In the air

The In the air heading gathers texts about the social sciences in their current state and context.

Au risque de la dystopie.

Face à l’incertitude quant aux futures conditions d’existence de l’humanité, de nouvelles manières d’appréhender l’avenir de nos sociétés semblent nécessaires. En mettant de côté les perspectives ouvertes par les utopies heureuses, cet ...

04.01.2018

Ouvrons l’évaluation.

EspacesTemps.net a affiché récemment ses nouvelles conditions d’évaluation des articles soumis. La revue a choisi d’adopter un principe fort : la fin de l’anonymat des évaluations en peer review. Ce choix s’inscrit dans ...

25.04.2017

Penser ou dire non ?

The ongoing debate among « orthodox » and « heterodox » economists, in which the latter's positions were branded an « economic negationism », is also an opportunity to recall, from afar ...

06.10.2016

Transitory cultures.

Europe is going through a crisis that the media present as major, the so-called “migrant” or “refugee crisis”. With the terrorist attacks, the numerous wars in the Near East and Middle East, ...

05.05.2016

Deleuze bashing.

Social sciences sometimes quote philosophers in order to provide a basis for their theories. They quote Gilles Deleuze very often, but Deleuze says that he doesn’t care about being coherent. So why ...

28.04.2015

The future of scientific journals.

On the occasion of its one hundredth issue (“Faire des sciences sociales du politique”, Politix, 100, 2012/4), the journal Politix offers a series of retrospective points of view following three contributions: one ...

23.04.2013