果冻影院

The CATT (Centre for the Anthropology of Technics and Technodiversity) is an international research hub dedicated to the documentation, analysis and comparison of the ways in which diverse communities preserve, develop and conceptualise specific technical relations with their local, social, cultural and natural environments.

Context

The globalisation of EuroAmerican political, economic and technoscientific models is based on extractive technologies, mass production and logics of automation and digitization. It presents the social sciences with complex situations which entangle environmental, public health and technological issues with social and political matters, gathered under the contested notion of the Anthropocene.

Such complex issues have invited urgent responses from national and international organisations, institutions and corporations. Often framed in terms of social and technological transformation, these responses also bring increased attention to sustainability, biodiversity and social justice, to meet challenges posed by humanity鈥檚 future. However, in reaction to these global tendencies, we also witness localised or 鈥済rass-roots鈥� responses, resistances and re-appropriations of these dominant material conditions, practices and equipment to fit the specific contexts in which these communities are living.

Aim

The CATT assembles researchers focussing on responses to these various global challenges, based on anthropology鈥檚 established expertise in the empirical documentation of how local communities (indigenous and others, urban or not) have developed unique modalities of technical relations with their 鈥�milieus鈥�.

Milieu is used here to avoid distributing environmental issues between Nature and Society. It invites a renewed attention to the ecologies of minds, materials and social relations which partake in world building practices. Milieu is thus taken as a relational field which entangles humans with other things, beings and species. From this perspective, CATT researchers see cultural, social or bio-diversity as possible effects of these localised modalities of actions 鈥� in other words, of technodiversity.

Similarly, we understand technical as the ways in which groups adopt specific technics as practices which weave together materials, objects, species, knowledge and conceptualisations in their practical engagements with a given emergent milieu. As a result, CATT researchers challenge the separations between 鈥淭echnology鈥�, 鈥淣ature鈥� and 鈥淪ociety鈥� and consider instead technics as specific modalities of socialised and socialising actions which emerge as humans engage with their milieus, with and without the medium of technical objects.

The focus on the interrelations between technics and milieu, as embedded, transformative and generative practices, is essential for understanding the actualisation in material and practical forms of specific views and understandings of the world, its inhabitants, and their metaphysical relations (or cosmologies). While globalisation might present a generalised functionalist model of utilitarianism, progress, and rationality, ethnographic research has shown how local responses to this model actually lead to a diversification of practices and modalities of actions. From horticulture to Fablabs, from Japanese Robotics to artisanal mining, from crafts to sustainable projects, different groups have tried to develop heterogenous ways of dealing with their milieus in ways that are inherently generative of alternative futures for themselves.

The CATT researchers aim to document and theorize the development of multiple local technical responses to the challenges exacerbated by global environmental, economic and political issues. These might include practices of resilience, resistance, disputes, DIY or hacking, all grounded in their particular local milieus and proposing unique visions of their own futures.

Methods and Fields

Material culture studies and the anthropology of technics have the capacity to produce empirical and ethnographically driven studies of these practices. The set of methodological and analytical tools developed over the last five decades are well honed to document with precision the diversity of material and technical practices and how these are inseparable from moral and social values, as well as anchored in their milieus. This has led to an understanding of technical transformations as profoundly political, as demonstrated by the various stances taken by many localised stakeholders.

CATT researchers are all engaged in localised ethnographic research. Whether they are explicitly or implicitly using the frame provided by the Anthropology of Technics, they all focus on local practices that enrol human agents and their milieux. The CATT currently includes fields such as:

• Horticulture in Melanesia (L. Coupaye)
• Artisanal Mining in West Cameroon (R. Allain)
• 'The material politics of zero-carbon energy in the UK (H. Knox)
• Robotics in Osaka Japanese experimented Lab (R. Buono, PhD cand.)
• Fab Labs and biomaterial workshop in Chile (N. Cristi, PhD cand.)
• 'Hunting and gathering in the Congo Basin, with a focus on indigenous elephant hunting techniques. (Jerome Lewis)
• Afro-Brazilian Art and Black Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil (T. Braga, PhD cand.)
• Sex technics among British Sex workers (C. Dominique, PhD cand.)
• Objects and education (D. Mercier)
• Weaving among Algerian Women (M. Naji)
• Art Performance in Athens, Greece (E. Dennie, PhD cand.)
• Vanilla Production in Madagascar (F. O鈥橠owda, PhD cand.)
• A biotechnological forest: fishing, nature conservation and fish domestication in the Amazon (C. Sautchuk)
• From the Amazon to the Cerrado: new trajectories and techniques related to the rubber tree and the arapaima fish (C. Sautchuk and E. Di Deus)
• Scientific and traditional knowledge on fire management in the Amazon (G. Fagundes, Post-doc)
• New configurations of hunting among the Panar谩 Indians (Brazil) (F. Bechelany)
• Objects as communication strategies between isolated indigenous people and Brazilian government (C. Jabur, PhD cand.)

