Marco Antônio Sousa Alves
Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Law
Deputy Director of the Ph.D. and Master’s Program in Law at UFMG
CNPq Research Productivity Fellow
Director of the SIGA Group (Research Group on Information Society and Algorithmic Government) and of the GFDP (Research Group on Philosophy, Law and Power)
Curriculum
marcofilosofia@ufmg.br
Supervises doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
ABOUT
Ph.D. in Philosophy from UFMG (2014), with a doctoral research internship at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS/Paris). The dissertation received the UFMG Thesis Award and Honorable Mention from the CAPES Thesis Award 2015 in the area of Philosophy/Theology. Master’s in Philosophy from UFMG (2005). Holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Philosophy, also from UFMG. Was a Visiting Professor at the Surveillance Studies Centre, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, as a fellow of the Institutional Program for Internationalization (PrInt/CAPES), between 2021 and 2022. Was a postdoctoral research fellow (PNPD/CAPES) in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UFMG between 2014 and 2017. Taught between 2004 and 2013 at different higher education institutions: Milton Campos Law School, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE), and Faculdades Promove. Is linked to two collective projects within the scope of the PPGD UFMG: “Law and New Technosciences: Information, Neurosciences and Biotechnologies” and “Philosophy of Power and Radical Thought.” Works in the areas of Contemporary Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, on the question of Authorship and on ethical, political and legal problems linked to technological transformations and the digital world. In the field of information and communication technologies, has explored themes such as algorithmic governance, data justice, surveillance capitalism, data colonialism, algorithmic racism, the new informational ecosystem, artificial intelligence, regulation of digital platforms, and the fight against disinformation. In the field of philosophy and critique of law, works with contemporary authors, especially Michel Foucault, deepening the processes and devices of production of subjectivities, as well as the subversive practices of the author-function and the subject-positions, with special attention to dissident subjects, government practices, and power regimes.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Conducts research and supervises in the projects:
Law and New Technosciences: Information, Neurosciences and Biotechnologies (research line 3, History, Power and Freedom)
Philosophy of Power and Radical Thought (research line 3, History, Power and Freedom)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Uma genealogia do autor: a emergência e o funcionamento da autoria moderna.
Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2021. 478p.
Autonomia individual em risco? Governamentalidade algorítmica e a constituição do sujeito.
Cadernos Metrópole, v. 24, p. 1007-1024, 2022.
A política identitária em questão: reflexões a partir de Judith Butler e Achille Mbembe.
Revista Direito Público, v. 18, p. 588-615, 2021.
O fenômeno das fake news: definição, combate e contexto.
Internet & Sociedade, v. 1, p. 144-171, 2020.
Cidade inteligente e governamentalidade algorítmica: liberdade e controle na era da informação.
Philósophos, v. 23, p. 215-257, 2019.
A autoria em questão a partir de Foucault: autor, discurso, sujeito e poder.
Matraga (Rio de Janeiro), v. 22, p. 79-97, 2015.
Neoliberalismo e necropolítica: gestão da vida e produção da morte na atualidade.
In: Haroldo de Resende. (Org.). Michel Foucault: a política neoliberal como guerra continuada. Campinas, SP: Pontes Editores, 2024, p. 197-217.
Poder e Vigilância no Capitalismo de Plataforma.
São Paulo: Dialética, 2024. 256p.
Vidamorte: biopolíticas em perspectiva.
São Paulo: Dialética, 2021. 412p.
A sociedade da informação em questão: o direito, o poder e o sujeito na contemporaneidade.
Belo Horizonte: D’Plácido, 2019. 242p.ÁREAS DE INTERESSE
AREAS OF INTEREST
Philosophy of Law, Critical Studies of Law, Contemporary Political Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Copyright, Law and Technology, Studies on Disinformation and Platform Regulation.
LINKS OF INTEREST
Google Scholar | Academia Edu | ORCID
Grupo Siga | Grupo de Estudos em Filosofia, Direito e Poder | Youtube
PRODUCTION AND SUPERVISION INDICATORS
MAILING ADDRESS
Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
Avenida João Pinheiro, 100
11º andar do Edifício Villas-Boas
Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, 30130-180