Antonio Lafuente

Antonio Lafuente is research scientist at the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CSIC) in the area of science studies.He has worked in the colonial expansion of science and science's relationship with its public and profane knowledge. More recently investigated the relationship between technology and commons, and the links between new and old estates. The interest in the commons has led him to study the problems of expansion of intellectual property rights in science, as well as the analysis of the implications of the concepts of governance, open knowledge, participation, technical democracy, biz science and scientific culture.