Dr. Alberto Romele

2021 Research associate at the IZEW

2018-2020 Associate professor (maître de conferences) at the Catholic University of Lille, France

2017-2018 Research assistant at the Catholic University of Lille, France

2016-2017 Assistant professor (ATER) at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

2016 (November and December) Invited professor, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France

2016 (January-June) Visiting Researcher, University of technology of Compiègne, France

2013-2016 Postdoctoral fellow of the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), University of Porto, Portugal

Project’s title: Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies

2011-2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, France

2008-2011 Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy

Dissertation’s title: The hermeneutical experience of the verbum in corde. Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur interpreters of Augustine.

Monographs

Romele, A., Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies, Routledge 2019

Romele, A., L’esperienza del verbum in corde. Ovvero l’ineffettività dell’ermeneutica, Mimesis 2013

Edited volumes and journal issues

Romele, A., and Sebbah, F.-D. (eds.), “Philosophy of Technology and the French Thought”, Philosophy & Technology (forthcoming 2022)

Romele, A., Coeckelbergh, M., and Reijers, W. (eds.), Interpreting Technology, Rowmann & Littlefield (forthcoming 2021)

Aiello, M., Paolucci, G., and Romele, A. (eds.), “Hexis, habitus, habits: filosofie dell’abitudine”, Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia 31 (2021)

Deprez, S., Damour, F., and Romele, A. (eds.), Transhumanisme: une anthologie, Hermann 2020

Possati, L., and Romele, A. (eds.), “Digital Hermeneutics”, Critical Hermeneutics 4 (2020)

Romele, A., and Terrone, E. (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media, Palgrave Macmillan 2018

Ferraris, M., Mobilizaçao Total. Introduçao e traduçao de A. Romele e J. Rebalde, Ediçoes 70 2018

Cusinato, G., Marcolungo, F., and Romele, A. (eds.), Interpretazione e trasformazione, Mimesis 2017

P. Ricœur, Plaidoyer pour l’utopie ecclésiale, edition and afterwards by O. Abel and A. Romele, Labor et Fides 2016

Guidi, S., and Romele., A. (eds.), “Human and Digital Traces”, Azimuth. International Journal of Philosophy 7 (2016)

Severo, M., and Romele, A. (eds.), Traces numériques et territoires, Presses des Mines 2015

Berner, C., Jolly, E. and Romele, A. (eds.), “Wilhelm Dilthey. Une pensée de la structure”, Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia 14 (2014)

Romele, A., Pedone, C., and Chinello, C. (eds.), “La fragilité du soi/The fragility of the self”, Études Ricœuriennes/Ricoeur Studies 4 (2013)

Chinello, C., Romele, A., and Pedone, C. (eds.), “Attraverso crisi e conflitto”, Archivio di filosofia 81 (2013)

Pedone, C., Chinello, C., and Romele, A. (eds.), “Paul Ricœur. Intersezioni”, Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia, 12 (2013)

Lombardo, M., and Romele, A. (eds.), L’effettività dell’ermeneutica, FrancoAngeli 2011

Articles

Romele, A., “The Transcendental of Technology Is Said in Many Ways”, in Foundations of Science (forthcoming)

Romele, A., “Digital Hermeneutics as Hermeneutics of the Self”, in Discipline Filosofiche 30/2 (2020): 187-203

Romele, A., “The Datafication of the Worldview”, in AI & Society (2020), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00989-x

Romele, A., “Technological Capital: Bourdieu, Postphenomenology, and the Philosophy of Technology Beyond the Empirical Turn” (2020), in Philosophy & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00398-4

Romele, A., Rodighiero, D., “Digital Habitus: Personalization Without Personality”, in Humana.Mente. Journal of Philosophy 37 (2020): 98-125

Rodighiero, D., and Romele, A., “The Hermeneutic Circle of Data Visualization: The Case Study of the Affinity Map”, in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (2020), https://doi.org/10.5840/techne202081126

Romele, A., “Towards a Posthuman Hermeneutics”, in Journal of Posthuman Studies 3/1 (2019): 45-59

Romele, A., “Imaginative Machines”, in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 22/1 (2018): 98-125

Romele, A., Severo, M., and Furia, P., “Digital Hermeneutics: from Interpreting with Machines to Interpretational Machines”, in AI & Society, online first (2018): 1-14

Romele, A., “Herméneutique du digital: les limites techniques de l’interprétation”, in Etudes Digitales 3 (2018): 55-74

