Extension du domaine des sociétés.
Different kinds of conquest are more and more about circumterrestrial and interplanetary space. It concerns directly the meaning of the World and the place of humanity. What does it really mean to ...
02.02.2020
Featured /
Jacques Lévy
Professeur de géographie et d’aménagement de l’espace à l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, où il est directeur du Laboratoire Chôros et co-directeur du Collège des humanités, il travaille sur la ville et l’urbanité, la géographie politique, l’Europe et la mondialisation, les théories de l’espace de l’individu et des sociétés, l’épistémologie de la géographie et des sciences sociales, la cartographie, l’urbanisme et le développement spatial. Il a notamment publié Géographies du politique (dir.), 1991 ; Le monde. Espaces et systèmes, 1992, avec M.-F. Durand et D. Retaillé ; L’espace légitime, 1994 ; Egogéographies, 1995 ; Le monde pour Cité, 1996 ; Europe. Une géographie, 1997 ; Le tournant géographique, 1999 ; Logiques de l’espace, esprit des lieux (dir.), 2000, avec M. Lussault ; From Geopolitics to Global Politics (dir.), 2001 ; Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés (dir.), 2003, avec M. Lussault ; Les sens du mouvement (dir.), 2005, avec S. Allemand et F. Ascher ; Milton Santos, philosophe du mondial, citoyen du local, 2007 ; L’invention du Monde (dir.), 2008. Il est co-directeur d’EspacesTemps.net (jacques.levy@epfl.ch).
La justice spatiale prend place.
The book Théorie de la justice spatiale (2018) was published shortly before the outbreak of the political action of the Yellow Vests. The importance of the connections between space and justice in ...
23.01.2020
Ce dont on peut parler, il faut le dire.
The major shifts that affect every electoral maps of the West for some decades are crystal-clear and convergent. They make possible simple, formalized propositions. However, some works show a reluctance to embed ...
10.01.2020
Odyssées minuscules.
The ordinary people’s daily life is full of adventures and misadventures, but less and less of tragedies. This is the consequence of the growing density of the interactions they perform with their ...
01.01.2020
Quand réussir c’est faillir, faillir c’est aussi réussir.
Seen through the experience of a couple on their honeymoon, the bankruptcy of the Thomas Cook company is structurally revealed as the all too successful success of a project aimed at training ...
01.11.2019
Assaisonnements.
Seasons are commonly presented as meteorological cycles deriving from climatic phenomena. They rather are conventional divisions of time and are part of the ritualization of social life’s repetitive components. As a result, ...
01.10.2019
Couvrez ce selfie, que je ne saurais voir.
Selfying is nowadays a massive and worldwide practice. Recently, certain types of schizophrenic selfies have increased, especially on social media. Pictures of oneself may be transformed, by image distortion but also by ...
30.08.2019
Les cris des corps écrits.
A practice almost as old as humanity itself, the technique of tattooing, an injection of ink under the skin, continues to be interpreted and reinterpreted, according to the times and societies. The ...
04.07.2019
Nous, le barabiku.
The word "barbecue" comes from an Arawak language, but it actually encompasses very ancient practices. BBQ has once epitomised a family-focused, partially communal lifestyle. Now, its presence in public space makes a ...
03.06.2019
Point à la ligne !
Tourist and sports itineraries or routes of memory can often be identified with an extent of development work on the land, and it can take sophisticated forms. But GPS drawing is quite ...
01.05.2019
Playlist ou playback ?
Conducted in an innocuous manner, the search for the title of a song heard in a mini-series mobilizes, however, the tools made available to all by information technologies. The sociologies of everyone ...
01.04.2019
La solution à tous vos /pʁɔblɛm/.
Why did the word « problem » almost completely vanish from French-speaking public communication ? This event does confirm the importance of hyperbole, euphemism, and litotes in the dynamic of languages. This ...
01.03.2019
Mangez, c’est du luxe !
Réouvert en juillet 2018 après être resté fermé quatre ans pour d’importants travaux d’aménagement, l’hôtel Lutetia de Paris a d’emblée proposé des services de luxe au-delà de la simple hôtellerie. Centre de ...
01.02.2019
Emporté par la foule.
To experience the crowd, whether in the metropolitan area or anywhere else, is, strictly speaking, to suffer under the weight of others. What is revealed are the workings of these uninhabitable ordinary ...
03.01.2019
Qui mange qui ? Une psychatnalyse.
Making cats veggie ? This is a plan well under way, which deserves attention. It is quite different from a classical protest against animal exploitation, but rather the sketch of a new ...
04.12.2018
