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In the air

Scopitone : nature.

Terre (2/2). Le tout et les parties.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.02.2023

For some, the Earth is a whole that stands as a principle of solidarity between all its cohabitants. Others see it rather as a piece of land that qualifies, or even identifies, those who live there; all the more so, it seems, because they were not born there. So, if listening to the songs does not help to define the word 'nature', it is perhaps also because the interest of the term is not to have one. In this case, the notion of nature is impertinent as a category of scientific analysis. But it is particularly valuable as a political concept, in other words as a social issue: what is 'natural'? Who decides this? Who objects to this? [...]

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Tableaux de bord en mouvements.

Lire les spatialités par leurs métriques.

Jacques Lévy | 05.06.2023 illustration Tableaux de bord en mouvements.

Approaching the spatial dimension of the social worlds through spatialities leads to an analysis of the “dashboards of metrics” by which actors make trade-offs in their management of distances. We can see that the relations between the three major metric families (co-presence, mobility [...]

Habiter demain.

Stéphane Gallardo | 05.06.2023

La Traverse Habiter demain rend compte d’une recherche en train de se faire dans une situation où la pandémie de covid-19 pourrait – nous en formons l’hypothèse – avoir entraîné des changements dans les pratiques spatiales des individus. Il [...]

Les aires culturelles, une politique en trompe-l’œil ?

L’exemple des recrutements de la section 33 du CNRS.

Christian Henriot | 11.04.2023

This essay examines the composition and evolution of the population of historians in Section 33 of CNRS between 2002 and 2022. It argues that the recruitment of historians remains largely marked by a "reproduction" of historical research to be [...]

Trois Brésil politiques.

L’élection présidentielle brésilienne de 2022.

Jacques LévyStéphane GallardoVinicius Santos AlmeidaKatia CanovaFernanda Padovesi FonsecaJaime Tadeu OlivaEduardo DutenkeferJessica Luchesi et Maiara S. Oliveira | 14.12.2022

The 2022 Brazilian presidential election appears at first glance to be a confrontation between two juxtaposed spaces. In fact, it is more a layout of three superimposed spaces, each corresponding to a type of cleavage: centre/periphery, economic capital and [...]

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Works

Trois Brésil politiques.

L’élection présidentielle brésilienne de 2022.

Jacques LévyStéphane GallardoVinicius Santos AlmeidaKatia CanovaFernanda Padovesi FonsecaJaime Tadeu OlivaEduardo DutenkeferJessica Luchesi et Maiara S. Oliveira | 14.12.2022 illustration Trois Brésil politiques.

The 2022 Brazilian presidential election appears at first glance to be a confrontation between two juxtaposed spaces. In fact, it is more a layout of three superimposed spaces, each corresponding to a type of cleavage: centre/periphery, economic capital and gradients of urbanity. These [...]

Capital spatial.

Mathis Stock et Léopold Lucas | 18.11.2022

This article is a reflection upon the “spatial capital”, a concept proposed in addition to the capitals introduced by Pierre Bourdieu in his practice theory. Indeed, this theory does not take into account the spatial dimensions as societal issue, [...]

Des effets d’une église détruite.

Noël Barbe | 04.01.2022

As the process of its reconstruction begins at the end of 2019, the aim here is to grasp the registers and devices through which the burning of a church in the heart of summer 2018, in the department of [...]

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Laboratory

Tableaux de bord en mouvements.

Lire les spatialités par leurs métriques.

Jacques Lévy | 05.06.2023 illustration Tableaux de bord en mouvements.

Approaching the spatial dimension of the social worlds through spatialities leads to an analysis of the “dashboards of metrics” by which actors make trade-offs in their management of distances. We can see that the relations between the three major metric families (co-presence, mobility [...]

France, une société géographique.

Jacques Lévy | 02.06.2022

The geography of the presidential election's second round is both simple and strong. It reveals a very marked opposition in terms of urbanity gradients and is more marked than the age, diploma or professional divides. The issue of inhabiting, [...]

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Books

La Covid-19 ou le retour de l’État social ?

Robert Boyer. 2020. Les capitalismes à l’épreuve de la pandémie. Paris : La Découverte.

Michel Carrard | 08.02.2022 illustration La Covid-19 ou le retour de l’État social ?

In this book published in 2020, Robert Boyer keeps a diary of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to make its effects on societies intelligible. The author emphasizes that the pandemic has completely overturned the dogmas erected for several decades by liberal economists. It [...]

L’humain augmenté, ou les six faces du smartphone.

Nova, Nicolas. 2020. Smartphones, une enquête anthropologique. Genève : MétisPresses.

Léopold Lucas | 27.01.2022

The smartphone has infused our lifestyles to become a ubiquitous actant. As a true spatial technology, it has also transformed how individuals cope with space. But what meaning do we give to this object? How do its uses change [...]

Les citoyens-artisans dans la ville.

Thomas Riffaud. 2020. L’espace public artisanal. Grenoble : Elya Éditions.