Project members

Rik Adriaans

Rik Adriaans (he/him) is a Lecturer in Media Anthropology at 果冻影院. He is interested in questions of media and mediation, music, and post-socialism. His doctoral thesis was a multi-sited ethnography of the media circuits connecting the Armenian diaspora of Los Angeles to post-Soviet transition focusing on the politics of recognition and redistribution. More recently, he began conducting a research project on the role of digital emulation, analogue electronics, and haptic materiality in the culture of Eurorack modular synthesizers. Challenging linear conceptions of music technology, this project is an ethnography of technical operations and digital mediations among synthesizer musicians and circuit designers for whom the digital and the analogue are increasingly interwoven. He also maintains an interest in the anthropological study of memes and virality.

Rosalie Allain

Rosalie Allain (she/her) is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, where she was previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, on a project titled 鈥淭he Rise and Demise of Gold: Mapping Technological Change and Creativity on a Cameroonian Resource Frontier鈥�. She completed her PhD at 果冻影院 in 2021 and her research engages with the study of techniques, natural resources, cosmology, material culture and economic life.

Rosalie鈥檚 research looks at changing artisanal gold mining practices among Gbaya communities in Cameroon, where she conducted two years of ethnographic research, in a context of resource depletion and economic marginalization brought about by Chinese-led mechanized extraction. Her research examines the cosmological and economic conditions and effects under which technical practices and devices are enacted, thought about, and transformed in extractive processes, through interactions with colonial French and contemporary Chinese mining, and how mining techniques mediate local understandings and states of 鈥榮carcity鈥� and 鈥榞enerativity鈥� at the interface with capitalist extractive logics. She critically engages with the concept and domain of 鈥榯echnology鈥� to explore questions surrounding historical change, creativity, ritual, luck, the intersection of vital and technical processes, environmental dispossession and transformations in economic practice.

Rosalie is also a member of the 鈥楢nthropologie de la Vie鈥� (Anthropology of Life) research group at the Laboratoire d鈥橝nthropologie Sociale (Paris).

Lydia Maria Arantes

Lydia Maria Arantes is a musician and an anthropologist, currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz.

Her main areas of research and teaching include technical activities such as (textile) craft practices, material culture, sensory ethnography, reflexive ethnography, ethno-psychoanalysis as well as ethnographic writing.

She is doing research on the various dimensions of (researching) knitting, such as (1) body, sensory and mathematical knowledge(s), (2) relationality and reciprocity, (3) temporality of materials, (4) the historicity of the gender of needlework, (5) economic facets of selling crafts online and (6) methodological questions of researching a technique she had already been familiar with. On the one hand, her approach to technodiversity includes an empirical examination of how technics brings together the acknowledgement of being a sentient human being tangled up in the making of her milieu as well as her pursuit of anthropological enquiry into what it means to be human. On the other, she also applies the concept of technodiversity concretely in Higher Education critical pedagogy as a means of reconciling body and mind through tools.

Jenny Bulstrode

Jenny Bulstrode is a historian and sociologist of science, with particular interest in materials, techniques, and the cosmologies they articulate. Her research uses an interdisciplinary combination of archives, oral traditions, tacit skills and material science to explore histories of material practices, how those practices shape differing ways of knowing the world and how these historical cosmotechnics relate to social justice struggles in the present day.

Trained as a historian of the physical sciences, archaeology and materials in an anthropological and sociological tradition, her work seeks to understand differing ways of knowing the world and centre marginalised sciences both for their importance to dominant traditions in the physical sciences and on their own terms. For an example of this approach tracing the technodiversity and cosmotechnics of iron in cross-cultural encounters between Britain and Jamaica, see: 'Performances on the World Stage', Greg Dening Memorial Lecture, University of Melbourne, 2021 (). For an example of this approach reframing canonical history of physics with Indigenous cosmopolitics, see ''. Previous, award-winning work has , 听补苍诲 . Current interests include coal, metallurgy, magic lanterns and the ways in which diaspora knowledges are articulated.

Julien Blanc

Julien Blanc (Museum d鈥橦istoire Naturelle, Paris, France) is an environmental anthropologist who, over the last twenty years, has been investigating on the ongoing 'greening' of agriculture in the so-called developed (or at least 'modern') economies. His ethnographic focus in on small-scale agriculture, in Brazil and in France, where he studies how peasants/farmers explore new manners of dealing with 鈥渘ature鈥�. He works more specifically on 鈥渨ays of knowing鈥�, conceived as part of a relational dynamic. In these respects, the technical dimension plays a central role, both as an operator of relations and a means of knowing. From a broader perspective, the highly contrasting technical choices made in the context of this 'greening' of agriculture correspond to worlds under construction that are themselves highly contrasting. It thus highlights the ontogenetic power of technodiversity, to understand how worlds are being made and unmade.

