Category: round table 1

Steve Woolgar Steve Woolgar was ill and unable to take part in the event. The summary below leaves a trace of what he intended to talk about. Six anecdotes in search of a theory What is the best way both to celebrate and yet avoid the tendency to canonization on the passing of a Great… Continue reading Steve Woolgar

John Law Starting in 1973, I was a teacher and researcher in three British universities: Keele, Lancaster, and the Open University. I was also welcomed into the CSI in the 1980s and 1990s, when I learned about material semiotics, and wrote with Michel Callon and Madeleine Akrich about the heterogeneity of technologies. I’m now retired,… Continue reading John Law

Simon Schaffer Simon Schaffer was professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge until 2022. He was co-author (with Steven Shapin) of Leviathan et la pompe à air (La Découverte, 1993) and author of La fabrique des sciences modernes (Seuil, 2014). He contributed to Iconoclash, to Making Things Public, and to Critical Zones.… Continue reading Simon Schaffer

Dominique Pestre Three anecdotes to tell of the Bruno I knew Bruno is a character of exceptional intellectual power, needless to say, and he has dominated the last few decades as a Foucault or a Derrida had done before him. Like the greatest intellectuals, Bruno first follows his own logic, his own path. He dialogues… Continue reading Dominique Pestre

Michel Callon Michel Callon, Professor of sociology at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, Director of the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation from 1982 to 1994, Chairman of the 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) from 1998-1999, and winner of the 2007 CNRS Silver Medal, is one of the “founders” – with Bruno… Continue reading Michel Callon

Madeleine Akrich Madeleine Akrich has been a member of Center for the sociology of innovation since 1983, and was its director from 2003 to 2013. She has devoted a significant part of her career to the development of a socio-anthropology of techniques, paying particular attention to the role of users. In a second phase, her… Continue reading Madeleine Akrich