Category: round table 2

Isabelle Stengers Isabelle Stengers is Professor Emeritus at the University of Brussels. Her work first focused on the problem of physics confronted with the problem of irreversibility (with Ilya Prigogine La nouvelle alliance, 1979 [Order Out of Chaos, 1984], and Entre le temps et l’éternité, 1988), then on the issue of modern science (L’invention des… Continue reading Isabelle Stengers

Fabian Muniesa An Inquiry into Modes of Existence is a book, but it’s also other things: it’s a long intellectual project, of course, but it’s also a forum for exercise. The first collective reading took place in June 2007, at Cerisy, during a colloquium aptly named “Exercices de métaphysique empirique” (Exercises in Empirical Metaphysics). It… Continue reading Fabian Muniesa

Bruno Karsenti Bruno Karsenti Speakers in Session 2: After a reading of An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence

Didier Debaise Didier Debaise is a researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), and teaches contemporary philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on current forms of speculative philosophy, on theories of the event, and on the relationship between pragmatism and French philosophy. He is a collection editor at… Continue reading Didier Debaise

Antoine Hennion Antoine Hennion, now quietly retired, has been a member of the CSI for 50 years, since his time at the Mines, where he chose the sociology option. Following on from his work on attachments, he is involved in the current revival of the pragmatist inquiry, with concerned collectives (PEROU, Pragmata, Origens Medialab), on… Continue reading Antoine Hennion