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Workshop [LAW] - Report

29 April 2014
filed under: materials

Tweets by @AIMEproject published just after the workshop: LAW is difficult to extract from its institution contrary to other modes. As Condé noted it is part of its specs to BE its institution.— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Avril 2014 Luhmann ...

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Lecture on 'La révolution numérique et la gouvernance', 4 April 2014, Lyon

04 April 2014

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 ...

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Bruno Latour, 'On sociology of law, an alternative approach'

21 March 2014
filed under: materials ressources

'On sociology of law, an alternative approach' keynote lecture by Bruno Latour at the International congress of Sociology of Law, Toulouse, September 2013. ...

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Bruno Latour, 'The Affects of Capitalism' - The Royal Academy Lecture in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Copenhagen 26 February 2014

26 February 2014
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On Wednesday 26 February 2014, the French Professor in Sociology, Bruno Latour, gave a lecture at the Royal Library, The Black Diamant. The Affects of Capitalism Through the work of science studies applied to the peculiar discipline of economics, a ...

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Presentation of the AIME project at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

24 February 2014
filed under: materials platform

The team presented the AIME project at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS), in Denmark. For more information please visit CBS website ("Bruno Latour and the AIME team visited the platform for a well-attended and successful public lecture"). Photos are also ...

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Workshop [MET] Mind/Body, 11 February 2014, Paris - a Report

20 February 2014
filed under: materials report

A brief report on the MindBody workshop of Tuesday 11th of February 2014 by Bruno Latour We will provide a more complete debriefing of the workshop later, but I have noted here a few elements that might be of interest ...

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Questions common to each of the crossings

13 February 2014
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Dear Co-Inquirers, We will soon be able to present a new way of entering the Inquiry through the crossings on our website www.modesofexistence.org. Rather than having to follow the logic of the augmented book, it will be possible ...

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The Issue of Politics: A Report on Bruno Latour’s Politics Workshop (by David Moats)

13 February 2014
filed under: materials report

[Report written and published by David Moats on February 10, 2014 on CSISP blog. Images courtesy of Alex Wilkie. Original version available here: http://www.csisponline.net/2014/02/10/the-issue-of-politics-a-report-on-bruno-latours-politics-workshop/] In its everyday usage, politics is often a pejorative ...

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A brief report on the [POL] workshop in London (by Bruno Latour)

04 February 2014
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The general organization First, many thanks to Noortje Marres for having organized a day of intense brainstorming and thanks to participants for having come, sometimes from afar. And thanks for Christophe Leclercq for having organized it all. The goal was ...

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Séminaire sur [REF·REL] - “Théologie et sciences sociales : des sujets aux objets et retour”

18 December 2013
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Photographies Stéphane Eloy Séminaire EHESS-PRI “Théologie et sciences sociales : l’an Deux” Séance du mercredi 18 décembre 2014 15 h-17h, Salle Alphonse Dupront, 10 rue Monsieur-le-Prince, 75006 Paris Intervenant : Bruno Latour (“Théologie et sciences ...

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Clarifications on refocusing the AIME inquiry

06 December 2013
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Dear readers and contributors See below some clarifications following a question on contributions . We don't want to limit the range and form of contributions too much. Our message was only an appeal to refocus on what is most important and ...

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Refocusing the AIME inquiry

04 December 2013
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Dear Readers and Co-researchers You have signed up for the platform and you have no doubt begun to read the numerous additions to the ‘augmented book’. We hope you have been able to forgive us the gamut of teething problems ...

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[REP·REF] Workshop, 4 November 2013 - Report: Some reflections after the workshop

26 November 2013
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Of all the crossings in the inquiry, [REP·REF] is easily the most important since it opens up the possibility to a pluralism of modes. However, it is also the most complicated. While the first four chapters of the draft ...

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112th AAA Annual Meeting in Chicago

22 November 2013
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Two lectures given  at the 112th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting in Chicago in November Friday, November 22, 2013: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM: General Anthropology Division Distinguished Lecture and Awards Ceremony with Bruno Latour, Distinguished Lecturer. Please find ...

