Jacques Lévy

Pratiqué à l’origine dans les monastères dès le 11e siècle, se développa dans les universités européennes à partir du 13e siècle un type de discussion orale ou écrite, la disputatio, dont les participants étaient ...

Using accurate and reliable data, it is now possible to account for the spatialities of an individual on a biographical timescale. A series of 13 maps explores a large part of a ...

Do the figurative and the abstract constitute two very distinct worlds? On closer inspection, these two worlds overlap in rich borderlands to such an extent that the abstract can be seen as ...

This Traversal features images whose accompanying text is not a commentary but not a simple translation either, rather a resonance between two languages.

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 ...

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 ...

A little big thing, It's a fact that remains small even when you multiply it...

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 ...

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 ...

This special issue is based on maps and analyses of the French presidential election of 2022.

Voici une sélection des cartes publiées dans Le Grand Continent  le 13 avril 2022 qui nous a autorisés à les republier. S’y ajoutent de nouvelles cartes réalisées après le second tour. Dans les deux cas, ...

Actor and ‘actor’: Is there more than a metaphor between a performer and this concept of social science? Probably, and the war in Ukraine makes us more clearly aware of this.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...