This page brings together publications that have appeared in the intellectual press and in social science journals. They extend, in shorter formats, the theoretical work developed in the Anthropie Working Papers and in the books in the series. What holds them together is less a matter of genre — critical reviews, public interventions, current-affairs analyses — than a shared discipline of attention: returning, each time, to the question that dominant analytical frameworks sidestep or neutralise. Not how much a public policy costs, but who bears the cost. Not whether a transition is taking place, but onto whom the disorder it claims to resolve is displaced. Not whether an economic assessment is positive, but under what conditions of invisibility it remains so.
Three lines of inquiry
The texts presented here are grounded in three main lines of inquiry. The political economy of debt — public, energy-related, territorial — explores the channels through which a budgetary constraint is displaced rather than resolved: from the state budget to local authorities, from employer to employee, from better-off to worse-off households. Political ecology examines how narratives of transition or dematerialisation silently absorb the material and social costs they promise to eliminate, from data centres to energy sources piled one upon another. Critical reviews bring the anthropic framework into dialogue with recent work in the social sciences — for example on extractive capitalism, the energy transition, and the anthropology of labour — in order to situate the hypothesis within contemporary debates.
Each text links, where the connection is direct, to the working papers or book chapters that develop the argument at greater length.