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La ville, la raison et le rêve : entre théorie et utopie
1996
City, reason and dream : between theory and utopia. — This paper aims at comparing two kinds of discourses about the city, that of the microeconomics of cities, which is admitted in the realm of science, and that of Utopian cities, which is not. We analyse the processes of thinking which lead respectively to theory and utopia, then we compare the ideas of man and society upon which they are grounded. Finaly, we try to enhance the similarities and disimilarities between the two series of urban space representations to which these approaches lead. This comparison may contribute to a better understanding of the real nature of the theoretical discourse and lead both to a relativization and a va…
Henri Lefebvre’s lessons from the Bauhaus
2021
Throughout his writings, Henri Lefebvre made sporadic observations on the German art, design, and architecture school Bauhaus. His commentary on the Bauhaus can be read in light of his wider criticism of Modernist architecture and its political project. Despite its revolutionary aspirations, the Bauhaus provided ‘the architectural requirements of state capitalism’. This article argues that looking at Lefebvre’s ambiguous reading of the Bauhaus unveils the more complex trajectory of his thinking on Modernist utopian impulses to change society through design. Alongside his criticism of the Bauhaus as tailor made for what Lefebvre calls the neocapitalist state, his work also includes more posi…
1840. Année utopique
2017
International audience
Dictionnaire des utopies
2006
National audience; Lorsqu'il publie Utopia en 1516, Thomas More inaugure un genre nouveau. L'utopie, lieu idéal ou non lieu ? Dans cet écart s'inscrit un discours sur le bonheur en marge de la pensée dominante. Mais de quel discours s'agit-il ? Ce dictionnaire auquel ont contribué 73 auteurs, a ainsi pour ambition de montrer que l'utopie ne révèle pas seulement de la critique politique mais traverse tout autant la danse, la fiction, le théâtre, la musique, l'art, l'architecture, la philosophie et la technique.
Utopie, égalité et liberté : l'impossible idéal
2012
The purpose of this article is to derive the logical but unexpected consequences in terms of social justice, of the presuppositions on utopian constructions. In the conditions generally in effect in urban utopias which lay claim to a certain amount of social justice combining equality, fairness and liberty in different ways, equality is likely to interfere with liberty, even create inequalities, and liberty can adapt to inequalities, perhaps even create losses of liberty. Thus, the illusory perfection of Utopia is exposed. Analysis of the mechanisms and operating conditions of urban utopias, which have appeared recurringly especially since the Renaissance, makes it possible to show how the …
Un expert ès-marxisme face à l'utopie : Otto Wilhelm Kuusinen (1905-1964)
2005
Claude Nicolas Ledoux, visionary architecture and social utopia
2008
International audience; Claude Nicolas Ledoux is not only the famous French utopian architect from the 18th century. He had also some very modern ideas about industrial production, urban planning, and "territorial intelligence". The project of the royal salt works (1775-79) was an opportunity to apply several very innovating ideas about economical organisation and social living. After the French Revolution, Ledoux planned an "ideal city" which continues to fascinate by its revolutionary vision of the future.
Utopie et figures de l’invention
2012
National audience; no abstract
Marc-Alexandre Oho Bambe, Kalimat et Rohân Houssein : une mémoire utopique en acte
2019
International audience; La communication se propose de comparer les productions slamées, rappées et écrites de Marc-Alexandre Oho Bambe, Kalimat et Rohân Houssein. Ces trois artistes contemporains résidant en France, respectivement d’origines camerounaise, martinico-mauricienne et syrienne, articulent de façon constante les problématiques mémorielles à la question de l’utopie dans leurs œuvres. La mémoire peut y être familiale, personnelle, mais peut aussi souvent être analysée par un prisme postcolonial. Si l’esclavage, la colonisation, les rapports Nord/Sud de domination perpétuée sont systématiquement convoqués par ces auteurs, c’est précisément parce que ces évocations permettent de con…
Utopian Formats: Simon Morley’s “Lost Horizon”
2021
International audience; In “Lost Horizon”, a 2014 ekphrasis, Simon Morley summons up not just one artpiece but several that have all in common to deal with utopia: a fifteenth century traditional Korean handscroll painting by artist Ahn Gyeon entitled A Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Paradise (1447); René Daumal’s uncompleted surrealist novel Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (1952); James Hilton’s best-selling novel Lost Horizon (1932) and its Hollywood black and white adaptation by Frank Capra (1938), not to mention philosophical texts by Proudhon or Thomas More.Splicing together Western and Eastern traditions, high and pop…