Author: Florence Paterson

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. […]

Fanny Gribenski (NYU, Arts & Science)

January 14, 2025. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Fanny Gribenski (NYU, Arts & Science) to discuss her book “Tuning the World. The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955”. Introduction to the discussion by Louison Magro and Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou.

Discounting. Béatrice Cherrier (CREST) and Liliana Doganova (CSI)

January 10, 2025. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Béatrice Cherrier (CREST) and Liliana Doganova (CSI). This seminar will focus on discounting, a widespread framework for taking the future into account in economics and in the economy. Retracing both its intellectual history and the effects of its deployment as a valuation device, we will analyzse it as a feature of economic models, as a political technology, and as a way to bring the future into existence – in particular the future of the climate and the environment.

Ludmila Courtillat-Piazza

Title of the thesis: Digital dependence and vulnerabilities in a context of ecological emergency addressed from the perspective of the resilience of mobile network. Supervisors: Clément Marquet (CSI), Marceau Coupechoux (Telecom Paris) and Sophie Quinton (INRIA). This PhD aims to…

Environmental zoning. I. Arpin and E. Rodary

November 29, 2024. Environmental zoning. For this session of the seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions”, we will welcome Estienne Rodary (GRED, IRD) and Isabelle Arpin (LESSEM, INRAE). We will explore biodiversity conservation in protected areas (what we call “environmental zoning”). What kind of territorial development does this generate and what are the mechanisms of knowledge production? What value can be attached to the environment?

Laurine Lièvremont

Title of the thesis: The gender of economic forecasting: uses, identities, models, metaphors Supervisor: Fabian Muniesa This thesis proposes to study the way in which economic forecasts are shaped by the gender system, by investigating the instruments and methods used…

Thomas Angeletti (IRISSO)

November 26, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Thomas Angeletti CNRS Research Fellow at IRISSO, Paris Dauphine University(PSL) to discuss his book “L’invention de l’économie française”. Introduction to the discussion by Laurine Lièvremont and Lou Stührenberg.

Adrien Luxey-Bitry (Spirals, Univ. Lille, INRIA)

November 21, 2024. The seminar ‘Digital environmental policies’ will welcome Adrien Luxey-Bitry (Spirals, Univ. Lille, INRIA) to discuss his work about ‘Organisation et maintenance collégiale d’une infrastructure communautaire de services numériques Collective organisation and maintenance of a community infrastructure of digital services’.