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The Shock of the Anthropocene
The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a "human species" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent "environmental awareness," about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch
Toxic Immanence
More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age – there is no post-atomic – but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry’s capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than “fabulously textual,” as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to s...
Nuclear France
This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces, technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs, uranium prospection, nuclear testing, its health effects and protests against it, as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is...
Through a Nuclear Lens
The Franco-Japanese coproduction Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is one of the most important films for global art cinema and for the French New Wave. In Through a Nuclear Lens, Hannah Holtzman examines this film and the transnational cycle it has inspired, as well as its legacy after the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. In a study that includes formal and theoretical analysis, archival research, and interviews, Holtzman shows the emergence of a new kind of nuclear film, one that attends to the everyday effects of nuclear disaster and its impact on our experience of space and time. The focus on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema since the postwar period reveals a reorientation of the primarily aesthetic preoccupations in the tradition of Japonisme to center around technological and environmental concerns. The book demonstrates how French filmmakers, ever since Hiroshima mon amour, have looked to Japan in part to better understand nuclear uncertainty in France.
L'approche de l'embryon humain à travers l'histoire
Partant de l'incohérence établie dans le rapprochement entre les malformations congénitales du cou humain avec celles des branchies des poissons, l'auteur reprend l'historique de la question et va au-delà du sujet initial. C'est non seulement le rapport des sciences avec le langage qui est soulevé mais également celui de l'Evolution (cou comme carrefour aéro-digestif et avènement de la parole chez l'homme).
The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey
In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies. Women's central role in reproductive and domestic work was swiftly reaffirmed, and abortion and IVF were newly debated. Taking Turkey as the case study, this is the first book to examine the various ways neoliberal modes of governing women's bodies interact with conservative and authoritarian measures. The contributions focus on reproduction, maternity and sexuality, to explore the three main areas of governmental interventions into the female body. Topics for discussion include: the expansion of IVF and egg markets, the privatization of gynaecological and obstetrical care, differential treatment of poor and ethnic minority women's fertility/sexuality, and women's multiple responses to these shifts. While focusing on Turkey, the book presents analytical tools applicable under rising authoritarianisms and conservatisms worldwide.
Une éthique pour le malade
L’éthique traditionnelle se fonde sur l’« autonomie » du sujet. Notre époque, elle, plébiscite la dimension de « vulnérabilité ». Les soignants articulent souvent leur discours éthique sur ces thèmes. Mais pour une personne malade, ces deux concepts ne peuvent convenir pour construire une vie qui fait sens. Après avoir critiqué la pertinence de l’homme vécu comme autonome et vulnérable, l’auteur de cet ouvrage propose « l’étayage » par différents moyens, comme partie d’une éthique originale pouvant convenir à tout un chacun, à toute période de sa vie, et particulièrement dans la maladie. La « personne étayée », de la naissance à la mort, peut ainsi constituer un nouveau paradigme, à rebours des valeurs antérieures, pour que chacun tente de tracer une vie « la moins mauvaise possible »...
Le numérique dans l'enseignement et la formation
Depuis une vingtaine d'années, les environnements numériques de gestion de l'éducation et de la formation se déploient de façon exponentielle. Des données sont automatiquement saisies, pour des raisons associées à la nature même des systèmes de gestion informatisée ou pour renseigner les responsables des divers dispositifs de formation. Cet ouvrage présente une palette d'usages de l'information recueillie de façon automatisée pour des fins de soutien de la formation et de l'apprentissage à divers ordres d'enseignement.
De la dialyse à la greffe
La greffe d'organe n'est pas un geste purement technique, elle introduit le paradigme du don. Parallèlement au patrimoine génétique, le don possède lui aussi la marque de sa singularité individuelle. La transplantation est également une intrusion symbolique. Elle confronte le greffé à son donneur. Le receveur est contraint de réguler son rapport au donneur à la fois présent, absent, inconnu, familier.
