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
New books in 2025: The Care of things (Polity) // Fragilities (MIT Press)
Interested in #maintenance #architecture #data #datalabor #city
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Jérôme Denis
@jrmdns.bsky.social
· Apr 15
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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✨ 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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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.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-care-o...
Very clear. Very important.
This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex
Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Very clear. Very important.
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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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November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🎙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...
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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
L'impensé politique d'une enquête prend ici la forme d'un code couleur. #VertRouge
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
L'impensé politique d'une enquête prend ici la forme d'un code couleur. #VertRouge
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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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November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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
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
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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
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
✨ — 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/...
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/...
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
✨ — 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/...
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/...
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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'
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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'
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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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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November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
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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 🔽
L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽
November 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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 🔽
L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽
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we'd be really curious to hear from other journals what they're seeing @econsocjournal.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org @finandsoc.bsky.social @bigdatasoc.bsky.social @societyandspace.bsky.social @dialogueshg.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
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?
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 AM
we'd be really curious to hear from other journals what they're seeing @econsocjournal.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org @finandsoc.bsky.social @bigdatasoc.bsky.social @societyandspace.bsky.social @dialogueshg.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social
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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
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
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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
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
They’re so affraid.
They’re so dangerous.
They’re so dangerous.
October 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
They’re so affraid.
They’re so dangerous.
They’re so dangerous.
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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
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October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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.
Creative destruction got a Nobel.
We are definitely heading back to the 1930s.
This is. so. frightening.
We are definitely heading back to the 1930s.
This is. so. frightening.
October 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Creative destruction got a Nobel.
We are definitely heading back to the 1930s.
This is. so. frightening.
We are definitely heading back to the 1930s.
This is. so. frightening.
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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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October 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".
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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.
(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.
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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.
(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.
🙌
September 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🙌
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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/
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/
September 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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/
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/
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you can just socially construct your own, everyone knows that
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
you can just socially construct your own, everyone knows that
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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
September 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
you'll have to watch the full advert before the fridge decides to open
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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
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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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DO NOT NORMALIZE INDIFFERENCE about how the right and most Dem politicians trample on fundamental human rights of trans people and terrorize them
My daughter is afraid to leave the house and we live in San Francisco
It’s real.
My daughter is afraid to leave the house and we live in San Francisco
It’s real.
“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” 😞
👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT
👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT
September 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
DO NOT NORMALIZE INDIFFERENCE about how the right and most Dem politicians trample on fundamental human rights of trans people and terrorize them
My daughter is afraid to leave the house and we live in San Francisco
It’s real.
My daughter is afraid to leave the house and we live in San Francisco
It’s real.
Let alone people without smart fridge.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a
September 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Let alone people without smart fridge.
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New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 238 - Thinking Like a Climate (feat. Hannah Knox)
Cymene and Dominic talk about screamo music and the band Phish and how you can’t fake the feels on this week’s intro to the podcast. Then (13:07) expert in all things Mancunian, the great and wondrous...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social