Dr. Alberto Romele
Society, Culture and Technological Change
Alberto Romele is research associate at the IZEW, currently involved in the LOUISA project. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Verona, Italy. Before joining the IZEW, he has worked in various European institutes and universities: the Fonds Ricoeur in Paris, the University of Porto, the University of Burgundy, and the Catholic University of Lille.
Research Interests
- Digital Hermeneutics
- Technological Imaginaries
- Ethics and epistemology of AI
Career
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.
Publications
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
Memberships
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