138 research outputs found
An economic analysis of the production of hydrogen from wind-generated electricity for use in transport applications
No full textWind-generated electricity is often considered a particularly promising option for producing hydrogen from renewable energy sources. However, the economic performances of such systems generally remain unclear because of unspecified or favorable assumptions and operating conditions. The aim of this paper is to clarify these conditions by examining how the hydrogen produced is used. The analysis that has been conducted in the framework of the HyFrance 3 project concerns hydrogen for transport applications. Different technical systems are considered such as motorway hydrogen filling stations, Hythane®-fueled buses or second-generation biofuels production, which present contrasted hydrogen use characteristics. This analysis reveals considerable variations in hydrogen production costs depending on the demand profiles concerned, with the most favorable configurations being those in which storage systems are kept to a minimum.wind power ; hydrogen production
Philippe de Mézières et son Epistre au roi Richart
No full textpeer reviewedIn mid-May 1395, Philippe de Mézières writes a Letter to king Richard II of
England, an urgent call, which does not belong to the epistolary but to the allegorical
and the mirror for princes genre. This letter, revealing a clear similarity of
thought between the author and the king of France, Charles VI, to whose education
the former contributed, is preserved as a unique manuscript, the Royal 20 B VI, in
the British Library. This manuscript turns out to be the one offered to the English
monarch and, being addressed to the latter, ended up in the hands of a prince, who
was particularly able to appreciate its meaning and all its wit. Although Mézières
advocates a reconciliation between the kings of France and England, to be sealed
with a marriage between Isabelle de Valois, the former’s oldest daughter and the
latter, which was the safest way to achieve his ultimate aim of a reconciliation within
the Church and the re-conquest of the Holy Land, what he truly hoped for was the
founding of the Order of the Passion of Jesus Christ
Jean-Philippe Toussaint and New novel
No full textThis thesis deals with the question whether Jean-Philippe Toussaint's work resembles the work of the authors of the New novel, particularly Alain Robbe-Grillet. The thesis initiates with the topics covered by the New Novel: the main ideas and their realization and characteristics of the new writing style. This is followed by the analysis of a contemporary Belgian author, Jean-Philippe Toussaint. There is a short introduction of his life and character, his work and reasons why he is so popular and how he became a success. The main point of this part is the analysis of his writing style and its development from his early novels up to his present work. This thesis tries to look into the similarities and differences of J.-P. Toussaint's work and the work of the authors of the New novel. It mainly focuses on the use of objects, what role they play in Toussaint's novels, how they are described and the importance of their description for understanding the plot. The analysis begins with an introduction to the 1950s' new wave authors, later called the authors of the New novel, and their complaints aimed at the classical 19th century novel. We base this part mainly on Alain Robbe-Grillet's ideas. This author totally rejects classical plot, characters, accurate description of reality and linear time-flow. Instead, he..
Commentaire de la note de Philippe Mongin. « Le libéralisme, deus ex machina de l'économie du bien-être »
No full textPhilippe Mongin?s objections to the author?s interpretation of paretian welfare economics in the light of (classical) liberalism are refuted. Classification JEL : A13, D 60
Ville, urbanisme et histoire
No full textA. BOURDIN, author of Patrimony reinvented (Paris, PU F, 1984) analyses the relationships between the town and history, between inherited and contemporary constructions. In the present context which is characterised by "management" planning, and as a result of the uncertainty of values and references, thought and action concerning the town revalorize the urban patrimony and the historical roots of future forms. The present day attitudes towards the town perhaps only realize a return to what all eras experienced ; modernity having been simply a parenthesis.A. BOURDIN, auteur de l'ouvrage Le patrimoine réinventé (Paris, PUF, 1984), analyse les rapports entre la ville et l'histoire, entre le bâti hérité et la construction contemporaine. Dans le contexte présent, caractérisé par un urbanisme de gestion, et du fait de l'incertitude des valeurs et références, la pensée et l'action sur la ville revalorisent le patrimoine urbain et l'ancrage historique des formes projetées. Ces attitudes actuelles vis-à-vis de la ville ne font, peut-être, que réaliser un retour à ce que toutes les époques connurent ; la modernité n'ayant été qu'une parenthèse.Bourdin Alain, Biau Véronique, Genestier Philippe. Ville, urbanisme et histoire. In: Villes en parallèle, n°12-13, novembre 1988. Formes urbaines. pp. 70-87
