Katja de vries

Katja de Vries works since September 2007 as a PhD student in Legal Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) within the "Law and autonomic computing. A mutual transformation process"-project: www.vub.ac.be/LSTS/research/lawandautonomiccomputing.pdf

Her research is focused on the collisions and interactions between legal and technological modes of thinking. More in particular she studies the impact of advanced data technologies (e.g. profiling and data mining) on legal semantics.

Some of the authors which influenced her thought (in alphabetic order): Alain Badiou, Lorraine Daston, Jacques Derrida, Costas Douzinas, Michel Foucault, Serge Gutwirth, Ian Hacking, Katherine Hayles, Martin Heidegger, Mireille Hildebrandt, Bruno Latour, Lawrence Lessig, Wouter Oudemans, Isabelle Stengers, Bernard Stiegler, Daniel Solove, Fransisco Varela, Norbert Wiener.