All Outputs (9)

Alain Ehrenberg : Autonomy and Empowerment (2021)
Journal Article

This article considers Alain Ehrenberg's extensive analysis of individualism in contemporary France. It shows how he has traced the emergence of autonomy as a key social value, and it goes on to analyse the distinctive features of Ehrenberg's sociolo... Read More about Alain Ehrenberg : Autonomy and Empowerment.

The psychodynamic analysis of work (2019)
Journal Article

This article provides an overview of the psychodynamic analysis of work associated primarily with Christophe Dejours. It explores briefly the roots of psychodynamics in the psychopathology of work that emerged as a field in France in the 1950s. It th... Read More about The psychodynamic analysis of work.

Dossier : Le groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité – Biology and complexity: Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan (2019)
Journal Article

This article considers the important contribution made by Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan – both members of the Groupe des Dix – to the theorisation of life and information. They have both played a major role in challenging the dominant determinist, mech... Read More about Dossier : Le groupe des Dix, des précurseurs de l'interdisciplinarité – Biology and complexity: Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan.

Le roman d'entreprise: breaking the silence (2017)
Journal Article

This article looks at three recent French novels novels in order to explore key themes in what has become known as the roman d’entreprise: Pierre Mari’s Résolution (2005), Nathalie Kuperman’s Nous étions des êtres vivants (2010) and Thierry Beinsting... Read More about Le roman d'entreprise: breaking the silence.

Lessons from Lysenko (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the question of whether we can still “learn lessons” from Lysenkoism. Contemporary allusions are often narrowly polemical, usually making the claim that scientific work is being marginalised for non-scientific reasons. However,... Read More about Lessons from Lysenko.

Public discourse and the conceptualization of football in France since 1998 (2014)
Journal Article

Jacques Monod, François Jacob, and the Lysenko affair: boundary work (2012)
Journal Article

This article looks at the highly influential scientific work of François Jacob and Jacques Monod in the context of the Lysenko affair. It argues that Lysenkoism provided a stimulus to understand and interpret the science they were doing in the field... Read More about Jacques Monod, François Jacob, and the Lysenko affair: boundary work.

‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps (2011)
Journal Article

Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps is analysed as a cartographic rendering of post-Fordist labour. The film creates a pervasive ambiance of liminality and dreamlike di... Read More about ‘Ça tient qu'à toi’: cartographies of post-fordist labour in Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps.

Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’ (2010)
Journal Article

This article explores literary interrogations of the bioethical implications of cloning. It does so by outlining the basic science of cloning before going on to question the dominance of the Freudian notion of the ‘uncanny’ in the critical theoretica... Read More about Clone stories: ‘shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder’.