CSI Seminar around « Les incommensurables », Zones Sensibles, 2015. More about CSI Seminar →
Author: Florence Paterson
Bruno Latour
CSI Seminar around « Face à Gaïa », La découverte, 2015. More about CSI Seminar →
Richard Rottenburg
CSI Seminar around « Far-Fetched Facts. A Parable of Development Aid », MIT Press, 2009. More about CSI Seminar →
Quantification of inequalities and diversity in firms
Interview with Vincent-Arnaud Chappe. The CSI research team welcomes Vincent-Arnaud Chappe, recruited as a researcher to the CNRS. His current research concerns the statistical equipment of the nondiscrimination and equality policies within firms. Vincent-Arnaud Chappe is the co-chairman of the…
Abécédaire des architectures distribuées, a book edited by Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani
A Primer on Distributed Architectures What is meant by distributed network architecture? Trivially it is called peer-to-peer. From a technical standpoint, it evokes an organization made of multiple calculation units, resources sharing, the absence of unique point, flexibility… in short,…
Pierre-André Juven winner of the 2015 Le Monde Prize for University Research in Humanities and Social sciences
At the Prize ceremony organized at the newspaper’s premises on November 18th, 2015, Pierre-André Juven was awarded the 2015 Le Monde Prize for University Research by Edgar Morin, Chairman of the Humanities and Social sciences jury, for his PhD thesis…
Minor in Public Affairs and Innovation
Liliana Doganova and Brice Laurent have created a minor in “Public Affairs and Innovation” (API) as part of the engineering training at Mines-ParisTech, which meets both the current challenges of innovation and an increasing demand for engineers with an educational…
Les Équilibristes. Une ethnographie du conseil en management, a book by Alaric Bourgoin
The Equilibrists. An Ethnography of Management Consulting Conquering technicians? Quacks of the modern world? Management consultants are often ridiculed by critics but they are little studied for what they do. Consulting can neither be reduced to the mechanical application of…
The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation, a book by Antoine Hennion
Initially published in French in 1993 by éditions Métailié (and reprinted in 2007), La passion musicale : une sociologie de la médiation, was published by Routledge with translation by Margaret Rigaud in 2015.
The book is now open-access on Routledge site.
Nains sans géants. Architecture décentralisée et services Internet, a book by Francesca Musiani
Dwarfs without Giants – Decentralized architecture and Internet services Decentralization is central in the genesis of the Internet, its primary objective was to make heterogeneous and distant machines communicate without going through a unique point. Today, concentration dominates around macro-actors,…