The square as the epicenter of local development
No full textThere is no denying that the capital has penetrated too deep and far away in body and soul of the people, in their intelligence, psyche and imagination, in their core of 'vitality'; and while such 'vitality' has become the primary source of value in capitalism. In addition to this, the dramatic centralization of political and economic power that characterizes our way of organizing society leads, ultimately, a deep divorce between the citizen’s requirements and the content of economic and social development. The local empowerment emerges as a new way to aggregate, create meaning, invent devices for appreciation and self-respect; and also an important tool that can facilitate the organized expression of community needs and assist in setting democratic priorities of local development. There is no doubt that something new is emerging in various parts of the territory in Sao Paulo – the biggest city of Brazil, with over eleven billion people. It is remarkable that there is a growing desire and political will of the inhabitants to relinquish their passive attitudes and assume, collectively, the changes in favor of the creation of improved living conditions of the neighborhood. In an area comprising four neighborhoods of the west Sao Paulo it was identified three social experiences that follows singular paths, but have the same goal: promoting the improvement of the square nearby their homes and, thereby, encourage the use of public space. The aim of this report is to analyze these three social experiences and compare them with the concept of local development. To support this essay, it was made a literature review on the concept of Development and Local Development based, fundamentally, on the ideas of Amartya Sen, Ladislau Dowbor, Ignacy Sachs, Celso Furtado and Alain Lipietz. The author of this essay participated actively in the three social experiments from February to December 2010 producing 'thick descriptions' (GEERTZ, 1989) about the meetings, the dynamics of neighborhoods and squares and informal conversations with participants. This essay concludes that the square in the urban territory can symbolize the epicenter of local development. Key words: social experiences; square; local empowerment; local development.
Pour une co-construction du sens. En hommage à Alain Rabatel
No full textInternational audienceLes linguistes que réunit ce volume d’hommage mettent leur intelligence en commun pour tester les thèses rabateliennes sur de nouveaux corpus. Il y est d’abord question du point de vue (PDV) en matière d’énonciation et de ses liens avec la référenciation et l’interprétation de récits en prose, comme dans Homo narrans, puis de l’extension de la théorie du PDV à un domaine peu investigué par Alain Rabatel, la poésie, avant un ensemble de méta-analyses portant sur des questions plus générales liées à la place des récepteurs dans la construction des messages. On aborde alors les liens entre théorie du PDV et pragmatique cognitive ou sémiotique des images et la gestion de la plurisémie ou des ambiguïtés. Dans une seconde partie, le livre interroge les relations entre PDV et prise en charge ou responsabilité énonciatives ainsi qu’entre PDV, subjectivité et altérité ou entre PDV et argumentation. Tous ces concepts jouent un rôle dans la façon dont les récepteurs des messages verbaux et les spectateurs des images perçoivent les enjeux des PDV et participent à la co-construction du sens.Contributions de Jean-Michel Adam, Marc Arabyan, Pierluigi Basso Fossali, Gabriel Bergounioux, Elżbieta Biardzka, Marc Bonhomme, Éric Bordas, Collectif Programma (Zoé Camus, Alfredo M. Lescano, Álvaro Magalhães Pereira da Silva, Fortunato Morales Ávila, Maxime Vétier), Bernard Combettes et Annie Kuyumcuyan, Patrick Dendale et Danielle Coltier, Wander Emediato de Souza, Alice de Georges, Michel Favriaud, Pierre Fleury, Ligia Stela Florea, Lucile Gaudin-Bordes, Jean-François Jeandillou, Roselyne Koren, Hans Kronning, Grégoire Lacaze, Houda Landolsi, Véronique Magri, Dominique Maingueneau, Sophie Marnette et Laurence Rosier, Maria Aldina Marques et Isabel Duarte, Michèle Monte, François Nemo, Gilles Philippe, François Provenzano, Laura Santone, Louis de Saussure, Agnès Steuckardt, Hélène Vassiliadou, Stefano Vicari et Julien Longhi, Esme Winter-Froemel
Aaron V. Cicourel : de l’ethnométhodologie au problème micro/macro en sciences sociales
