B Laurent
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5177 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Laurent |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | Laurent |
| ASSINATURA | LAURENT B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre de sociologie de l'innovation |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7901-8518 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis
Can democracy save children’s lives? Addressing the constitutional problem of expertise
This comment critically examines Collins, Evans, and Reyes-Galindo’s (CE&RG) concept of ‘virtual diversity’, proposed as a norm to safeguard scientific expertise in policy-making. CE&RG argue that scientists should acquire ‘interactional expertise’ in relevant ‘non-scientific domains’, enabling informed policy advice while preserving scientific integrity. This comment describes CE&RG’s dualist approach, which separates epistemic and political con…
Latour and the Question of Politics
This article traces a path through Bruno Latour's reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. It starts with a discussion of a central theme in Latour's work, that of war and, more generally, opposition and conflicts, and connects it with questions of representation, delegation and decision-making. The preoccupation with land and territories found in Latour's…
The Test Bed Island
Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception, in the dual sense that islands are seen as places like no others (exceptional territories) as well as sites of exceptions to known orders of things (territories of exceptions). In Singapore, these two modalities of exception play a key role in Smart Nation, a program launched by the government in 2014 which shapes the island as an exceptional place for technology-oriented experiments meant for bus…
The politics of scaling
A fixation on 'scaling up' has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and concerns about a new era of monopolies, scalability thinking has also permeated public policy in the search for solutions to 'grand societal challenges', 'mission-oriented innovation' or transformations through experimental 'living labs'. In this paper, we…
Formuler l’action publique en termes de tests. Les stress tests européens comme réponse aux crises financières et nucléaires
In Europe, stress tests are used by institutional leaders as a tool for regulating the banking and nuclear sectors. They were first used in 2009 in the banking sector in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis and in 2011 in the nuclear sector following the Fukushima accident. Where in the former case their purpose is to convince investors of bank stability, in the latter they seek to reassure the European public as to the safety of nuclear power p…
Political experiments that matter
Some recent work in STS has discussed various forms of 'political experiments'. But why and how do experiments matter, and for whom? Answering these questions requires that one leave the locality of the experimental site and account for the construction of wider spaces wherein experiments matter. Using examples related to the public debate on, critique and government of nanotechnology in France, the article identifies three of these spaces. The f…
Nouvelles énergies pour la ville du futur
Comment intégrer les énergies nouvelles dans la ville du futur ? Comment construire une ville qui produit autant d’énergie qu’elle en consomme, tout en favorisant l’économie locale ou nationale ? Quels obstacles devront être surmontés ? Pour répondre à ces questions, ce livre fait le pari méthodologique de la discussion collective et contradictoire ; il multiplie les points de vue et donne la parole à des architectes, des ingénieurs, des entrepre…
Du laboratoire scientifique à l'ordre constitutionnel
Les études sociales des sciences ( Science and Technology Studies, STS) ont profondément transformé l’analyse de la représentation scientifique. D’une opération désignant la visualisation plus ou moins exacte d’une réalité physique stable, la représentation scientifique devient le résultat de la construction de chaines de médiations. Dans cette optique, la représentation est un processus instrumenté, dont les effets ont trait à l’existence même d…
Diverging Convergences
Nanotechnology has become an important topic in public research programs in developed countries, especially with regards to its convergence with other emerging technologies. Based on the case of Grenoble, France, where nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology research projects have been led since the late 1990s, and have been opposed by activist groups, this paper explores the construction of meanings granted to nanotechnology and, more generally, …
The politics of scaling
A fixation on 'scaling up' has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and concerns about a new era of monopolies, scalability thinking has also permeated public policy in the search for solutions to 'grand societal challenges', 'mission-oriented innovation' or transformations through experimental 'living labs'. In this paper, we…
Political experiments that matter
Some recent work in STS has discussed various forms of 'political experiments'. But why and how do experiments matter, and for whom? Answering these questions requires that one leave the locality of the experimental site and account for the construction of wider spaces wherein experiments matter. Using examples related to the public debate on, critique and government of nanotechnology in France, the article identifies three of these spaces. The f…
The Test Bed Island
Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception, in the dual sense that islands are seen as places like no others (exceptional territories) as well as sites of exceptions to known orders of things (territories of exceptions). In Singapore, these two modalities of exception play a key role in Smart Nation, a program launched by the government in 2014 which shapes the island as an exceptional place for technology-oriented experiments meant for bus…
Formuler l’action publique en termes de tests. Les stress tests européens comme réponse aux crises financières et nucléaires
In Europe, stress tests are used by institutional leaders as a tool for regulating the banking and nuclear sectors. They were first used in 2009 in the banking sector in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis and in 2011 in the nuclear sector following the Fukushima accident. Where in the former case their purpose is to convince investors of bank stability, in the latter they seek to reassure the European public as to the safety of nuclear power p…
