Dr. Gabriel Dorthe
Affiliate Scholar
Dr. Dorthe is currently expanding an intellectual and empirical project on radical forms of engagement towards climate (in)action, such as scientists' civil disobedience movements (e.g., Scientist Rebellion) and eco-anxious support groups. The project builds on his long-term collaboration with our research group PGG (two 4-month fellowships in 2016-17 and 2018, and a postdoc in 2020-23) and ethnographic fieldwork within chemtrails communities. The cooperation will involve regular exchanges on shared interests regarding geoengineering, public participation, and the politics of science and expertise, to explore radical, unscripted forms of public opposition to forms of planetary geopolitics conceived by elite universities and international organizations.
- 2024-2025: Senior Scientific Assistant, ETH Zürich
- 2020-2023: Postdoc, Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School of Government & Research Institute for Sustainability – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
- 2019-2020: Postdoc, Catholic University of Lille
- 2009-2019: PhD in Philosophy (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) & Environmental Humanities (University of Lausanne)
- Philosophy of technology
- STS (Science, Technology & Society)
- Trust in science
- Conspiracy theories
- Chemtrails
- Technoscientific promises
Publications at the RIFS
Selected Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Marc Audétat, Gaïa Barazzetti, Gabriel Dorthe, Claude Joseph, Alain Kaufmann, Dominique Vinck (ed.), Sciences et technologies émergentes: Pourquoi tant de promesses? Paris, Hermann, 2015.
- Gabriel Dorthe, Johann Roduit, "Modifier l'espèce humaine ou l'environnement? Les transhumanistes face à la crise écologique", Bioethica Forum, 7(3), 2014, p.79-86.
- Gabriel Dorthe, "L'immortalité et ses impatients", Socio-Anthropologie, 31, 2015, p.127-138.
- "A study of transhumanism in the making: why does it matter?" Transvision 2017 "Politics of Emerging Technologies - The Future of Transhumanism" Bruxelles, Grand Café Muntpunt, 09-11.11.2017.
- "Reluctant Futures: A Study of Transhumanism in the Making" 16th Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting Harvard University, 28.06-01.07.2017.
- "What in the Sky are they Claiming?", 2016 FORCCAST Summer School "Controversies & Conspiracies", SciencesPo Paris, Sept. 2016.
- Yasmin Tayag, "Why Euro Transhumanism Has Morphed Into a 'Technoprogressive' Fight for Equality"
- Inverse (interview), June 22, 2016: www.inverse.com/article/17300-why-euro-transhumanism-has-morphed-into-a-...
- "Reluctant Futures: A Study of Transhumanism in the Making", Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 40th Annual Meeting, Denver (CO), USA, November 12, 2015.
- "Who's the Sorcerer? Slippery Facts in the Debate on Geoengineering", 14th Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting, Harvard University, June 25, 2015.
- "Biohacking as a critique of transhumanism", STS Workshop: "Chimeric Imaginaries: Refiguring the Human in Science, Law, and Life", Harvard University, Science, Technology & Society (STS) Program, October 09, 2014.
- "Data and oil: from small to big - return ticket", Swiss STS Meeting "Collecting, Organizing, Trading Big Data", University of Lausanne, February 20, 2014.