orientale Postcoloniale, queer e femminista - Seminario su Critica della ragione negra di A. Mbembe discussione con Rossella Bonito Oliva, Iain Chambers, Miguel Mellino" Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, Febbraio 2017 (cura di Alessandra Ferlito)

2018 'Speculations on the refusal to become human capital', BBX Crit Sessions Beyond the Transparent Eye: Affectability and the Fugitive Social. Berlin Biennal, 31.8.2018

2018 Economic Space, evento di presentazione del progetto di finanza alternativa ECSA (Economic Space Initiative) SSE Art Initiative and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018 'Becoming hypersocial' presentazione al seminario pubblico, Alternative Networks, Manifesta Art Festival, Palermo, 26.09.18

2018 'Digital labor and social cooperation' Seminar Six Contradictions and the End of the Present, Reina Sofia Museo, Madrid, Spain, 12-13 September 2018.

2018- Membro della Rete di Ecologie Politiche del Presente (con la partecipazione del Centro di Studi Sociali, Università di Coimbra, Portogallo; Department of Enviromental Humanities, Università di Stoccolma; PAN; rete SET; rivista La Camera blu; Unità di Ricerca sulle Topologie Sociali, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa)

2016 Presentazione del volume di Trebor Scholz 'Platform cooperativism', Fiera del libro, Bellissima Milano

2016 ‘The Data Politics of the Social Graph’ 2016 Unboxing. Algorithmen, Daten und Demokratie, 3.12.2016 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

2015 ‘Re-engineering the Social Network Automaton?’, Capture
All:Transmediale Festival 2015, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin,
3.2.2015


2014- Co-fondazione e scrittura di articoli di divulgazione per il blog
dell'Unità di Ricerca sulle Tecnoculture (TRU) (www.technoculture.it)

2014-2015 Membro del Consiglio d'Amministrazione della cooperativa finanziaria Robin Hood Asset Management, Helskinki, Finland

2010 ‘La matrice e il cervello’ Festival You Think 2.0, Città della Scienza, Napoli, 22 Maggio 2010

2003 Guest Speaker on the BBC documentary The End of Capitalism,

2000 Host of Networks and Markets, an online forum presented by the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, and the X Art Foundation, New York, 13 March - 23 May 2000

1999 Guest speaker on the “future of avatars” (Technology Channel, Sky TV, November 1999)
Public Engagement

2023 “Dibattito sul Cyborg”, Santa Feira, festa festa dell’illustrazione e dell’editoria indipendente: esposizioni, presentazioni, tavole rotonde, musica, mostre, murales, l’Asilo Filangeri, Napoli. 14.3.23


Conferences

Invited Keynote Speaker

2021 “The Technosocial City” Mapping Digital Cityscapes Conference, Institute of Urban Humanities, University of Seoul, South Korea, 22.5.2021

2018 'Social Reproduction in the Age of the Network as World Picture' World Picture Conference 2018, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, UK 13 December 2018

2018 'Speculations on the refusal to become human capital', BBX Crit Sessions Beyond the Transparent Eye: Affectability and the Fugitive Social. Berlin Biennal, 31.8.2018

2017 'The becoming topological of culture: a situology of social networks?'
These are Situationist Times Kunsthall, University of Oslo, Norway 28.1.2017

2016 ‘The Data Politics of the Social Graph’ 2016 Unboxing. Algorithmen, Daten und Demokratie, 3.12.2016 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

2016 ‘Educazione e Cultura Digitale’. Making Education through Culture Making Culture through Education Convegno di metà mandato Sezioni AIS: “Processi ed Istituzioni Culturali” e “Sociologia dell’Educazione” Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali - Università Federico II di Napoli Napoli, 13,14 e 15 ottobre 2016

2016 ‘Social Networks as Infrastructures. Notes Towards a Social Microphysics’, The Infrastructure Summit in The Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway, 4.9.2016

2016 ‘Walls, widgets, and feeds: on architectures of subjectivity in social media interfaces’ International Congress on Interface Politics, BAU, Design College of Barcelona, 27.4.2016

