Books & ideas

The Force of Feminisms

Johanna Lenne-Cornuez — 2021-10-06T08:21:00Z

This collective book, which studies feminisms through the prism of intersectionality and gender, recalls the dynamism of struggles from the Revolution through to current debates, for instance around single-sex spaces and means of action.

The Seeds of Inequality

Georges Felouzis & Barbara Fouquet-Chauprade — 2021-07-12T07:00:00Z

Poverty and great social inequality are being created at this very moment in the routines of small children. Talking, eating, socializing, taking care of oneself, keeping oneself clean, dressing, obeying, and learning: children's sociological future is determined by the adoption of even the most trivial of habits.

Thinking in Common

Justine Lacroix — 2021-07-05T07:00:00Z

Is the project of deliberative democracy unrealistic? Against the cynical assimilation of democracy to a set of voting procedures aimed at satisfying the interests of the greatest number, Charles Girard argues that deliberation is a relevant ideal for a society of equals.

Drill, Gangs, and Social Media

Clément Petitjean — 2021-06-28T07:00:00Z

Al Capone's city is regaining a reputation for crime—and is setting it to music. This latter is known as “drill,” a new form of rap that claims to document street life and violent criminality.

Barbarian, or Modern?

David Chopin — 2021-05-24T07:00:00Z

Can Nazi barbarianism resurface in our modern world? Yes, according to Johann Chapoutot, in the pleasant guise of management, as one of its key promoters started out as a Nazi technocrat

The Neglected Rights of the Disabled

David Le Breton — 2021-04-12T07:00:00Z

Despite the many measures designed to promote inclusiveness, it is a struggle for disabled people to exercise their rights. In the face of these vulnerable rights, individuals protest and seek solutions to escape the feeling that they are treated as second-class citizens.

Are Plants Animals Like Any Other?

Enrique Utria — 2021-04-05T07:00:00Z

Through a phenomenology of plant life, the philosopher Florence Burgat reminds us that plants are defined above all by what they do not have: Lacking an intentional consciousness or a lived world, how could they lead the secret life that certain popular books ascribe to them?

A French History of Transhumanism

Stanislas Deprez — 2021-03-08T08:00:00Z

Transhumanism is usually thought of as emerging out of Silicon Valley and the GAFA—but might it be French in origin? This theory, which connects the utopia of artificial intelligence and of man-machine hybridisation to pre-war eugenicist biology, is open to debate.

From Infamous Men to Men of the Forest

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod — 2021-01-04T07:00:00Z

What if, after his interest in “infamous men,” Foucault had turned his attention to the history of ecological marginalities, examining hermits, noble savages and other men of the forest? Philippe Artières writes a counter-factual fiction using real archives.

Organs and Orgasms

Cécile Thomé — 2020-12-21T08:00:00Z

From personal accounts to anthropological analyses, from emancipatory discourses to debates on mutilation: having long been ignored, female pleasure is now being put into the spotlight.