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Oups! We have just realized that we forgot to publish a video on the diplomatic writing workshop, which took place from 21 to 25 July 2014, at the Ecole des Mines Paris, before the Final evaluation conference] (28-29 July). We ...

The Critical Media Lab is organizing a tour/workshop at the exhibition Reset Modernity!, currently on display at ZKM Karlsruhe. The workshop is led by Jamie Allen (IXDM), Paolo Patelli (designer and researcher, co-developer of the scenography of the show ...

Bruno Latour's talk at Breakthrough Dialogue 2015: The Good Anthropocene June 21 – 23, 2015 (please read first 'An ecomodernist manifesto'), following by a brief report/tweets: Absolutely brilliant panel @ProfSteveFuller @BrunoLatour @JennyJJPrice critiquing @Ecomodernism. #GoodAnthropocene pic.twitter.com/vzGSz7ALvF ...

(Updated: 20 July 2015) This text corresponds to the full English version of the Specbook (version 3 / Sunday 27 July 2014) written (mostly in French) during the Diplomatic writing workshop, and given to the 'Chargés d'affaire' (Final Evaluation Conference ...

Albertus-Magnus-Professur 2015 – Von Netzwerken und Existenzweisen Der französische Sozialwissenschaftler und Philosoph Bruno Latour kommt als Albertus-Magnus-Professor an die Universität zu Köln. Vom 15. bis 18. Juni wird er in zwei öffentlichen Vorlesungen und einem Seminar aktuelle Fragen ...

The AIME team organized a two days speculative workshop in Paris to communicate about the results and test the conceptual framework of the digital platform against other possible usages and enquiries. Groups were invited to work on 3 differents use ...

The delegations are coming to Amandiers first test of AIME inspired geopolitics: the Parliament of Things assembled. pic.twitter.com/oyc2OxCohJ— AIME (@AIMEproject) 26 Mai 2015 All the delegations are struggling with how to escape the cartographic hegemony the ...

Find below a report written by Bruno Latour on the meeting on Carl Schmitt's Nomos of the Earth: AIME held a small, informal workshop connected with the simulation being organized at Sciences Po to offer an alternative to the COP21 ...

A few tweets written in French by Bruno Latour during the study day "Semiotics and the Anthropology of the Moderns" (see the schedule here), Limoges (English translation coming soon) : Journée d'étude Limoges du CEMES organisé par Aurore ...

Bruno Latour spoke at Utrecht University, 18 April, 2015, with a lecture entitled 'How to Sort out the Many Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropocene': BAK (basis voor actuele kunst) and the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University are ...

Work on the connection between AIME and semiotics will continue at a study-day organised by CeReS at the University of Limoges (Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, in the Petit Amphi) to be held on the 22nd April 2015 ...

Please find below the video (in French) of Bruno Latour's lecture with the theatre Company AccenT at Musée du Quai Branly. External resources: Grandes conférences du Musée du Quai Branly La compagnie AccenT ...

The exhibition Reset Modernity! which will open on 16th April 2016 in Karlsruhe is a Gedankenaustellung, a hybrid of exhibition and thought experiment. Now that modernity has crashed into a crisis of global proportions, we ask visitors to reset its ...

En renversant l'ordre d'EME le groupe d'étude belge remet le projet sur ses pieds, on part des situations multimodales et on va aux modes.— AIME (@AIMEproject) 26 Juin 2014 We have written some ...

Here is the program of the last meeting of the seminar organised by François Thoreau and Ariane d’Hoop, to which the AIME team has been invited: “How can we expect images to go in a straight line?” // Elsa ...

Dear co-researchers This call for contributions relates to our [FIC·ATT] (“fiction” and “attachment”) workshop that will take place at Sciences Po, Paris (56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris), on the 18th June 2014, 9.30-17.30. Our aim ...

Invited by the co-organizers of the seminar on semiotics from l'Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne, l'Université de Limoges and l'Université Paris 8, Bruno Latour talks with semioticians on two separate occasions on the 9 April and the 7 May, 2014 ...

Organized by Bruno Latour and Kyle McGee Our aim is to collect documents and arguments capable of improving the account of law that is put forward in the rewritten Inquiry, as well as to better appreciate law as a unique ...

Milad Doueihi is organizing the [REL] workshop on religion at Sciences Po (13 rue de l’université 75007, Paris, on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 May 2014 (9:30-17:30). We are focusing specifically on the crossings [POL·REL] and ...

Please find below the program of the event 'La révolution numérique et la gouvernance' (source: http://www.ixxi.fr/?p=2616&lang=fr) Révolution Numérique et Gouvernance - Bruno... par ixxilyon "La r ...

An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence Workshop Chancellor Day Hall: Common Room, 3644 rue Peel Monday March 24, Tuesday March 25, 9am – 5pm Proposal by Peter Skafish, Eduardo Kohn and Richard Janda: We plan to stage an AIME workshop at ...

