"Nothing will ever be the same again. " This sentence, it's been resonating on the web for the past few weeks. With containment, a tidal wave of questions about tomorrow's world is surging across our screens. And the future of work occupies a central place in this questioning (e.g. here and there). In fact, this
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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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::: 20/03 - The spring of the French Foresight Society's Prospective is devoted this year to the presentation of this exercise and to the discussion of the diagnosis carried out and the recommendations made. This 8th Spring of Foresight, which will take place on Friday, March 20th
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Métamorphose du travail, by Christine Afriat with the participation of Evelyne Bertin, Eric Hauet, Emily Lecourtois, Olivier Lejeune, Alain Petitjean - Editions Economica, March 2020 Artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, industry 4.0, connected objects, blockchain are some of the threats that technological evolution poses to existing jobs. Beyond
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Disobey me?! Regards croisés sur la désobéissance civile en démocratie, face à l'urgence écologique - Ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Bernard Lemoult et Marine Jaffrézic - Edition du Collège des Transitions Sociétales c/o IMT Atlantique, 12 février 2020 - 289 Pages Dominique Bourg, Sandrine Roudaut, Guillaune Durin, Extinction Rebellion,
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The poor are our masters! - Learning from those who resist misery: the Wresinski paradox, by David Jousset, Bruno Tardieu and Jean Tonglet - Preface by Isabelle Autissier - Edition Hermann, October 2019 - 208 Pages At the beginning of the 21st century, we are facing a number of challenges.
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Faced with generational fractures and the "breakdown" of the social lift, the EESC launches its referral "New generations: what promises for what future? "with the participation of 30 citizens drawn by lot. This referral is in line with the issues revealed by the Great National Debate.
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Twitter & Tear Gas - Strengths and Weaknesses of Zeynep Tufekci's Connected Contestation - C&F editions, September 2019 - 340 Pages Social movements around the world are making massive use of digital technologies. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has been following for years the social movements that are shaking up the world.
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The city in common: Des biens communs au municipalisme, by César Rendueles and Joan Subirats, C&F éditions, November 2019. Translated from the Spanish by Alain Ambrosi - 140 Pages The vocabulary to describe what we share is abundant: common, common goods, the common good on one side
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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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Deciding to reconcile contradictions, to bring opposing actors into dialogue and to find multidisciplinary solutions to the inextricable paradoxes of our complexity becomes an ethical imperative for a successful transition of civilization. Indeed, in the age of the anthropocene, our decisions now have an impact on the whole world, all of us, and the world as a whole.
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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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An international team is looking at new technologies that improve human physical and cognitive skills, their development and their distribution in society. The possibilities are dizzying, but they raise many questions about the very essence of human beings, about what is useful for their development, about what is useful for their well-being and about what is not.
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Our French culture has in its DNA a propensity to let violence happen. Our relationship to authority is ambiguous; we are both very sensitive to it, frequently opposing it, in a chronic rebellious jouissance, while also seeking to exercise it. The figures of power fascinate us first of all,
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The complex phenomenon of rebellion in France or how to get out of individual and collective blockages It is highly likely that the "Yellow Vests" are the spark that could ignite the powder keg, the expression of multiple social bills. The questions that arise are: why now? Why so many
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What do thinkers think of this singularly eruptive symptom of changing times? Faced with an unprecedented crisis that expresses all the facets of anger, rage and violence, whose new faces, spontaneously appeared in the media, move the French because they talk about their distress.
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Adam Baïz examines the theme Innovation and Society: How to design new public policy instruments. Consolidating scientific excellence and bringing, through research, advances on the challenges facing society are strategic objectives for MINES ParisTech. First school in France by its
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Amartya Sen, the Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel of the poor" [1], is today one of the most influential intellectuals in the world. His writings are recognized for their major contribution to the analysis of inequalities and reflections on justice. Deeply affected by the famine in Bengal
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More than two centuries later, the passions relating to 1789 are far from being extinguished: one need only mention the name Robespierre to immediately reappear in debates that could indeed be considered closed. Contrary to what the historian François Furet said (his formula "the Revolution is over" appears for the first time in the history of the French Revolution), Robespierre's passion for 1789 is far from being extinguished.
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According to the Gallup Poll Institute, the five most dangerous countries in the world in 2017 are Venezuela, South Africa, El Salvador, South Sudan and Liberia. With the exception of Venezuela, the other four countries have experienced a civil war, in which South Sudan remains the most dangerous country in the world.
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