{"id":2700,"date":"2014-01-27T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2014-01-26T17:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T16:41:35","slug":"welcome-to-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scriptopolis.fr\/en\/welcome-to-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"aerescyborg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before entering the building, you had already heard a lot about this organization: how bad it is for the French research community, how dangerous it is for the innovative and creative research, how restrictive it is for the autonomy of universities\u2026 The first thing you saw in the entrance hall was this sign reading \u201cwelcome to the French Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education\u201d. There was no doubt \u2013 it does really exist and it might be polite in some occasions. And such a \u201cwelcome announcement\u201d told more than one usually expected. As ethnomethodologist and pragmatists taught you, a collective actor never exists once and for all. Your main task was to go below such a coherent aggregate. Then, you have tried to understand the diverse components and arrangements that result in its unity in peculiar situations. After several months attending different types of meetings, conducting interviews with diverse people, reading drafts of documents, and even organizing a seminar about research evaluation, the \u201cwelcome announcement\u201d remained puzzling.
\nIt was very recently, several years after you finished your fieldwork, that this message rang in a different manner. After the Minister for higher education and research announced a radical change in the research assessment policy, a report was commissioned in order to give an overview of research evaluation practices and to provide advices regarding the organization of the next institution \u2013 the \u201cHigh Council of Research and Higher Education Evaluation\u201d. Reading this report<\/a> is one thing. Knowing that one of the two authors was a member of the first staff of the former Agency in 2008 is another one that tells a lot about the government’s inertia. The \u201cwelcome announcement\u201d might thus mean a kind of resurrection. And not necessarily the best one can expect. AERES is dead; long live HC\/AERES. Change only its name and its gender, switching from an Agency to a High Council, and you will witness (without any kind of modesty) a wonderful cyborg so well-depicted by Donna Haraway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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