Internet, March 2022 In the academic world, the verb “to publish” increasingly embraces two distinct meanings. On the one hand, it is about making public, sharing knowledge created by means of blog notes, working manuscripts or even preprints, all forms […]
Paris, March 2022. The approval of Parisian bouquinistes refers to a political-administrative practice from the seventeenth century: the control by a royal legal deposit and a corporation of booksellers that restricted the circulation of printed matter and regarded street vendors […]
Marseille, mars 2022. Writing is a powerful tool for collective alignment. Orders, instructions, rules, signals, information, guides, explanations, descriptions and designations are all concrete forms intended to create a society, mobilise, affect or simply communicate. The lower one defines the […]
Paris, september 2018. For nearly 50 years, STS has been a uniquely rich forum for interdisciplinary discussion. Philosophers have discovered what concepts such as objectivity and truth that they inherit from epistemology become behind the laboratories walls that anthropologists walk […]
Between Paris and Marseille, Novembre 2021. In the announcements on board the train, we now hear the names of the persons who are there to ensure the smooth running of our journey: controllers, train drivers, baristas. Finally, a cleaner is […]
Aix-en-Provence, April 2021 In the archives, the object is small and thin, much more so than the Codes we are used to, red or blue cobblestones filled with commentaries and case law. The cover shows that the editors of this […]
Paris, May 2021. Émile Durkheim, the founder of scientific sociology in France, defines the state as a speculative power characteristic of modern societies. In this conception, the state should not be considered as a place (an assembly, an administration), […]
The pandemic has changed countless aspects of our world: the shape of our encounters, the way we move around, the fibers we put on our faces. The ordinary geography of our exchanges has itself been disrupted. The distance that separates […]