The Geek column, this time by Alice Carle, presents Slack, a collaboration tool on the rise.
Jean-François Chanlat presents Norbert Alter’s book, in which a sociologist looks back on his unlikely career as a man and researcher.
Hannah Arendt and Iris Murdoch have been evoked by Libellio. In this issue, the two of them are brought together around the idea of the banal, the bad and the good.
Walid Benzarti, Director of Innovation, Research & Technology for Thales’s land and air activities gave a talk at the École Polytechnique on the subject of innovation in the defense sector, which is reported in this issue.
Mathieu Arnoux has just published a fascinating and seemingly paradoxical book on the Middle Ages linking it to the question of the Anthropocene. Christian Morel looks back at how his book on absurd decisions, one of Gallimard’s best-selling social science books, came to be published. The question of the role of the scientist in political decision-making is of paramount importance for our societies. Roger A. Pielke has written a seminal book on the subject.
The Musée du Louvre organized an exhibition on still life in late 2022, early 2023. Émile Durkheim went there for us.
We find Cicero at the beginning of 49, a period of virtual psychological collapse in the face of the Roman republic’s situation of the Roman Republic, and his second exile, which took him to Pharsalus among Pompey’s troops defeated by Caesar.