Research output

Journal articles (peer reviewed)

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Longo, Anthony. 2025. “How Do Social Algorithms Appear? A Phenomenological Response to the Black Box Metaphor.” Minds and Machines 35(15). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-025-09716-1

Longo, Anthony. 2025. “Algorithmically Mediated Judgment: An Arendtian Perspective on Political Subjectivity in Social Media.” AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02230-z
 

Longo, Anthony. 2024. “Reversing the Primacy of Political Action: Thinking Politics and Technology with Arendt.” Arendt Studies 8, 89-113. https://doi.org/10.5840/arendtstudies20248759

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Longo, Anthony. 2024. “(Re)Designing the Public Sphere? Doing Political Theory After the Empirical Turn.” Philosophy & Technology 37:100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00788-y

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Longo, Anthony. 2024. "(Multi-)Stabilities of the Public Sphere: Why Arendt Needs Postphenomenology."
Human Studies 47, 591–612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-024-09716-7

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Longo, Anthony. 2023. "Digital Reconfigurations of Collective Identity on Twitter: A Narrative Approach." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 27:1, 60-85. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne2023317175 

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Longo, Anthony. "Zijn we verkeerd aan het hopen?" [in Dutch] Streven vrijplaats, 87(hors-série): 59–62. [PDF]

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Book chapters (peer reviewed)

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Longo, Anthony. Forthcoming. “The Processual In-Between: How Algorithms Change the Public Sphere.” Translated into Greek by Giannis Perperidis. In A Brief Philosophical Anatomy of the Digital: Epistemology, Anthropology, Politics (ed. Giannis Perperidis and Golfo Maggini). Athens: Kardamitsa Publications.

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Longo, Anthony. Forthcoming. “Becoming Political with Technology: Dissecting the ‘Process Turn’ with Arendt.” In Process Philosophy and Technology: New Directions (ed. Mark-Thomas Young and Mark Coeckelbergh). London: Routledge. 

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Longo, Anthony and Mark Coeckelbergh. Forthcoming. “(How)Do Artifacts Have Politics? (Re-)Tracing the Ontic and the Ontological in Winner’s Legacy.” In Arrangements of Power: Tracing Langdon Winner’s Legacy Within and Beyond the Philosophy of Technology (ed. Darryl Cressman and Alice Fox). Cham: Springer. 

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Longo, Anthony. 2023. "Intersubjectivity, Mirror Neurons and the Limits of Naturalism." In Thinking Togetherness. Phenomenology and Sociality, edited by Andrej Božič. Ljubljana: Institute Nova Reijva for the Humanities, 103-116. 

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Book reviews

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Longo, Anthony. 2022. "Review: Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception," Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2146457

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Conference presentations [* = invited]

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“Appropriating Hidden Technologies: A Postphenomenological Response to the Black Box Metaphor,” presented with Olya Kudina at 24th Biennial International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, TU Eindhoven (25-28 June 2025).

(*) “How Do Social Media Algorithms Appear? A Phenomenological Response to the Black Box Metaphor,” presented at the First meeting of the Philosophy, Critique, and ‘AI’ (PCAI) collective, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (23 May 2025).

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“Sich-abfinden mit dem Geschickten: Reading Arendt and Derrida into the Empirical Turn,” presented at The History of the Philosophy of Technology Conference, Maastricht University (28-30 October 2024).

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“(Re)Designing the Public Sphere? Doing Political Theory After the Empirical Turn,” presented at “Rethinking Ethics – Reimagining Technology (4TU-ESDIT),” University of Twente (2-4 October 2024).

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“Technology, World, and the In-Between: Revisiting Arendt in the Age of AI,” co-written with Jurgita Imbrasaite and Mark Coeckelbergh and presented by Jurgita Imbrasaite at the German Studies Association 48th Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia (26-29 September 2024). 

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“TikTok Gave Me ADHD: On User-Algorithm Relations in Platformed Diagnosis,” presented at “4th TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium – Digital Technologies and Identity,” Tilburg University (4-5 July 2024).
 

“TikTok Gave Me ADHD: On User-Algorithm Relations in Platformed Diagnosis,” presented at “Which Smartness? Whose Intelligence? Critical Perspectives on Digital Technology and Political Subjects,” University of Lisbon (13-14 May 2024).

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“The Digital In-Between: Remediating the Public Sphere,” presented at “Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” University of Ioannina (12-14 October 2023).

“Arendt 2.0: Enacting Political Action in Digital Spaces,” presented at the British Society for Phenomenology 2023 Annual Conference: “Lived Experience in Theory and Practice,” Manchester Metropolitan University (29-31 August 2023).

“Revaluing the Public Debate: A Postphenomenological Account of Changing Values in the Digital Public Sphere,” presented at Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET 2023), TU Delft (19-21 April 2023).

“Seeing the Public Sphere: On Interactive Spectatorship as a Political Act,” presented at “Experiencing Visual Images: Interdisciplinary Approaches,” University College London (11 November 2022).

“(De)colonising the Digital Subject: A Challenge to Reactive Democracy,” presented at the Faculty of Arts Doctoral Conference “Appropriation”, University of Antwerp (18 October 2022).

(*) “Algorithmic Frenemies: Toward a Catalogue of Digital Resistance,” presented at "Resistance and Subjectivities in the Digital Public Space,” The Digital Public Space Research Network, KU Leuven (8-9 September 2022).

