Hélène Mialet
Biographic Data
| ID | 375928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hélène Mialet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hélène |
| FAMILY NAME | Mialet |
| SIGNATURE | MIALET H |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0693-3974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes
This article explores through the lens of Type 1 Diabetes what a body in fluctuation feels, and what kind of ecosystem has to be recreated to be able to survive, an ecosystem made of sensations, senses, sensors and more. It investigates the complexity of relying on sensations that appear or disappear, on other beings that have their own agendas, or on machines that could help or kill. It describes the fear of feeling estranged from one's 'extende…
How dogs become accurate instruments: Care, attunement, and reflexivity
Those who live with Type 1 Diabetes have lost the possibility of producing insulin; they are dependent on non-living and living prostheses—machines, human beings and animals—that constantly read, measure, translate and interpret the fluctuations of their blood sugar to avoid hypoglycemia, which can be lethal, or hyperglycemia, which can lead to long-term complications. This philosophical essay, based on interviews and observations in a training f…
A singularity: Where actor network theory breaks down an actor network becomes visible
The Pugilist and the Cosmologist: Response to Loïc Wacquant’s ‘ Homines in extremis
This article investigates Loïc Wacquant’s suggestion that ‘thinking is a deeply corporeal activity’ by showing how theoretical activities mobilize different bodies in practice, in both the natural and social sciences. It argues that knowledge is about exchanges of properties between different entities or bodies by drawing a parallel here between the sociologist (Loïc Wacquant) becoming his object of study and scientists becoming the objects they …
The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking
Science Studies has shown that scientific knowledge is above all about practice. But what happens when a scientist, such as Stephen Hawking, does not have the use of his hands, does not–or cannot–draw pictures and perform many-page-long calculations on paper? Does everything happen ‘in his head’? Are theories produced ‘theoretically’? Yet, though this famous example of a mind dematerialized seems to confirm the cliché better than anyone could hop…
Where would STS be without Latour? What would be missing
Reincarnating the Knowing Subject
Research Article| June 01 2009 Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body Hélène Mialet Hélène Mialet Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.1.53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hélène Mialet; Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body. Qui Parle …
The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre Bourdieu
Reading Hawking's Presence: An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man
À propos d'invention: Reconfiguration d'un sujet philosophique saisi dans ses pratiques
Les nouvelles etudes en histoire et sociologie des sciences semblent aujourd'hui arriver au terme d'un premier bilan. A dire vrai, les philosophes d'antan ne retrouveraient pas leurs petits dans ce(s) champ(s), que nous n'oserions plus appeler « La Science », tant il a ete deconstruit, transforme, reinterroge de multiples manieres. La « preuve », la « methode », « l'objectivite », « la rationalite », criteres de definition de la scientificite, so…
We Have Always Been Mixed Up
Do Angels Have Bodies? Two Stories About Subjectivity in Science: The Cases of William X and Mister H
How can we characterize an individual creator `in vivo' - or, to use a more traditional category in philosophy, a knowing subject `in the making'? While informed by philosophical modes of questioning, this paper addresses this problem using tools developed by anthropologists and sociologists of science. Based on two case studies - William X, a researcher working at France's largest petroleum company (Elf Aquitaine), and Stephen Hawking - the pape…
Do Angels Have Bodies? Two Stories About Subjectivity in Science: The Cases of William X and Mister H
How can we characterize an individual creator `in vivo' - or, to use a more traditional category in philosophy, a knowing subject `in the making'? While informed by philosophical modes of questioning, this paper addresses this problem using tools developed by anthropologists and sociologists of science. Based on two case studies - William X, a researcher working at France's largest petroleum company (Elf Aquitaine), and Stephen Hawking - the pape…
The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre Bourdieu
Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes
