Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1177/09571558261417900
John Armitage
The first section of this article offers a conceptual and historical narrative of luxury in eighteenth-century France, moving to an introduction to the main thrust of the eighteenth-century French philosophers of luxury Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean-François de Saint-Lambert's endeavor to enhance the understanding of luxury. However, in the second section, attention is paid to the central theme of what I call “a moment of luxury” in eighteenth-century France, the import of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger's work on the concept of a “moment of vision,” and, in particular, my own original recasting of this experience of insight into people's situation as a “moment of luxurious vision.” In the third and final substantial section, as the article's title suggests, the concept of luxury is paramount in my specific contribution, which is less a historical than a philosophical interpretation of Jean-Honoré Fragonard's 1767–1768 famous painting, The Swing , with an emphasis on the artwork as a representation of a moment of luxurious vision. A conclusion is reserved for an evaluation of this philosophical work and my own assessment of its potential impact.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-09DOI: 10.1177/09571558261418002
Melissa Barchi Panek
This article examines how Julia Ducournau's Titane (2021) reconfigures the cultural coding of the automobile in French cinema by merging it with female corporeality to construct what I term automachinic femininity . Challenging the long-standing masculinized framing of both cars and women as objects of spectacle, the article argues that Titane fuses flesh and metal through a grotesque yet generative aesthetic. Through textual and semiotic analysis, the study situates the film within a lineage of French cinema while emphasizing its radical transgression. Central to this analysis is the figure of the Metallic Madonna, a mythic cyborg hybrid that reworks Marian iconography through machinic pregnancy and birth. By destabilizing binaries such as masculine/feminine and organic/mechanical, Titane positions the female body as a site of posthuman transformation rather than passive display. The article concludes that Ducournau's film offers a feminist posthuman framework for rethinking gender, technology, and embodiment in contemporary cinema today globally.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406518
Ruth Cruickshank
The intersection of food insecurity in occupied France with other risk factors and comorbidities thought to lead to eating disorders has been obscured. So have the profound emotional and functional impacts which occur right across the spectrum of these extremely serious psychiatric conditions, including the most prevalent, yet little-known diagnosis: other specific feeding or eating disorder (OSFED). This article challenges this nexus of neglect. It reveals how historians occlude key psychological impacts of semi-starvation in Vichy France and into the Trente Glorieuses . In the 1944–1945 ‘Minnesota Starvation Experiment’ and recent scientific research, it identifies epistemic injustice whereby testimony of lived experiences, the potential for making sense of them and access to knowledge are prejudicially undermined. Re-reading scientific literature fills some hermeneutic gaps, but Elsa Triolet's literary fiction provides a compelling representation of OSFED and powerfully communicates the impacts of the clinically significant distress or impairment experienced in all eating disorders. Entangling these critical re-readings demonstrates the Humanities’ potential for setting new agendas and for challenging narratives undermining understanding of all eating disorders.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-29DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406513
Bruno Galmar
This article explores how Iverson's APL (A Programming Language), a distinctive programming language, was integrated into Oulipo's Atlas de littérature potentielle by Paul Braffort (1923–2018), the group's AI and programming expert. For Braffort, APL was more than an efficient tool for algorithmic text processing and text generation; it served as a pedagogical “tool of thought” that enabled creative writers to abstract and formalize their ideas about constrained writing. We examine Braffort's technical and aesthetic rationale for adopting APL over more common programming languages. By uniting science (computer science in a broad sense) and humanities (literature) cultures, Braffort embodied a new figure in French experimental literature of the 1970s–1980s: the writer–mathematician–programmer, updating the previous figure in the Oulipo of the writer–mathematician epitomized by Queneau. In today's era of generative AI with natural-language interfaces, his forward-looking vision of modeling literary ideas in APL as a formal language remains both relevant and original. At present, with free access to modern APL tooling and abundant resources, creative writers can more readily than in 1981 experience APL as a powerful “intellectual tool”, a tool that has empowered creative artists beyond the field of literature. Braffort's work with APL in the Atlas stands as a milestone in French computational literature, characterized by the crossing of constrained writing, programming, and the formalizing spirit of early AI.