2015 'Art, labor and the social network automaton' amber15 art and technology festival, Istanbul, 7.11.2015

2015 ‘Re-engineering the Social Network Automaton?’, Capture All:Transmediale Festival 2015, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 3.2.2015

2014 Neomonadology of Social Memory’ ‘Rethinking Social Memory Conference, University of Oslo, Norway, 5-6 December 2014

2014 'Virtual Money and the Currency of the Commons' Money Lab: Coining Alternatives, Institute of Network Culture, Amsterdam, 21.3.2014

2013 'A Habit of Liking: Facebook's like button and the grammatization of social life', conference Habits of Living, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 23 March 2013

2012 'Proletarianization of the Brain' Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism conference, California Institute of the Arts, 6-7 November 2012

2011 ‘The Becoming Mobile of Publics’ Materialities and Imaginaries of the Mobile Internet, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada, 12-13 February 2011

2010 “The Bios of Attention”, European Science Foundation conference Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility. Linköping, Sweden, 6-10 September 2010

2007 ‘What’s So Significant about Social Networking? Web 2.0 and its Critical Potential’, International Communication Association conference Creating Communication: content, control, critique, San Francisco, 25-28 May 2007

2007 “Everything is everything: network science, neo-liberalism and security” paper delivered to the conference New Network Theory, University of Amsterdam, 28-30 June 2007

2005 ‘Of sense and sensibility: immaterial labor, curating, open systems’ Curating, Immateriality, Systems: on curating digital media ( one day conference held at the Tate Modern, London, UK, 4 June 2005)

2005 ‘Porting Open Source’ (plenary speaker at the Open Congress conference, Tate Britain, London UK 7-8 October 2005)

2003 ""Open Networks: electronic publishing and the instability of cyberspace" ( Symposium "(E-literature) European electronic literature: one or diverse? A comparative approach to its status, transformation and reception " Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 23-25 April 2003 Barcelona

2003 “Communications Biopower’ (Radical Philosophy conference ‘Possibilities’, Middlesex University, 29.11.2003)

2003 " Communication beyond meaning: from cultural criticism to the plane of information" (Symposium Future Matters: Technoscience, Politics and Cultural Criticism., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 10-11 April 2003).

2002 "The rights of informational labor" ("The knowledge economy - new hope or new hype? One Day Conference SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2002 DOCKLANDS CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON)

Invited Speaker

2019 “Cognitive Capitalism and Hypersocial Cooperation” Capitalisme Cognitif seminar series, Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 12.6.19

2019 ''Technosocial Media Infrastructures Towards a World in Common' Panel 'Creating Commons' Association for Philosophy and Literature/Theory Culture and Society Conference. Truth, Fiction, Illusions: Worlds and Experiences, 31.5.2019

2019 ''The Shape of the Social is the Network': Neoliberalism and Social Network Genealogies' Panel 'Neoliberal Ilusions' Association for Philosophy and Literature/Theory Culture and Society Conference. Truth, Fiction, Illusions: Worlds and Experiences, 30.5.2019

2019 'The Hypersocial Medium: a Critical Genealogy of Digital Social Networks' Mapping Digital Media: From Infrastructure to Gaming Lecture Series. Department of Modern Media and Culture, Brown University, Providence, RH, USA

2019 'The Future of Learning: a debate with Anil Seth' Nobel Prize Foundation Dialogue, Santiago del Cile, 17.1.2019

2019 'An infrastructure for the commons' Congreso Futuro, Santiago del Chile, 13.1.2019

2018 'Becoming hypersocial' Alternative Networks, Manifesta Art Festival, Palermo, 26.09.18

2018 'Digital labor and social cooperation' Seminar Six Contradictions and the End of the Present, Reina Sofia Museo, Madrid, Spain, 12-13 September 2018.

