Manolis Patiniotis is professor of History of modern Science and Technology at the department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He studied for many years the History of modern science in the European periphery and beyond. His research focused on environments that did not originally participate in the making of the Enlightenment and aimed at bridging the study of the emergence of European science with postcolonial studies. After spending a short time dealing with the so-called first crisis of modernity, he turned to the History and Philosophy of the Digital. From the perspective of History, he explores the shaping of digital ontologies through the intersection of Information Theory with the rise of discreet-state machines. From the perspective of philosophy, he inquires into the notions of modularity and virtuality, and the new affordances they provide for social control and individual self-determination. He was a founding member of the international research network STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) and a member of the Academic Committee that coordinated the creation of the Postgraduate Program Science Communication at the Hellenic Open University. His webpage can be found at digiscapes.org.