Lussault, Michel. 2013. L’avènement du monde. Essai sur l’habitation humaine de la terre. Paris : Seuil, coll. « La couleur des idées » ; Lévy, Jacques. 2013. Réinventer la France. Trente cartes pour une nouvelle géographie. Paris : Fayard.
Gilles Clamens | 21.07.2014
This book review brings together two recent essays written by geographers Jacques Lévy and Michel Lussault. It suggests we see in them an appropriable answer to questions usually asked in terms of « globalization » and « urbanization ». The idea of « present participation » — with the shared responsability it involves —emerges from the surveys as well as from the authors’ « worked tools », and moves towards a common world that always appears to be difficult [...]
Marion Ernwein | 21.07.2014
This paper aims to assess the role of the visual in more-than-representational geographical research. Indeed, non-representational theories (NRT) are interested in new ways of creatively performing research. Here I focus on the use and limits of video regarding non or more-than-representational theories and research. I conclude by suggesting new research questions and methodological experimentations. [...]
Jacques Lévy et Michel Lussault, 2013. Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l'espace des sociétés. Nouvelle édition. Paris. Belin.
Jacques Lévy et Michel Lussault | 15.07.2014
La nouvelle édition du Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés que vous avez entre les mains est pour une bonne part la conséquence du succès de librairie que la première édition a rencontré. Ce résultat a été obtenu sans aucun compromis sur le niveau d’exigence que nous nous étions fixé tant pour [...]
Luc Guillemot | 09.07.2014
Relativism and universalism are two opposite but not antithetical views of the World. Relativism reflects the diversity of cultures and therefore allows to fight ethnocentrism, and makes controversies possible by denying that absolute truth exists in scientific utterances. However, it addresses the realities of the world according to how different they are ; thus it lacks the ability to underscore what these realities have in common. Relativity does not deny relevance to universality when the latter is considered as [...]
Manouk Borzakian | 09.07.2014
Priority research topics tend to be decided outside of the scientific field, favouring the rise, within social sciences, of “abstract empiricism” (Wright Mills 2006), i.e. detailed researches that carefully avoid theorization or generalization — such as the work consultant firms do. A possible justification of this tendency is the objectivity that is allegedly expected from the researcher. A second argument relies on a simplistic view of the epistemological rupture and the confusion between intellectual rigour and reluctance to theorize. [...]
Jacques Lévy | 09.07.2014
Les sciences sociales jouent un rôle croissant dans le paysage intellectuel, mais en leur sein ou sur leurs marges, continuent d’exister des idéologies hostiles à leur raison d’être : l’explication du social par le social. Séparément ou ensemble, le néo-structuralisme, le néo-naturalisme, l’ontologie métaphysique, le postmodernisme et les eschatologies conspiratoires concourent à créer un complexe autodestructeur de la connaissance du social (CACOS). [...]
Un exercice d’hygiène théorique.
Jacques Lévy | 09.07.2014
En janvier 2013, se tenait à Rolle, la ville où réside Jean-Luc Godard — un cinéaste qui se voue inlassablement à n’être d’accord avec personne —, un séminaire du Programme doctoral Architecture et Sciences de la Ville de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, sur le thème « Avec quoi n’êtes-vous pas d’accord ? ». La démarche de cette rencontre partait [...]
Interview.
Augustin Berque | 01.07.2014
The series of pedagogical films Thinking Places/Lieux pensants, directed by Jacques Lévy, is structured around ten questions. The interviewer was Jacques Lévy, the interviewee Augustin Berque, and the place Imintanout, at the foot of the western High Atlas, on the route from Marrakech to Agadir. The filming took place on 19th April 2014. The present text reproduces Augustin Berque’s answers in a more elaborate form. [...]
Quand l’espace renouvelle les pratiques littéraires.
Géraldine Molina | 16.06.2014
L’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (OuLiPo), created in the sixties, brings together writers who use language in a recreational and experimental way by inventing constraints to generate new literary dynamics. This article intends to explore how the Oulipians’ literary activities instigate a renewed relationship with space, time and society, which perturbs the traditional process of making literature. The work of the Oulipian Jacques Jouet, particularly representative of the trend, will be at the heart of this analysis. This author’s space-time-society [...]
André Ourednik | 12.06.2014
« Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there’s a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. » Beckett, Endgame (1957) Paleontology, as taught in schools and to the general public, sometimes produces images of past realities that are directly related to present places. For instance, an image can title “The Permian fauna of [...]