!!Alexandre Gefen - Biography
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I have a Phd from the University of Sorbonne Université. "Habilité à Diriger des Recherches", I was a postdoc at the University of Neuchâtel, then Maître de Conférences at the University of Bordeaux 3 for 6 years. I then joined the CNRS.\\
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Currently Director of Research (Senior Researcher) at the "Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité" unit (CNRS/Université sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3), I am a historian of ideas and theorist of literature.\\
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I am the author of around 150 articles or chapters and some thirty collective works, journal issues and essays on culture, contemporary literature, literary theory and aesthetic philosophy. I'm particularly interested in the functions and power (individual, social, political) of literature, with a particular focus on the notion of fiction. My latest publications illustrate the variety of my questioning: with S. Laugier, Le Pouvoir des liens faibles, CNRS éditions, 2020. Territoires de la non-fiction, Brill, 2020. With O. Bessard-Banquy and S. Ducas, Best-sellers. L'industrie du succès, Armand Colin, 2021. The idea of literature. De l'art pour l'art aux écritures d'intervention, Corti, 2021. La littérature est une affaire politique, L'Observatoire, 2022.\\
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Founder of Fabula.org, which I continue to co-manage (awarded an FNSO project 2019 - 2023), I was one of the pioneers of Digital Humanities in France, which I continue to promote (see with G. Crozet, La littérature. Une infographie, CNRS Editions, 2022).\\
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Working on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence tools for research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as on their critical examination, I am principal investigator (PI) of the ANR project "CulturIA", for a cultural history of Artificial Intelligence. Latest publications on the theme of artificial intelligence: Créativités artificielles (Les Presses du réel, 2023), Vivre avec ChatGPT (L'Observatoire, 2023).\\
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I am an expert for various national and international bodies (FNRS, ERC, etc.) and a member of the reading committees of the RSH, the Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine and the Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique (PUF).\\
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Since 2017, I have been Deputy Scientific Director of CNRS Sciences Humaines et Sociales (ex-InSHS). After looking after interdisciplinarity and section 53, since 2021 I have been in charge of "section 35" (Philosophy, Literature and Arts : 28 research teams). In this context, I coordinated Un monde commun. Le savoir des sciences humaines et sociales, CNRS éditions, 2023.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit agefen}][{ALLOW upload agefen}][{ALLOW comment All}]