Author: Florence Paterson

2017 Forccast Prize for the Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony

The 2017 Forccast Controversy Mapping Awards Ceremony took place on June 30 at Sciences Po. This was a special occasion as the event capped off an all-day symposium organized for the hand-over of Bruno Latour to Dominique Cardon at the head of Sciences Po’s Médialab. A prize was awarded to the best work realized in 2017 within the framework of three different courses that, as Nicolas Benvegnu, executive director of the Forccast program, recalled, were successively created and taught by Bruno Latour. The earliest course […]

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2017 FORCCAST Mapping Controversies Award

The 2017 FORCCAST Mapping Controversies Award will be awarded to Arthur Fourny, Thomas Andrade, Nicolas Alaux, Gabriel Ozouf and Alexandre Levesque (Mines ParisTech) for their group’s project: Is Anthropocene a Geological Era?, Sciences Po, amphithéâtre Erignac, 13 rue de l’Université,…

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Democratic experiments, a book by Brice Laurent

In Democratic Experiments, Brice Laurent discusses the challenges that emerging technologies create for democracy today. He focuses on nanotechnology and its attendant problems, proposing nanotechnology as a lens through which to understand contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.

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