Stéphane · Lalut
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Economist — Independent researcher and essayist

Order is not created. Disorder is displaced.

Anthropy is the hypothesis that social systems displace disorder rather than resolve it — in space, in time, or between social groups. This site gathers a research corpus devoted to testing this hypothesis: nine Anthropy Working Papers, four books, publications and resources designed to be read, cited and discussed.

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Three axes for reading transfers

Disorder does not disappear. It shifts to another place, another time, or other groups. Anthropy aims to make these displacements visible.

Spatial

Centre → periphery

Local order is achieved by externalizing costs to other territories: extraction, waste, heat, pollution pushed beyond the visible perimeter.

Temporal

Present → future

The present consumes, the future compensates. Public debt, climate debt, nuclear waste and technological debt extend today's costs toward generations that had no say.

Social

Mobile → captive

Those with financial, legal or residential mobility transfer burdens more easily toward those who cannot refuse them: users, precarious workers, taxpayers, subcontracted labour, relegated groups.

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A contemporary frontier

Attention as receptacle

With data centers and generative AI, the three axes intersect in four coupled registers: energy, matter, territory, attention. The apparent order of the interface rests on burdens displaced offstage — and attention becomes one of the receptacles in which disorder is most immediately absorbed.

Read AWP-06 — Digital Infrastructures and Technological Debt →

Following the costs

Measuring their weight, identifying who bears them, tracing when they appear: public debt in official series, and the documented register of displaced costs.

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Anthropie Working Papers

The Anthropy Working Papers series formalises the hypothesis, tests it across deep history, and applies it to contemporary objects: public debt, the energy transition, independent research.

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What Public Accounts Can Establish about the Displacement of the Public Debt Burden

What can public accounts establish about the burden of French public debt over time, across generations, households, countries, and levels of government? This working paper checks every decomposition against an independent benchmark, reconciles three public readings deemed contradictory, and tests the AWP-03 framework against the accounts: supported within a balance-sheet scope, conditional or beyond reach elsewhere.

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The series — 01 to 08

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Books

The anthropic corpus

Other works

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In journals and the intellectual press

Published and reviewed in Alternatives Économiques, La Vie des idées, En attendant Nadeau, Terrestres, Nonfiction, Le Temps and other intellectual press outlets.

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