M.Sc. Fotis Tsiroukis

 

Doctoral Candidate

PHIL_OS

Fotis Tsiroukis is a cross-disciplinary researcher interested in the intersection between humanities, science and new media. Also a cyborg…

Fotis kickstarted its intellectual journey in the intersectional field of History and Philosophy of Science where it came across the eerie and fascinating world of cybernetics which has inadvertently influenced its thinking. Its undergraduate thesis investigated the notion of autonomy between theoretical biology and cognitive science. This led it to an interest in embodied and situated cognition which it pursued for Masters.  

This led Fotis to the present, where it has embarked on its PhD journey a synthesis of its previous background with qualitative methods from social science to investigate epistemic coordination through a focus on concrete cooperative practices involving material artifacts. It more specifically focuses on the use of technical instrumentation, be it hardware or software, and how it contrasts with less technologically-oriented ways of perceiving and interfacing with the research objects. As its case studies came from agricultural plant science research settings in Greece, these objects tend to be mostly plants, their fruits, their growth and their “troublesome” genes.

When it doesn’t spend time in scholarly pursuits, Fotis can be found in the wild, making music, writing fiction or conspiring about alternative sociotechnical infrastructures for human emancipation. Some other times, it is sought after as a connoisseur of internet culture and memetic lore.