Bruno Latour, will be coming to the Faculty of Law (McGill University, Montreal) to speak on “"Gaia, Anthropology and the Law". His reflections will pursue a theme he undertook in the 2013 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, entitled ...

The LOG research group (Language Organization Governance) in the Department of Communications at the Université de Montréal, along with Bruno Latour and his team, is organizing a reflection workshop on the mode of existence ORG (organization) on Saturday 22 ...

Let’s Calculate: Reinventing Accounting with Bruno Latour? AIME Workshop Paris, 5 May 2014 Organized by: Martin Giraudeau & Vincent Lépinay “Calculemus.” Let’s calculate. Thus finishes Latour’s last book, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology ...

Dear readers and co-inquirers of the AIME project As you know, we are entering the home stretch of the project - at least the part that is financed under the ERC scheme. This means that we have to accelerate somewhat ...

The Royal Academy Lecture in the Humanities and Social Sciences On Wednesday 26 February 2014 at 17.00, the French Professor in Sociology, Bruno Latour, gives a lecture at the Royal Library, The Black Diamant. The lecture is followed by ...

Together with the three other members of the AIME team (Pierre-Laurent Boulanger, Christophe Leclercq, Patrice Maniglier, Donato Ricci), Latour will present the current project on the inquiry on Modes of Existence. The presentation will be a demonstration of the AIME ...

Conference in Athens by Bruno Latour at the Cycladic Art Museum at 7pm on how the AIME project could bear on economic crisis of the Greek magnitude. More information " target="_blank">here or below: Bruno Latour talk. 'First and Second ...

The modes of economies Conveners Vincent Antonin Lepinay (Sciences Po), Martin Kornberger and Ursula Plesner (CBS) Venue CBS We invite readers and co-researchers of AIME to join us for a unique series of events in Copenhagen from February 24 to ...

We are pleased to see that the AIME project inspired other initiatives, in this case the call for papers for next years annual meeting at the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies: In line with previous years one of ...

[POL] MODES TEST Hosted by CSISP (Goldsmiths)-Modes of Existence (Sciences Po) Friday January 31st 2014 This one day event is dedicated to testing the modes of politics as identified in Bruno Latour’s Modes of Existence and related literature ...

Please find below a presentation and schedule (in French) of a seminar organized by the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Université de Namur (december 2013-June 2014) (pdf Séminaire Latour): Bruno Latour est un penseur incontournable dans les sciences ...

Thinking the Anthropocene Conference in Paris organized by Sciences Po and the Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS-CNRS-MNHN) deals with one of the concept developed in the AIME project (link to the concept in the vocabulary column - please be sure you ...

The AIME team with the cooperation of Pablo Jensen host a workshop on the crossing of [REP·REF] (4 November 2013, Paris). In the morning session, Bruno Latour will explain the importance of this to the 'Modes of Existence' followed ...

24 October 2013, Sciences Po, Paris The project's mediators met in Paris to set down the details for the procedures for moderating contributions and all validated contributions will be made public from this date. The Mediation team will share the ...

ThatCamp Saint-Malo 2013 Saturday 19 October 2013 Paul Girard, Christophe Leclercq An Inquiry into modes of existence: an augmented publication See the notes at the following link (only in French) External Resources ThatCamp Saint-Malo 2013 / hypotheses.org (French) ThatCamp Saint-Malo ...

18 October 2013 (17h-19h), Paris The AIME team along with Saverio Ansaldi, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Didier Debaise, from the CIEPFC (Centre International d’Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine) organize a session (in French) with Bruno Latour and Isabelle ...

On the behalf of Mark Edward: Call for Papers Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought Volume 4: Issue 4, November 2014 This August sees the publication of the English translation of Bruno Latour’s ...

IME workshop on Political Enunciations Thursday 23 May (10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.), Érignac lecture theatre at Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007, Paris Dear fellow inquirers on the IME project, The sixth workshop ...

AIME Workshop on Organization Saturday, 27 April from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Goguel meeting room (Salle Goguel), 56 rue des Saints Pères (5ème étage), 75007 Paris What does it mean to ...

AIME Workshop on properties/property Saturday 23 March, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Goguel meeting room (Salle Goguel) at Sciences Po, Paris. The Economy plays a crucial role in the assemblage of our inquiry into ...

Following on from the themes of the institution and res extensa, the AIME project’s third research seminar will deal with the issue of diplomacy. We will be working with two guests: in the morning with Isabelle Stengers who played ...

We would like to invite you to our second inquiry day. The day will deal with the theme of res extensa, that is to say the link between scientific practice and and the invention of materialism (REF-DC). This a core ...

Pourquoi des journées d’enquête sur les modes d’existence? Avec l’enquête sur les modes d’existence, Bruno Latour voudrait proposer un travail de recherche et de diplomatie à mener en commun pour reprendre l’héritage ...