Kean Birch & Fabian Muniesa (Eds.)
How the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund […]
Guest seminar with Frédéric Keck Anthropologist, CNRS Research Director at Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Collège de France – CNRS UMR 7130 – EHESS Les Sentinelles des pandémies Chasseurs de virus et observateurs d’oiseaux aux frontières de la Chine Introduction to the…
Due to covid-19 related circumstances, the study day is temporarily cancelled. We will inform you as soon as possible of the date of the postponement. We will work with our new fragilities, masks and regulatory distance included. And in order…
Félix Boilève will defend his thesis in Sciences, technologies & society Une “Banque du savoir” ? Enquête sur la nature et la politique de l’expertise de la Banque mondiale A “Knowledge Bank”? An inquiry into the nature and the politics…
Evan A. Fisher will defend his thesis in Sciences, technologies & society L’humanitaire au présent Localiser les choix globaux de médecins sans frontières Humanitarian presence. Locating the global choices of doctors without borders Thesis prepared at PSL University (Paris Sciences…
Guest seminar with Lilly Irani Associate Professor, Communication, Science Studies, Computer Science, Critical Gender Studies, Design Lab | University of California San Diego Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India Introduction to the discussion by Carole-Anne Tisserand Publisher’s presentation…
The Dossier “From pragmatism to radical meliorism” prepared by Antoine Hennion and Alexandre Monnin was published in SociologieS in May 2020.
The articles in this Dossier deal with a variety of objects: the work of maintenance agents (Jérôme Denis and David Pontille), a meeting organized with so-called precarious people (Anthony Pecqueux), support at the end of life (Anne-Sophie Haeringer), life near Fukushima “after” the disaster (Sophie Houdart) and finally, through a triple interview conducted with them by a researcher (Yaël Kreplak), the conception of inquiry defended by artists who, in various forms, make this way of […]
Cornelius Heimstädt and Morgan Meyer
While the fight against Covid-19 mobilizes medicine, science and politics, it also involves a wide array of technological entities, such as apps. Apps can make life in domestic quarantine more bearable by providing opportunities for yoga, fitness, streaming, online dating, video calling, games or education. They […]
The Doctoriales i3 2020 will take place remotly For information regarding the remote meeting please consult the i3 website Download the Doctoriales i3 2020 Programme Doctoral training is at the heart of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation – i 3.…
Morgan Meyer
Hydroalcoholic gels, protective masks, screening tests, ventilators: the manufacturing of these four objects is usually the prerogative of established institutions and companies. These objects can be found in pharmacies, in hospitals, in a world that is standardized and and organized. Covid-19 has changed this order of things and, for the moment, science, medicine and the market are struggling to contain the virus.
The shortage of gels, tests and protective masks has led to countless workarounds, détournements and innovations. Let us begin our overview with the story of […]
