https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Automotive-Society https://booksandideas.net/Automotive-Society 2019-12-19T08:00:00Z text/html en Étienne Augris Society capitalism city transports consumerism pollution space <p>Cars are everywhere. Motorisation owes its success to a product that satisfies individual aspirations, combined with the consumption boom and the appetite for urban transport. But do cars put us on the road to emancipation or alienation?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Women-in-Motion https://booksandideas.net/Women-in-Motion 2017-02-09T08:00:00Z text/html en Adèle Cassigneul History feminism city Florence Gould Foundation space <p>Neither <i>passante</i> nor pedestrian, the <i>flâneuse</i> has been left out of history books. Yet, according to Lauren Elkin, flânerie is connected to emancipation, and to revolt. Is urban space then a feminist issue?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Unfinished-Modernity https://booksandideas.net/Unfinished-Modernity 2016-04-07T07:00:00Z text/html en Cristelle Terroni Brazil Lebanon conflict Institut français contemporary art space Cyprus <p>Scattered all over the world are abandoned places, promises of modernity that history, economics or politics have shattered. The Suspended Spaces collective has undertaken to project the gaze of contemporary artists onto these ghostly spaces.</p>