The notion of digital virus covers, in our view, two points: computer viruses that infect our computers and technological solutionism, the unreasonable passion that consists in considering that the solution to all social problems lies in the digital world. Yet the digital world is as vulnerable as the biological world. Moreover, it is dangerous because it pushes us into a digital bondage that undermines democracy. The solution to the crisis is not less democracy, but more democracy. More precisely, we will (...) argue that digital devices do not strengthen democratic communication, they promote a digital connection that hinders deliberation and threatens the very idea of democracy. (shrink)

Researchers in political sciences, communication or sociology who are interested in the public sphere are not as concerned with a civil and solidarity-based economy perspective. Conversely, economists and sociologists working on the civil and solidarity-based economy often do not use the concept of the public sphere in their conceptual equipment. This type of compartmentalization is partly due to an opposition between work, defined as an alienating activity, and political activity defined as an action typical of the free man that many (...) authors claim to borrow from Hannah Arendt and introduces a radical dichotomy between the economic and public spheres. However, as a historical investigation clearly indicates, the analytical distinction between the political order and the economic order cannot be transformed into an empirical dissociation. The civil and solidarity-based economy thus invites the researcher to think about economic activity and political activity together in order to look further into the concept of public sphere. (shrink)

Penser le réel dans sa globalité afin de mieux le transformer, tel est le projet humaniste d’Edgar Morin. Chez celui-ci, cet engagement est multiple : académique, comme la plupart des scientifiques ; politique, comme nombre de sociologues, mais aussi médiatique, comme certains grands intellectuels et civique, comme trop peu de chercheurs. Un exemple de ce lien intime entre ce qu’il appelle le « bien penser » et le « bien agir » nous est donné par son analyse de la construction (...) européenne et sa présidence de l’association Europe 99, projet de civilisation.Think the real in its entirety in order to better transform, is the humanist project of Edgar Morin. In it, this commitment is multiple academic, like most scientific policy, as many sociologists, but also the media, as some leading intellectuals and civic too few researchers. An example of this intimate connection between what he calls the "think" and "do good" is given by the analysis of European and president of the association Europe 99 , a project of civilization. (shrink)