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/Why-are-people-setting-fire-to https://booksandideas.net/Why-are-people-setting-fire-to 2013-11-07T11:30:32Z text/html en Denis Merklen & Numa Murard Society inequalities culture suburbs violence books Florence Gould Foundation <p>Past outbreaks of unrest in the French <i>banlieues</i> have confirmed that libraries were a favourite target during riots. Sociologists Denis Merklen and Numa Murard have investigated the conflicted relationship that some young people have with written culture. They are sharing their results with us in this article.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Book-Its-Past-Its-Future https://booksandideas.net/The-Book-Its-Past-Its-Future 2013-10-14T09:15:31Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka Society internet technology book books Institut du monde contemporain <p>Roger Chartier, a professor at the Collège de France, examines the upheavals of the digital age which now confront us with an unprecedented question about the future of the written text: in its electronic form, should a text be fixed and immutable like a printed book, or can it open up to the potentialities of anonymity and unbounded multiplicity? What is certain is that the multiplication of editorial media, of periodicals and screens is diversifying the reading and writing practices of a society which, contrary to what is often claimed, is reading more and more.</p>