2018 February 20th 'A Media Archaeology of the Social Graph' Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK (funded by the College International de Philosophie, Paris, France)

2018 January 19th 'Social cooperation in cryptotechnologies of economic space', Economic Space Conference, (co-funded by Economic Space Agency, Department of Economics of the University of Stockholm, Moderna Museet) SSE Art Initiative and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

2017 November 26th , 'Competition and Cooperation in Social Cybernetics', Humans of the Institution Conference, convened by Curatorial Practice, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen (UiB), Norwar and Frontier Imaginaries, and presented at the Veem House for Performance in Amsterdam 25–27 November 2017.

2017 July 18, 'Governing the (hyper)social: Facebook's global community (or how the social became a medium)' Global Emergent Media Lab Summer Institute - Centro Kim’s, Salemi, Sicily

2017 July 6 'Neomonadology and social cooperation' Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art III, BerlinArt & the Politics of Collectivity July 3-27, 2017

2017 July 4, Roundtable 'Experiences of Europeanisation in Education. Limits, Potential and Reinvention.' Summer School in European Education Studies, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università di Napoli Federico II, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union

2017 June 23rd, 'The (post)University as a 'Commonfare Institution between Social Cooperation and Technological Mediation', Paper presented at the 1st Meeting of the conference cycle of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Program (ICCTP) funded by the A. W. Mellon Foundation; 'The Critical Tasks of the University'

2017 May 16th, participant roundtable Algorithms Politics Aesthetics, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, USA

2017 May 10th (with Luciana Parisi, Goldsmiths' College, Univ, of London) 'Hypersocial Automation or the Automation of Socialities', Ordinary Media research workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA May 10, 2017

2017 May 5th 'Algorithms, Capital and the Automation of the Common', conference series Algorithms, Models and Formalisms, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, USA

2017 April 14th 'Postcivil and Hypersocial: Digital Media After the Rise of Social Networking Platforms', Lecture for the course of Digital Studies, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour,

2016 Discussant Roundtable on ‘Value’, Vineina Centre de Ia Imatge, Barcelona, 26 April 2016

2016 ‘From Financialization to Bitcoin to the Money of the Commonwealth’ Dynamics of Virtual Work, 7th Meeting of Working Groups, COST network, University of Pavia, 21-22 March 2016

2016 ‘Hypersocial or Social (Network) Automation’ Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, UK, 29.2.2016

2016 ‘Social production between market economics and Marxist political economy’ Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK, 2.3.2016

2016 ‘Architecture of Subjectivity in Social Network Sites’ Plenary Lecture, Interface Politics, Hangar (Production and Research Center for the Visual Arts), Barcelona, 28.4.2016

2016 ‘Anarcheologia e neomonadologia’ event related to the exhibition by Domenico Mennillo Wunder(Litterature)Kammer, Museo Nitsch, Napoli, 12.1.2016

2015 ‘The return of the social in digital media’ The New Economies Initiatives
Critical Consensus, Berlin, 12.12.2015

2015 ‘Che cosa è una società europea?’ convegno EUROPA MAGGIORE / europa minore, Centralismo, modelli normativi, resistenze, Università 'L'Orientale' 3.12.2015

2015 ‘Why Alternative Currencies Now?’ Athens Biennal, Athens, 18.11.15

2014 ‘Profili di classe: sciopero sociale e social networks’. Convegno Immagini e Ritratti Collettivi al tempo dei new media. Università L’Orientale, 11-12 Dicembre 2014

2014 'Hypersocial: digital networks and the new economy' Bochum Colloquium in Media Studies, Institute for Media Studies
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany 22.01.2014

2014 'Capitalism cognitif et social networks' Séminaire organisé dans le cadre du projet européen D-CENT, Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, 24.01.2014

2014 'Hello World!: a neo-monadology of the social Internet' (paper delivered as part of the 'Aesthetic Objectivity Series' , Visual Culture Public Program, Goldsmiths College, University of London 13.2.14)

2011 ‘Topology and the New Town between India and the United States’ paper workshop Transit Labor, Calcutta Research Institute, India, 8.09.2011

2011 ‘La sociologia e il contesto istituzionale italiano e anglofono’ seminario Per la sociologia, Dipartimento di Scienze delle Comunicazioni, Università di Bologna, 28.10.2011