Kevin Clementi | 11.10.2021

This article reviews the book L’espace public artisanal by Thomas Riffaud (2020). The book offers an interesting point of view by focusing on the figure of the « artisan », a citizen who by his appropriation of public spaces [...]

La guerre de l’habiter aura-t-elle lieu ?  

Bruno Latour. 2021. Où suis-je ? Leçons du confinement à l’usage des terrestres. Paris : La Découverte.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 28.09.2021

Reading the book “Where am I?” by Bruno Latour convinces that, at least as much as the ecological stake of the planet, it is indeed, in its fullness, the question of inhabiting it which is posed. Can ecological considerations, [...]

Le rythme : une des formes concrètes du temps. 

Manola Antonioli, Guillaume Drevon, Luc Gwiazdzinski, Vincent Kaufmann et Luca Pattaroni. 2021. Manifeste pour une politique des rythmes. Lausanne : EPFL Press.

Alain Guez | 02.08.2021

Rhythm is certainly one of the concrete shapes of time. The Manifesto for a Politics of Rhythm develops a convincing argument on the power of the rhythmic approach to confront the pathologies of capitalism and, more broadly, to build [...]

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Objects

La pauvreté et l’art misérable, dix ans déjà!

Christian Bouquet | 01.07.2016 illustration La pauvreté et l’art misérable, dix ans déjà!

Ten years ago, one of Gupta’s works (Cow), which was presented at the Foire internationale d’art contemporain in Paris, was disturbing insofar that it reproduced the image of poor Madagascan milk producers who, each morning, hurtled down the hills of Tananarive on ramshackle [...]

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In the air

Scopitone : nature.

Terre (2/2). Le tout et les parties.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.02.2023 illustration Scopitone : nature.

For some, the Earth is a whole that stands as a principle of solidarity between all its cohabitants. Others see it rather as a piece of land that qualifies, or even identifies, those who live there; all the more so, it seems, because [...]

Scopitone : nature.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.01.2023

Although the 'cantography' of the Earth is not very abundant, it is sufficiently diverse to offer food for thought. Each song develops its own point of view on what it means by Earth. In this section, we have selected [...]

Scopitone : nature.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.12.2022

While the songs most often deal with the theme of climate as a matter of romantic sentimentality, a few of them are concerned, if not openly, with climate change, at least with some of its effects. But it is [...]

Scopitone : nature.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.11.2022

To sing the climate is very often to summon the seasons, often separately, sometimes in their sequences, understood in the sense of temperate latitudes. But if the physical elements are sometimes mentioned, in the vast majority of cases what [...]

Scopitone : nature.

Olivier Lazzarotti | 01.10.2022

Water, as an element of nature, whether it is raining or snowing, inspires songs in very different ways. And this suggests that there is no one nature, but that everyone understands and perceives it as they wish. [...]

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Little Big Things

Faire la queue…

Patience et politique.

Jacques LévyOlivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.06.2022 illustration Faire la queue…

Queuing: although the expressions for it vary, the practice is probably one of the most widely shared experiences. However, it is far from being trivial. The observation of this singular experience, which plays with everyone's patience, speaks of cohabitation, and therefore of politics. [...]

Ton voisin Sébastien.

Xavier BernierOlivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.04.2022

Itinerant trade is a very old activity. Today, it is deployed in a variety of forms and contexts. Nowadays, store trucks are developing very different business proposals with a large variety of vehicles. Their commercial tours produce social links [...]

Juste un doigt.

Jacques LévyOlivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.03.2022

Of the wise and the foolish, of the moon and the finger, the popular proverb chooses the former. It is nevertheless advisable to question the obvious. Between the unchangeable visible and the works in progress, between imitation and invention, [...]

Alex-ça.

Jacques LévyOlivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.02.2022

Billions of ‘connected objects’ give new leverages for an ontological blurring between humans and things. The discussion should be taken back to basics in a context where actors, environments, and material or immaterial objects populate our daily lives. [...]

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Traversals

Habiter demain.

Stéphane Gallardo | 05.06.2023

La Traverse Habiter demain rend compte d’une recherche en train de se faire dans une situation où la pandémie de covid-19 pourrait – nous en formons l’hypothèse – avoir entraîné des changements dans les pratiques spatiales des individus. Il s’agit ici d’analyser la nature et l’ampleur de ces évolutions. La pandémie joue-t-elle un rôle disruptif dans le changement spatial ou bien active-t-elle des tendances latentes ? Y a-t-il des dynamiques spatiales indifférentes à la pandémie ? Peut-on in fine parler d’un Monde d’après ? Proposée par le rhizome Chôros et la Chaire d’Intelligence Spatiale de l’Université Polytechnique [...]

Des virus et notre humanité

Jacques Lévy | 18.12.2020

Cet article est proposé par le rhizome Chôros. Pour expliquer la dynamique de la pandémie du Sars-CoV-2 de 2020, de nombreux « facteurs » simples ont été proposés : l’âge ou des prédispositions génétiques des patients, la pollution… dont certains, d’autre moins, ont [...]

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