{"id":157,"date":"2020-12-24T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2021-01-03T21:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T20:44:46","slug":"weekly-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/weekly-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly reads 2020-12-21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"page-title\">Let&#8217;s see how long it lasts, trying to revive this blog with a log of my weekly reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"page-title\">David Graeber will be direly missed. So I&#8217;ll start with a late essay from the upcoming book with David Wengrow : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/democracy\/hiding-plain-sight\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/democracy\/hiding-plain-sight\">Hiding in Plain Sight : Democracy\u2019s indigenous origins in the Americas<\/a> by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/contributors\/graeber\">David Graeber<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/contributors\/wengrow\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;David Wengrow<\/a>, in Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same spirit, in French, a critique of the grand narratives of human history, development and inequalities, that Graeber was joyously destroying. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/lhomme.37622\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/lhomme.37622\">Inactualit\u00e9s de la r\u00e9volution n\u00e9olithique: Rousseau, l\u2019Anthropoc\u00e8ne et les nouveaux riches de la pr\u00e9histoire<\/a> de R\u00e9mi Hadad, <em>L&#8217;Homme<\/em>, 234-235(2-3), 2020, pp. 291-318. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another paper on the chinese social credit(s) : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10670564.2020.1852738?journalCode=cjcc20\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10670564.2020.1852738?journalCode=cjcc20\">Rethinking China\u2019s Social Credit System: A Long Road to Establishing Trust in Chinese Society.<\/a> Journal of Contemporary China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>China\u2019s plan to establish a&nbsp;social credit system (SCS) has aroused the concern of building a&nbsp;surveillance state. Yet this view oversimplifies and misunderstands the essence of the SCS. The highest priorities of the SCS are promoting economic credibility and reinforcing court orders. Meanwhile, the SCS aims to steer citizens\u2019 social behaviors and interactions by utilizing a&nbsp;redlist system that introduces numerous moderate rewards. The SCS is also more lax in execution than in planning. It reflects a&nbsp;unique Chinese understanding of law, which treats law as a&nbsp;moral guide. This article also acknowledges the concerns for the SCS. Without actively preventing positive and negative invasions in the construction of the project, the SCS authorities will risk creating further mistrust in society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As I watched Alain Supiot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.college-de-france.fr\/site\/alain-supiot\/La-gouvernance-par-les-nombres-film.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.college-de-france.fr\/site\/alain-supiot\/La-gouvernance-par-les-nombres-film.htm\">mini lecture<\/a> on <em>La Gouvernance par les nombres <\/em>at Coll\u00e8ge de France. His mention in passing of the shift of &#8220;morale&#8221; to &#8220;\u00e9thique&#8221; got me curious of and I went to look at socio\/historical\/anthropological accounts of it. And landed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/question-morale--9782130589396-page-1.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/question-morale--9782130589396-page-1.htm\">La question morale en anthropologie<\/a> de Didier Fassin, \u00e9d., <em>La question morale. <\/em>Presses Universitaires de France, 2013, pp. 1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Au cours des derni\u00e8res d\u00e9cennies, la morale et l\u2019\u00e9thique ont \u00e9t\u00e9 invoqu\u00e9es de mani\u00e8re croissante dans les domaines les plus divers et parfois les plus inattendus. Des hommes politiques, on attend d\u00e9sormais qu\u2019ils aient des comportements moraux dans leur vie priv\u00e9e comme dans leur vie publique, l\u2019une comme l\u2019autre faisant l\u2019objet d\u2019une inquisition \u00e0 laquelle ils n\u2019\u00e9taient gu\u00e8re accoutum\u00e9s. Aux tyrans et aux tortionnaires, on demande des comptes dans le cadre du d\u00e9ploiement de tribunaux internationaux qui sont amen\u00e9s \u00e0 juger des crimes contre l\u2019humanit\u00e9 et des crimes de guerre. Apr\u00e8s la chute des dictatures, des commissions sont mises en place au nom de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 et de la r\u00e9conciliation, qu\u2019on a substitu\u00e9es aux habitudes ant\u00e9rieures de silence ou de vengeance. La finance ne trouve plus sa seule justification officielle dans l\u2019essor du capitalisme et l\u2019enrichissement des sp\u00e9culateurs&nbsp;; les \u00e9pargnants et les actionnaires pr\u00e9f\u00e8rent investir dans des fonds \u00e9thiques se r\u00e9clamant de la solidarit\u00e9 ou de l\u2019\u00e9cologie. Les guerres ne traduisent plus simplement un rapport de forces entre des nations d\u00e9fendant des int\u00e9r\u00eats&nbsp;; lorsqu\u2019elles sont men\u00e9es par des puissances occidentales, elles sont souvent d\u00e9clar\u00e9es humanitaires. Les personnes affect\u00e9es par des al\u00e9as naturels, des violences, des discriminations ne sont plus abandonn\u00e9es \u00e0 leur sort ou aux syst\u00e8mes d\u2019entraide locaux&nbsp;; elles acqui\u00e8rent par leur souffrance reconnue le statut de victime l\u00e9gitime. Les abus sexuels commis par des proches, des pr\u00eatres ou des entra\u00eeneurs sportifs ne sont plus soumis \u00e0 la loi du secret qui a longtemps pr\u00e9valu dans les familles, les \u00c9glises et les clubs&nbsp;; ils sont d\u00e9battus sur la place publique et sanctionn\u00e9s par l\u2019institution judiciaire\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow Alain Supiot&#8217;s lectures are really neat, tying law, economics, anthropology in a really coherent maner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La gouvernance par les nombres - Introduction\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xeG-azZ41f8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how long it lasts, trying to revive this blog with a log of my weekly reads. David Graeber will be direly missed. So I&#8217;ll start with a late essay from the upcoming book with David Wengrow : Hiding in Plain Sight : Democracy\u2019s indigenous origins in the Americas by&nbsp;David Graeber&nbsp;and&nbsp;David Wengrow, in Lapham&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/weekly-reads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekly reads 2020-12-21<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeklyreads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabard.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}