Alejandro Limpo (University of Southampton) joins CareNet as a visiting researcher

Alejandro Limpo is interested in the visual and computational cultures through which contemporary institutions from science to security and governance observe, represent, and govern seawater. His research, which combines ethnographic and media theoretical approaches, focus on the role of ocean sensing and platform technologie, the visual regimes and political imaginaries they foster. This work, which is currently being developed as part of his doctoral project, Platform Seascapes: Ethnographic Encounters with Anthropocene Seas and Oceans, funded by the Leverhulme Trust at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK), foregrounds interdsiciplinary conversations as key to interrogate and reimagine the role of media infrastructures and planetary data practices in shaping environmental knowledge in teh Anthropocene. Drawing on science and technology studies (STS), environmental media theory, and visual anthropology, his work is developing an ethnographic understanding of marine imaging and remote sensing practices across different platform ecosystems, attending to how they configure seascapes that are equally political, technological and material. During his time visiting Carenet he co-organized a two day seminar on the topic of “Environmental dispositives” along Carenet members Tomas Sanchez Criado (UOC) and Pablo Alonso (UOC). This workshop provided a unique space to strengthen connections between STS and environmental media approaches while drawing connections and alliances with other disciplines such as design, visual arts and architecture.

About him
Alejandro Limpo holds a BA in Anthropology from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina, 2018) and an MA in Digital Visual Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, 2020). He is  currently a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Researcher at the University of Southampton. As part of his academic collaborations, Alejandro has held research visits at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), FAMU in Prague (Czech Republic), and the CareNet group at the  Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Spain). His work contributes to debates on environmental governance, media infrastructures, and computational aesthetics, while engaging with activist and critical perspectives on oceanic space. In 2024, he co-founded the Deep Currents Collective, an independent network of researchers intervening in the jurisprudence and politics of the seabed.