Jérôme Denis
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
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- Quelle honte, @banquepopulaire.bsky.social. Ces pratiques commerciales sont inadmissibles. Imposer automatiquement un passage au débit différé, qu’il faut expressément refuser, ça ne serait pas un peu de la vente forcée, @dgccrf.bsky.social ?
- Reposted by Jérôme DenisI'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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- Un bien bel écho au livre 'Fragilities' que j'ai eu le plaisir de coordonner avec the one and only @fdrubio1977.bsky.social et David Pontille 👏
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- Like most of the people here, I frown each time I wish a happy new year for my friends and colleagues. I am increasingly frightened and depressed. BUT, I received a long and pretty moving email from Mierle Laderman Ukeles yesterday. And I've kept smiling like an idiot since then.
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- Reposted by Jérôme DenisI'm grateful for my brilliant students. One wrote about impacts of last weekend's debacle: "if we only talk about #Waymo, we will miss a critical, broader conversation around how San Francisco’s innovation policy still treats the city as a laboratory first and a community second." archive.ph/x6Iyq
- Years after years, from cassettes to mp3 blogs to posts on Mixcloud, decades of mixes by Starsky. Today: Rewind 2025 part 1. Experimental-ish songs and sounds to stay in bed. www.mixcloud.com/strsk/rewind...
- OMG OMG OMG OH. MY. GODDESS. vimeo.com/1127648743?f... (Poke @fdrubio1977.bsky.social, @tscriado.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Jérôme DenisLe ministre de l'intérieur a confirmé ce matin que les mégas fichiers du « Traitement d'antécédents judiciaires » (TAJ) et du « Fichier des personnes recherchées » (FPR) ont bien été compromis et que des données ont été volées. La Quadrature du Net s'alarme d'une catastrophe annoncée. ⬇️
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- Do typefaces have politics? Do politics have typefaces? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
- Reposted by Jérôme DenisNew ep of Cultures of Energy! We talk to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz about whether the history of energy is about transitions or accumulations. tinyurl.com/yc2bz6cy @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social PS next month is our 10th anniversary. Send a note!
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- Ahem #3
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- Reposted by Jérôme DenisUniversities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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- Very clear. Very important.
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- Reposted by Jérôme DenisQuestionnaire 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
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- ✨ — 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/...
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- Reposted by Jérôme DenisI 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
- They’re so affraid. They’re so dangerous.
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- Creative destruction got a Nobel. We are definitely heading back to the 1930s. This is. so. frightening.
- Reposted by Jérôme DenisArchives 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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- Of course they do. It's content, right? Everything is. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/23/1...
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- 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: cnn.it/47L2Y5a
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- Here we are #STSCH2025! Come join us tomorrow and listen to great contributions.
- Is that *our* Fragilities I see in good place? 😍 (So sad I couldn’t attend #4S2025)
- Fascinating: the study shows that 77% of employees say Gen AI tools have “actually decreased their productivity and added to their workload”, and clearly demonstrates how delusionnal C-suite executives are about AI. Yet, the conclusion says:
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