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Gaster, premier maître ès arts du monde
Rabelais fait de la faim l’inventeur de tous les arts. Ce que ça dit de nos outils de preuve : on n’invente pas pour convaincre, mais parce qu’on ne peut pas.
La moelle inventée
Mirapolis avait dressé un Gargantua de 33 mètres. Rabelais avait prévenu : le risque n’est pas seulement de rester à la surface, c’est d’inventer le fond.
Le catalogue des livres qui n’existent pas
Rabelais énumère 217 jeux, puis catalogue une bibliothèque d’ouvrages imaginaires. Ce qu’un registre trop nourri finit par prouver — et de qui il parle.
From the Normalbaum to the label: being able to unfold the simplification
A label makes a complex reality legible, and that is an essential function. What remains is being able to look behind the category — without abolishing it or discrediting it.
What Our Registry Will Never Be Able to Write
“You can’t put everything on a form”: with James C. Scott, mètis, and the Prussian forest — what a registry can attest to, and what it must never grade.
Our registry started too late
"You sell traceability and you cannot prove who writes your articles." The objection is valid, and what it reveals is worse than what it targets.
The Gaze You Can’t Return
“It’s surveillance.” With Foucault and the panopticon: the three properties of a surveillance device — which ones a registry can reverse, and which it never can.
Two Honest People Who Fail to Close
A canteen, a market gardener, a deal that was there to be had — and no deal. A 1983 theorem states what no amount of traceability will ever fix.
Nobody Is Cheating — And That’s Exactly the Problem
John Nash, the prisoner’s dilemma and the stag hunt: why an entire food chain coordinates on price without a single one of its players behaving badly.
The Farming Debate Isn’t Too Complex. It’s Badly Described.
Latour and Spinoza: agricultural complexity isn’t excess chatter around a simple object — it’s an outdated apparatus of description. What actually changed is the cost of the singular.
What Modernization Left Out
A century multiplied yields and divided description. What changed is not morality but cost: green it, or bring it back in.
Who Keeps the Register?
Power does not reside in knowledge but in the place where inscriptions converge. The real question is not “do we need a register”, but who audits it.