Raffaele Buono (PhD Candidate)

Raffaele Buono鈥檚 (he/him) current research investigates social robotics in Japanese academic laboratories, where he is conducting 18 months of fieldwork research. His research explores mechanical and computational techniques and processes imbuing robots with their own sociality, understood as specific capacities to engage with an environment. By paying attention to such structures and models allowing information exchange and interaction, it ultimately strives to think through capacities to be 鈥榮ocial鈥� beyond anthropocentric lenses. In doing so, this project aims to understand how technics in their broadest sense create the very foundation for human (and non-human) association at multiple scales, highlighting how (cultural) diversity is a product of technodiversity.
Raffaele has spent over a year at 果冻影院 Computer Science, carrying out collaborative research and gaining foundational training in the discipline. He is interested in exploring ways to foster communication and collaboration between anthropology and computer science towards the establishment of a common language.

T煤lio de Avena Braga (PhD Candidate)

T煤lio Braga鈥檚 (he/him) current research is dedicated to the documentation of dissonant techno-artistic practices among contemporary Black artists in Brazil. His work focuses particularly on how Black artists in S茫o Paulo re-appropriate and intertwine vernacular technical heritage in their artistic praxis in order to re-position themselves within Brazil's social fabric. Through the analysis of technical gestures, material choices, and visual narratives, his project unfolds the key components that conceptualise Afro-Brazilian art-making as a technical practice of sociality and resilience.

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Flavia Carraro

Flavia Carraro (she/her) is ma卯tresse de conf茅rences at the听Department听of Anthropology of the Toulouse University Jean Jaur猫s and researcher at the LISST - Centre d'Anthropologie Sociale. Her ethnographic and comparative research work lies in anthropology of technology, linguistic anthropology, and anthropology of knowledge.听She is especially interested in the relation between material culture and symbolic forms, between social structures and devices of knowledge,听as they can be explored through the intellectual and material dimensions involved in writing and weaving, from ancient times until modern innovations. Her investigation addresses coding/decoding practices of signs and threads in an anthropological and epistemological perspective, or technodiversity through knots and ligatures, braids and graphs, gestures and听squiggles, protocols and听algorithms.听

Ludovic Coupaye (Director)

L. Coupaye (he/him), one of the cofounders and the director of CATT, works at 果冻影院, Anthropology. 听He is also an associate member of the group Anthropologie de la vie et des repr茅sentations du vivant (LAS, Coll猫ge de France), and membre of the editorial board of the journal Techniques & Culture. His work on the Anthropology of Technics examines the interrelations between 鈥淭echnology鈥�, 鈥淪ociety鈥� and the 鈥淓nvironment鈥�. Building on his fieldwork in Papua New Guinea on the intertwining nature of gardening, rituals, visual arts and the environment, he has brought into dialogue the Francophone Anthropology of Techniques with the Anglophone tradition of Material Culture Studies, and the Anthropology of Melanesia, through an empirical analysis of vernacular modalities of actions. More recently, his research examines the extent to which technical objects which display autonomous behaviours (most of contemporary technical innovations, from 鈥渟mart鈥� machines to robots) are shaping humans鈥� skills and imaginations, and simultaneously have reticulated relations and effect at various scales, be it on cognitive, social, natural or political environments, enabling or preventing the emergence of forms of technodiversity. In parallel, Coupaye investigates how dominant narratives and conceptions of 鈥渢echnology鈥�, as an independent category, frame approaches to objects and practices in a problematic Eurocentric way, and seeks to document alternative modalities of thinking with, through and about Technics.

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Nicole Cristi (PhD Candidate)

Nicole Cristi鈥檚 (she/her) current research explores practices of biofabrication in labs and workshops in Chile, challenging the category of tecnolog铆a [technology] from a situated perspective. She explores the imbrications between the technodiversity approach of the CATT with the Latin American idea of the Pluriverse, from the Zapatist movement (Escobar, 2018; De la Cadena & Blaser 2018). Through a participatory techno-ethnography, she researches the diversity and interrelation of different 鈥渢echnical-worlds鈥� and technical milieu immersed in biofabrication practices, focusing on 鈥済rowing鈥� and 鈥渃ooking鈥� processes to produce biomaterials based on a co-activity between humans, microorganisms, technical objects, institutions and the territory.

Elena Dennie (PhD Candidate)

Elena Dennie鈥檚 (she/her) research is on the technical processes of individual and collective performance art making in contemporary Athens, Greece. Her focus is particularly on the body and its milieu (material objects, relationships, and landscape),听to understand how performance art figures into the art scene of Athens and internationally, and what the relationship is between performance art and contemporary art in the space of residencies, research collectives and听programmes, emerging key sites for the diverse global arts.听 Focusing on performance art making as the interweaving of techniques and milieu is the entry point through which she is conducting an ethnography of pnevma (蟺谓蔚蠉渭伪, spirit), investigating the localised moral, cosmological, and political facets and implications of this category in Greek society. Through her research, the CATT technodiversity approach aligns with the Anthropology of Performance as emerged in the 1970s.

