Récidive : 1938, de Michaël Foessel – Edition Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), septembre 2019 – 173 pages « Populisme », « néolibéralisme », « nationalisme » : les mots se bousculent et pourtant l’insatisfaction demeure. Pour décrire ce qui nous arrive, nous ne manquons pas de savoirs. La crise
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Deconfinement is progressing in most Western countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented period is coming to an end, and once the astonishment is over, languages are being loosened. Some twenty-fifth hour workers are coming to give lessons and rewrite history, while others had always put in
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We can read and rethink everything through the Covid crisis: our institutions, our economic dynamics, our ecological and social policies. We can also read contributions from almost all sciences. Much has been said about the role of certain mathematical applications related to artificial intelligence.
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Handbook of Political Action - For those who want to act, by Michael Walzer - First Parallel Edition, October 2019 - 176 Pages 1971. Michael Walzer is 36 years old; he teaches at Harvard and is an active campaigner against the Vietnam War. The United States has just invaded Cambodia
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Professor Jean-Paul Moatti is an important voice in public health. He is Professor of Health Economics and former President of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD). He chose the prestigious medical journal The Lancet to launch, in a short but scathing article, an analysis
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Governments are overwhelmed by the health crisis and its social and economic consequences, the worst to come, in a context of widespread protest. In public opinion and on social networks, appeals are appearing - is this a conscience? - that the day after the crisis
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The pandemic, which is forcing more than three billion people to remain confined to their homes, seems to have come as a surprise, like a plague fallen from the sky. Most of the leaders of the states that govern us swear by their hearts that this pandemic is a unique, unprecedented, and unprecedented event of a "global nature".
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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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A few weeks ago, a conference was held at the Collège de France organized by the Institut Louis Bachelier, bringing together a group of top economists. The first surprise, which is not a surprise at all, was a magnificent graph showing the close link between growth in world gross domestic product and growth in energy consumption since 1990.
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In a period of infobesity, everything is on the same level: news overwrites previous information in a few minutes. The scrolling of the data participates in the permanent zapping. One craze follows another like so many straw fires, without necessarily many long-term commitments. This turmoil contributes to the dislocation of institutions.
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Youth is on edge. This Friday, March 15, the ecological rescue will be on all the banners of the young people on strike for the climate. Schoolchildren will be joined by Manifesto students for an ecological wake-up call. Academics and scientists will join their march as they announced on March 5.
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A teacher-researcher at Sciences Po, Pascal Perrineau has been named one of the five guarantors of the great national debate, alongside Nadia Bellaoui, Guy Canivet, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Jean-Paul Bailly. Appointed by the government and the presidents of the EESC, the National Assembly and the Senate, the five "guarantors" will be required to
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The President of the Republic today launched the Great National Debate on 15 January. It will last two months and proposes a form of response to the crisis the country is going through. Crisis known as the Yellow Vests crisis but which is broader than this movement. A crisis of politics, of
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A Youtubeur at COP24: five videos to tell the story of the climate negotiations - Episode 3 The 24th climate conference (COP24) opened on Sunday 2 December with the hope that the States will be able to find an ambitious agreement capable of keeping warming below the
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From climate marches, massive petitions calling for political action, rainy platforms to mobilize a definitive start... to the artists - soon to be as appalled as the economists - behind Juliette Binoche. The movement spurred by Nicolas Hulot's resignation is gaining momentum. If he is going to leave the front
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The biological is back: in multiple forms (genes, hormones, neurons) it is everywhere as an explanatory variable of our behaviours but also as a manipulable mechanism for social transformation. This biologization of the world and of the social world affirms a dynamic of progress and mobilizes a discourse
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Our societies, while deploring the crisis of representative democracy, still find it difficult to conceive of real processes of citizen debate and even more difficult to admit that the renewal of democracy implies new methods, which take time and have a cost. How
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At a time when the debate on the startup-state is raging, a step back from the linked notion of the platform state can do no harm. Where does this notion come from, and in what direction is it evolving? If the answer to this question is initially shaped by reflections from across the Atlantic,
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The new president, his new government, his new assembly, are attracting all the attention and everyone is trying to identify what what is made of what will have to be called macronism. The political innovation seems real, and many people are taken aback by it. What to think of this so-called "Jupiterian" presidency, of this mania of "at the same time"?
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We had the hyperpresident, the normal president. Today we have a Jupiterian president. Emmanuel Macron announced this last October in an interview with the newspaper Challenges. The choice of Jupiter, who was not a simple god but the king of the gods, is not insignificant.
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