Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Edited by Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis and David Pontille.
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
The MIT Press, Infrastructures Series
Agence SCAU – Centre de sociologie de l’innovation
In order to understand what fragility does and could do to architecture, the architectural agency SCAU and the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI – Mines Paris PSL) have partnered to supervise a doctoral thesis in Science and Technology Studies (STS), the objective of which is to provide empirical and theoretical input to the research studies on maintenance and repair practices initiated within the agency several years ago and carried out at the CSI.
The deadline for submitting applications is April 30, midnight.
by Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Baudrin, Laurène Le Cozanet, Clément Marquet, and Benjamin Raimbault
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyses the changing forms of industry in the contemporary period, focusing on four key questions: How do industrial transformations lead us to rethink our methods of inquiry? How have information technologies changed the way industry is done? Which human and non-human actors are resisting processes of industrialisation? What territories are produced by these reconfigurations? […]
A book edited by Ève Chiapello and Alexandre Violle.
Sociology of financial circuits. Money infrastructures and their policies.
How can money be traced and its role in the formulation and implementation of public policy be accounted for? Using an ambitious conceptual framework, this book delves into the heart of the material operations and infrastructures of money circulation.
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. […]
Study days organised on 18-19 June 2025
by Léone-Alix Mazaud, doctoral research fellow, CSI, Mines Paris – PSL, i3.
and Solène Sarnowski, doctoral research fellow, SES Télécom-Paris/CSI, Mines Paris – PSL, i3.
Proposals for papers must be sent no later than March 7, 2025 […]
Coordinated by David Pontille and Vololona Rabeharisoa.
Published by Presses des mines.
Bruno Latour (1947-2022) lègue un héritage intellectuel considérable dont il a posé de nombreux jalons durant ses vingt-cinq années au Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI), s’y faisant, tour à tour et à sa manière, anthropologue des sciences et des techniques, théologien politique, […]
A book by Fabian Muniesa, pubished by Polity Press.
There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor […]
By Maria Viola Zinna
Firefighters are the first biosafety responders to a situation involving the release of hazardous biological agents. From protective suits to signaling devices, intervention in “biohazard” situations is materialized through heightened visibility.
