Resources — Data, explainers and reference material
Data and reference material to understand and discuss: the cost of public debt from official series, the concepts of the anthropic framework, the Register of Displaced Costs, a glossary. Each entry states what kind of content it holds.
A resource here can be read and reused without going through a book. Each entry states what it holds: official series, the author’s own calculation, an analysis, a definition or a corpus. Pages marked in French have no English version yet.
Public debt
What the debt costs, and who bears it.
Official series (INSEE, Eurostat) and the author's calculations
What does French public debt actually cost?
The cost of a public debt does not mechanically follow its size. In France, the stock climbed for thirty years while the interest burden fell — since 2022 the scissor is closing. Official INSEE and Eurostat figures, kept current, and what the interest burden represents compared with spending on justice, education and health.
Analysis based on public data · in French
Who really pays the public debt?
Qui paie vraiment la dette publique ?
Concepts
Definitions of the anthropic framework, each tied to its sources.
Definitions
Glossary
Key terms of the anthropic framework.
Concept — definition, origins and sources
What is the anthropic loop?
The anthropic loop formalises the cycle of disorder displacement in five moments: displacement, accumulation, saturation, return, re-displacement. It extends K. William Kapp's cost-shifting and is distinct from Bernard Stiegler's neganthropy — and from the AI company Anthropic.
Concept — definition, origins and sources
What is social reversibility?
Social reversibility is the capacity, assessed before an attempt, to withstand its possible failure without a lasting closure of one's future. Neither a stock nor a flow: a third dimension of inequality — what one can afford to fail.
Corpus and documentation
The documentary apparatus behind the books, usable in its own right.
Documented corpus — annotated chronology
The Register of Offloaded Costs
The Register of Offloaded Costs is the documentary apparatus of the book ANTHROPY: a chronology of 168 milestones, from the first stone tools (≈ 3.3 million years ago) to contemporary algorithms, documenting for each innovation the order created and the debt displaced—elsewhere, later, or onto others. Browsable online in full, organized by the book’s seven ages.