Focused on the dynamics of innovation, Science and Technology Studies have left aside the more ordinary aspect of sociotechnical assemblages, neglecting the activities dedicated to ensuring their stability and their persistence. In recent years, these activities have however become increasingly…
Category: Research
Knowledge policies in worlds facing crises
Controversies and polemics have become omnipresent modalities of the relationship to knowledge in modern societies: from their trivial form (fake news on social networks) to their purified form (peer-to-peer debate in the confined world of science), they vary today under…
Markets in society: dynamics of concern and valuation process
The markets are emerging today as a major form of social organization. It is impossible to study the slightest « social fact » without encountering the multitude of markets that cross it. Beyond the divide between the promotion of market instruments as…
Experimentation as a modality of collective action
As a mode of action stemming from scientific practice, experimentation is spreading today in a variety of situations: industrial innovation, the universe of regulation, urban policies, crisis management, etc. In all these areas, it contributes to the renewal of the…