Thierry Bardini
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin office B407
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Affiliations
- Membre – Réseau Hexagram
- Membre – CRIHN — Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques
Education Programs
- Environment and Sustainable Development Humanities
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Economics and Politics Communication
- Teaching and Education Sciences Theology and Religious Sciences
- Economics and Politics Humanities Social Sciences
- Economics and Politics Humanities Social Sciences
- Economics and Politics Humanities Social Sciences
- Economics and Politics Information and Communication Technologies Communication
- Arts and Music Communication Information and Communication Technologies
- Information and Communication Technologies Communication
Courses
- COM3220 Communication et environnement
- COM6135 Éco-médiations
- COM7169 Épistémologie et communication
Areas of Expertise
My research concerns the history and sociology of science and technology and, more specifically, since 1990, the history and sociology of cyberculture. I began by conducting in-depth research into the origins of personal informatics, by describing the evolution of Douglas Engelbart’s laboratory at the Stanford Research Institute and how his ideas and creations (the mouse, the proto graphic interface, hypertext) migrated to Xerox PARC and Apple. Since 2001 I have been extending this work with research into the other fundamental evolution of cybernetic synthesis, i.e. molecular biology, by reconstructing its recent history from its lesser-known side, the “non-coding” part of DNA, which American researchers dubbed “junk DNA.” This research was published in 2011 by the University of Minnesota Press, as Junkware. Since 2008 I have been concentrating on combining my analyses of these two cybernetic evolutions, informatics and molecular biology, for a study of the issue of post-humanity, or more generally the engineering of the post-human (but also post-animal and post-machine) creature.
I am currently completing a research program funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, entitled “Post-animaux : ce que les animaux technologiquement modifiés peuvent nous révéler du futur (post)humain.” My goal is to make a “detour via animals” to develop an ethnographic view of bio-engineering without analyzing the essentially discursive practices of bioethics and science fiction.
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Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Les cybryontes et l'anthropocène: Des conditions de possibilité de nouvelles symbioses Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2026
Vers la quatrième nature: études pour un jardin semi-vivant Projet de recherche au Canada / 2021 - 2025
Subvention de voyage 2018-2021 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2023
Les bricolages biologiques et les tensions du libéralisme Projet de recherche au Canada / 2016 - 2022
Subvention de voyage 2015-2018 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2018
ZOE MEDIA : BIOARTS, BIOLOGIES DE GARAGES, ET AUTRES FORMES CONTEMPORAINES DE (RE)MEDIATIONS DU VIVANT Projet de recherche au Canada / 2013 - 2015
Publications Expand all Collapse all
- BARDINI, Thierry (2011). Junkware, Presses de l'Université du Minnesota, 280 p.
- BARDINI, Thierry (2011). A (Brave New) World is More than a Few Gizmos Crammed Together: Science Fiction anc Cyberculture, dans "Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains" sous la direction de David L. Ferro et Eric G. Swedin, McFarland & Company, pp. 167-188.
- BARDINI, Thierry (2010). Devenir animal et vie aérienne. Prolégomènes à une biologie transcendantale, "Chimère" 73, Meutes, Tiques, Larves sous la direction d'Anne Sauvagnargues, pp. 109-125.
Additional Information
- 19-05-2015 Dialogue créatif à l'Université de Montréal
- 12-09-2017 Pascale Caidor: enseigner avec le souci d’innover
- 20-11-2017 La presse écrite vit actuellement la plus grande crise de son histoire : le gouvernement Trudeau doit agir
- 29-11-2017 4e Conférence de la montagne: «Le stress: notre meilleur ennemi?»
- 08-12-2017 Le stress: notre meilleur ennemi?
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