Romele, A., Gallino, F., Emmenegger, C., and Gorgone, D., “Panopticism Is Not Enough: Social Media as Technologies of Voluntary Servitude”, in Surveillance & Society 25/1 (2017): 221-244

Severo, M., Feredij, A., and Romele, A., “Soft Data and Public Policy: Can Social Media Offer Alternatives to Official Statistics in Urban Policymaking?”, Internet & Policy 8/3 (2016): 354-372

Romele, A., and Severo, M., “From Philosopher to Network. Using Digital Traces for Understanding Paul Ricoeur’s Legacy”, in Azimuth 4/7 (2016): 113-128

Guidi, S., and Romele, A., “De-forming the Subject. Digital Traces and the Post- of Humanism”, in Azimuth 4/7 (2016): 73-94

Floridi, L., and Romele, A., “Tracce digitali e filosofia dell’informazione. Alberto Romele intervista Luciano Floridi”, in Azimuth 4/7 (2016): 169-176

Romele, A., and Severo, M., “Digital Traces For a New Know-Space of the City. Some Theoretical Considerations”, in Lo Squaderno. Explorations in Space and Society 39 (March 2016): 26-31

Romele, A. and Severo, M., “The Economy of the Digital Gift: from Socialism to Sociality Online”, in Theory, Culture & Society 33/5: 43-63

Romele, A., “Digital Memory and the Right to Be Forgotten. Ricoeurian perspectives”, in Tropos. Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism 8/2 (2015): 105-118

Romele, A., “The Ineffectiveness of Hermeneutics. Another Augustine’s Legacy in Gadamer”, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75/5 (2014): 422- 439

Romele, A., “La parole efficace chez Gerhard Ebeling et Paul Ricœur”, Revue de théologie et de philosophie IV/144 (2012): 305-318

Romele, A., “L’identità narrativa alla prova del nouveau roman di A. Robbe-Grillet”, Enthymema. Rivista internazionale di critica, teoria e filosofia della letteratura 9 (2013): 77-91

Romele, A., “La ‘crisi della fede’. Paul Ricoeur e la teologia ermeneutica”, in Archivio di filosofia LXXXI/1-2 (2013): 343-354

Romele, A., “L’ermeneutica del male tra Agostino e Ricoeur”, Lo Sguardo II/12 (2013): 195-215

Romele, A., “Gadamer interprete di Agostino. Sulla nozione di verbum in corde”, Philosophical Readings 3/1 (2011): 23-39.

Chapters in books

Romele, A., “The End of the Virtual? A Hermeneutic Approach to Digitality,” in J. Braga (ed.), Conceiving Virtuality: From Art to Technology, Springer 2020: 169-180

Romele, A., “From Registration to Emagination”, in A. Romele, and E. Terrone (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media, Palgrave Macmillan 2018: 257-273

Romele, A., and Rebalde, J., “A anti-hermenêutica de Maurizio Ferraris”, in M. Ferraris, Mobilizaçao Total, Ediçoes 70 2018: 7-32

Paravati, C., Romele, A., and Furia, P., “Postfazione”, in P. Ricœur, Per un’utopia ecclesiale, Claudiana, Turin 2018: 90-110

Romele, A., “La fin du virtuel? Pour une approche herméneutique du numérique”, in G. Cusinato, F. Marcolungo, and Romele, A. (eds.), Interpretazione e trasformazione, Mimesis 2017: 139-154

Abel, O., and Romele, A., “Postface”, in P. Ricœur, Plaidoyer pour l’utopie ecclésiale, Labor et Fides, Geneva 2016: 129-149

Severo, M., and Romele, A., “Soft Data. Essai d’une nouvelle definition des données pour les etudes territoriales”, in M. Severo, and A. Romele (eds.), Traces numériques et territoires, Presses des Mines 2015: 61-85

Severo, M., and Romele, A., “Etudier les traces numériques de la ville: la frontière entre en-ligne et hors-ligne”, in C. Masselot, and P. Rasse (eds.), Sciences, techniques et société. Recherches sur les technologies digitales, L’Harmattan 2015: 147-156

De Angelis, R., and Romele, A., “Pensare le reti sociali online con Gilbert Simondon”, in A. Givigliano, and C. Stancati (eds.), Prospettive sul luogo. Discussione di un oggetto sociale, Aracne 2015: 187-207

