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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: eight Anthropy Working Papers, three books, publications and resources designed to be read, cited and discussed.
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.
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 →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.
What is anthropy? Principles of a hypothesis
Anthropy is the hypothesis that every stable local social order is built by exporting its disorder to other places, other times, or other social groups. This founding text argues …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.19431208
3.3 million years in one principle
Anthropy traverses 3.3 million years of human history across seven configurations — from the first tool to the digital meta-programme. The displacement of disorder is a structural …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.19433086
Public debt and anthropy: who really pays for disorder?
Public debt is not a simple accounting balance: it is a mechanism of temporal and social entropic transfer. This working paper applies the framework of anthropy to French public …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.19434094
Energy transition or entropic transfer?
Does the energy transition reduce disorder or merely displace it? This working paper examines anthropic mechanisms in contemporary energy policies: externalised extraction, …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.19439921
Thinking outside the walls: notes on independent research
Does the academic field displace epistemic disorder toward its margins? This working paper applies the framework of anthropy to the field itself, examines relegation mechanisms, …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.19440866
Digital Infrastructures and Technological Debt
Existing analyses of digital infrastructures often treat materialist critique, opacity studies, and environmental footprint accounting as separate approaches, thereby missing the …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.20077993
The Anthropic Loop
Existing frameworks for tracking displaced costs describe segments of the displacement — the shift (Kapp), the aggregate balance (Georgescu-Roegen), the attentional toll (Stiegler) …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.21200288
Social Reversibility as a Dimension of Inequality
Inequality is measured in stocks (income, wealth) and flows (mobility), but almost never by what a person can afford to fail at without durably closing off their future. This …
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.21507249
The corpus
The anthropic framework extends across several formats: working papers, books, reference pages and publications in the intellectual press. The aim is not to multiply formats but to make the same mechanism visible through different objects — debt, energy, deep history, epistemic order.
Books
ANTHROPY – A Big History of Civilization's Hidden Costs
Seven ages of history for a single hypothesis: disorder is never resolved, only displaced.
The foundational work on the anthropic framework. Across 632 pages, ANTHROPY develops the hypothesis that social systems do not resolve disorder but displace it — across space, across time, or onto other social groups. Order here. Debt elsewhere.
ISBN : 978-2-958634-75-9
Dette Publique : Qui paie vraiment ?
In French
La question n'est pas « combien ? » mais « qui paie ? » — et par quels canaux le coût se déplace.
A focused application of the anthropic framework to the question of public debt. Who, ultimately, bears the cost of fiscal imbalances — present taxpayers, future generations, foreign creditors, or the ecological commons? The book maps the displacement chains by which sovereign debt redistributes disorder across time and across borders.
ISBN : 978-2-9586347-3-5
La Société du premier coup
In French
Pourquoi certains peuvent recommencer — et d'autres non
We are not all granted the same number of attempts. This book offers a grid for seeing a dimension of inequality that the usual columns — income, wealth, mobility — leave out of frame: what a failure costs depending on who fails, and how many attempts a trajectory actually allows. A narrative essay for the general reader, companion to working paper AWP-08.
ISBN : 978-2-9586347-6-6
L'Odyssée des idées
In French
Culture, philosophie et science — de l'aube de l'humanité à l'intelligence artificielle
From the dawn of humanity to artificial intelligence, 250 ports of call — works, lives, inventions, crises, tipping points — and seven itineraries connect thinkers across the centuries. Not a chronological parade but a network. An instrument of curiosity, not a reservoir of certainties.
ISBN : 978-2-9586347-4-2
Livresque des mots
In French
Anthologie éclectique de citations
An anthology that refuses alphabetical and thematic order in favour of the surprise of unexpected encounters. 4,658 quotations, 1,388 voices, 25 centuries of human genius woven along a subtle thread. Forty years of literary passion, offering not a classification but a journey.
ISBN : 978-2-9586347-0-4
Publications
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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