Antoine Hennion, born June 4, 1952, Professor at Mines ParisTech, is the former Director of the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI). Ingénieur des Mines (1974), he had a training in musicology (Paris IV-Sorbonne) and a PhD in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1991).
He has written extensively in the sociology of music, of media and cultural industries (radio, advertising, design, etc.), and on innovation and utilities. Working on mediation, he has participated with colleagues from the CSI into the definition of a new problematization of innovation (in the field of Science, Technology and Society, and in the sociology ot the arts). Developping a pragmatist approach of these issues, in particular in a workshop that he leads on “Attachments”, he is studying amateurs and taste, home care and vulnerability, and migrants and migrations.
Address: Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation +33 (0)1 40 51 91 91 (secretary)
(Center for the Sociology of Innovation)
MINES-ParisTech 60 bd St-Michel 75006 Paris France
Paris Sciences & Lettres University/i3, CNRS UMR 9217
antoine.hennion@mines-paristech.fr http://www.csi.ensmp.fr