Category: Comprendre et Agir
Collapse of the living world – What’s next? by Denis Couvet
Making history: reading and understanding our times
Agnès van Zanten – Meritocracy and inequality in education, the role of schools, status and processes
Problems posed by the solutionist vision
Antibiotic resistance: systemic analysis of the issues to break the deadlock
Post-growth economics. Ecological planning versus the aporia of green capitalism
Cédric Durand Thursday 21 March 2024 Summary: The lack of plausibility of green growth, the impossibility of making the most of industrial ruins, the lack of time and overall perspective, the uncertainty of profits… The promises of green capitalism are as far from reality as there are shale gas drillings…
Technocritiques: from machine quarrels to technoscientific controversies
François Jarrige Thursday 16 March 2024 Summary: Taking a diversion into history, this talk looks at the political issues surrounding technology and the debates that have accompanied its development, from the first quarrels over machines to current controversies. Technical objects and systems are far from being neutral artefacts set in…
Revolution and transition. Thinking ecology through work
Paul Guillibert Thursday 7 March 2024 SummaryThe dominant discourse on ecology emphasizes the role of consumption and technology in addressing the consequences of environmental disaster. Reasoned consumption, waste sorting, short and organic circuits, green industries, carbon capture technologies and even planetary geo-engineering often appear as slogans for ecological transition. On…
Neutrality in science: from myth to disclaimer?
Collapse of the living world – What’s next? by Denis Couvet
Making history: reading and understanding our times
Agnès van Zanten – Meritocracy and inequality in education, the role of schools, status and processes
Problems posed by the solutionist vision
Antibiotic resistance: systemic analysis of the issues to break the deadlock
Post-growth economics. Ecological planning versus the aporia of green capitalism

Cédric Durand Thursday 21 March 2024 Summary: The lack of plausibility of green growth, the impossibility of making the most of industrial ruins, the lack of time and overall perspective, the uncertainty of profits… The promises of green capitalism are as far from reality as there are shale gas drillings…
Technocritiques: from machine quarrels to technoscientific controversies

François Jarrige Thursday 16 March 2024 Summary: Taking a diversion into history, this talk looks at the political issues surrounding technology and the debates that have accompanied its development, from the first quarrels over machines to current controversies. Technical objects and systems are far from being neutral artefacts set in…
Revolution and transition. Thinking ecology through work

Paul Guillibert Thursday 7 March 2024 SummaryThe dominant discourse on ecology emphasizes the role of consumption and technology in addressing the consequences of environmental disaster. Reasoned consumption, waste sorting, short and organic circuits, green industries, carbon capture technologies and even planetary geo-engineering often appear as slogans for ecological transition. On…