Stefano Tortorici is a PhD Student in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of The Centre on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos).
Stefano’s research is situated at the intersection of social movement studies, platform economy, labour and organisational sociology, and economic and political theory. His current research investigates how blockchain technology and financial platform cooperatives can overcome the traditional problems of cooperatives, i.e. scalability and finance. Furthermore, his work explores the economic debate of the 19 th and 20 th centuries among cooperatives and socialist scholars to grasp the principal contradictions in the relationship between cooperatives and the market.
Stefano holds a bachelor’s in Philosophy from the University of Turin, where he debated a thesis on Marx’s Economic and Philosophic  Manuscripts of 1844. He strengthened his political and critical background at Vrije (Amsterdam), Nanterre (Paris), and Milan Bicocca Universities. Moreover, he holds a master’s degree cum laude in Contemporary History from the University of Bologna. There, he wrote his thesis, Platform Cooperativism: Organization of Labour and Radical Democracy in the XXI century, under the supervision of Professors Sandro Mezzadra and Paola Rudan. He is a research fellow for the year 2023-2024 of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE) at the New School of New York. He is also part of a collective inquiry on Amazon’s territorial development in the Po Valley region under the coordination of the research collective Into the Black Box.

Research interests: platform economy, platform cooperativism, cooperative economy, labour conflicts in the digital age, and history of economic and political thought