No full textPrésentation et introduction du texte d’Aaron V. Cicourel « Notes on the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis », extrait de l’ouvrage Advances in Social Theory and Methodology – Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, édité par Karin D. Knorr-Cetina et Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp.51-80. Traduction française par Alain Accardo et Francis Chateauraynaud, révisée par Philippe Corcuff. Publié avec l’aimable autorisation de l’auteur.Cet article s’efforce de resituer le texte, traduit pour la première fois ici en langue française, dans le parcours scientifique du sociologue américain, né en 1928, relativement méconnu dans le monde francophone. Il retrace son évolution de l’ethnométhodologie à la sociologie cognitive. Puis il s’intéresse à ses originalités quant au problème micro/macro. Dans ces deux principales parties, l’auteur est amené à mettre en évidence des convergences et des différences avec des sociologues importants : Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel et Erving Goffman.Introduction to the Aaron V. Cicourel’s text, « Micro-processes and macro-structures » (1981)Presentation and introduction of Aaron V. Cicourel’s text « Notes on the integration of micro- and macro-levels of analysis », taken from Advances in Social Theory and Methodology – Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, edited by Karin D. Knorr-Cetina and Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pp.51-80. French translation by Alain Accardo and Francis Chateauraynaud, revised by Philippe Corcuff. Published with the pleasant authorization of the author. This text is translated here in French for the first time. This article intends to put in perspective the text in the scientific course of the American sociologist, born in 1928 and relatively ignored in the French-speaking world. It gives the general outline of his evolution from ethnomethodology to cognitive sociology. Then it deals with its originalities as for the micro /macro problem. In these two principal parts, the author is brought to highlight convergences and differences with important sociologists: Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel and Erving Goffman.Aaron V. Cicourel: de la etno-metodología al problema de lo micro/macro en las ciencias socialesPresentación e introducción al texto de Aaron V. Cicourel « Notes on the integration of micro-and macro-level of analysis » inserto en el libro Advances in Social Theory Toward and Integration of Micro-and Macro- Sociologies, editado por Karin D. Knorr-Cetina y Aaron V. Cicourel, Boston, London and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981, pg. 51-80. Traducción francesa de Alain Accardo y Francis Chateauraynaud, revisada por Philippe Corcuff. Publicado con la amable autorización del autor.Este artículo intenta resituar el texto, traducido por la primera vez en lengua francesa, de este sociólogo norteamericano, nacido en 1928 y poco conocido en el mundo francófono. Expone su evolución de la etnometodología a la sociología cognitiva. Seguidamente expone su aproximación sobre lo micro/macro. En estas dos partes principales el autor pone en evidencia las convergencias y divergencias existentes con sociólogos importantes: Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel y Erving Goffman
Relationality, polemics, incommensurability: thinking the political at the intersections of the work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault
No full textPhDThis thesis is focused on the intersections of ontology and politics in the work of Michel
Foucault and Jacques Derrida. In particular it concerns the ways in which these two thinkers
offer accounts of (ethical, social, political) relations which exceed a traditional dichotomy
between transcendentalism and empiricism. Both Derrida and Foucault show universal
foundations to originate in an anterior play of differences 'between' the transcendental and
empirical. However, as this thesis shows, each thinks this anterior 'medium' of relations in
radically incommensurable ways: as differance or aporia in Derrida and as power and
problematization in Foucault. As such, each necessarily views the other as failing to account
for the ‘true medium’ of relationality and so of its violent effacement and disavowal. This
incommensurability, it is argued, results in a polemic between them which is explicit in their
competing accounts of Descartes’ Meditations and implicit throughout all of their work. This
thesis traces the polemic between Derrida and Foucault across their accounts of subjectivity,
ethics and politics. It is argued that in their engagements with each of these fields they
employ parallel politicizing strategies which are nevertheless wholly exclusive of one another.
The incommensurability between Derrida and Foucault reflects a broader problematic
which any political thought affirming its own finitude cannot explicitly recognize. Postfoundational
accounts of relationality, it is claimed, violently exclude competing
philosophical strategies without the capacity of accounting for this exclusion
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