Democracies on trial: assembling nanotechnology and its problems

摘要: The dissertation analyzes nanotechnology as a macro political entity comprising objects, futures, concerns and publics, examines sites where it is problematized. Focusing on operations defining public problems ways of dealing with them, the analysis problematizations path for description both assemblage enactement democratic order. study problematization conducted through experiments demonstrations involving technologies democracy, using fieldwork in France, United States, international organizations. considers successively some replication stabilization expert-based democracy; processes democracy to define "nano" objects "responsible" futures; examples social scholarly engagement critique democracy. Thereby, representation of, management mobilization about are examined. Different can then be reconstructed. discusses four uses empirical work order propose realist nanotechnology.