Antoinette Rouvroy

Antoinette Rouvroy, PhD in Legal Sciences from the European University Institute (Florence, 2006), is a qualified researcher at the FNRS (National Federation of Researchers of the French National Research Foundation) at the Centre for Research in Information, Law and Society (CRIDS). Since 2000, she has been interested in the relationships between law, modes of construction and risk management, science and technology, and neoliberal governmentality. From 2000 to 2005, her work at the European University Institute in Florence, at Sciences and Technology Studies at the University of York (UK) and at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University (Canada) focused mainly on the co-production relationships between the overvaluation of the predictive nature of "genes" and the neoliberal mode of government (A. Rouvroy, Human genes and Neoliberal Governance. A Foucauldian critique, Routledge-Cavendish, 2007). Participation in European research contracts of the Centre for Research in Information, Law and Society since 2007, then her mandate as a qualified researcher of the FNRS since 2008 as well as her mandate as an expert for the Prospective Committee of the French CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés), have oriented her research towards the issues of polycentric governance (recognizing that law does not have a monopoly on normativity, and that normative phenomena transcend the traditional divisions of state territories) of normative technologies (both the metabolism specific to the "legal regime", and non-legal technologies producing government effects), and the articulations between legal, technological and social normativities. In addition to the issues of the digital turn and its applications (autonomic computing, ambient intelligence, datamining) for legal regimes for the protection of privacy and personal data, she has been developing a new line of research, for several years, around what she has called "algorithmic governmentality". The type of "knowledge" that nourishes it and that it shapes, the ways in which it effectively affects individual and collective behavior, the modes of individuation that can influence it or resist it are explored in a way that combines three types of closely intertwined issues: semiotic and epistemological issues, power issues, and individuation issues.