Written by Fernanda Bruno and Pablo Manolo Rodríguez, the article "The Dividual: Digital Practices and Biotechnologies" was published in the journal Theory, Culture and Society. Abstract This article revisits the concept of the dividual, taking as a starting point Deleuze’s diagnosis about the relevance that dividual practices have gained with the advent of biotechnology and digital culture. Although we agree…
ABSTRACT: This project investigates the algorithmic mediation of experience in digital applications and platforms with the goal of understanding their rationality regimes, as well as their effects on subjectivity and conduct. To this end, it aims to explore three complementary axes. The theoretical-conceptual axis will carry out a review of the notions of mediation and agency in the field of…
Territories of Exception Violation of rights and the use of police helicopters in Rio de Janeiro. ABSTRACT: Investigation about the violation of rights in the use of police helicopters as a shooting platform in Rio de Janeiro, encompassing the years between 2018 and 2019. Using science and data visualisation, previously unseen government information, social media data, field investigation and forensic…
The new coronavirus pandemic summons us to inhabit an extremely uncertain and unknown corporal and subjective zone. The epidemiological measures try to delimit boundaries that keep the bodies less exposed to the risk of contagion, fixing isolation, distances, and endless hygiene rituals. These same rules, added to the asphyxiating context of the pandemic, afflict and weaken subjectivities. The World Health…
In April 2020, the article “‘EVERYTHING BY ONESELF’: INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY AND TECHNICAL MEDIATION IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-CARE APPLICATIONS”, written by Fernanda Bruno, Paula Cardoso Pereira, Anna Carolina Franco Bentes, Paulo Faltay, Mariana Antoun, Debora Dantas Pio da Costa, Helena Strecker e Natássia Salgueiro Rocha was published in the journal Reciis/ Fiocruz. Abstract: This article discusses the result of the analysis of…
In January 2020, the article “WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalization” written by Fernanda Bruno and Rafael Evangelista was published in the Special Issue Data-driven elections of Internet Policy Review, edited by David Lyon and Collin J. Bennett Abstract: In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric…