Antoine Hennion "Demanding Objects: Taste as a Care for Things in Process of Making"

Antoine's theoretical focus is on mediation and attachment and this topic will draw these notions together. As he puts it: 'The world of taste is constructed on the basis of organized places, trained bodies, texts, instruments and various material objects. Taste does not exist without these systems of collective and materialized appreciation that make it part of a history. It constantly produces its own questioning on what determines it, on the quality of objects, on the nature of the attachment itself. Thus defined, it is less an object to explain than a key area in which to grasp the combined formation of subjectivities and collectives, the objects that make us and the others with whom we live, relations between ourselves and our bodies.' http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/en/equipe/chercheurs/antoine-hennion