Blumer Stéphane

Biography

stephane.blumer [a] ehess.fr Director: Marc Abélès Research Topics: Hacking Social An anthropology of art activism This research focuses on the notions of emancipation and agency through an ethnographic approach to the practices and strategies of social hacking organizations in Europe (England, Switzerland, Greece, Spain Portugal). She is dedicated to the study of Open Source production of network technologies, to the recent legal models of GNU, Copyleft and Creative Commons and to the original social paradigms arising therefrom. The objective is to produce a political anthropology of art offering original theoretical and practical tools in order to decenter the logic of connivance between artistic practices and the dominant system of capital production and the tendencies of depoliticization, cultural actors and hearings. This investigation is part of the current debates around the reappropriation of counter-culture aesthetics and modes of governance by the market economy in its use of critical artistic strategies, including ideologies of creativity, flexibility, autonomy and anti-hierarchical demands. Lands: Artists' networks in the fields of political activism and social innovation / Europe. Academic background : 2015 Doctorate in Social Anthropology and Ethnography, EHESS, Paris, FR (current) 2015 Saas-Fee Institute of Art, The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, CH 2010-2012 MA (HONS) Fine Art, Goldsmiths College London, UK 2007-2010 BA (HONS) Fine Art, HEAD, High School of Art and Design, Geneva, CH

Research Interest

emancipation, agency, gentrification, alter-politics, anarchism, creative activism, censorship and self-censorship, hacktivism, creative commons, open-source.