Career
Fanny Valeyre 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. Her main research interests are the philosophy of technology, the link between physics and metaphysics, and the relationship between philosophy and literature, particularly science-fiction.
As part of the Space Chair, her work focuses on the relationships to outer space through a philosophical reflection on space technologies (inspired by Simondon’s thought), from an ethical and ecological perspective. She considers these 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.
Recent publications
– Hannah Arendt, Vérité et politique (1968) and Du mensonge en politique (1971), in Faire croire. Prépas scientifiques 2024. Laclos – Musset – Arendt, Paris, Flammarion, GF, 2023.
– Un mystère odysséen : la plante môlu », in Archivio di Filosofia, 2021, n°2-3, « Manifestation et révélation. À propos du livre de Jean-Luc Marion, D’ailleurs, la révélation », edited by Raphaël Authier and Vincent Carraud.
Recent papers
– « Des formes a priori de la sensibilité aux « dimensions primaires du milieu ». La perception de l’espace et du temps selon Simondon ». GRAPH Research Seminar, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon III, February 2025.
– The status of natural states and artefacts in Heidegger’s Being and Time. Transcendental Phenomenology Seminar, University of Wuppertal, May 2024.
– Sciences de la nature et sciences de l’esprit chez Hannah Arendt: la question des techniques ». Study day on « German philosophy and the sciences of the mind », University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, April 2024.
– « We spend more time on interruptions than on history ». La mise en évidence de la fiction à travers la fiction chez Don DeLillo ». Philosopher with and as fiction » study day, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est, Université Côte d’Azur, April 2024.
– Husserl et les techniques? A reading based on Merleau-Ponty, Stiegler and Ihde ». International colloquium « Genesis, structure and French reception of Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations », University of Strasbourg, February 2024.
– Anticipation, invention, techno-aesthetics. L’image a priori chez Simondon ». Study day « Imaginaires techniques: ce que l’image fait au geste », Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est, Université Côte d’Azur, October 2023.
