The Care of Things. Ethics and Politics of Maintenance

by Jérôme Denis and David Pontille

What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician and a tractor have in common? Pretty much nothing – except for the fact that, no matter how small, large, important or insignificant something is, it rarely survives without being cared for. […]

Une journée avec Bruno Latour

Coordinated by David Pontille and Vololona Rabeharisoa.
Published by Presses des mines.

Bruno Latour (1947-2022) lègue un héritage intellectuel considérable dont il a posé de nombreux jalons durant ses vingt-cinq années au Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI), s’y faisant, tour à tour et à sa manière, anthropologue des sciences et des techniques, théologien politique, […]

Paranoid Finance

A book by Fabian Muniesa, pubished by Polity Press.

There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor […]

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Mélanges offerts à Antoine Hennion

A Festschrift for Antoine Hennion edited by Loïc Riom, Sophie Tabouret, Anne-Sophie Haeringer, Jérôme Denis and Morgan Meyer.

Presses des Mines […]

EASST- 4S 2024 Amsterdam: Making and Doing Transformations

The 2024 quadrennial joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) is hosted by the Athena – Research and Education Institute at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam).

Several Open Panels are co-organized by CSI members. Learn more.

ESTS, “Maintenance & Its Knowledges” thematic collection, guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin and David Pontille

Guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin and David Pontille, the thematic collection “Maintenance & Its Knowledges”, published in April 2024 in ESTS – Engaging Science, Technology & Society, highlights the epistemic virtues of maintenance by examining a still underestimated and unexplored dimension: the forms of knowledge associated with maintenance activities. […]