Noortje Marres
My contribution will be based on my recent paper “How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology” which I wrote for the Revue Pragmata, as part of their “dossier spécial” on Bruno Latour and Pragmatism, edited by Antoine Hennion (March 2023, issue #6.). This paper was later published in a different version in Science, Technology and Human Values.
Noortje Marres is a Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Centre for Interdiciplinary Methdologies at the University of Warwick. She has published two monographs Material Participation (Palgrave, 2012) and Digital Sociology (Polity, 2017). Noortje is now working on a new book about technology trials “beyond the laboratory” as tests of society, based on field studies of automated vehicle trials in the street; testing and not testing for Covid in communities, and two recent controversies about big tech trials in the public sector in the UK. She studied Sociology and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Amsterdam, and as part of her studies took the course The Politics of Nature with Bruno Latour at the London School of Economics. She conducted her doctoral thesis on the rise of issue politics in technological societies under the joint supervision of Gerard de Vries and Bruno Latour, and spent several years during this formative period travelling between the University of Amsterdam and the Ecole des Mines in Paris.
Speakers in Session 3: Extending questions about nature