Un acteur dans une société d’acteurs.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.05.2022
Actor and ‘actor’: Is there more than a metaphor between a performer and this concept of social science? Probably, and the war in Ukraine makes us more clearly aware of this. [...]
Les choses ne sont pas des gens.
Jacques Lévy, Olivier Lazzarotti et Xavier Bernier | 01.02.2022
Billions of ‘connected objects’ give new leverages for an ontological blurring between humans and things. The discussion should be taken back to basics in a context where actors, environments, and material or immaterial objects populate our daily lives. [...]
Ce que nous dit la langue.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.03.2019
Why did the word « problem » almost completely vanish from French-speaking public communication ? This event does confirm the importance of hyperbole, euphemism, and litotes in the dynamic of languages. This process also gives us clues about the actors of these changes: an uncoordinated multitude of ordinary speakers is capable, without any pre-set scheme, to set languages in motion. [...]