Cosmopolis A review of Cosmopolitics 2017/1 Introduction Thomas More’s famous Utopia has evoked for five centuries the idea of a « nowhere » (from from Greek ou “not”, and topos “place”), projected into an imaginary island cut off from the outside world, whose inhabitants live in a wise and happy environment. Overcoming common stereotypes, Nicole […]
Cosmopolis A review of Cosmopolitics 2016/3-4 Introduction Claude Le Fustec This selection of essays is drawn from the international conference entitled “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Spirituality in Contemporary Western Arts and Literatures” held at Rimouski University (Quebec) in May 2015 during the ACFAS Congress. It was convened by Theorias, an international and transdisciplinary network
Cosmopolis A review of Cosmopolitics 2016/2 Presentation This issue opens with a comment by Haider Khan on the complex interactions between model capitalism and its historical developments, between the universalist claims of democracy and citizenship and the contradictory modes of production, social formations and political discriminations leading to racist ideologies. Mohammed Taleb emphasizes
Cosmopolis A Review of Cosmopolitics 2016/1 Presentation Between the legal order observed by René-Jean Dupuy and his description of a possible Terrestrial City, and the tragic events that undermined the notion of a common humanity in 1915, Florian Aumond examines the symptoms of an emerging […] awareness of human destiny. René-Jean Dupuy’s
Editorial Dominique de Courcelles et Paul Ghils This issue addresses the general concept of “spirituality” as it appears in various cultural contexts and timeframes, through contrasting ideological views. Without necessarily going back to artistic and religious remains of primitive men, which unquestionably show pursuits beyond the biophysical dimension and illustrate practices seeking to unveil the
A critique of surveillance Presentation Paul GHILS Cosmopolis welcomes Philippe-Joseph Salazar as a guest editor of this special issue, devoted to the theme of “surveillance” in its varying forms and perceptions across the world. The current upsurge of surveillance policies and, to a minor extent, of defensive movements to limit their expansion, appears to parallel
Presentation Paul GHILS This issue features a couple of papers on the concept of « anthropocene », which has been coined to name the increasing impact of human activities on the global environment. Its significance is so great that some scientists have proposed that a new […] geological era has begun. For their part, social scientists have
Editorial Susana SANDER Los acontecimientos actuales en la Francia de Voltaire nos recuerdan, nuevamente, que la crisis de valores por la que atravieza el mundo es, de manera radical, una crisis humana. La presencia de una Idea de lo humano en la que se funden los valores que han de dirigir todas las acciones de
Presentation Fabio La Rocca discusses the components of the postmodern city in the framework of a socio-anthropological ‘climatology with a view to explaining the social architectonic of contemporary urban worlds through the expressive forms used by individuals to participate in the collective effervescence of urban environments. Luciana Alvarez examines political conflict and life in the
Presentation In an important interdisciplinary study, John P. Abraham and a team of American and Australian climate scientists find evidence that the science of global warming sceptics, otherwise described as revisionists, is less robust than the mainstream scientific community, which supports the central tenets of anthropogenic climate change. Contrary to major contrarian views and corresponding