Jérôme Denis
jrmdns.bsky.social
Jérôme Denis
@jrmdns.bsky.social

electrical native - prof #sociology & #sts - director of the center for the sociology of innovation (mines paris)

New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press)
Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city .. more

Political science 29%
Sociology 26%
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✨ Now available in the US ✨

Intriguing and inspiring stories, an almost up-to-date state of the art of maintenance and repair studies, and a deep dive into the worries, diplomacy and ambivalences of the art of making things last.

All in one single book.

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The Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance|Hardcover
What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician an...
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🎙Episode #76 is about exploring love through maintenance and the disruptive, delightful, mundane, difficulty of the everyday with David Pontille & @jrmdns.bsky.social 📚 The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength open.substack.com/pub/lovephil...
The Care of Things: fragility is not the opposite of strength
an invitation to let things matter, and help things last
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Questionnaire adressé aux enseignants-chercheurs des universités françaises, la demande du gouvernement.

L'impensé politique d'une enquête prend ici la forme d'un code couleur. #VertRouge
ICYMI: Brice Laurent, 'Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading' - traces a path through Bruno Latour’s reflections on politics to propose a constitutional reading, which makes ontological and normative lines of investigation intersect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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En pleine COP30, l’Union européenne pourrait saborder ses propres engagements climatiques.

Swann Bommier, de l’ONG Bloom, dénonce une « reddition historique » face aux lobbies pétroliers et aux forces conservatrices.

Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/xUR

(DM if you want the pdf)

✨ — new paper — ✨

Reproblematising maintenance, reconsidering infrastructures:
The emergence of a more-than-corrective maintenance programme in French water networks management

Jérôme Denis & Daniel Florentin
— Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Magnifique !

Oui ! 😍
Une partie du CSI va y faire un petit tour bientôt…

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Faut que je vous raconte une anecdote parce que je trouve que ça assez explicite sur la folie des IA : l'autre soir j'avais un pot de départ et avec un pote on fait une pause clope devant le bar, qui est situé dans le marais. Un gars passe et demande une clope, je lui file, il reste taper la discut'
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
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Il y a un an tout pile, je soutenais ma thèse sur les transformations de la recherche publique à l’aune des dispositifs de valorisation de ses résultats. Il y a quelques mois, celle-ci a été mise en accès libre sur HAL : hal.science/tel-05065109

L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽
Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?
I tried a little pedagogical innovation in teaching #HistTech today

The students had read Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s classic More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave

I wanted them to remember 1) the hard work, and 2) how some work disappeared

1/n

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Quels sont les véritables liens entre l’innovation et la croissance ? L’économiste Cédric Durand revient sur les impasses intellectuelles des travaux sur le sujet de Philippe Aghion, tout juste primé par la Banque de Suède.
Le « Nobel » d'économie Philippe Aghion ou les mésaventures de la théorie de la croissance
www.altereco.media

Creative destruction got a Nobel.
We are definitely heading back to the 1930s.

This is. so. frightening.

3 journals to which I wanted to submit a paper have a 8k words limit, refs included. I find it really short, especially for qualitative material.
Even as a reader, I often get frustrated by the results and discussion sections.
Hopefully a few journals resist.
Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".
Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement de gauche au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle" | TF1 INFO
[VIDÉO] Emmanuel Macron a exclu lundi soir l'idée de nommer un Premier ministre issu du Nouveau Front populaire. Les représentants de l'alliance de gauche dénoncent "un coup de force" et appellent à u...
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Élu meilleur titre de l'année.

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Tiens, les Éditions Quæ annoncent une « 2e édition revue et corrigée » du bouquin de #Latour « Le métier de chercheur, regard d‘un anthropologue ».

(Le communiqué ne dit pas sur quoi il est « revu et corrigé » et si Latour a participé, avant sa mort, à cette révision)

Sortie le 2 octobre.

🙌

Of course they do. It's content, right? Everything is.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers
Some companies are working to remedy the issue.
www.technologyreview.com
En librairie le 16 octobre

www.premierparallele.fr/livre/incorp...

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With hurricane Gabrielle making her way into the Atlantic, seems like the right time to make my own announcement.

I’m leaving my current employer in December for a post at the Laboratoire Population Environnement Développement at Aix Marseille Université. I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining/
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
you'll have to watch the full advert before the fridge decides to open
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
buff.ly
Communiqué de la SDJ de la rédaction de France Culture, suite au billet d’humeur du 12 septembre dernier sur Charlie Kirk sur notre antenne

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“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞

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