Morgan Meyer
Morgan Meyer is a member of the CSI and CNRS Research Director. His current work focuses on participation and the co-production of knowledge (low tech, DIY biology, open source agriculture) and the controversies surrounding genome editing.
In his presentation, he will draw on Latour’s reflections on the difference between substance and subsistence to rethink low tech. Instead of focusing on what low tech is – it’s often defined as simple, accessible, user-friendly technology – the focus will be on how actors make low tech. Documenting, building, celebrating, disseminating, experimenting, territorializing: a whole variety of gestures and mediations are actually mobilised to make low tech exist and last. The analysis will also highlight one of the dimensions described in Aramis: the love of technology. The world of low tech is not a world purified of emotions, where reproducibility and seriousness take precedence, but a world full of emotion, humor and openness.
Speakers in Session 4: Subsistance: Making last, maintaining and slowing down