Latour, Bruno. 2015. Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique. Paris : La Découverte.
Alexandre Rigal | 19.04.2016
This review describes the intellectual battle that Bruno Latour engages against the Moderns in his new book Face à Gaïa, huit conferences sur le nouveau régime climatique. He uses the icon of Gaia as a weapon since, in his eyes, she can revitalize the Earth by inviting us to modify our representations of the creatures that compose it. The Moderns need to take earthly beings more into account, but they lack access to them. This is why Latour includes [...]
Buhler, Thomas. 2015. Déplacements urbains : sortir de l’orthodoxie. Plaidoyer pour une prise en compte des habitudes. Lausanne : PPUR.
Alexandre Rigal | 08.09.2015
Une grande partie des habitudes automobiles est autofragile. « Autofragile » signifie que l’habitude de conduire se renforce à mesure qu’elle rencontre des situations divergentes. Voici comment nous pouvons interpréter les résultats de Thomas Buhler, présentés dans son ouvrage Déplacements urbains : sortir de l’orthodoxie. Plaidoyer pour une prise en compte des habitudes. Critiquant les injonctions au changement fondées sur des visions d’acteurs calculateurs ou sans contradiction morale, Thomas Buhler décrit les propriétés complexes de l’habitude. Ainsi le jour [...]
Alexandre Rigal | 09.09.2014
This article aims at understanding how the urban dweller experiments the heterogeneity that emerges from the density and diversity of urban space. Two classical propositions are presented : Simmel’s figure of the blasé and the Situationnists’ figure of the dérive. However, both figures must be nuanced : the first neutralizes too many differences whereas the second intensifies them too much. Starting from these repelling figures, we discover the figure of the remix, which links the capacity to experiment differences [...]
Alexandre Rigal | 12.11.2013
Urban space is sometimes said to be irrepresentable. However, many representations and images make it comprehensible. These forms and images are spreading in our daily lives and in scientific practices through various technological tools. Trying to understand these fragmentary or reductive and totalizing representations challenges the definition of urban space. Beyond traditional representations and metaphors that deny the plurality of urban actors and objects, this article offers an intuitive survey of the representation of urban cities, of urban space [...]