Eduardo Di Deus

Eduardo Di Deus (he/him) is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bras铆lia鈥檚 Faculty of Education (FE / UnB) and a researcher at the Graduate Programme in Education, Professional Modality, as well as at the Laboratory of Anthropology of Science and Technique (LACT/UnB). He has earned his PhD in Anthropology at the same institution, and is currently interested in the following areas: the anthropology of technique, teaching and learning, work and labour, rural studies, human-plant relations, and environmental education.

In his doctoral research, Eduardo conducted an ethnography of the rubber tapping in S茫o Paulo鈥檚 Hevea plantations, casting a historical look at the transformations in the technical systems of rubber tapping in the global diaspora of this species. In his current research, Eduardo begins to explore the interface between technodiversity and learning/education in Brazilian rural milieux, starting from local processes of technical knowledge in agriculture.

Chloe Dominique (PhD Candidate)

Chloe Dominique (she/her) is an Anthropologist of the material cultures of sex at 果冻影院. Her current PhD work (funded by LAHP) focusses on the material culture practices of sex workers in London. Her more broader research interests lie in the material culture of sexual practices, the role that sexual techniques play in the formation of our sexual subjectivities, the relationship between sex and capitalism, and cosmotechnics of the body.

Chloe is the founder of the Materialities of Sex Research Group, which invites cross-disciplinary academics, artists and interested persons to explore themes of identity politics, material cultures, ethics, social morality and the legal frameworks of sexual practice. Most importantly, Chloe seeks to produce research that is accessible and available to the communities she works with, joining together听Anthropology and activism. She is on the Editorial Board of Math Magazine, part of the Editorial Collective of an upcoming RAI Special Edition anthology on Diversity, has supported the English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP), and Sex Worker Advocacy Resistance Movement (SWARM), and was co-founder of PAPER, a decolonial collective in 果冻影院鈥檚 Anthropology Department.

Guilherme Moura Fagundes

Guilherme Moura Fagundes (he/him) is a social anthropologist and filmmaker. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of S茫o Paulo, where he teaches and supervises students in the area of anthropology of technique, environmental anthropology and filmic anthropology. Guilherme鈥檚 research focuses on intercultural fire management programs and the intersection between technodiversity and agrobiodiversity for the production of pyrodiversity. For the last ten years, he has been working alongside Quilombola/Marron communities, environmental managers and firefighters from the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado). Before joining as Associate Professor at University of S茫o Paulo, he was visiting scholar at Princeton University (2021-2022), University of Bras铆lia (2019-2021) and Coll茅ge de France (2017). He is also a member of the the Laboratory of Anthropology of Science and Technique (LACT/UnB) and the "Anthropologie de la Vie" research group.

Toby Austin Locke

Toby Austin Locke is an anthropologist whose work focuses on technical and psychosocial entanglements through the digital. His current project examines the relations between ADHD, attention, neurodiversity and the digital. In this project processes of subjectivation are approached as psychosocial infrastructurings expressive of particular technical milieus.听 Through ethnography of people who self-identify with ADHD placed in conversation with dominant narratives of attentional erosion, his approach to technodiversity seeks to unfold the multiplicity of perspectives to include narratives of therapeutic听community building and transformative techniques of self through the neurodiversity movement's self-organised engagement with digital spaces. This opens new perspectives in relation to concern from public health scholars regarding self-diagnosis, misinformation and 鈥榗yberchondria鈥�. His current ethnographic fieldwork starts with the ADHD community on TikTok, and extends into broader multi-sited online and offline contexts. He is also Lead Researcher in the TikTok Ethnography Collective.

F铆acha O鈥橠owda听(PhD Candidate)

F铆acha O鈥橠owda studies how forest ecologies in North East Madagascar are shaped by human desires and practices, both local and distant. By following the relationships, techniques, and theories through which forest substances are transmuted into worlds of human value, to be tasted, smelt, exchanged, consumed, and metabolised, research explores how the imbrications of such material and symbolic flows of substance shape life, human and otherwise, in forest and town. By observing the exchange, circulation, and sublimation of vanilla, plastics, cloves, rice, woods, radios, tubers, and tenrecs, peopled forests are described in their social and historical complexity, nuancing narratives of ecological change and extinction, opening consideration of conditions and techniques to realise a heterogenous conviviality of many-species in the Anthropocene.

Delphine Mercier

Delphine Mercier (she/her) is a curator in 果冻影院 Ethnography Collections (果冻影院 Anthropology) and a PhD student in 果冻影院 Science and Technology Studies Department. Her research investigates museums objects as the remains of networks of livings and non-livings. Combining a diversity of approaches among which a multisensorial engagement with, an experimentation of, and an emotional relation with objects, but also relying on indigenous knowledge, Delphine challenges traditional knowledge hierarchy in museums and collections. Using a meticulous engagement with objects and interviews of students on their experience of engaging with them, she focuses on the traces of the making and use processes left at the surface of artefacts. She analyses them using a variety of methods including semiotics, classifications or cha卯ne op茅ratoire from an archaeological perspective, which she combines with interviews of members of source communities to try to develop a new approach of museums and collections material.

