David Riesman & The Lonely Crowd (1950)

The Lonely Crowd (persee.fr)

Robert Fulford's column about David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd

Joseph Gabel, À propos du malaise américain (1966) (persee.fr)

Henri Bergson

http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/bergson_henri/bergson_henri.html (UQAC)

Guy Debord

Introduction à une critique de la géographie urbaine (1955)

Théorie de la dérive (1956)

Guy Debord’s Films

George Orwell et la décence ordinaire

« You may hate the machine-civilization, probably you are right to hate it, but for the present there can be no question of accepting or rejecting it. The machine-civilization is here, and it can only be criticized from the inside, because all of us are inside it. » (The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937)

Orwell, l'outsider des vies ordinaires (nonfiction.fr)

Bruce Bégout, De La Décence ordinaire (entretien sur article11.info)


cf. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty

Henri Raymond

A propos de Henri Lefebvre et Henri Raymond

Julien Gracq, La forme d'une ville (1985)

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/chevrel/gracq2.html

Rainer Rochlitz

Jean-Pierre Cometti, Rainer Rochlitz : l’esthétique et la critique au banc d’essai.

Frédéric Maufras, Le jugement critique a-t-il encore un avenir ?

Piranèse, Carceri d’Invenzione / Prisons imaginaires

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Dutch/Renaissance/Facsimiles/PiranesiCarceri1750/

http://www.picure.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp:8080/e_piranesi.html

Michel Foucault, Des espaces autres (1967), Hétérotopies.

Des espaces autres (1967)

Bruce Bégout

Tentative(s) de définition de la démocratie (vidéo)

Voces SOS 4.8 (vidéo)

Pensées privées - Journal philosophique (1998-2006)

Orwell, l'outsider des vies ordinaires (De la décence ordinaire)

Entretien sur article11.info à propos de De La Décence ordinaire.

Zéropolis. L’expérience de Las Vegas (Le Passant Ordinaire, n°49, juin - sept. 2004)

L'Éblouissement des bords de route (présentation du livre sur le site de l'éditeur)

Walter Benjamin

Extrait de Sens unique (1928) : "le livre (...) est un intermédiaire vieilli entre deux systèmes différents de fichiers".

Petite histoire de la photographie (1931) [pdf]

Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle (1939)

Baudelaire ou les rues de Paris (1939)

http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/benjamin_walter/benjamin_walter.html (UQAC)

Philippe Simay, Walter Benjamin, d’une ville à l'autre

Jean-Michel Palmier, "Baudelaire, Benjamin : histoire d’une rencontre" (Magazine Littéraire, janvier 1990, n° 273)

Gaston Bachelard

http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/Bachelard_gaston/bachelard.html (UQAC)

Citations

http://www.gastonbachelard.org/fr/accueil.htm

http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/CENTRE-BACHELARD/

Paul Ricoeur

L’utopie et l’idéologie

Theodor W. Adorno

http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ndtrans.html

Georg Simmel, Le concept et la tragédie de la culture

Biographic Information (Universität Zürich)


In his essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life", Simmel theorizes that the complexities of the modern city create new social bonds and new attitudes towards others. The modern city was transforming humans, giving them a new relationship to time and space, inculcating in them a "blasé attitude", and altering fundamental notions of freedom and being:

" The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. The fight with nature which primitive man has to wage for his bodily existence attains in this modern form its latest transformation. The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics. Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered. In addition to more liberty, the nineteenth century demanded the functional specialization of man and his work; this specialization makes one individual incomparable to another, and each of them indispensable to the highest possible extent. However, this specialization makes each man the more directly dependent upon the supplementary activities of all others. Nietzsche sees the full development of the individual conditioned by the most ruthless struggle of individuals; socialism believes in the suppression of all competition for the same reason. Be that as it may, in all these positions the same basic motive is at work: the person resists being leveled down and worn out by a social-technological mechanism. An inquiry into the inner meaning of specifically modern life and its products, into the soul of the cultural body, so to speak, must seek to solve the equation which structures like the metropolis set up between the individual and the super-individual contents of life. " ("The Metropolis and Mental Life")

Le concept et la tragédie de la culture

The Metropolis and Mental Life (altruists.org)

The Metropolis and Mental Life (bolenderinitiatives.com)

Texts in English (Universität Zürich)

Textes en français (Uni. Nancy-Metz)



Jürgen Habermas, "Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture"

Nicole Lapierre, De Georg Simmel à Siegfried Kracauer (persee.fr)

Essays on Simmel (bolenderinitiatives.com)


http://ssr1.uchicago.edu/PRELIMS/Theory/simmel.html


Les grandes villes et la vie de l'esprit, notes de lecture (lombreduneville.blogspot.com) (1), (2), (3), (4), (5).

Bernard Stiegler

"Le consumérisme a atteint ses limites" (entretien sur latribune.fr)

"Figure de l'amateur et innovation ascendante" (mp3)

http://www.tvetoile.net/

"Dépasser l’opposition des producteurs et des consommateurs" (entretien)

A propos de la télévision (vidéo)

http://www.christian-faure.net/tag/stiegler/

Lewis Mumford

http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=309

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=2666

http://unjobs.org/authors/lewis-mumford

http://library.monmouth.edu/spcol/mumford/mumford.html

Jane Jacobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/books/26jacobs.html?_r=1

http://urbanisme.univ-paris12.fr/1134768335268/0/fiche___article/&RH=URBA_1Paroles

http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=309

http://bss.sfsu.edu/pamuk/urban/

http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Jane_Jacobs

http://www.pps.org/info/placemakingtools/placemakers/jjacobs

Sarah Moon

http://www.la-croix.com/article/index.jsp?docId=2355950&rubId=5548

Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu

http://olivier.hammam.free.fr/imports/textes/proust/recherche.htm