Dominique Boullier | 22.02.2019
Events are exceptional moments in urban rhythms and attract a lot of attention. However, they are not easily traceable, and social sciences clearly favored long duration phenomena (structural effects) or cycles (as in opinion trends). Thanks to the traces that we leave on digital networks, rapidly emerging collective behaviors can now be accounted for. They may even be related to on site events. Qualities of the constructed environments (containers) and attention attractors (contenants) can be combined to generate eurythmic [...]
Hervé Regnauld | 22.02.2017
Today’s sciences are used to deal with novelty by two principal ways. First, they may take it as a new step in the evolution of a system. Second, they may consider that a novelty is “new” enough, and therefore that a new set of paradigms should be integrated in the today’s scientific theories. It is extremely rare that an event occurs and is “unthinkable” by sciences. Though, today it seems that the political idea of Anthropocene is an event [...]
De la construction de l’événement à celle de l’oubli : l’exemple du 11 septembre 2001.
Aurélia Lamy | 21.11.2007
“Nine eleven” is a limiting event, so much from an imaginary point of view that by the profusion of meanings that it implies. Even if initially, the watchword seems to be “Anybody will never forget this day”, progressively, political and media authorities, by the narrative configuration of the event, build a collective memory of the attacks and the lapse of memory of some components of the facts. Thus, if the mediatisation in urgency induces a globalisation of the public [...]