“The Panopticon Reinvented: Resisting Digital Surveillance through an Anti-Colonial Lense,” presented at The London Conference in Critical Thought, Birkbeck College, University of London (8-9 July 2022).

“Conceptualising Virtual Communities: An Object-Oriented Approach to Interactivity,” presented at “Conceptualising Community,” Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen (30-31 May 2022).

“Intersubjectivity, Mirror Neurons, and the Limits of Naturalism,” presented at “Phenomenology and sociality. The 6th Conference of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology,” Ljulbljana (2-4 December 2021). [Available on YouTube]

(*) “The Digital In-Between: Social Media as a Cultural Public Sphere?” presented at “Van Eyck, through a scanner darkly: Art and intermediation (after COVID): rethinking the digital and the virtual,” organized by the Antwerp Research Institute of Arts (24 November 2021).

“The Possibilities and Limits of Agency in the Algorithmic Public Sphere,” presented at the Phigs Summer Colloquium, University of Kent (13-14 July 2021).

“The Neutrality of the Image. A Husserlian Perspective on Aesthetic Accessibility,” presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society of Phenomenological Philosophy in Gent (21 December 2018).

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Public outreach

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[Blog-article] “Kent het algoritme je beter dan jijzelf?, EOS Wetenschap, 30 april 2025. https://www.eoswetenschap.eu/psyche-brein/kent-het-algoritme-jou-beter-dan-jijzelf

[Keynote] “Listening to the World with AI(?)” at “Education and today’s complex challenges: how to bring them together?” organized by the Enabel-BeGlobal / Global Teachers Academy, Brussels, 3 April 2025. 

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[Keynote] “Beyond the AI Hype: Between Risks and Opportunities” at the Doctoral Day of the Antwerp Doctoral School, University of Antwerp, 11 March 2025. 

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[Keynote] “Learning (to Learn) with Generative AI” at the pedagogical study day of the secondary school KS Diest, Diest, 12 February 2025.

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[Keynote] “Learning (to Learn) with Generative AI” at UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASP-net), Brussels, 28 November 2024. 

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[Panel member] Panel at “Gen AI Trends in Media & Marketing” organized by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO), Thomas More University of Applied Sciences and the Flanders AI Academy (VAIA), Mechelen, 27 November 2024. 

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[Workshop] “Technology Between Image and Language: Responsibly Communicating about AI” at “Themadag: AmAI! WatAI voor jou als onderwijsprofessional allemaal betekenen kan” organized by Centre for Teacher Professional Development (CNO), University of Antwerp, 26 September 2024.

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[Keynote] “Beyond the Hype: From Plato to ChatGPT” at “Themadag: AmAI! WatAI voor jou als onderwijsprofessional allemaal betekenen kan” organized by Centre for Teacher Professional Development (CNO), University of Antwerp, 26 September 2024.

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[Panel member] Panel “Games and Politics” at Game for Thought livestream, organized by HoWest University of Applied Sciences Digital Arts and Entertainment, Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Flanders Game Hub, Flemish Games Association (FLEGA), and Elevate.be, 16 May 2024. Available at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2146490728 .

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[Panel member] Panel “The Ethical Boundaries to the Mediatech Revolution” at “Media Innovation Xchange: European Conference on Digital Transformation & Media Innovation” organized by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Brussels, 14 March 2024. 

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[Keynote] “Unpacking #ThinkPossible: How to Be Digital in the Age of AI” at Proximus (telecommunication company), Brussels, 28 November 2023. 

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[Keynote] “De Virtuele Mens: Filosofische Beschouwingen” at Pàu (digital product design company), Antwerpen, 27 April 2023. 

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[blog article] "Kan een muisklik een politieke daad zijn?” [in Dutch], Bij Nader Inzien, 2 February 2023, https://bijnaderinzien.com/2023/02/02/kan-een-muisklik-een-politieke-daad-zijn/. 

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[Interview newspaper] “Wettelijk is losgeld betalen aan hackers niet verboden, maar stad Antwerpen staat voor zware afwegingen na cyberaanval”, Gazet Van Antwerpen, 15 December 2022, https://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20221215_97299215. 

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[Interview newspaper] “Virtuele aanranding in de metaverse: ‘Helaas geen nieuw probleem’”, Knack, 17 juni 2022, https://www.knack.be/nieuws/technologie/virtuele-aanranding-in-de-metaverse-helaas-geen-nieuw-probleem/. 

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[Interview newspaper] “Jonge Wolven: Filosofen openen debat over opvoeding in een digitale wereld: “Kinderen acht uur voor een scherm zetten, is dat wel zo ideaal?”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 26 januari 2022, https://www.hln.be/antwerpen/jonge-wolven-filosofen-openen-debat-over-opvoeding-in-een-digitale-wereld-kinderen-acht-uur-voor-een-scherm-zetten-is-dat-wel-zo-ideaal~ad156172/. 

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[panel member] “Webinar: Hoopvol en ethisch leiderschap”, Leerstoel Economie van de Hooop (University of Antwerp and UCSIA), 26 mei 2021, https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/leerstoelen/economie-van-de-hoop/activiteiten/hoopvol-leiderschap/.  
 

[blog-article series] Series of contributions to blog of “De Virtuele Mens” on prevailing myths on digitalization and critical perspectives on how digital technology has appeared in the news, targeted at wider audience. Accessible in Dutch via https://www.devirtuelemens.be/blog.

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