2011 ‘Autonomy, Labor and the Political Economy of Social Media’, Mig@net: Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender, Athens, 19.01.2012

2011 ‘Race and Digital Media’ paper presented at joint seminar ‘L’Orientale/Goldsmiths’ College’, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 16.06.2011

2011 Discussant international conference ‘Foucault and the Postcolonial Present’ University of Bologna, 3-4 March 2011

2011 ‘Hypersocial networks and revolutionary affect’, Platform Politics: A Multidisciplinary Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 Maggio 2011

‘2011 What is a European Society?” First conference of the European School of Social Imagination (SCEPSI), San Marino 14 Maggio 2011

2010 ‘Prossimità, distanza e movimento: la topologia delle reti’ Seminario Internazionale : Le culture della mobilità: spostamento, prossimità, nuovi media, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università della Calabria, 12-13 Marzo 2010

2009 “The becoming immaterial of the global common” Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota, 23 September 2009

2009 “Labor, value and change in the digital economy” a prelude to the Internet as Playground and Factory Conference, New School for Social Research, New York 29 September 2009

2009 “Economic Globalization” paper delivered as part of the Symposium Feedforward: The Angel of History, Gijon, Spain, 24th October 2009

2009 “Cognitive Automata and the topology of the social web” paper delivered at the ATACD conference, 6th European Framework, Changing Cultures: Cultures of Change, University of Barcelona, 11 december 2009

2008 “La rete nel prisma dell’economia politica” seminario Reti e istituzioni del commune. Uninomade/Università di Roma La Sapienza, 16/17 febbraio 2008

2008 “Reti sociali e reti finanziare” Seminario di Studio di Uninomade Crisi della finanza, trasformazioni della democrazia, critica della politica, Bologna 12-13 Settembre 2008

2008 “The crisis of the university? Conflict and Governance in the Global Knowledge Market” Roundtable Goldsmiths College 26 November 2008/ Queens’ Mary College 28 November 2008

2007 Ubiquitous media’s noopolitics’ paper delivered to Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations. The University of Tokyo/Theory, Culture and Society 25th anniversary conference, Tokyo 13-16 July 2007

2007 ‘Internet Topologies’ Topologies for Culture: Metaphors and Tools, University of Amsterdam, 29-30 Novembre 2007

2007 “New media and politcs” paper delivered at the New Media and Politics seminar, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 13 december 2007

2007 “Population as a thinking device” paper delivered at the Symposium “The happening of the social: devices, sites and methods. Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 14-15 December 2007

2004 ‘The noise of text: electronic space and digital literature’ paper presented at the conference Under Construction: digital literature and theoretical approximations. Barcelona, April 2004.

2004 Respondent to Mark Tribe in Mapping Intensities conference, Goldsmiths’ College, 4 June 2004.


2004 “Another Interactivity: Intermedia Resonance and the Future of the Book” ( The Future of the Book, Beijing, China, August 2004)

2002 “The degree zero of politics: virtual social movements and virtual cultures” (paper delivered at the ‘Our Media” pre-conference, International Association of the Media and Communication Researchers conference, Barcelona, Spain, 20 July 2002)

2002 “The passions of free labor” ( Intellectual Property conference, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 14/06/02)

1998 (with Luciana Parisi) “Corpi Turbolenti: Soglie, Simulacri, Disordini” (paper delivered at the Conference Between colonialisms: frontiers of the body/frontiers of identity, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, 28/29 May 1998)


1998 “The hard work of culture: computers and the production/consumption divide” Cultural Politics / Political Cultures Conference at the University of Sussex Friday 25 September 1998

1997 ‘Nel circuito integrato: il posto del femminile nel regime di proprietà virtuale’. Paper delivered at the International Conference Donne e Proprietà: Storia, Racconto, immagini, l’Archivio delle Donne, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli, 20-22 November 1997

1997 ‘Telecommunications and urban cultures: digital media are not just virtual democracy’. New Times' Post-election conference.