Romele, A., and Severo, M., “Une approche philosophique à la ville numérique: méthodes numériques et géolocialisation”, in M. Carmes, and J.-M. Noyer (eds.), Devenir Urbains, Presses des Mines 2014: 205-226

Romele, A., “Verbe intérieur”, in C. Berner and D. Thouard (eds.), L’interprétation. Un dictionnaire philosophique, Vrin, Paris 2015: 535-541

Romele, A., “L’ermeneutica del male tra Agostino e Ricœur”, in L. Alici (ed.), I conflitti religiosi nella scena pubblica. Agostino a confronto con manichei e donatisti, Città Nuova, Rome 2015: 130-155

Romele, A., “La Weltanschauungslehre di Dilthey e alcune variazioni sulla sua ricezione”, in G. Piaia and I. Manova (eds.), Modernità e Progresso. Due parole guida nella storia del pensiero, Cluep, Padua 2014: 207-228

Romele, A., “Jekonomika i priznanie: pozicija Rikjora”, in I. Blauberg, A. Borisenkova, I. Vdovin, and O. Machulskaya (eds.), Pol'' Rikjor v Moskve, Kanon+, Moscow 2013: 360-374

Romele, A., “Interior intimo... La decostruzione di Agostino tra Heidegger e Nancy”, in U. Perone (ed.), Intorno a Jean-Luc Nancy, Rosenberg & Sellier, Turin 2012: 115-121

Romele, A., “Ricœur interprète d’Augustin. Sur la notion de verbum in corde”, in M. Lombardo and A. Romele (eds.), L’effettivitàdell’ermeneutica/Puissances de l’herméneutique, Franco Angeli, Milan 2011: 270-281

Conference proceedings

Romele, A., “L’imagination productrice sous l’emprise des Big Data”, in Actes du Colloque “Médias numériques & Communication Electronique”, Le Havre 1-3 Juin 2016: 959-968

Romele, A., Emmenegger, C., Gallino, F. and Gorgone, D., “Technologies of Voluntary Servitude: a post-Foucauldian Approach to Social Media”, in Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Social Media. School of Accounting and Administration at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal: 377-382

Translations

Ferraris, M., Mobilizaçao Total, Ediçoes 70 2018 (Italian-Portuguese, with J. Rebalde)

Ricœur, P., Per un’utopia ecclesiale, Claudiana, Turin 2018 (French-Italian)

Romano, C., Al cuore della ragione, la fenomenologia (chapters 20-22), Mimesis, Milan 2018 (French-Italian)

Ricoeur, P., “Herméneutique et psychanalyse. Un retour critique”, Esprit Décembre 2015: 92-111 (Italian-French)

De Mul, J., “Comprendere la natura. Dilthey, Plessner e la bioermeneutica”, Lo Sguardo 1/14 (2014): 117-134 (English-Italian)

Savage, R., “Crisi, conflitto e lotta per il riconoscimento”, Archivio di filosofia LXXXI/1-2 (2013): 47-60 (English-Italian)

Mazzù, A., “Comprendere e interpretare in psicologia. Il contributo di L. Binswanger”, in M. Lombardo and A. Romele (ed.), L’effettività dell’ermeneutica/Puissances de l’herméneutique, FrancoAngeli, Milan 2011: 136-149 (French-Italian)

Book reviews

Romele, A., “Entangled in Digital Media. Review of S. O’Neal Irwin, Digital Media: Human-Technology Connections”, in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21/1 (2017): 106-113

Romele, A., “Toward a Digital Hermeneutics. Review of S. Gualeni, Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools. How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer”, in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20/1 (2016): 76-83

Romele, A., “Sens, sens-limite et limites du sens. Étude critique à partir de J. Michel, Quand le social vient au sens. Philosophie des sciences historiques et sociale”, Methodos. Savoir et Textes 16 (2016)

Romele, A., “Compte rendu de L. Possati, Ricœur face à l’analogie. Entre théologie et déconstruction”, Études Ricœuriennes/Ricoeur Studies 5 (2012): 174-178

Since 2021 Member of the Scientific Council of the Fonds Ricoeur

Since 2020 Member of the scientific committee of the book series “I Quaderni di Mechane” (Mimesis)

Since 2016 Member of the editorial board of the journal Lo Sguardo. Rivista di filosofia

Since 2016 Member of the editorial board of the journal Azimuth. International journal of philosophy

Since 2016 Member of the scientific committee of the journal Etudes Digitales