David Pontille
In his joint talk with Jérôme Denis, David Pontille will draw on Bruno Latour’s work on the politics of artifacts, in particular his oscillations between the power of technical objects to act and the fragility of forms of instauration, to show how they have stimulated investigations into maintenance and the art of making things last.
David Pontille is a research director at the CNRS and a member of the Centre de sociologie de l’Innovation at Mines Paris-PSL since 2012. His research address writing practices in different professional settings, the evaluation technologies of scientific research, and the politics of maintenance of technologies and infrastructures. Together with Jérôme Denis, David Pontille published Petite sociologie de la signalétique (Presses des Mines) in 2010 and Le soin des choses (La Découverte) in 2022. They both also participated in the creation of the blog scriptopolis.fr, which became a book published in 2019 by Non Standard Editions.
Speakers in Session 4 : Subsistance: Making last, maintaining and slowing down