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(CNRS, European Center for Sociology and Political Science [CESSP; UMR 8209], EHESS) is a historian and sociologist of science, and a research director at the CNRS. His work focuses on the history of space exploration, the circulation of concepts, and the historical anthropology of scientific materialities.
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Truth-Telling, Confession and Discipline: Michel Foucault and Technologies of Truth
- By Jérôme Lamy
In Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2018/2 Volume 143)
Management sciences gaining momentum
A longitudinal studyof the RFG corpus
In Revue française de gestion (2025/6 N° 325)
Léo Magnin, La Vie sociale des haies. Enquête sur l’écologisation des mœurs
- By Jérôme Lamy
In Sociologie (2025/4 N° 164)
Sociological collapse or the moral panic of a sociologist
In Politix (2021/2 No 134)
Historical Sociology of Science and Technology: An Essay in Conceptual Genealogy and Configurational History
- By Jérôme Lamy
- and Arnaud Saint-Martin
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2015/1 Volume 68)
Science and Anarchy: the Black Flag of Reason
- By Jérôme Lamy,
- Sébastien Plutniak,
- Translated into English by Christopher Donohue
In Zilsel (2022/2 Selected Articles)
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Management sciences gaining momentum
A longitudinal studyof the RFG corpus
In Revue française de gestion (2025/6 N° 325)
Jean-Marc Moriceau, Nicolas Delacour. Le Pouvoir au village au cœur du XVIIe siècle. Paris, Talandier, 2025, 720 p.
In Histoire, économie & société (2025/4 n° 254)
Léo Magnin, La Vie sociale des haies. Enquête sur l’écologisation des mœurs
In Sociologie (2025/4 N° 164)
Dominique Pinsolle, Quand les travailleurs sabotaient. France, États-Unis (1897-1918), Marseille, Agone, 2024, 455 p.
In Revue historique (2025/2 n° 714)
Joan STAVO-DEBAUGE, John Dewey face aux fondamentalismes. Les origines des discours “post-séculiers” et leur antidote
Nancy, Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine, 2024, 309 pages.
In Archives de sciences sociales des religions (2024/3 No 208)
Dorine Rouiller, Des airs, des lieux et des hommes. Les théories des climats à la Renaissance, Genève, Droz, 2021, 503 pages, ISBN 978-2-600-06256-5
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2024/4 n° 71-4)
David Aubin, Femmes, vulgarisation et pratique des sciences au siècle des Lumières. Les Dialogues sur l’astronomie et la Lettre sur la flgure de la Terre de César-François Cassini de Thury, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, 310 pages, ISBN 978-2-503-58603-8
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2024/4 n° 71-4)
Winkin (Yves), D’Erving à Goffman. Une œuvre performée ? Paris, MkF Éditions, 2022, 180 p., €20.
In Revue française de sociologie (2023/4 Vol. 64)
Looking Through Things: Material Matters and Heavenly Ideas
In Dix-huitième siècle (2024/1 No 56)
Buffon’s Bureaux. The Furnishing Materiality of Science in the Age of Enlightenment
- By Jean-François Bert
- and Jérôme Lamy
In Dix-huitième siècle (2024/1 No 56)
Shattering the utopia: The Association of Autonomous Astronauts, or the artistic critique of space exploration
In Sociétés & Représentations (2024/1 N° 57)
The “strong programme” and the crisis of science from the 1970s to the 1990s
In Communications (2023/2 No 113)
The frame of exchanges: The written materiality of knowledge in the correspondence of Christiaan Huygens
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2023/3 No 70-3)
Waquet Françoise, Dans les coulisses de la science. Techniciens, petites mains et autres travailleurs invisibles, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2022, 346 p., €25
[In the back rooms of science: Technicians, helping hands, and other invisible workers]
In 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire (2022/3 No 155)
Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
In Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2023/2 Volume 148)
Ann Blair, L’Entour du texte. La publication du livre savant à la Renaissance, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, coll. “Conférences Léopold Deslile”, 2021, 103 pages.
In Revue historique (2022/1 No 701)
Sociological collapse or the moral panic of a sociologist
In Politix (2021/2 No 134)
Vincent Genin, Avec Marcel Detienne
In L'Homme (2021/3 No 239-240)
Do not be afraid of history:
Historicality of concepts and knowledge materiality
In Questions de communication (2020/2 No 38)
Francis CHATEAURAYNAUD, Alertes et lanceurs d’alerte, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 2020, 128 pp.
