Simon Schaffer

Simon Schaffer

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. His current work focuses on the making of climate histories and on astral sciences between Europe and south Asia.

Schaffer’s intervention reflects on the work of changing scales in Bruno Latour’s enterprises as developed in mundane experiences of the city and of the climate. These forms of scale, it is observed, often hinge on a profound understanding of the apparent powers of the balance and of the lever, devices that somehow simultaneously render entities comparable and yet ensure their distinction. These modes of leverage and of balancing had important implications for the variable and multifarious effects of Bruno Latour’s work within the field of science and technology studies.


Speakers in Session 1: Science and Technology Studies with Bruno Latour

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