Writings
These works are written in French.
Éditions L’Encre du Temps
- Lorsque la terre se retire Forthcoming Some truths do not come to enlarge the one who knows. They come to displace him.
- Habiter le temps In preparation What does it mean to live when the future is no longer required to authorise presence?
- La dernière forme In preparation A life is first lived without appearing.
Short texts
Articles
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Entre ordre et chaos. Le corps biométrique, lieu du politique Altérités. Revue d’anthropologie du contemporain, vol. 5, no. 1, “Regards sur les nouvelles technologies”, 2008, pp. 14–37. Abstract
An opening scene — a traveller, his fingerprints, the digital eye of a border checkpoint — leads into a question: what becomes of the body when it turns into an identity document? Rereading Foucault and Agamben, the article approaches biometrics as the site where the living and the political are bound together anew: the skin, which Valéry held to be what is deepest in man, is summoned as proof, and identity reduced to what the body allows to be read of itself.
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Cerbère chevauchant Héraclite. Biométrie et captation des corps au temps de la modernité liquide In A. Scherrer, E.-P. Guittet and D. Bigo (eds.), Mobilité(s) sous surveillance. Perspectives croisées UE-Canada, Outremont, Athéna éditions, “Sociologie politique de l’international”, 2010. Abstract
As the American US-VISIT programme raises the reading of bodies to a planetary standard, this chapter examines the figure of a new Cerberus: a power that no longer guards borders alone, but flows. In the liquid world described by Zygmunt Bauman, biometrics appears as a security order’s answer to the elusive mobility of human beings — an attempt to moor identity to the flesh, at the risk of inverting the very pact on which the protection of citizens was founded.
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Theses
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L’odyssée du sujet. Aux sources de la subjectivation, le projet d’une troisième topique Doctoral essay in psychology, supervised by Louis Brunet, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2021. Abstract
Contemporary psychoanalytic practice has encountered configurations that exceed the landmarks of classical metapsychology: where neurotic conflict no longer suffices to account for suffering, one must think in terms of fields, spaces, limits and links. Drawing on the intersubjective approach, the essay returns to the sources of subjectivation and sketches the project of a third topography — a way of thinking the subject not only through its agencies, but through the movement by which it comes into being.
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Cerbère au temps des « bio-maîtres ». La biométrie, servante-maîtresse d’une nouvelle ère biopolitique ? Le cas du programme US-VISIT Master’s thesis in anthropology, supervised by Mariella Pandolfi, Université de Montréal, 2008. Abstract
The first stage of a line of research that the article and the chapter would later extend, this thesis takes the US-VISIT programme as its field: a laboratory revealing a new biopolitics, in which identity is no longer declared but read — extracted from the body, then entrusted to the memory of machines. Servant of power, biometrics imperceptibly becomes its mistress as well.
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