Secret memo, on the management of the campaign in recent weeks

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 19 March 2012

Dear friends, It goes without saying that the following note is secret and must not leave your four offices...

Democracy and reality

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 27 November 2011

So, we are told that European democracies would die soon. They would have passed, at best, under the control of technocrats from Brussels or Frankfurt; at worst, under that of markets. And all this, of course, would be the fault of the euro, the European Union, the banks and many other people. Not ours.

The Norwegian lesson

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 25 July 2011

The terrible Norwegian massacre, may appear as a terrible incident, isolated act of a mentally ill person, with no more importance than Unabomber, the American killer that inspired him. It can, however, be interpreted as the announcement of a vast geopolitical movement expected for a long time and anticipated by many theorists.

Human more than Human

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 12 June 2011

For a very long time, we have known that the day would come when genomics would keep its promises. This required that computer technology advances were able to release the computing power needed to reduce drastically the cost of the genome sequencing...

The four scales of time

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 15 May 2011

The terrible charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are an opportunity to remember that our society has become borderless, and now lives in four simultaneous time scales.

Welcome to the binational

From L'Express | Published in Sociology - 8 May 2011

The debate on the conditions of selection and training of young people in the centers of the French Football Federation is revealing of a French malaise.