A renewable future

A Renewable Future: Mapping the Energy Transition, by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley - Preface by Matthieu Auzanneau - Edition Ecosociété - Released February 20, 2020 - 264 Pages At a time when climate change is beginning to make its effects seriously felt, we must

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Making the world unavailable

Rendre le monde indisponible, by Hartmut ROSA - Edition La Découverte, January 2020 - 144 Pages Dominating the world, exploiting its resources, planning its course... The cultural project of our modernity seems to have reached its culmination point: science, technology, the economy, social and political organization have made the

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The domesticated counterculture

La contre-culture domestiquée - Art, espace et politique dans la ville gentrifiée, by Luca Pattaroni - Edition MétisPresses, Collection vuesDensemble, December 2019 - 296 pages For a long time a driving force in the contestation of urban development models and a focus for artistic experimentation, the alternative cultural milieu is now largely integrated into the

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Technopower - Depoliticize to rule better

Technopouvoir - Dépolitiser pour mieux régner, by Diana Filippova - Edition Les Liens qui libèrent (LLL), November 2019 - 224 Pages This is an autopsy of technical confinement. Diana Filippova was not born yesterday. "Everything is political. Everything is propaganda," insists the HEC and

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The climate that hides the forest

Le climat qui cache la forêt - Comment la question climatique occulte les problèmes d'environnement, by Guillaume Sainteny - Edition Rue de l'échiquier, collection L'écopoche, November 2019 - 256 Pages The book that puts the climate back in its place and contributes to renewing the debate on climate change. A word of comment

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Where's the happiness

Il est où, le bonheur de François Ruffin - Editions Les Liens qui Libèrent (LLL), November 2019 - 192 pages François Ruffin positions himself here on the climatic and social emergency, with back and forth between past and present. A hard-hitting book aimed at young people (and others).

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What if the living were anarchic

Et si le vivant était anarchique - La génétique est-elle une gigantesque arnaque ? by Jean-Jacques Kupiec - Edition Les Liens qui libèrent (LLL), October 2019 - 256 pages Would the gene determine the essential physical and psychic characteristics of the individual? In any case, this is what genetics proclaims.

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Wonder - Matthieu Ricard

Wonder

Éditions de la Martinière, Éditions de la Martinière, 216 pages, 100 previously unpublished photographs, published on October 10, 2019 A tribute, in text and images, to the beauty of nature and life in all its forms. "To melt into the immensity of the sky, to lose oneself in the

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The economics of nature

L'économie de la nature d'Alain Deneault - LUX Editeur, septembre 2019 - 142 Pages The expression "économie de la nature" appeared in the vocabulary of science in the 18th century long before the neologism "ecology" came to us, more than a century and a half later.

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The dimensions of the ego

Les dimensions de l'égo - Séduction, dominance, manipulation : la société à l'épreuve des narcissiques, by Bruno Lemaitre - Edition Quanto, June 2019 - 350 Pages Increasing inequalities, rising individualism, mistrust of institutions, tensions between cultures, increasing social stress, instability of marital relationships ... and if

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The forest lover of the sea

La forêt amante de la mer d'Hatakeyama Shigeatsu - Translation and afterword by Augustin Berque - Editions Wildproject - French edition, September 2019 - Drawings: Aizawa Kazuo - Photo: Francine Adam How to rebuild a wounded territory? In the north of Japan, Kesennuma Bay is in crisis. Faced with the

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(Cyber) harassment

(Cyber)harassment: Getting out of violence, at school and on the screens by Bérengère Stassin
C&F Editions, July 24, 2019 - 176 Pages

Violence among students has a long history. It now continues outside of school through smartphones and social media. Insults, taunting, identity theft, happy

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