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/A-Critique-of-TV-Series https://booksandideas.net/A-Critique-of-TV-Series 2026-01-29T08:52:00Z text/html en Jean-Baptiste Ghins Society subculture television digital consumerism popular culture <p>Digitally distributed television series are one of the key forms of contemporary entertainment. By analyzing this distinctive form of consumption, it is possible to explain these consumers' relationship to time, narratives, and decision-making.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Japanoise-Affect-at-the-Edge-of-Music https://booksandideas.net/Japanoise-Affect-at-the-Edge-of-Music 2018-11-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Edouard Degay Delpeuch International Arts media Japan subculture culture music cultural studies Text Interviews Books and ideas originals circulation experimental music electronic music listening sound studies <p>In the 80's, a peculiar genre of underground music emerged: Japanoise—or Japanese Noise. Based on feedback, without melody nor structure, this genre is often perceived as the end of music. Drawing on the tools of media anthropology, David Novak traces the history of the construction of this genre.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Migrant-Labour-Culture-in-Post-Mao https://booksandideas.net/Migrant-Labour-Culture-in-Post-Mao 2013-03-14T08:30:00Z text/html en Eric Florence Society China subculture popular culture migration <p>Against a backdrop of economic growth and growing spate of collective actions, rural migrant workers have developed narratives of migrant labour. This essay studies articles, diaries, poems and online songs asserting their collective subaltern identity and specific norms and values.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Neighborhoods-and-Cultural https://booksandideas.net/Neighborhoods-and-Cultural 2011-05-13T06:52:00Z text/html en Michel Kokoreff Society France subculture suburbs Africa controversy exclusion <p>The sociologist Michel Kokoreff takes a fresh look at the controversy aroused by Hugues Lagrange's book <i>Le déni des cultures</i>. He urges us not to neglect the substance of the debate and analyzes the book's theses in detail before subjecting them to criticism.</p>