In 1879 in The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevskij described the correlation between intellectual dishonesty, inability to distinguish the truth, lack of self-respect and love, and the pleasure to take offense. From […]
On Saturday 11 December we received the outcomes of the 2022-2024 STS Italia Board elections. Here I publish the message we as elected board have circulated, and some more personal […]
How can information systems de facto rearrange boundaries between the Public and the Private, at the very micro level and without anyone noticing it? Annalisa’s recent paper on the prestigious […]
Identification at the border has usually been conceived of as a matter of bilateral and unmediated relationship with the State, but what happens when identification is conceived of as translation? […]
Dear SARS-CoV-2, Like other 74 million specimens of homo sapiens in the world as of today, I have been chosen by you as a site for experimentation and discovery. I […]
The COVID-19 pandemic invites a question about how long-standing narratives of alterity and current narratives of disease are entwined and re-enacted in the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this commentary, we […]
Noortje Marres and I have recently published on Information, Communication and Society two cross-reviews of our recent books. You can find my review of Noortje’s Digital Sociology here (OA), as […]
The COVID-19 pandemic requires reconsidering the relationship between data and invisible populations as a form of de facto civil inclusion. While most forms of data management of populations are problematic, […]
I re-publish a commentary originally published at Processing Citizenship in October 2019, when the new DNA collection plan was first announced It is yesterday’s news that the U. S. Department […]
A shorter version of this commentary is published as Pelizza, Annalisa. (2020). Blame is in the eye of the beholder: beyond an ethics of hubris and shame in the time […]