1994 ““Cyber-catastrophes: the sinful technology of Pat Cadigan’s cyberpunk Synners”, (paper delivered at the XII International Biennal Conference: Technology and the American Imagination.. Venice, Italy

Other Conferences



2018 April 13th, ''Discussant Staying with the Trouble (2016) by Donna Haraway' Ciclo di Seminari a cura dell'Unità di Ricerca sulle Tecnoculture, Centro Studi e Postcoloniali di Genere, L'Orientale. Postcoloniale, Queer e Femminista: Percorsi di lettura per una vita nonfascista. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli

2018 March 1st, 'Discussant Towards a Global Idea of Race (2007) by Denise Ferreira Da Silva' Ciclo di Seminari a cura dell'Unità di Ricerca sulle Tecnoculture, Centro Studi e Postcoloniali di Genere, L'Orientale. Postcoloniale, Queer e Femminista: Percorsi di lettura per una vita nonfascista. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli

2014 ‘'The Limits of Political Economy: Post-Neoliberal and Post-Marxist Approaches to Social Production' International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) 5th Annual Conference 'The Crisis, Policies, Conflicts and Alternatives', September 16-18 2014, University of Naples 'L'Orientale'

2010 ‘The Iranian Internet” Paper presented at the Graduate Workshop in Cultural Studies, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 25th March 2010

2010 Chair to the ‘Liquid Democracy’ panel, 7.2.2010, Transmediale Berlin

2000 “On technological and cultural determinism: the cultural politics of cybernetic communications” (Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 28 June-2 July 2002)

2000 with Luciana Parisi) “A Matter of Affect: digital images and the cybernetic re-wiring of vision” delivered at the Crossroads Conference in Cultural Studies, Birmingham University, July 2000.

1998 (with Luciana Parisi) “The pragmatics of turbulence in genetic engineering and artificial life” paper delivered at the Discipline and Deviance: Genders, Technologies, Machines conference at Duke University, North Carolina Oct. 2-4, 1998.

1993 “Female desire(s) and male representation: politics of pleasure in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks” ESSE/2 Bourdeaux