Can democracy save children’s lives? Addressing the constitutional problem of expertise
This comment critically examines Collins, Evans, and Reyes-Galindo’s (CE&RG) concept of ‘virtual diversity’, proposed as a norm to safeguard scientific expertise in policy-making. CE&RG argue that scientists should acquire ‘interactional expertise’ in relevant ‘non-scientific domains’, enabling informed policy advice while preserving scientific integrity. This comment describes CE&RG’s dualist approach, which separates epistemic and political con…
Diverging Convergences
Nanotechnology has become an important topic in public research programs in developed countries, especially with regards to its convergence with other emerging technologies. Based on the case of Grenoble, France, where nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology research projects have been led since the late 1990s, and have been opposed by activist groups, this paper explores the construction of meanings granted to nanotechnology and, more generally, …
Latour and the Question of Politics
This article traces a path through Bruno Latour's reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. It starts with a discussion of a central theme in Latour's work, that of war and, more generally, opposition and conflicts, and connects it with questions of representation, delegation and decision-making. The preoccupation with land and territories found in Latour's…
Du laboratoire scientifique à l'ordre constitutionnel
Les études sociales des sciences ( Science and Technology Studies, STS) ont profondément transformé l’analyse de la représentation scientifique. D’une opération désignant la visualisation plus ou moins exacte d’une réalité physique stable, la représentation scientifique devient le résultat de la construction de chaines de médiations. Dans cette optique, la représentation est un processus instrumenté, dont les effets ont trait à l’existence même d…
Diverging Convergences
Nanotechnology has become an important topic in public research programs in developed countries, especially with regards to its convergence with other emerging technologies. Based on the case of Grenoble, France, where nanoelectronics and nano-biotechnology research projects have been led since the late 1990s, and have been opposed by activist groups, this paper explores the construction of meanings granted to nanotechnology and, more generally, …
Nouvelles énergies pour la ville du futur
Comment intégrer les énergies nouvelles dans la ville du futur ? Comment construire une ville qui produit autant d’énergie qu’elle en consomme, tout en favorisant l’économie locale ou nationale ? Quels obstacles devront être surmontés ? Pour répondre à ces questions, ce livre fait le pari méthodologique de la discussion collective et contradictoire ; il multiplie les points de vue et donne la parole à des architectes, des ingénieurs, des entrepre…
Du laboratoire scientifique à l'ordre constitutionnel
Les études sociales des sciences ( Science and Technology Studies, STS) ont profondément transformé l’analyse de la représentation scientifique. D’une opération désignant la visualisation plus ou moins exacte d’une réalité physique stable, la représentation scientifique devient le résultat de la construction de chaines de médiations. Dans cette optique, la représentation est un processus instrumenté, dont les effets ont trait à l’existence même d…
Political experiments that matter
Some recent work in STS has discussed various forms of 'political experiments'. But why and how do experiments matter, and for whom? Answering these questions requires that one leave the locality of the experimental site and account for the construction of wider spaces wherein experiments matter. Using examples related to the public debate on, critique and government of nanotechnology in France, the article identifies three of these spaces. The f…
Formuler l’action publique en termes de tests. Les stress tests européens comme réponse aux crises financières et nucléaires
In Europe, stress tests are used by institutional leaders as a tool for regulating the banking and nuclear sectors. They were first used in 2009 in the banking sector in the wake of the sovereign debt crisis and in 2011 in the nuclear sector following the Fukushima accident. Where in the former case their purpose is to convince investors of bank stability, in the latter they seek to reassure the European public as to the safety of nuclear power p…
The Test Bed Island
Islands imaginaries are imaginaries of exception, in the dual sense that islands are seen as places like no others (exceptional territories) as well as sites of exceptions to known orders of things (territories of exceptions). In Singapore, these two modalities of exception play a key role in Smart Nation, a program launched by the government in 2014 which shapes the island as an exceptional place for technology-oriented experiments meant for bus…
The politics of scaling
A fixation on 'scaling up' has captured current innovation discourses and, with it, political and economic life at large. Perhaps most visible in the rise of platform technologies, big data and concerns about a new era of monopolies, scalability thinking has also permeated public policy in the search for solutions to 'grand societal challenges', 'mission-oriented innovation' or transformations through experimental 'living labs'. In this paper, we…
Latour and the Question of Politics
This article traces a path through Bruno Latour's reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. It starts with a discussion of a central theme in Latour's work, that of war and, more generally, opposition and conflicts, and connects it with questions of representation, delegation and decision-making. The preoccupation with land and territories found in Latour's…
What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis
Can democracy save children’s lives? Addressing the constitutional problem of expertise
This comment critically examines Collins, Evans, and Reyes-Galindo’s (CE&RG) concept of ‘virtual diversity’, proposed as a norm to safeguard scientific expertise in policy-making. CE&RG argue that scientists should acquire ‘interactional expertise’ in relevant ‘non-scientific domains’, enabling informed policy advice while preserving scientific integrity. This comment describes CE&RG’s dualist approach, which separates epistemic and political con…
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