In Réseaux (2021/4 No 228)
Fake material: A counterfeit copy of Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2021/1 Volume 74)
Helping scientific research or becoming part of the market: how the board of directors of the French Space Agency navigated contradictory situations (1981-2001)
In Entreprises et histoire (2021/1 No 102)
Nathalie BRÉMAND (ed.), Bibliothèques en utopie. Les socialistes et la lecture au XIXe siècle
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2020/2 No 61)
Laurence Guignard, Antoine Léger l’anthropophage. Une histoire des lectures de la cruauté, 1824-1903
In L'Homme (2019/3 No 231-232)
Discovering the libertarian veins of socialism
- By Ruth Kinna,
- Interview by David Hamelin,
- and Jérôme Lamy
In Actuel Marx (2019/2 No 66)
Anarchism, the other socialism
- By David Hamelin
- and Jérôme Lamy
In Actuel Marx (2019/2 No 66)
Gaps in the record: The scribbles, notebooks, and drafts of Germaine Tillion
In Ethnologie française (2019/3 Vol. 49)
A FabLab in the countryside: Regimes of action and the coordination of resources
In Sociologies pratiques (2019/1 No 38)
Expanding the field of libido sciendi: The popularization of astronomy in Toulouse (1840-1905)
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2018/2 No 57)
How space physics entered the laboratory
The creation of the Centre d’étude spatiale des rayonnements (Toulouse, 1964-1970)
In Revue européenne des sciences sociales (2018/1 56-1)
Fabien Hein & Dom Blake, Écopunk. Les punks, de la cause animale à l’écologie radicale
In Volume ! (2018/1 14:2)
Truth-Telling, Confession and Discipline: Michel Foucault and Technologies of Truth
In Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2018/2 Volume 143)
Making your mark
The communication work of the Université Paris-Saclay
In Politiques de communication (2017/2 No 9)
Bernard Lahire, Pour la sociologie. Et pour en finir avec une prétendue “culture de l’excuse”
Paris, La Découverte, 2016, 184 p., bibl. (« Cahiers libres »).
In L'Homme (2017/1 No 221)
DOMINIQUE PESTRE (ed.), Le gouvernement des technosciences. Gouverner le progrès et ses dégâts depuis 1945, Paris, La Découverte, 2014, 321 p., ISBN 978-2-7071-7504-5
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2017/3 No 64-3)
Carole Desbarats, The West Wing. Au cœur du pouvoir
Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2016, 182 pages
In Questions de communication (2016/2 No 30)
Marx’s palimpsests
The emergence of Marxist environmental sociology in the United States
In Écologie & politique (2016/2 No 53)
Michel Delville, Radiohead OK Computer
In Volume ! (2016/2 13:1)
The Transparency of Institutions. An Ethnography of Glassware in a Laboratory of Biology
An ethnography of glassware in a biology laboratory
- By Jérôme Lamy
- and Sébastien Plutniak
In Ethnologie française (2016/4 Vol. 46)
The Genealogy of Truth: A Detour though Seventeenth-century England
- By Jérôme Lamy
- and Arnaud Saint-Martin
In Genèses (2016/2 No 103)
Historical Sociology of Science and Technology: An Essay in Conceptual Genealogy and Configurational History
- By Jérôme Lamy
- and Arnaud Saint-Martin
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2015/1 Volume 68)
Doing politics through an Earth observation system: the development of the European program Copernicus/GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)
- By Arnaud Saint-Martin
- and Jérôme Lamy
In L’Année sociologique (2013/2 Vol. 63)
Critical Commentary on the Practice of Science
- By Jérôme Lamy
- and Arnaud Saint-Martin
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2011/2 Volume 64)
Scientific Grandeur and Space Policies: The Creation and Transfer of CNES (1958 – 1974)
In Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2011/1 No 58-1)
Creation seminar
The French Theater Comédie-Française
- By Muriel Mayette
- and Jérôme Lamy
In Le journal de l'école de Paris du management (2010/4 No 84)
Nobility and Servitude of Astronomical Computation
The Toulouse Astronomers and Mathematical Hierarchy in the 18th and 19th Century
In Revue d'anthropologie... (2009/2 Vol. 3, No 2)
The “Bureau des Longitudes”
Instruments Management and Regimes of Knowledge during the 19th Century
In Revue d'anthropologie... (2007/2 Vol. 1, No 2)
The Determination of Longitudes at Sea in the Jesuits’ Hydrographic Treatises, 17th and 18th Centuries
Methodological Choices and Instrumental Practices
In Histoire & mesure (2006/2 Vol. XXI)
Use and Transmission of Scientific Tools: The Observatory of Toulouse and its Instruments (between the 18th and 19th Centuries)
In Revue d’histoire des sciences (2006/1 Volume 59)
Science and Anarchy: the Black Flag of Reason
- By Jérôme Lamy,
- Sébastien Plutniak,
- Translated into English by Christopher Donohue
In Zilsel (2022/2 Selected Articles)