News and Reflections

Homo is sapiens, intelligent, according to Karl von Linné. Sapience distinguishes the human species from other living species. Homo is also demens, as a century of psychoanalytic practice and the immeasurable barbarity of the 20th century have taught us. Homo is essentially faber, argues Alain Papaux, following in the footsteps of Henri Bergson and Hannah Arendt: his propensity to do (faber) far outweighs his inclination toward restraint and wisdom.

MORE and MORE and MORE is a radically new history of energy that reveals the fundamental strangeness of the notion of “energy transition.” The historiology reconstructed by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz explains how matter and energy are closely linked, grow together, accumulate, and pile up on top of each other.