Proposing a conceptualization of frugality in scientific life requires problematizing this term and the many concepts that come close to it by tracing the origins of this attempt to morally restore capitalism. The promises of frugal innovation renew the belief that tinkering with the rules of the market provides an answer to social problems, a variation on the old technicist promise, this time in a low-tech version, but without invalidating its limits and ambivalences.
Directed by Antoine Hardy, Arnaud Saint-Martin and Dana Diminescu