Thierry Bardini (born 1960s) is a French sociologist, author of the book Bootstrapping, about Douglas Engelbart.
Bardini holds a degree in agronomy (1986) and his first work was on agriculture production systems.
He then left for Université de Montréal, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi).
[citation needed] In 2000, he published Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing, a book about Douglas Engelbart's career and the rise and fall of the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute.
[1] He has published a book titled Junkware in the Posthumanities Series at Minnesota Press in 2011.