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, where the voters' margins of autonomous choice are the most significant, shows the best resonance with political orientations. [...]
Patience et politique.
Jacques Lévy, Olivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.06.2022
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. [...]
Jacques Lévy | 23.05.2022
This special issue is based on maps and analyses of the French presidential election of 2022. [...]
Jacques Lévy, Sébastien Piantoni, Justine Richelle et Vinicius Santos Almeida | 23.05.2022
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, elles ont été réalisées par le pôle Cartographie de la chaire Intelligence spatiale de l’UPHF (Jacques Lévy, Sébastien Piantoni et Justine Richelle) avec [...]
Un acteur dans une société d’acteurs.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.05.2022
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. [...]
Si tu ne viens pas au commerce, le commerce ira à toi !
Xavier Bernier, Olivier 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 in specific networks. It is a model of original urbanity. [...]
Le populaire et le populisme.
Jacques Lévy, Olivier 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, between forms of ease and a work on oneself, on others and on the World always difficult, who wants to make the fool does he not make the wise man? [...]
Les choses ne sont pas des gens.
Jacques Lévy, Olivier 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. [...]
Jacques Lévy, Olivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.12.2021
This work experiments with writing constructed by a combination and assembly of cut-out images. The discourse produced is based on a new visual grammar and seeks to show how space is broken up in order to be recomposed. To give substance to this project, a work of expression through images is proposed through a photograph of a district of Tokyo (Japan) likely to allow a kaleidoscopic writing and reading of an urban crossing. [...]
Ces morts qui nous habitent.
Jacques Lévy, Olivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.11.2021
The presence of Freda Josephine McDonald at the Pantheon, France's national necropolis, does not only question the memories attached to each person buried here. It questions the role of the state and that of society as a whole in memorization processes. In addition, as an atypical and unique inhabitant of the place, Joséphine Baker reports significant changes in the choice of the figures honored here. [...]