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“We can see in Gaul a distant ancestor of our globalization”
Born in 1947, former professor at Paris-XIII University and Sciences Po, former advisor to Michel Rocard at Matignon (1988-1991) and member of the Circle of Economists, Jacques Mistral is the…
the decline of a mischievous insolence in the face of misfortune
This book is not a collection of good jokes, although it contains an armful of them. To repeat them in society, we will wait for a gentler period, which would…
plea to regulate the conquest of space
Book. Alert, danger! After the planet, it is the turn of low orbit to be threatened. In less than a decade, this inner suburb located between 400 and 1,200 kilometers…
With “Rape Redefined”, the American feminist Catharine MacKinnon proposes a rewriting of French law
Catharine MacKinnon joins the debate on sexual violence in France with the publication by Flammarion of a new book, written in French for the French public. The work is not…
the island at the crossroads of worlds
More than a toponym, the name of Lampedusa is a speech in itself. Some use it to denounce the arbitrary borders of fortress Europe, others, like the representatives of the…
“With the exit certificate, in France, there was a form of follow-up”
Théo Boulakia and Nicolas Mario. YANN LEGENDRE Sociology doctoral student Théo Boulakia and historian Nicolas Mariot look back on the experience of the first confinement in France, which took place…
“40 maps to understand a fractured world”, a special issue of “Le Monde”
Special issue. Gaza, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Sahel. Four wars, four illustrations of a fragmented and disoriented world order, whose entanglement and violence worry humanity and threaten peace, especially in the Middle…
“Living and struggling in a toxic world. Environmental violence and health in the age of oil”: necropolitics of “black gold”
Book. Human beings have certainly deployed more energy since 1900 than between the beginning of humanity and that date. This observation by the American historian John McNeill, cited in the…