Keywords: anthropology of innovation; China; Middle East

Basile Zimmermann is a Senior lecturer at the Global Studies Institute in the University of Geneva. He also collaborates with Human-IST, STSLab, and the Agalma Fondation.

Courses 2024-2025

• CR J2M339 L'impact des nouvelles technologies sur les Relations Internationales
• CR J4M341 Epistemology of Area Studies
• CR J2H340 Rôle et importance de la Chine dans les Relations Internationales au XXIe siècle
• CR T406018 Anthropology of Innovation: comparative perspective (China-Europe)

Publications (selected)

• "Quelle différence entre un saxophone et un ordinateur ?". Paris: AOC, 2024
• Humanités Populaires. La culture des objets. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Voir la vidéo Comment résoudre la crise des humanités par les Cafés philosophiques des Bains des Pâquis. Compte rendu [1].
• "The Ontology of Keyboard Cleaning." Position paper for the Workshop Governance By Infrastructure. Université de Lausanne, 2022.
• "Similarity and difference in sound studies (and elsewhere)." In Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies, edited by Hennion, Antoine, and Levaux Christophe, 227-238. London: Routledge, 2021.
• CERTIFY : Leveraging fact-checkers and crowdsourcing to provide informed opinions on unreliable or misleading information. With Alrafeea, Fayez, and Di Marzo Serugendo, Giovanna. Working Paper, 2020.
• "Waves and Forms: Constructing the Cultural in Design." with Ammar Halabi. AI & SOCIETY 34 (3), pp. 403-417, 2019. See also the editorial Opening up the culture black box in community technology design.
• "Conflict in a digital place." with Ammar Halabi and Michèle Courant. First Monday, December 2017.
• “Database Green: Software, Environmentalism and Data Flows In China.” with Matteo Tarantino. China Quarterly 229 (2017): 205-17.
• Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China. Inside Technology Series. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2015. See the conference Technology and Cultural Difference at Lift10, the presentation Waves and Forms at Cornell University, and the research project. Reviews [1] [2] [3] [4]. Chinese edition forthcoming: "波与形：电子音乐设备和计算机编码在中国" 翻译：袁邈桐，中国传媒大学出版社 (即将出版).