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…
In his Doctorate Thesis, MediaLab.UFRJ researcher Paulo Faltay analises the self-titled group Targeted Individuals (TIs). FALTAY, Paulo. Paranoid machines and influenceable subjects: conspiracy, knowledge and subjectivities in algorithmic networks.. Thesis (Doctorate in Communication and Culture) – Escola de Comunicação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2020. Abstract: In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman,…
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…
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 May 2020, the article "Psychic Economy of Algorithms and Platform Laboratory: market, science and behavior modulation" written by Fernanda Bruno, Anna Bentes and Paulo Faltay was published in the journal Famecos. Abstract: The extensive and uninterrupted tracking of our online actions integrates the mechanism of an economic investment that employs data-driven human behavior modification strategies. In this context, we…
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…
In June 2019, the article "ALGORITHMIC SUBJECTS, PARANOID SUBJECTIVITIES: data capitalism, influence, (in)dividualities" written by Paulo Faltay was published in the annals of the Annual Meeting of Compós (National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication). Abstract: Recent episodes have led the question of personal digital data use in human behavior influencing strategies to the core of the techno-political debate. This…
In March 2019, the article "Body, perception and value in contemporary curatorial thinking" written by Ícarro Ferraz Vidal Junior was published in the journal Novos Olhares, v.8 n.2 (USP). Abstract: This article adopts as its starting point some transformations in the statutes of body, space and time, formulated from the hegemony of the white cube as spatial configuration of art…
In November 2018, the article “Abstraction, expropriation, anticipation: Note généalogique sur les visions machiniques de la gestualité” written by Fernanda Bruno, Mauricio Lissovsky and Icaro Ferraz Vidal Júnior was published in the journal Réseaux n. 211, “Machines prédictives”. Abstract: The article traces a genealogy of automatic vision of gestuality, from the technical reproducibility of images, to contemporary predictive machines. The text…