Myriem Naji

Myriem Naji (she/her) is a research fellow at the Department of Anthropology, where she received her PhD in 2008. She is interested in productive and creative processes and their significance for livelihood, identity and ways of living. Her theoretical approach is grounded in the anthropology of materiality, techniques, craft, knowledge, and work. Her current project, for which she received an EMPK grant, aims to research textile material knowledge and practices in Morocco. She is interested in local revitalization initiatives and their impact on livelihood and knowledge transmission, as specific forms of technodiversity. In prior research on organic farmers in the south of France she also explored the relationship between production, economy and activism. In 2011 she curated a major exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, entitled 鈥榃eaving the threads of livelihood: the aesthetic and embodied knowledge of Amazigh/Berber weavers鈥�. In her past research she has explored the trajectories of Sirwa carpets from their place of production to international marketplaces and how their circulation and materiality mediate political and economic relations.

Carlos Emanuel Sautchuk (Co-director)

Carlos Sautchuk is a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Bras铆lia, where he coordinates the Laboratory of Anthropology of Science and Technique (LACT) and the research program TRANSTEC 鈥� Technical transformations in local perspectives. He is co-founder and co-director of CATT. He has long experience of ethnographic research on topics related to techniques and the environment in the Amazon, initially on changes in traditional fishing methods and environmentalism. His current studies focused on the role of technical objects, skills and the relationship with different environments in the configuration of subjectivities and cosmologies. He focuses on historical changes in the relationship with the largest fish in the Amazon region, addressing the technical processes involved in fishing, sustainable management and the recent process of domestication and aquaculture. Focusing on transformations, this research dialogues with a broader interest in the correlation between technodiversity and biodiversity in the Amazon region, involving amerindian peoples and other populations. He teaches and supervises students in the area of Anthropology of Technique, on topics such as fire management, indigenous hunting, rubber tapping, buffalo cattling, coffee production, traditional carpentry and climate change.

Tim Saunders

Tim Saunders (he/him) is an independent researcher and consultant; his practice focuses on the effective use of software and technology within organisations.

His research is focussed on the interpretation and mobilisation of contingency by the various groups and individuals involved in the construction/maintenance and use of digital objects - such as no and low code development platforms. One strand of this research explores how the diversity of interpretations of contingent events such as bugs, glitches and defects is revelatory of the relations between the groups, their technical objects and the broader milieu - including the political and ethical aspects of these relations.

Of particular interest is how various milieu might intersect and the ramifications of increasingly blurred and overlapping boundaries between more traditional separations of developer and user - also how accounting for and enabling diversity of interpretation and action across milieu can lead to a radical opening up of potentialities and ontologies.

Francisco Vergara

Francisco Vergara works at the School of Archaeology at the Austral University of Chile. He is also a member of the Chilean Society of Archaeology. His work on the rhythms of techniques explores the relationships between bodily, spatial, and temporal dimensions of technical action. Through his research on the production rhythms of pre-Hispanic rock art in the semi-arid north of Chile and in Central Chile, he has established a dialogue between the anthropology of techniques, art, space, and time. In turn, based on his ethnographic work in the Central Andes, Francisco has explored the relationships between rhythm, dance, and identity. Over the past years, from the plastic waste originating from salmon and mussel farming that washes ashore on the southern coast of Chile, Patagonia, he has begun to explore the relationships between rhythms of life, neoliberal economy, technicity, and material culture from the angle of technodiversity.

Publications by members

Anichini, G.听Carraro, F.听Geslin, P.听& Guille-Escuret, G. (2017).听Technicity Vs Scientificity: Complementarities and Rivalries. John Wiley & Sons.

Blanc, J., &听 Mariani, L. (2023). Faire et savoir听; Partage p茅dagogique et perspectives anthropologiques au Mus茅um national d鈥橦istoire naturelle, Journal des anthropologues, 172-173 (pp.179-183).

Blanc, J. (2022). L鈥檃ttention comme savoir paysan. Transrurales initiatives, Pratiques Paysannes 鈥� Les lueurs d鈥檜n contre-pouvoir, 491 (pp 43-45) .

Blanc, J. & Mariani, L. (2022). Dans la texture des relations : savoir et faire, faire et savoir.听 In, Mariani, L., Le Go没t des possibles ; Enqu锚tes sur les ressorts symbolistes d'une crise 茅cologique 禄, Presses Universitaires de Nanterre, Nanterre. [co-written conclusion of the book].

