Ouvrages
What’s the body of the Body Politic?
A San Giorgio Dialog at the invitation of the Cini Foundation 12th-15th of September 2017 (Bruno Latour & Simon Schaffer,a meeting of the program Politiques de la terre)
Do you remember the Aesopian Fable of the Belly and the Members, or the letter of Paul to the Corinthians about the Body and the Church, of The Fable of the Bees by Mandeville, or the somewhat dangerous association of pests and foreigners, or the more recent attempts to think of the Earth as a giant organism? None of these stories stops shifting metaphors between one domain —that of the body— and another —that of politics. The result has been the creation of that most important concept of Western philosophy, corpus politicum, the Body Politic.
One interesting aspect of this most famous topic is that every domain borrows from each other the certainty associated with the other’s authority, so that political science ends up borrowing from biology what biologists borrow from political theory! This constant commerce of concepts and metaphors, unfortunately, has never guaranteed the quality of what has been ceaselessly transported from one domain to another.
The result is that we remain deprived of a coherent definition of collective bodies. Hence the idea of attempting to re-open the question in this Dialog by bringing the different domains together and examine what each has really to offer to the others that is genuinely proper to the phenomena it studies.
Articles de revues
- Evidence of the influence of health concerns in climate change negotiations, Schütte S., Depoux A., Kowalski C., Vigil S., Gemenne F. et Flahault A. (2017) accepté dans Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Présentation sur le site du Centre Virchow Villermé.
- Revue Nature – Du carburant à partir de la lumière du Soleil ?
Cette publication parue le 17 juillet juillet dans la revue Nature et rédigée par Heng Rao, Luciana C. Schmidt, Julien Bonin et Marc Robert du laboratoire d’électrochimie moléculaire de l’université Paris-Diderot – Sorbonne Paris-Cité démontre comment, sans autre apport d’énergie que la lumière solaire, à pression et température ambiantes, la molécule de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) subit une transformation radicale pour donner du méthane (CH4).
Cette expérience scientifique est un pas dans la recherche d’une possibilité de recycler le CO2.
Documents de travail
Rapport d’étape du programme (2017): Rapport d’étape 2017 – Politiques de la Terre.
Varia
Thomas Ribémont et Clément Pin ont participé au 14 ème Congrès de l’Association Française de Science Politique et ont présenté leurs travaux de recherche sur le thème “Gouverner les risques dans les Etats fragiles”.