Brice Laurent
Brice Laurent is a researcher at the CSI and director of the Social Sciences, Economy and Society Department of the French National Agency for Environmental, Food and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). His research interests focus on the relationship between science and democracy, in sites where innovation is promoted, regulated or contested. His books include Les politiques des nanotechnologies (ECLM, 2010), Democratic Experiments (MIT Press, 2017) and European Objects (MIT Press, 2022). His current works include investigations of experimental forms of innovation as well as research projects about the politics of subsurface resources. The department headed at ANSES by Brice Laurent coordinates the agency’s social science expertise and dialogue with society.
Contribution to ‘Une Journée avec Bruno Latour’
Bruno Latour’s work on nature invites us to consider the pervasiveness of the theme of war, which points to the ontological nature of oppositions and the impossibility of reconciling them by appealing to an external arbiter mobilizing a category such as Science. How, then, to think about an articulation between ontological and normative questions (who speaks in whose name? who decides what in whose name? what desirable future?)? From Politics of Nature to the latest work on the territory as an entity to be constructed by exploring the multiplicity of our attachments, a constitutional reading of Bruno Latour likely to combine the ontological and normative dimensions is possible.
Speakers at Session 3 : Extending questions about nature