Audio-power

Naturally a carrier of emotions, music has also become over the course of XXe century an instrument of manipulation, even

To work, or not

Sometimes discussed, rarely tested, universal income gives rise to reservations: how much would it cost, and is it even legitimate

The Kingdom of Unreason

Historian Guillaume Lachenal followed in the footsteps of Doctor David, who was stationed in Wallis and Futuna and then in

The fetishism of order

In a collection of articles finally translated into French, Norbert Elias criticizes the errors of his compatriots, essentially the German

Pregnancy administration

While, at the beginning of the XXe century, abortion was repressed in metropolitan France against a backdrop of pro-natalist policies,

To split your sides

Laughter, long considered instinctive, has a history. It took off in the democratic era, when societies became industrialized and globalized.

Anthology of working lives

What is the “Party autobiography”? The injunction to tell one’s story, a practice imported from Moscow that has become obligatory

Iceland in its crises

Iceland has been experiencing a succession of political and financial scandals since 2008. However, we should not lose sight of

A couple injured in the Algerian war

Two sociologists have studied the correspondence exchanged in the early 1960s by a couple of schoolteachers separated by war and

The Bicentennial, from the inside

Historian Michel Vovelle looks back at the “battle” provoked by the Bicentenary of the French Revolution throughout the 1980s. In