本文探讨了Iverson的APL（一种独特的编程语言）是如何被该组织的人工智能和编程专家Paul brford（1923-2018）整合到Oulipo的Atlas de litt自然潜能》中。对于brafford来说，APL不仅仅是算法文本处理和文本生成的有效工具；它作为一种教学“思想工具”，使有创造力的作家能够抽象和形式化他们关于约束写作的想法。我们将研究brafford在更常见的编程语言之上采用APL的技术和美学原理。通过将科学（广义上的计算机科学）和人文（文学）文化结合起来，布拉福特体现了20世纪70年代至80年代法国实验文学中的一个新形象：作家-数学家-程序员，更新了以格诺为代表的作家-数学家的奥利波形象。在当今以自然语言界面生成人工智能的时代，他将APL中的文学思想建模为形式语言的前瞻性愿景仍然具有相关性和原创性。目前，随着现代APL工具的免费使用和丰富的资源，有创造力的作家可以比1981年更容易地体验到APL作为一种强大的“智力工具”，一种使有创造力的艺术家超越文学领域的工具。brafford在Atlas中使用APL的工作是法国计算文学的一个里程碑，其特点是将约束写作、编程和早期人工智能的形式化精神结合在一起。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406520
Maxime Cervulle, Sarah Lécossais
This article examines how racial categories shape casting practices in the French film and television industry. Drawing on interviews with 24 casting directors and 51 actors and actresses perceived as non-white, it reveals a highly stratified employment landscape, where ethnoracial stereotypes severely restrict access to significant roles. Although explicit racial categorization is generally prohibited in France, the entertainment industry benefits from specific exemptions that allow casting professionals to openly rely on ethnoracial criteria. Non-white performers describe casting as a degrading, exclusionary process, as they are frequently compelled to embody caricatured roles, adopt fake accents or subjected to demeaning comments about their appearance. Despite formal training and proven talent, they are often confined to minor parts, due to a racialized structure of artistic labor.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406515
Diana Holmes, Max Silverman
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Pub Date : 2025-12-19DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406505
Debra Kelly
The primary aim of this contribution is to seek the traces of those not foremost in the plethora of texts published during and after the Second World War concerning key figures and political and military events of the period. Its focus is a range of French women living in wartime London. It takes in, therefore, the experiences and writings of female citizens of London's well-established ‘French Colony’, alongside those of some of the women belonging to the Free French Corps des Volontaires Françaises who joined de Gaulle in the city in 1940 and shortly afterwards. By working and thinking beyond established historical subjects and sources the aim is also, following Margaret Atack's own commitments and approaches, to construct other archives and different historical knowledge structures.
这一贡献的主要目的是在第二次世界大战期间和之后出版的关于该时期的关键人物和政治和军事事件的大量文本中寻找那些不重要的人的痕迹。它的焦点是一群生活在战时伦敦的法国女性。因此，这本书收录了伦敦这个著名的“法国殖民地”的女性公民的经历和作品，以及1940年和不久之后加入戴高乐的自由法国志愿军（Free French Corps des Volontaires francalaises）的一些女性的经历和作品。通过超越既定的历史主题和来源的工作和思考，她的目标也是遵循玛格丽特·阿特克自己的承诺和方法，构建其他档案和不同的历史知识结构。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406517
Hilary Footitt
This article situates Margaret's early doctoral research, resulting in the seminal study ‘Literature and the French Resistance: Cultural Politics and narrative forms, 1940–1950’, within the 1970s/1980s context of Resistance historical scholarship in which she was working, a scholarship dominated by the Comité d’Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale (the predecessor, 1951–1979, of the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent). The conception, methodology and gendered ownership of the Resistance historiography established by the Comité are reviewed in order to indicate ways in which Margaret's work represented a forceful critique of their notions of Resistance history and historical truth. In doing this, the article reflects on the nature of archives – the first archives on the French Resistance collected immediately after the war when there was little or no official material to hand; oppositional archives like Margaret's developed to contest contemporary historiography, and finally some of the implications of the digitised turn in archives for our understanding of ourselves as researchers.
本文将玛格丽特早期的博士研究置于20世纪70年代/ 80年代她所从事的抵抗运动历史研究的背景下，这一研究产生了开创性的研究“文学与法国抵抗运动：1940-1950年的文化政治和叙事形式”，该研究由法国deuxi Guerre Mondiale历史委员会（1951-1979年，法国革命历史研究所的前身）主导。本文回顾了委员会建立的抵抗运动史学的概念、方法和性别归属，以表明玛格丽特的作品是对他们的抵抗运动历史和历史真相观念的有力批判。在此过程中，本文反思了档案的本质——第一份关于法国抵抗运动的档案是在战争结束后立即收集的，当时很少或根本没有官方资料；像玛格丽特这样的对立档案发展到挑战当代史学，最后是档案的数字化转变对我们作为研究人员对自己的理解的一些影响。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1177/09571558251406746
Michael Kelly
Margaret Atack's work offers a clear insight into the enduring paradoxes of the Occupation and its aftermath. She suggests that novels of Unity written during the Occupation were followed by novels of Ambiguity which reflected the social and moral confusions that haunted France through the post-war period. This is confirmed by the main cultural movements of the 1940s, which struggled to articulate a national spirit that could manage the polarisations of the Occupation. The complex legacy of ambiguities is exemplified by the Catholic personalist movement around Emmanuel Mounier and the review Esprit , whose itinerary is examined from its foundation in 1932. The period of publication under the Vichy Regime in particular posed painful dilemmas which left a legacy of ambiguities when Esprit emerged as a leading literary and philosophical review in the post-war period. The review's trajectory suggests that ambiguity may be the price to be paid for national unity and that unity is always provisional.
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