Korinna Patelis

Nanos Valaoritis;s scetch of Korinna Patelis in 2007

Korinna Patelis (Athens, Greece 1972) is an academic, theorist, digital policymaker. A thirty-year veteran of Internet Studies, her research and teaching focuses on the political economy of the Internet and the structural concentration of media and tech power[1]. She has worked for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, large-scale digital project implementations in Greece. She is known for content marketing, designing and implementing the digital strategy wining campaign for Syriza in Greece in 2015[2], and consulting Tsipras. She is author of the monograph The Road to Neofeudalism: Technology, the Left and the Future (2026)[3], which tells the story of Tsipras, Varoufakis and digital policy.

Education and Academic Career

Pateis was educated in the United Kingdom, reading Philosophy and Politics at the University of Warwick. As an undergraduate, she studied under the philosopher Gillian Rose, whose work on the "Broken Middle" and the critique of political melancholy significantly influenced her subsequent theoretical framework. Her MA and PhD in Media and Communications are from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1996 and 2000, respectively. She was part of what was called latter the 90's crowd, hanging out with Richard Babrook Tizziana Terranova. She organized cyber salons ,her first piece on regulation titled What Loves Got to DO with It published in MUTE magazine, Her doctoral research, was supervised by James Curran. This work provided an early political economy critique of the Internet, specifically challenging the commercial deregulation of the web and the industrial function of portals. Patelis has held academic positions for two decades. She was an Assistant Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology 2009-2014. Her teaching includes the University of Crete, Univeristy of Athens and Pabeiotn . Her research is noted for its rejection of abstract theorizing in favor of empirical inquiry into "back-end" structures and commercial software. In her analysis of Neofeudalism, she applies Rose’s concept of "mourning has become the law" to scrutinize the defeat of the collective subject in contemporary digital discourse.

Personal and Family Life and Lineage

Patelis descends from a prominent intellectual and feminist lineage. Through her maternal line, she is a direct descendant of the 19th-century feminist intellectual Sappho Leontias, a pioneering educator and writer who served as the director of the Zappeion Girls' School in Constantinople. Leontias, inspired by poet Korinna, named he daughter Korinna. Korinna Patelis is the third Korinna, the daughter of Ioli Patelis, an Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Science.

The family lineage on her fathers side is the modernist sculptor[4] Lazaros Lamerasl, A professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts and a pioneer of abstraction.

Cultural Work

Patelis has stared in the movie Polaroid[5], the Documentary Acropolis[6]. She has produced a CD with Sony Music Greece. When she got married to Nikolas Koskoros, the famous surrealist poet Nanos Valaoritis offered this picture!

References

  1. ^ https://www2.aueb.gr/users/patelis/, Patelis (2003). "ATHENS UNIVERSITY FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSSNESS". {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help); External link in |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ ΗΕΦΙΜΕΡΙΔΑ. https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/185566/aytoi-shediazoyn-kai-ylopoioyn-tin-kampania-toy-syriza-eikones. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399799054_The_Road_to_Neofeudalism_Technology_the_Left_and_the_Future. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Lameras, Lazaros. https://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artist/lameras-lazaros/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Frantzis, Aggelos. "Polaroid Movie". IMDB.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Korina Pateli | Actress". IMDb. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
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