Blanc, J. (2022). La construction br茅silienne de l鈥橝griculture Naturelle听: religion, pragmatisme et f茅condit茅 des marges听; in Foyer J., Chon茅 A., et V. Boisvert (Eds.), Scientificit茅 et spiritualit茅 dans les agricultures alternatives, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.

Blanc, J. & Moruzzi, P.M. (2022). A Agricultura Natural de Mokiti Okada: uma experimenta莽茫o moral e pol铆tica como fonte de inova莽茫o de ordem ecol贸gica. Revista Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (CPDA/UFRJ).

Bulstrode, J. (2023). Black metallurgists and the making of the industrial revolution. History and Technology, 39(1), 1-41. .

Carraro, F.听Casajus, D. Herrou, A.听Houdart, S.听& Rivoal, I. (2022). Cryptographies: Codes, jeux d鈥檃rcane et arts de l鈥檌ntime. Soci茅t茅 d鈥橢thnologie.

Carraro, F.听Joulian, F.听& Nova, N. (forthcoming). The digital transformation of the world: continuities and changes. Techniques & Culture.

Carraro, F., &听Mariani, L.听(Eds.).听(forthcoming).听Des rapports avant toute cause. Textes 脿 la m茅moire de Georges Guille-Escuret, Paris, 脡ditions des archives contemporaines (脡tudes de sciences).

Coupaye, L. (2022c). Making 鈥楾echnology鈥� Visible: Technical Activities and the Cha卯ne Op茅ratoire. In M. Hojer Bruun, A. Wahlberg, R. Douglas-Jones, C. Hasse, K. Hoeyer, D. Brog氓rd, K. H. Brit Ross Winthereik (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology (pp. 37-60). New York: Palgrave.

Coupaye, L. (2022a). Danse avec les cat茅gories: anthropologie de la 芦 technologie 禄 et anthropologie des techniques. Artefact, techniques, histoire et sciences humaines, 15, 127-150.

Coupaye, L. (2022b). Technology. In L. A. De Cunzo & C. D. Roeber (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies (pp. 436-468). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cristi, N. (2023). Growing Materials: Technical and Caring Processes as Rooted Design Practices. In M. Tironi, M. Chilet, C. Ureta Mar铆n, & P. Hermansen (Eds.), Design For More-Than-Human Futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding. Routledge.

Cristi, N. (forthcoming, 2023). How to call for collective action: graphic reproducibility of the Popular Unity poster. In H. Palmarola, E. M茅dina, & P. Alonso (Eds.), How to design the Revolution. Lars M眉ller Publishers.

Cristi, N. (2023). Fragmentos de una Memoria Gr谩fica en una Ecolog铆a de Resistencias Visuales. In J.M. Plaza (Ed.), Estallido est茅tico: Aportaciones desde la historia, la teor铆a, el registro y la creaci贸n art铆stica para comprender el estallido social. Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.

Di Deus, E. (2023). Travailler avec l'arbre qui saigne. Le m茅tier de saigneur d'h茅v茅a dans les plantations 脿 S茫o Paulo, au Br茅sil. Revue d鈥檃nthropologie des connaissances, 17(1).

Naji, M. & Ait Elhousseine, H., (2023). La temp茅rance du forgeron: composer avec le milieu de la forge. Socio-anthropologie, 48.

Naji, M. (2023). L鈥檃khnif: organe occulaire portatif ou instrument de violence? In P. Gerimont & L. Smolderen (Eds.), Entrelac, Textiles, rituels, Catalogue d鈥檈xposition - Mus茅e international du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche.

Naji, M. (2023). Le peigne 脿 tasser: un instrument de fermeture technique et corporelle. In P. Gerimont & L. Smolderen (Eds.), Entrelac, Textiles, rituels, Catalogue d鈥檈xposition - Mus茅e international du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche.

Sautchuk, C. E. (2023). Moral Gestures: Forms of Life and Forms of Death in Amazonian Waters. In M. Bolton & P. Loovers (Eds.), Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic (Vol. 1, pp. 17-38). Brill.

Vergara, F. (2022). Lecci贸n de Barro y la Antropolog铆a del Ritmo. Bolet铆n de la Sociedad Chilena de Arqueolog铆a, 52, 129-138.

Vergara, F. (2022). Movement, time and rhythm among Hunter-Gatherers. A view from Guaiquivilo rock art, Southern Andes, Chile. In P. L. Polkowski & F. F枚rster (Eds.), Rock Art in the Landscapes of Motion (pp. 71-92). Oxford: BAR Publishing.

Conferences, workshop and talks delivered by the members

Adriaans, R. (2023, April 13). 鈥淥f walkmans, hard drives and Amigas: modular synthesizer interfacing as enchanted obsolescence.鈥� Presentation at SOAS, panel听Toward an Anthropology of Techno-Diversity, ASA听conference 'An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode'.

