Publications

In this article, we seek to understand how pupils learn about the world, and in particular how attachment to the various places they inhabit arises or fails to arise. This discussion is ...

This article analyses a fresco by the graffiti artist Lekto, in Avignon, depicting Emmanuel Macron as a puppet manipulated by Jacques Attali, echoing anti-semitic and anti-democratic clichés that power is in the ...

This article aims to jointly analyse the standardisation of Chinese space and the ways of inhabiting these changes, using an emblematic connector: the Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai. There is indeed a ...

This article deals with the notion of itinerant inhabitants or dweller through the example of blue water sailors, those men and women who decide to cast off their moorings to live on ...

How can we account for the immense diversity of human beings, geographically and therefore without standards or hierarchies? First, we have to give it a name. Initially, as a by-product of the ...

How does artificial intelligence resonate with an image? How do we reason with AI? This text begins with a figure produced by ChatGPT, responding to a prompt asking it to interpret graphically, ...

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 ...

City inhabitants construct the city in many different ways. Sometimes they create, in thought and in practice, places where they deploy potential that allows them to distance themselves from their social status, ...

The intention of inclusive writing is laudable, but its implementation presents numerous obstacles. In order to gain a better understanding of its nature, we propose to explore the limits of this innovation ...

The article reviews and discusses Dulac's proposals For a Science of the Social. The review is accompanied by comments from the book's authors.

The aim of this article is to mobilise the field of theatre and the performing arts in order to conduct a theoretical examination of spatialities. By defining dramaturgy as a spatial narrative ...

The use of language is always informed by the context in which it is employed. Each field of study has its own vocabulary, and the vocabulary associated with describing images is no ...

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 ...

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the term urban exodus has been taken up quickly and massively, especially in the media to describe migrations in France. It was told that the ...