is an Associate Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He is the author of Sensible Life (Fordham University Press, 2016), of Goods: Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image (Fordham University Press, 2018), The Life of Plants (Polity, 2018), and, with Donatien Grau, The Transitory Museum (­Polity, 2019). He has written numerous essays on visual artists and served as a scientific advisor to the exhibition Nous les arbres at the Fondation ­Cartier, Paris, in 2019.