Anthropie Working Papers
A collection of working papers exploring the anthropic framework across key domains. Six texts to formalize the hypothesis, test it across deep history, and apply it to contemporary issues.
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
About the series
The Anthropie Working Papers are authored by Stéphane Lalut, economist, independent researcher and essayist. Each text is deposited on Zenodo with a permanent DOI, published under a CC-BY 4.0 licence, and available in French and English.