Going wild
Based on the key notions of environmental thinking in the United States, which are borderthere wilderness and savagery, William Cronon
By the fire
La Vie des idées suspends its activities during these holidays. We will resume our publication schedule on Wednesday, December 28.
Geography of the struggle
The “Occupy” movements have brought to the fore the importance, often neglected, of the spatial dimension of social movements. A
The fiction of common worlds
Our world is not immediately common, but fiction works to weave the links. For Maylis de Kerangal, imagination brings together
The city and what it eats
“Feeding cities requires gargantuan efforts, which arguably have more physical and social impacts on our lives and our planet than
Porn under the microscope
Alongside often reductive denunciations, studies on pornography have developed in the academic world. Florian Vörös brings together the essential texts,
The last of the movie buffs
Television contaminates cinema and does not allow any experience of the world. In his latest texts, Serge Daney points to
The constellation of knowledge
We do not live in a common world, but at most in archipelagos. How can we transform the world and
Delights of married life
Love is not reduced to conjugality or passion: by approaching it as a set of gestures and practices, Michel Bozon
A world of one’s own
We live under the same sky, but our understanding of the world is nonetheless always situated. Anne Cheng and Michaël