Phd seminars and summer schools

2018 'The Hypersocial' Summer School, Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory, University of Bologna/Berkeley University, July 2018
2017 'The Global South Summer School University of Toronto, Salemi, July 2017
2017 PhD Workshop ‘Topology and Culture’, University of Oslo, 27.1.17
2016 Phd workshop ‘Securing the Social: Foucault and Social Networks’, PhD in Socio-legal Studies, Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK 1.3.2016
2015 ‘Relazione giornata comunicazione. Introduzione alla tavola rotonda’ Euronomade summer school, 12.9.2015
2013 'Ipersocialità nel web 2.0', lezione al corso di Cultura Digitale, Facoltà di Sociologia, Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II', 21/05/2013
2013 'Arte digitale e web sociale: un incontro con l'installazione multimediale Hello World! How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise (2009) di Christopher Baker', conferenza ciclo di seminari Arte e Nuove Tecnologie, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Università 'L'Orientale', 31.05.2013
2013 'Digitale e sessuazione' seminario Dipartimento Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Roma 3, 10 Maggio 2013
2013 'Il nodo della soggettività: reti informatiche e reti sociali' , conferenza tenuta al Corso di Analisi e Teorie della Modernità, Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Ricerca Sociale, Università degli Studi di Roma, 'La Sapienza', 10 maggio 2013
2011 ‘New towns and milieus of innovation between India, China and the United States” (paper delivered at the ‘Transit Labor Workshop’ , Swabhumi Heritage Plaza, Kolkata, India, 6 September 2011
2011 ‘Respondent’ to the ‘Race and Digital Media Workshop’, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 16th June 2011
2011 discussant at the ‘Race and Digital Media’ intensive joint workshop ‘L’Orientale’/’Goldsmiths College, University of London, held at Goldsmiths’ College, June 2011
2010 discussant at the ‘Postcolonial media’ intensive joint workshop ‘L’Orientale’/’Goldsmiths College, University of London, held at Goldsmiths’ College, May 2010
2010 discussant at the ‘Precarious Labor’ intensive joint workshop ‘L’Orientale’/’Goldsmiths College, University of London, held at ‘L’Orientale’, December 2010
2009 “New Trends in Media Studies” Seminario A.I.A. di Studi Culturali The Challenge of Cultural Studies Today. Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, 13 february 2009
2008 “Topology and culture” Testlab Topoloy, V2 Institute for Unstable Media, 17 April 2008
2007 “Internet and Topology” Symposium, Research Project EU Funded A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamics. “Topology for Culture: Metaphors and Tools” 29 November 2007 University of Amsterdam,
2006 ‘Reality Wars: information, truth and subjectivity on the battleground of perception’, Department of Communications, University of Montreal, February 9th 2006.
2005 ‘Interconnections: network theory and cultural studies’ paper presented at the Research Seminar of the Department of Sociology, Open University, UK, 17/05/2005.
2005 ‘Nothing like: parole, voci e immagini dall’iperspazio iracheno, 2003-2005’ paper presented at the PhD seminar series in ‘Letterature, Storie e Culture Anglofone’, 3 November 2005
2005 ‘Communicating the war’ talk delivered to the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK 15 November 2005
2005 ‘Weblogs: linkages, perspectives and images from and around Iraq’ . Cambridge Media Research Group, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, November 16th 2005
2004 “Ideology or The Means of Mental Production? Revisiting Marxist Media Studies” Postgraduate Seminar for Cultural Studies MA and PhD students, Goldsmiths’ College, 28.01.2004.
2004 ‘Communication beyond meaning: cultural politics and informational dynamics’ (paper presented at the Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Lancaster, 9 June 2004
2002 “Virtual cultures/Virtual Social Movements: the cultural politics of cybernetic communications” (paper delivered at the research seminar series of the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, 31 January 2002)
2002 “Network Culture/Network Space” (paper delivered to the MA in Interactive Media students, Southampton Institute, 1/05/2002)
2002 Guest speaker at the London Institute for Contemporary Art Symposium Games and the Body, (“an early evening exploring the growing relationship between computer games and the human body”), 17 January 2002.
2002 “Power and open systems: on network culture” (seminar held at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona 23 July 2002_
2001 "On Networked Intelligence and the Digital Economy: Thinking About Collective Politics in Control Societies" paper delivered at the Symposium on Rethinking Feminism, Rethinking Economics, Mar 30, 2001 (organized by “The Center for the Study of Women and Society”, City University of New York, USA).
2001 Black Presence in Music, History and Visuals. (A one-day seminar with multimedia artists Keith and Mandi Obadike, Faisal Abdul’Allah and Roshini Kempadoo). Leeds Public Libary, 13th October 2001.
2000 "Affect and Multimedia" (paper delivered at the one-day event Making a Difference: Gender and Technology in Theory and Practice. Site Gallery, Sheffield, 4 March 2000)
2000 "Affect and Meaning: Baruch Spinoza and Cultural Studies" (paper delivered with the Media Research Group, Research Seminar, Department of Cultural Studies, 6 March 2000
2000 “Media studies, the theory/practice divide and the re-organisation of postmodern knowledge” (paper presented as part of a group presentation with the staff of the Multimedia Production Center to the AMPE conference, Leeds, May 2000)
2000 "Baruch Spinoza, Autonomia and free labor" (paper delivered at the American Studies Graduate Programme, New York University, 27 April 2000)
2000 Cosmopolitiques, State University of New York at Albany, April 24-26, 2000: An Intensive Seminar with Isabelle Stengers, Brian Massumi, William Connolly and Keith Ansell-Pearson. Sponsored by the Center for Arts and Humanities University at Albany, USA.
1999 “Organisms, communication systems and bodies without organs: towards a post-representational theory of the body” (lecture delivered at Middlesex University, MA in Visual Culture, 18/1/99)
1999 "Multimedia Networks: The politics of producing for the Web" (paper delivered at the Emergence, Convergence, Divergence Multimedia Seminar Series, University of East London, 20 April 99)
1998 “Visions of cyborgs/theories of the body” (lecture delivered at the Canterbury School of Fine Art, BA Hons in Fine Art, 3rd year) November 1998