The Anthropie Working Papers (AWP) constitute the academic corpus of the framework of anthropy. Each paper is deposited on Zenodo with a permanent DOI.
Each paper is published under a CC-BY 4.0 licence, with an English version carrying its own DOI and citation exports (BibTeX, RIS, EndNote). The framework formalised here is developed in the book ANTHROPIE — Ordre ici. Dette ailleurs (in French).
AWP-01 founds the hypothesis and its vocabulary.
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 that the displacement of disorder constitutes a structural mechanism observable in every configuration of stable order.
AWP-02 deploys it over the long run, across seven historical configurations.
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 mechanism of human societies, not an accident of modernity.
AWP-03, AWP-04, and AWP-06 apply it to three contemporary terrains — public debt, the energy transition, digital infrastructures.
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 finances and shows that the question is not "how much?" but "who pays?"
Does the energy transition reduce disorder or merely displace it? This working paper examines anthropic mechanisms in contemporary energy policies: externalised extraction, deferred waste, unaccounted rebound effects.
Data Centers, AI, and the Displacement of Disorder
Existing analyses of digital infrastructures often treat materialist critique, opacity studies, and environmental footprint accounting as separate approaches, thereby missing the broader regime that connects them. This paper applies the framework of anthropy to contemporary digital infrastructures: data centers, generative AI, material supply chains, host territories, and public guarantee mechanisms.
AWP-05 turns it back on the academic field itself.
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, and questions the role of open infrastructures (Zenodo, ORCID).
AWP-07 closes the arc by formalising the anthropic loop and situating the framework within its lineages — Kapp, Georgescu-Roegen, Stiegler.
Displacement, Saturation, Return — Formalizing a Mechanism, from Kapp to Stiegler
Existing frameworks for tracking displaced costs describe segments of the displacement — the shift (Kapp), the aggregate balance (Georgescu-Roegen), the attentional toll (Stiegler) — but not the full cycle that links them. AWP-07 formalises the anthropic loop as a conceptual state machine: displacement, accumulation, saturation, return, re-displacement.
AWP-08 opens its measurement side, with social reversibility — the capacity, assessed before an attempt, to withstand its failure — posited as a third dimension of inequality.
Fallback, Institutional Memory, and a Measurement Agenda
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 working paper builds social reversibility as a third dimension of inequality: the capacity, assessed before an attempt, to withstand its failure. It offers a definition, a measurement architecture, four families of testable propositions, and an identification protocol. A refutable framework, not an empirical result. Extends the anthropic programme (AWP-01, AWP-07).
AWP-09 puts the framework to the test of its own terrain: thirty years of French public accounts support the inheritance claim within a wealth perimeter, reduce the interest-growth differential to accounting mechanics, and leave social asymmetry beyond their reach.
Accounting Identities, Independent Benchmarks, and Limits (France, 1995-2025)
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.
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.