Anna Maria Lorusso

Anna Maria Lorusso is full professor in the Department of Arts of Bologna University, where she teaches Semiotics. From 2017 until 2021 she was President of the Italian Association of Semiotics.  Her research is focused on the Semiotics of culture, with two main fields of research: logic of information (post-truth, fake news etc..) and cultural memory.  Among her English publications, she edited: Perspectives on Post-Truth, thematic issue of «SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY», 2023, 37, London, Routledge, 2023;  A Sociosemiotic Critique -A Lotmanian perspective,  thematic issue of “SOCIAL SEMIOTICS”, London, Routledge, 2023; Memosur/Memosouth: Memory, Commemoration and Trauma in post-Dictatorship Argentina and Chile, London, CCCP, 2017; she authored Cultural Semiotics, London, Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016.

The project

Title: Forgetting and the right to be forgotten in the contemporary infosphere

Host institution: PHILéPOL (Philosophie, sociologie et sémiologie du politique)

Selective bibliography

• “Fiction et vérité à l’ère de la post-vérité” in Actes sémiotiques [En ligne]. 2024, n° 131. Disponible sur : <https://doi.org/10.25965/as.8699> Document créé le 17/07/2024, ISSN : 2270-4957, pp. 1-12
• Lorusso AM – Sahoul, I. – Violi, P. – Demaria, C., eds, Questioning Traumatic Heritage. Spaces of Memory in Europe and South America, Amsterdam, Amsterdam UP, 2024.
• “Archivio, interpretazione, accesibilità”, in Davide dal Sasso, ed., Prima dell’archivio. Il catalogo tra soggetti e oggetti, Bologna, Il mulino, 2024.
• “Deux récits pour une catastrophe” in Cahiers de Narratologie. Analyse et théorie narratives, n.44 | 2023. “Raconter le désastre”.
•  “Post-vérité, subjectivité et fictionnalisation”, in Degrés – Modaliser la verité, n. 195-196, Bruxelles, 2023, ISSN: 0376-8163, p. 21-28.