Blanc, J. (2023, November 2 鈥� 5). Cosmopolitiques et mises 脿 l鈥櫭﹑reuve dans les nouveaux mondes agricoles, 芦 Gouverner la vie pour affronter la crise 茅cologique ? 禄, 3e Congr猫s international de l鈥橝ssociation Fran莽aise d鈥橝nthropologie et d鈥橢thnologie, INALCO, Paris, France.

Blanc, J. (2023, July 3 鈥� 7). Knowing and knowledge in agriculture. Agroecology facing the modernity paradigm. XXIXth European Society for Rural Sociology Congress Crises and the futures of rural areas Working group 26 - Past and Future: An intergenerational dialog on the critical analysis of the past agricultural modernization processes Rennes, France.

Blanc J. & Mariani, L. (2023 July 5 - 9). Faire et savoir听; Partage p茅dagogique et perspectives anthropologiques au Mus茅um national d鈥橦istoire naturelle, Les Colloques de la Tani猫re, Nivillac, Fr.

Blanc, J., & Pennec, F. (2023, June 15-16). Les collections d鈥檈thnobotanique du Mus茅um听: t茅moins de cultures pass茅es et enjeux actuels, colloque "Plantes de l'Entre", Mus茅e Paul Eluard, Saint-Denis, France.

Blanc, J. (2023, May 24). Articulating knowing, technicity and relational process within a research-action perspective with 鈥榩easants鈥� in southern France; CATT Seminaries, Department of Anthropology, 果冻影院, London, UK.

Blanc, J. (2023, April 26). Shifting from a knowledge to a knowing perspective to support agroecology, Invited speaker at Center for Agroeoclogy, Water and Resilience, University of Coventry, Ryton Gardens, Coventry, UK.

Blanc, J. & Mariani, L. (2023, March 22 鈥� 23). Dans la texture des relations. Onto-politiques du vivant dans les nouveaux mondes agricoles. Journ茅es d鈥橢tude Le Champ des possibles, exp茅rimentations sociales, politiques et existentielles en milieu rural, ENSA Paris La Villette, Paris, France.

Blanc, J. (2023, February 9). A agricultura Natural de Mokiti Okada enquanto Food and Farming alternatives?听 ESALQ/USP, Invited speaker, Semin谩rio sobre transi莽玫es agroecol贸gicas. ESALQ/CENA-USP, Piracicaba, BR.

Blanc, J. (2022, January 4). Current issues for the Museum's ethnobotany collections: how to put witnesses to the past to work, Invited speaker at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.

Blanc, J. (2022 December 6). Re-opening the relations: French peasants exploring conditions of vivavibility within deep agroecology, Invited speaker at Center for Biocultural Diversity, School of Anthropology and Conservation, 2023.

Coupaye, L. (2023, February 1-2). Danses with Category: Anthropology of Technics, Anthropology of Technology. Workshop at Universit盲t zu K枚ln Institut f眉r Ethnologie, Cologne, Germany.

Di Deus, E. (2023, August 01-04). XIV RAM - Reuni茫o de Antropologia do Mercosul. Grupo de Trabalho - T茅cnica, conhecimento e poder: contribui莽玫es etnogr谩ficas contempor芒neas na Am茅rica Latina. Coordena莽茫o: E. Di Deus (UnB), J. Brussi (UFOPA), S. Carenzo (CONICET). Niter贸i, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Vergara, F., & Godoy, C. (2023, July 10-14). Ritmo y Estilo. El Caso del Arte Rupestre Estilo Guaiquivilo. Paper presented at the XXI Congreso Nacional de Arqueolog铆a Argentina, Mesa de Comunicaci贸n 4: Patagonia, Corrientes, Argentina.

Vergara, F., Ad谩n, L., & Valderrama, C. (2023, July 10-14). Pol铆meros Termopl谩sticos Sint茅ticos. Paper presented at the XXI Congreso Nacional de Arqueolog铆a Argentina, Simposio 2: Arqueolog铆as Pol铆ticas: Miradas Intergeneracionales desde el Sur, Corrientes, Argentina.

Bulstrode, J. (2022, December 13-14). Early encounters with coal: retrieving views from below, Amr Ahmed, Andreas Malm, Simon Schaffer, Richard Staley. Presentation at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Coupaye, L. (2022, March 14-15). Tubers as Paradigmatic Containers. Workshop presented at University of Cambridge, UK, Jesus College, in Tuberous Collectivities: An Interdisciplinary Exploration into Human-Tuber Companionship across Histories (ERC, FNRS, ULB).

Bulstrode, J. (2023, April 17-18). Science through the keyhole: revealing scientific practices through workspaces, Jane Desborough & Innes Keighren. Presentation at the Science Museum, London, UK.

Coupaye, L. (2022, May 17-18). Agency as reticulation, 果冻影院ouvain, FNRS/Talos, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. International Workshop Ontologies in the Making: Anthropological & Archaeological Perspectives.

