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Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-24-0856
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Miscellaneous
Thesis topics
Olfactory technology (Qi - Wei): Chinese inspiration for ecotechnology
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The specificity of Chinese technological thought has been the subject of recurrent philosophical debate since the early 20th century. This discussion highlights the originality of the sensory relationship with nature expressed in Chinese writing and culture. “Olfactory technology (Qi - Wei): a Chinese inspiration for ecotechnology” explores the hypothesis that a philosophy of technology, inspired by China but open to other cultures, can renew thinking on technology in its relationship to the environment, based on the paradigm of olfaction (Wei).
This approach is based on an analysis of traditional Chinese thought developed by contemporary Chinese philosophers, in particular Gong Huanan, and shows its influence on current Chinese technological thought. It also draws on the work of specialists in olfaction, as well as Western philosophers of technology, science and the imaginary (such as Gilbert Simondon, Gaston Bachelard and Dominique Lestel).
The primary scientific challenge is to restore the olfactory paradigm of Chinese technological thought in order to examine its relationship to the environment, and then to develop a transcultural ecotechnological reflection. In the light of these analyses, we will then reconsider the imaginaries of robotic and digital technologies in order to explore new avenues of innovation. Finally, from a science fiction prototyping perspective, speculative fictions will extend the analysis by examining the impact of imaginable technologies based on the olfactory paradigm.
University / doctoral school
École doctorale Lettres, Arts, Sciences humaines et sociales
ENS Paris
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
Bontems Vincent vincent.bontems@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/LARSIM/LARSIM
Orme des Merisiers
bât. 703
0169087094
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
LESTEL Dominique dominique.lestel@ens.fr
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
Archives Husserl
ENS Paris
45, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
0169087094
En savoir plus
https://researchgate.net/profile/Vincent-Bontems
https://i-i2i-personnes.intra.cea.fr/Person.aspx?accountname=INTRA%5Cvb216113
https://philosophie.ens.fr/-Lestel-Dominique,134-.html