Author: Florence Paterson

Reflection on the Materiality of Transition

January 19, 2024. The extraction, importation, and transformation of raw materials play a crucial role in the low-carbon transition. The responsible management of raw materials becomes a crucial issue to ensure an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transition. Three specialists discuss these topics: Damien Goetz (Centre Géosciences Mines Paris – PSL), Brice Laurent (CSI Mines Paris – PSL, ANSES) and Farah Benramdane (Université Bordeaux-Montaigne).

“Une journée avec Bruno Latour”: The event in videos, texts, drawings and pictures

The Center for the Sociology of Innovation held on October 23, 2023 a day-long tribute to Bruno Latour.

Bruno Latour has left a considerable intellectual legacy, many milestones of which he set during his twenty-five years at the CSI, where he was, in turn and in his own way, an anthropologist of science and technology, a political theologian and an investigative philosopher.
During this event, members of the CSI, Bruno Latour’s companions along the way and researchers whom he has inspired or baffled continued their conversation with his work.

Find out more about the day’s events on the “Une journée avec Bruno Latour” website, with video recordings of the panels, texts, drawings and images. […]

Thomas Beauvisage (Orange / SENSE)

December 18, 2023. The Center for the Sociology of Innovation (i3, UMR CNRS 9217, Mines Paris-PSL) has the pleasure of inviting you to attend the HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in STS (Sciences, Technologies, Societies) defense of Thomas Beauvisage, sociologist of digital technology, Senior Researcher at Orange’s department Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services (SENSE). Original dissertation title: “Sociologie du cookie publicitaire” [Sociology of advertising cookie].

Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse, “Nature-Made Economy”

December 12, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Kristin Asdal (TIK Centre for Technology, University of Oslo) and Tone Huse (UiT The Arctic University of Norway). This session will be an opportunity to discuss their just-published book “Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean”. The discussion will be introduced by Clément Foutrel, (CSI) and Baptiste Parent (CIRED).

ALDIWO study day: “Low-tech, maintenance, limits”

The study day entitled “Low-tech, maintenance, limits:  how to rethink digital technology and its environmental impact”, held on September 20, 2023 at Mines Paris-PSL, was organized by Clément Marquet (CSI, Mines Paris- PSL, i3) and Florence Maraninchi (Verimag, Grenoble INP – UGA) as part of the ALDIWO (Anti-Limits in the Digital World) project funded by the CNRS MITI (read a summary of the project).

The morning session was organized around three presentations by Morgan Meyer (CSI, CNRS, i3), Jérôme Denis (CSI, Mines Paris- PSL, i3) and David Pontille (CSI, CNRS, i3), and Florence Maraninchi. […]

Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)

November 21, 2023. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Kregg Hetherington, Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Ethnography, to discuss his book “The Government of Beans. Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops”. Introduction to the discussion by Guilhaum Panas.

Forest valorization. Charlotte Glinel and Nelly Parès

November 10, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Charlotte Glinel ,PhD candidate at SciencePo’s Center for the Sociology of Organizations (CSO), and Nelly Parès, researcher at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN). This session entitled “Forest valorization” will explore the intertwining of valuation processes, forest management technologies and public policies in the valuation and management of forests in France.