Coupaye L. (2022, April 9). Technicity against 鈥淭echnology鈥�: From Relationality to Exclusion (and Capture). Virtual Conference presented at University of Toronto, The Archaeology Centre. Annual Debates in Archaeology 鈥� Captivating Technology.

Allain, R. (2022, October). The Vitality of Gold in Artisanal Mining Practices. Participant in workshop, Vie et Technique entre Continuit茅s et Analogies: R茅flexions anthropologiques [Life and Techniques between Continuities and Analogies: Anthropological Reflections], part of workshop series 鈥楲ife and Technique: Anthropological, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives鈥�. Colle虁ge de France, Paris.

Allain, R. (2022, November). Gifting Luck: The Generativity of Kin and Action amongst Gbaya Mining Communities in Cameroon. Presented at Departmental Research Seminar, SAME, University of Oxford.

Vergara, F. (2022, November). Ritmo, Danza e Identidad en los Andes Centrales. Paper presented at the III Seminario Musicultura: Di谩logos desde la diversidad de expresiones, Universidad de los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Chile.

Allain, R. (2022, December). Gifting Luck: The Generativity of Action amongst Gbaya Mining Communities in Cameroon. Presented at Anthropology Seminar Series, Dept. of Anthropology, Goldsmiths.

Mercier, D. with Buchli, V., Jeevendrampillai, D., Pitrou, P., Praet, I. & Sim, G. (2022, December 5). Seedling Biospheres in Outer Space, project Off-Earth Atlas. Coll猫ge de France:, Paris.

Bulstrode, J. (2022, December 7). Coal scars and the coal skill. Paper presented at Department seminar, Aarhus University.

Coupaye, L. (2023, January 29). Jardins Abelam magiques et Images v茅g茅tales. Des Pratiques Horticoles entre Cosmologie et Milieu (Suivi d鈥檜ne r茅flexion sur la technodiversit茅). Mus茅e du conservatoire de l'agriculture et des pratiques agricoles, Chartres.

Cristi, N. (2023, March). Growing Materials and cultivating other possible worlds. Paper presented at Papanek Symposium 2023 Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations, Papanek Foundation.

Coupaye, L. (2023, April 25). 鈥淭echnicity against 鈥楾echnology鈥�: An Anthropology of Technical Objects. Presentation at University of Manchester, Affective Artefacts seminar series.

Coupaye, L. (2023, May 5). Jardins & Cosmotechniques. Ecole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris: S茅miaire d鈥橝nthropologie des techniques.

Coupaye, L. (May 12). Les Fabuleux Myst猫res de l鈥櫭甽e de P芒ques. Alexandre-Koyr茅 (EHESS, CNRS, MNHN), mus茅e du Quai Branly, Paris: S茅minaire: Grands mythes de l鈥檃nthropologie et de l鈥檃rch茅ologie. Regards sur le monde.

Bulstrode, J. (2023, May 17). Dust and debt. Paper presented at Department seminar, Durham University.

Mercier, D., with Buchli, V., Jeevendrampillai, D., Pitrou, P., Praet, I. Sim, G. (2023, June 8). Territories, Project Off-Earth Atlas. 果冻影院, London.

Mercier, D. (2023, June 9). Architectures & Infrastructures, Project Off-Earth Atlas. London, 果冻影院.

Mercier, D. with Buchli, V., Jeevendrampillai, Pitrou, P., Praet, I. Sim, G. (2023, September 15). Cosmologies, Project Off-Earth Atlas. Oxford, Maison Fran莽aise,

Bulstrode, J. (2023, May 23-24). Colonial Natures, D谩niel Marg贸csy. Presentation at the University of Cambridge, UK.

CATT events

2023, September 21-22: Encha卯ner, rencha卯ner et d茅cha卯ner les activit茅s techniques: Atelier m茅thodologique 芦 cha卯ne op茅ratoire 禄, Laboratoire de recherche 茅co-anthropologie du Museum National d鈥橦istoire Naturelle, Paris (Fr) (L. Coupaye).

2023, June, 6: Simondon by and for Dummies. 果冻影院, Department of Anthropology (L. Coupaye)

2023, June 25: Technology as a protagonist in Sci-Fi Movies and TV Programs. 果冻影院, Department of Anthropology (L. Coupaye)

2023, April,12-13: Towards an Anthropology of technodiversity. SOAS, London. Panel at the 2023 ASA conference 'An Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode', organized by Rosalie Allain & Ludovic Coupaye.

2022, March 25: Workshop Making Processes Visible. Technography and the Chaine Operatoire. Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles; Brussels (Belg), Anthropologie de la Vie, CNRS 鈥� Coll猫ge de France, Paris. (Fr) (L. Coupaye & Nicole Cristi)

2023, February, 14-15: Workshop Knowledge and knowing in Agroecology. Post-Graduate Program in Applied Ecology, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) 鈥� ESALQ, Piracicaba, Brazil. (J. Blanc)听