The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Jeanne Ételain (École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier)
The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes
Jeanne Ételain
to discuss her book
Zones
Terre, sexes et science-fiction
Introduction to the discussion by Lou Stührenberg and Laurine Lièvremont
Quatrième de couverture : Zone : ce terme omniprésent reste pourtant insaisissable. Dans une enquête conceptuelle étonnante à la croisée de la géographie, de la psychanalyse et de la science-fiction, Jeanne Etelain explore la façon dont la « zone » est devenue centrale pour comprendre l’espace, dans le contexte contemporain de crise des conditions d’habitabilité de la planète. La zone apparaît dès lors comme une modalité spatiale défiant les catégories habituelles, nous confrontant à la puissance d’agir de l’espace, qu’il s’agisse de la nature, de la Terre ou du corps.
Zone: A ubiquitous term, yet one that remains elusive. In a surprising conceptual investigation at the crossroads of geography, psychoanalysis, and science fiction, Jeanne Etelain explores how the “zone” has become central to understanding space in the contemporary context of the planet’s habitability crisis. The zone appears as a spatial modality that defies usual categories and confronts us with the power of space, whether it be nature, the Earth, or the body.
Jeanne Ételain, Zones. Terre, sexes et science-fiction. Flammarion, coll. Terra Incognita, 2025
Jeanne Etelain teaches philosophy and contemporary theory at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier. She is also an associate researcher at the HAR (History of Arts and Representations) laboratory at Paris Nanterre University. Her research focuses on the philosophy of ecology, space, and the Earth, particularly new materialisms, feminist epistemologies, and the renewal of contemporary metaphysics.
The Guest Seminar Series is organized collectively by the CSI PhD students. It is open upon registration.
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Venue : room Chevalier. Via videoconference for the external audience. The link will be provided just before the seminar.
Registration: please fill out this form
Contact: Isaac Bariller and Lauranne Chaignon
Photo source: La Manufacture d’idées 2025