The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Questioning Modernization
Discussion, in collaboration with La Découverte and Ouvrir l'Œil bookstore
Modernization’s ghost haunts the planet. We compare societies according to their degree of modernization without necessarily thinking about its relevance. Bruno Latour proposes a philosophical anthropology of ways of living [Translation note: in French “modes d’existence” ] delving into every field at the core of our collective life: science and technology as well as law, religion and politics, and of course economics, the strangest and most ethnocentric of human inventions.
Bruno Latour, sociologue, anthropologue / France
en dialogue avec
Sylvain Bourmeau, journaliste / France
