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/Making-Tomorrow-Another-Day https://booksandideas.net/Making-Tomorrow-Another-Day 2024-04-23T05:46:52Z text/html en Jean-Louis Fabiani Philosophy utopia emancipation future Cairn.info <p>Is another world possible? Answering this question requires us to first ask ourselves what “possible” might mean. We must return to the classics: from Aristotle to Bourdieu, many authors can help us understand what an alternative might look like.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Utopia-Dystopia https://booksandideas.net/Utopia-Dystopia 2021-05-17T07:00:00Z text/html en Ophélie Siméon Arts Philosophy utopia fiction future dystopia <p>As literary concepts, “utopia” and “dystopia” have functioned as powerful tools of social and political critique, as they propose alternative visions of the future gone good or wrong. Gregory Claeys explores this dual nature, and its potential for imagining social change, while tracing back the historical roots and uses of utopianism.</p> https://booksandideas.net/An-Economist-Sounds-the-Alarm https://booksandideas.net/An-Economist-Sounds-the-Alarm 2019-02-04T07:00:00Z text/html en Christian Baudelot Economy digital new technologies Institut français artificial intelligence meaning future <span class="caps">GAFA</span> <p>Daniel Cohen addresses the changes in our globalised world with an anxiety rarely seen among economists. The rise of homo digitalis, social networks and the robotisation of our economies call for us to seek ways to take collective control of the upheavals currently underway.</p>