Michel Tibon-Cornillot
{{Short description|French anthropologist (1936–2020)}}
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Michel Tibon-Cornillot (10 February 1936 – 28 March 2020) was a French philosopher and anthropologist.{{cite web|url=https://reporterre.net/Michel-Tibon-Cornillot-penseur-du-deferlement-des-techniques-est-mort-du-Covid-19|title=Michel Tibon-Cornillot, penseur du " déferlement des techniques ", est mort du Covid-19|date=30 March 2020|work=Reporterre|language=French}} He directed research at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). He had an interest in the evolution of technology in the field of biology, leading to his authoring of the book Les Corps transfigurés.
Biography
Tibon-Cornillot earned an agrégation and a doctorate in philosophy. He was highly interested in mathematics, and his discussions with René Thom led him to the philosophical fields of complexity and chaos. He worked at the Pasteur Institute's bacterial molecular genetics labs. He was also a lecturer in technical anthropology at EHESS.{{cite web|url=http://enseignements-2012.ehess.fr/2012/enseignant/307/|title=Enseignements de Michel Tibon-Cornillot, maître de conférences à l'EHESS, en 2012-2013|publisher=School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190523192228/http://enseignements-2012.ehess.fr/2012/enseignant/307/|archivedate=23 May 2019|access-date=5 April 2020}} His research in the philosophy of science led him to work on issues related to drug addiction.{{cite web|url=http://agora.qc.ca/dossiers/Michel_Tibon-Cornillot|title=Tibon-Cornillot Michel|work=Encyclopédie de L'Agora|language=French}}
Tibon-Cornillot was a medical adviser to Minister of Health Bernard Kouchner.
In opposition to GMOs, he supported José Bové during the 2007 French presidential election, with Nicolas Sarkozy as victor.{{cite web|url=http://agel-fse.over-blog.com/article-6335454.html|title=Représentants FN - UMP boutés hors de l'ENS|date=9 April 2007|publisher=Association Générale des Etudiants de Limoges - Fédération Syndicale Étudiante|language=French}}
In 2014, Tibon-Cornillot ran for the European Parliament in the Constituency of Île-de-France.{{cite web|url=https://mobile.interieur.gouv.fr/fr/Elections/Les-resultats/Europeennes/elecresult__ER2014/(path)/ER2014/07/07L009.html|title=Résultats des élections européennes 2014|date=25 May 2014|publisher=Ministère de L'Interieur|language=French}}
Publications
=Books=
- Les Corps transfigurés : mécanisation du vivant et imaginaire de la biologie (1992){{cite web|url=http://www.editions-mf.com/?Les-corps-transfigures|title=Les corps transfigurés. Mécanisation du vivant et imaginaire de la biologie|publisher=Éditions MF|language=French|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006020215/http://www.editions-mf.com/?Les-corps-transfigures|archivedate=6 October 2012|access-date=5 April 2020}}
- Le Triomphe des bactéries : la Fin des antibiotiques ? (2006)
=Articles=
- Multiple contributions to the magazine Nécessaire
- Contagion médiatique et diffusion épidémique : les mises en scène du corps moderne (1996)
- M. Tibon-Cornillot : contre le discours éthique abstrait (1998)
- En route vers la planète radieuse - déferlement des techniques, insolence philosophique (2003){{cite web|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-rue-descartes-2003-3-page-52.htm|title=En route vers la planète radieuse - déferlement des techniques, insolence philosophique|date=March 2003|work=Cairn.info|language=French}}
- Généalogie coloniale du Dalaï-Lama (2008){{cite web|url=http://www.dedefensa.org/article/le-tibet-la-flamme-la-chine-et-notre-systeme|title=Le Tibet, la flamme, la Chine et notre système|date=24 May 2008|work=Dedefensa.org|language=French}}
- Une pétrification foudroyante, le temps d'après la "collision Fukushima" (2012){{cite web|url=http://www.fukushima-blog.com/article-une-petrification-foudroyante-le-temps-d-apres-la-collision-fukushima-106698306.html|title=Une pétrification foudroyante : le temps d'après la collision Fukushima|date=17 June 2012|work=Fukushima 福島第一|language=French}}
- Déferlement des techniques contemporaines : instabilité, disparition des sociétés industrielles (2013)
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Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
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