Scriptopolis is an assemblage of microsurveys on writing, equipped by photography. It contains a long-term documentation on the multitude of scriptural forms that we rub shoulders with, produce and manipulate on a daily basis. Each double page, consisting of a photo and a short text, questions a graphic trace and the world it brings about, placing in the foreground the countless inscriptions that make the infraordinary frame of our lives. […]
Pierre Mounier (EHESS, OpenEdition Center) and Didier Torny (CNRS, I3)
Since the invention of the “journal” form in the seventeenth century, publications have always been used as data for other scientists. As Christine L. Borgman, Professor of Information Science, puts it, “Publication, as the public record of research, is part of a continuous cycle of reading, writing, discussing, searching, investigating, presenting, submitting, and reviewing. No scholarly publication stands alone.” [1] But the ways these publications are mobilized and transformed into data are varied and involve ever more complex infrastructures.
Guest seminar with Alexandre Rios-Bordes Lecturer in contemporary history at the University Paris 7 Diderot and member of the Laboratory Identités, Cultures, Territoires (EA 337) Les savoirs de l’ombre : la surveillance militaire des populations aux États-Unis (1900-1941) Introduction to…
Morgan Meyer
How can we render an abstract notion like ‘responsibility’ tangible? Is it possible to translate it into object for visitors to see, to engage with, to touch? How can we design exhibits in order to provide members of the public an embodied sense of the multiple and complex entanglements between science and society? […]
July 3, 2019. Reprises, by Antoine Hennion, Anne-Sophie Haeringer, David Pontille and Jérôme Denis, for the last session of the CSI research seminar season «Maintaining/Supporting: fragility as a mode of existence».
The research seminar « Maintaining / supporting: fragility as a mode of existence » will welcome Myriam Winance Et si les êtres fragiles étaient des êtres résistants ? Hypothèses autour des enfants polyhandicapés What if fragile beings were resistant beings?…
Maja Horst Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhaguen Science communication as culture Maja Horst will give a public lecture on her latest work on scientific innovation and responsibility. The event is organized in the framework of the…
The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Stephen Hilgartner Professor at Cornell University, Department of Science & Technology Studies Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution Date : June 20, 2019 The seminar «…
Interview with Vincent-Arnaud Chappe by Florian Pipard for the journal Action juridique – CFDT.
How can we explain that union discrimination has only recently been studied?
For a long time, union discrimination appeared to the unionists themselves a “normal” consequence of […]
Guest seminar with Gay Hawkins Professor at Western Sidney University, Institute for Culture and Society co-author with Emily Potter and Kane Race of the book Plastic Water The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water Introduction to the discussion by…