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Bruno Latour on Gaïa and the anthropocene

21 November 2013
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The Portail des Humanités environmentales interviewed Bruno Latour (in French), who discussed further the anthropocene and Gaïa concepts: Bruno Latour from Portail Humanités Environnement on Vimeo. After this, you can also listen to this audio interview with ...

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Bruno Latour at France Culture

18 November 2013
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"Pas la peine de crier", France Culture "Les Nouveaux chemins de la connaissance", France Culture "Pas la peine de crier", France Culture ...

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Mediation Team Workshop

12 November 2013
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Le projet AIME from Sciences Po on Vimeo. The Mediation Team gathered a few days ago in Paris for their first workshop. In this short video they introduce their interest in the project and the mode(s) they will moderate ...

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What is a contribution?

30 October 2013

Dear AIME platform users, Since last week all of the functionalities that we had planned to have fully functioning, function and in particular, the last column on the right ‘C’ for contributions. This column allows readers to become co-inquirers and ...

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Why 15 modes ?

25 October 2013
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The number of modes is quite contingent and provisional. They are what I have been able to explore from the beginning of the inquiry to the present, judging what is important about each mode for the burning issues I have ...

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Eduardo Kohn's - How Forests Think

28 September 2013
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Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human E. Kohn 'How Forests Think' is a remarkable way to show anthropological use of pluralistic ontologies once the nature.culture divide is out. AIME (@AIMEproject) September 28, 2013 How Forests Think Toward an Anthropology ...

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Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams

16 September 2013
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For a stunning pedagogical exploration of [TEC], see Simon Schaffer BBC film on automata and politics of things on http://t.co/QyAfClEKbm — AIME (@AIMEproject) September 16, 2013   Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams from James Sandy on Vimeo. ...

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Kyle McGee: The Normativity of Networks and [LAW]

30 August 2013
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Kyle McGee The Normativity of Network is the first full use of AIME and develops the inquiry in the best way on the difficult topic of [LAW]AIME (@AIMEproject) August 30, 2013     Published by Routledge The first extended study ...

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Peter Brown's - 'Through the Eye of a Needle' and [REL·ATT]

26 August 2013
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Peter Brown's masterpiece 'Through the Eye of a Needle' throws a remarkable light on a neglected crossing [REL·ATT] on money and salvation — AIME (@AIMEproject) August 26, 2013 Published by Princeton University Press : Jesus taught his followers that it is ...

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Stephen Muecke on AIME

23 August 2013
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Find below the article written by Stephen Muecke and published in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Stephen Muecke on Enquête sur les modes d'existence : Une anthropologie des modernes RIGHT NOW IN PARIS, Bruno Latour is being fêted ...

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Arnaud Saint-Martin on AIME

29 May 2013
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Arnaud Saint-Martin wrote a review of AIME (in French): "Enquête sur les modes d’existence. A propos de B. Latour, Enquête sur les modes d’existence (La Découverte, 2012)" http://sociologie.revues.org/1573#tocto1n5 « Si vous ...

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Inquiry day report - diplomacy

22 February 2013
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Isabelle Stengers Romain Bertrand ...

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Bruno Latour on the diplomat

19 January 2013
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extract from an interview in the journal Critique, No. 786, November 2012 ‘Bruno Latour: The diplomat isn’t the one who pacifies but he’s the one that doubts values, including the values of the people who sent him there ...

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Inquiry day report - res extensa

21 December 2012
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La journée d'enquête sur la res extensa (07/12/2012) a commencé le matin avec une série de questions posées par la salle aux membres de l'équipe AIME. Bruno Latour a ensuite introduit la question ...

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Bibliography per mode

02 November 2012
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Please find below bibliographical references (FR & EN) organised per mode, which might be useful in advance of the book’s release in September 2012.’ Introduction (126) « Biographie d’une enquête – à propos d’un livre sur les modes d ...

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Short definition of the modes

02 November 2012
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Reproduction/Reproduction (REP) This mode explores the capacity of an entity to subsist by running the risk of continuing its existence through the gap that separates two instants of time. It is often confused with the world of objects and ...

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