Fanny Valeyre is a post-doctoral researcher in philosophy at the Space Chair and at the Chair in Geopolitics of Risk. Her work focuses on technology, nature and pollution in outer space. She considers technologies from the perspective of their modes of existence in the long term, and in particular when they are ceasing or have ceased to function. She investigates the ontological diversity of the remains of space technologies and infrastructures, as well as the manifold timescales involved by such remains and the social and environmental questions they raise. By drawing on the concept of pollution, she examines the relationships between outer space and ‘nature’ to highlight the various meanings that can be given to nature and ecology.

She is agrégée and doctor of philosophy. In her doctoral thesis, she studied the Greek concept of phúsis (‘nature’) on the basis of its contemporary interpretations, in particular by Heidegger and in the philological sciences. She has also worked as a scientific assistant at Freiburg University, Germany.

Her main research interests are the philosophy of nature, the philosophy of technology, and the relationship between philosophy and literature.

Projects : 

L’espace extra-atmosphérique et les concepts de nature et de pollution

Outer space and the concepts of nature and pollution