Giuseppe Cocco

Researcher in residence at the Maison Suger | December 2025-February 2026

Giuseppe Cocco holds a PhD in Social History from Paris I University (Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1993). He is currently a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a member of the postgraduate program at the School of Communication and the Information Sciences program (Ibict), a researcher at CNPq, and a CNE at Faperj. He is editor of the journals Lugar comum (Rio de Janeiro) and Multitudes (Paris). He has published, with Antonio Negri, the works GlobAL: Biopower and Struggles in a Globalized Latin America (Record: 2005) and, with Bruno Cava, New Neoliberalism and the Other. Biopower, Anthropophagy and Living Money, Lexington, 2018.

The project

Titles: Uprisings or revolution? Constituent power or constituted powers?

"This project proposes a critical and interdisciplinary investigation into contemporary transformations in labor and democracy under conditions of algorithmic acceleration. Its aim is to continue and expand the previous exchanges with AUP and professor Stephen Sawyer, also in the context of the Chair Algorithmic Acceleration, Democracy and Labor, linked to the Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos at UFRJ (CBAE). The focus is on the impacts of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and platforms on democracy, social organization, labor dynamics, and governance regimes. The proposal integrates theoretical production, empirical research, academic training, and science outreach, using the Chair’s structure as both method and experimental field. It also includes educational activities in public schools in Rio de Janeiro, in line with the requirements of the funding call. Throughout its development, the project seeks to contribute to renewing critical frameworks on labor, technology, and democracy in the 21st century."

Hosting institution: The American University of Paris (AUP)