Alexandre Monnin

Alexandre Monnin is a philosopher, scientific director of Origens Media Lab, co-founder of the Closing Worlds initiative and a professor in a management school (ESC Clermont BS) in design and ecological redirection. Since the start of the 2020 academic year, he has been director of the Master of Science "Strategy & Design for the Anthropocene", conducted jointly with Strate School of Design in Lyon.

He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His thesis was devoted to the philosophy and architecture of the Web. He co-edited a special issue of the journal Metaphilosophy (vol. 42, 4) on this topic, which later became a book (Philosophical Engineering. Towards a Philosophy of the Web, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) as well as a special issue of the journal Intellectica (#61, "Philosophy of the Web and Knowledge Engineering") and multiple proceedings ("PhiloWeb 2012 - Web and Philosophy: Why and What For?"; "WebSci '13: Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference", "SW4SH 2015 - Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage 2015"; "SWASH 2016 - Semantic Web for Scientific Heritage").

More recently, he was also one of the co-authors of the Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety report, published by the Shift Project in 2018. Between 2019 and 2020, he co-edited special issues of the journals Multitudes (n°76 with Laurence Allard and Cyprien Tasset, "Is it too late for the collapse? "), Sciences du Design (n°11, Anthropocene and collapse", with Laurence Allard), Passerelle (n°21: "Low-tech: facing the digital everything, reappropriating technologies") and SociologieS ("From pragmatism to radical meliorism", with Antoine Hennion).

With Diego Landivar and Emmanuel Bonnet, published Héritage et Fermeture. Une écologie du démantèlement (Editions Divergences) in spring 2021 (finalist of the 8th prize of the book of political ecology). He is also the co-editor with Laurence Allard and Nicolas Nova of a forthcoming book, Écologies du Smartphone (Bord de l'Eau).