This article explores through the lens of Type 1 Diabetes what a body in fluctuation feels, and what kind of ecosystem has to be recreated to be able to survive, an ecosystem made of sensations, senses, sensors and more. It investigates the complexity of relying on sensations that appear or disappear, on other beings that have their own agendas, or on machines that could help or kill. It describes the fear of feeling estranged from one's 'extende…
Reading Hawking's Presence: An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man
The Pugilist and the Cosmologist: Response to Loïc Wacquant’s ‘ Homines in extremis
This article investigates Loïc Wacquant’s suggestion that ‘thinking is a deeply corporeal activity’ by showing how theoretical activities mobilize different bodies in practice, in both the natural and social sciences. It argues that knowledge is about exchanges of properties between different entities or bodies by drawing a parallel here between the sociologist (Loïc Wacquant) becoming his object of study and scientists becoming the objects they …
Where would STS be without Latour? What would be missing
Do Angels Have Bodies? Two Stories About Subjectivity in Science: The Cases of William X and Mister H
How can we characterize an individual creator `in vivo' - or, to use a more traditional category in philosophy, a knowing subject `in the making'? While informed by philosophical modes of questioning, this paper addresses this problem using tools developed by anthropologists and sociologists of science. Based on two case studies - William X, a researcher working at France's largest petroleum company (Elf Aquitaine), and Stephen Hawking - the pape…
À propos d'invention: Reconfiguration d'un sujet philosophique saisi dans ses pratiques
Les nouvelles etudes en histoire et sociologie des sciences semblent aujourd'hui arriver au terme d'un premier bilan. A dire vrai, les philosophes d'antan ne retrouveraient pas leurs petits dans ce(s) champ(s), que nous n'oserions plus appeler « La Science », tant il a ete deconstruit, transforme, reinterroge de multiples manieres. La « preuve », la « methode », « l'objectivite », « la rationalite », criteres de definition de la scientificite, so…
We Have Always Been Mixed Up
The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre Bourdieu
Reading Hawking's Presence: An Interview with a Self-Effacing Man
Reincarnating the Knowing Subject
Research Article| June 01 2009 Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body Hélène Mialet Hélène Mialet Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.1.53 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hélène Mialet; Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body. Qui Parle …
The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking
Science Studies has shown that scientific knowledge is above all about practice. But what happens when a scientist, such as Stephen Hawking, does not have the use of his hands, does not–or cannot–draw pictures and perform many-page-long calculations on paper? Does everything happen ‘in his head’? Are theories produced ‘theoretically’? Yet, though this famous example of a mind dematerialized seems to confirm the cliché better than anyone could hop…
Where would STS be without Latour? What would be missing
The Pugilist and the Cosmologist: Response to Loïc Wacquant’s ‘ Homines in extremis
This article investigates Loïc Wacquant’s suggestion that ‘thinking is a deeply corporeal activity’ by showing how theoretical activities mobilize different bodies in practice, in both the natural and social sciences. It argues that knowledge is about exchanges of properties between different entities or bodies by drawing a parallel here between the sociologist (Loïc Wacquant) becoming his object of study and scientists becoming the objects they …
A singularity: Where actor network theory breaks down an actor network becomes visible
How dogs become accurate instruments: Care, attunement, and reflexivity
Those who live with Type 1 Diabetes have lost the possibility of producing insulin; they are dependent on non-living and living prostheses—machines, human beings and animals—that constantly read, measure, translate and interpret the fluctuations of their blood sugar to avoid hypoglycemia, which can be lethal, or hyperglycemia, which can lead to long-term complications. This philosophical essay, based on interviews and observations in a training f…
Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes
This article explores through the lens of Type 1 Diabetes what a body in fluctuation feels, and what kind of ecosystem has to be recreated to be able to survive, an ecosystem made of sensations, senses, sensors and more. It investigates the complexity of relying on sensations that appear or disappear, on other beings that have their own agendas, or on machines that could help or kill. It describes the fear of feeling estranged from one's 'extende…
Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Subject (documents (3 works) · Subjectivity (3 works)