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The View of Life is still under-studied despite its status as capstone to Simmel's work. Departing from Simmel's image as an unsystematic flâneur or bricoleur, I assess the affinity of his late theory of life forms with Schutz's analysis of human action in three steps: First, as a common concern with the clarification of foundational problems that coincide with interpretive sociology's basic idea of tracing back all cultural objectivations to the dynamics of living processes. Second, as an articulation of life's self-transcendence concordant with the tension between action as a projected act (modo futuri exacti) and as an ongoing process (modo presenti) uncovered by Schutz for the first time in his posthumously published book Life Forms and Meaning Structures. I follow with a third proposal about how Simmel's line of thought on freedom as a capacity to break through purposiveness and as a rise of ideal constructs might complement Schutz's attention to the growth of the acting self through life events, suggesting that The View of Life can be regarded as a precedent to Schutz for linking action projection to the development of aspirations and ideals, and to theorize how the realization of projects supports the development of individual integrity and the ability to appropriate one's life in the midst of unfamiliar and critical situations. Simmel and Schutz are thus shown to contribute to an approach to creative action in sociology.

In collective representations and imaginaries, Senegalese wrestlers are usually associated with strength, “virility”, courage, determination, self-confidence, and success. These main “virtues” of the “heroic masculinity's” ideal model, which wrestlers are driven to embody, paradoxically augment their vulnerabilities. How does the multiplicity of relationships, contingencies, moral norms and esthetic models, which mold wrestlers' subjectivities permits to problematize the commonsense idea of Senegalese wrestling as a preserve of a frozen “heroic masculinity”?

Keywords: Fanoli, Wane, Chevé, lutte sénégalaise, masculinité, vulnérabilité, réputation, pratiques de soi, Sénégal, Fanoli, Wane, Chevé, Senegalese wrestling, masculinity, vulnerability, reputation, practices of the self, Senegal, Fanoli, Wane, Chevé, lucha senegalesa, masculinidad, vulnerabilidad, reputación, prácticas de sí, Senegal

Metro Al Madina (City Metro) is a cultural space located in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Since 2012, it has offered a diverse program blending cabaret, theatre, and music. Metro Al Madina presents festive and entertaining performances that respond to the country's complex sociopolitical context. Its productions highlight musical heritage through a contemporary lens. The programming also adapts to current events and audience preferences. What are the artistic and economic choices that support the productivity and continuity of this space?

Keywords: théâtre libanais, cabaret de Beyrouth, Hisham Jaber, Metro Al Madina, Hishik Bishik Show

The present article explores how reality TV, as portrayed in Aurélien Bellanger's novel Téléréalité, reflects the transformations and perceptions of television as media. Bellanger's text uses reality TV to examine the links between reality and representation and proposes a study of how this type of media influences, and is influenced by, contemporary social and cultural dynamics. The novel is presented as a saga tracing the evolution of television from a mass media to an all-inclusive cultural phenomenon, illustrating its capacity to model and reflect society. Accordingly, this article discusses the aesthetic and ideological aspects of reality TV, highlighting its role in the construction of television reality and its impact on collective and individual identity. As well, it underscores television's shift to digital and interactive formats, marking an additional stage in the evolution of media narration. Reality TV is analyzed not only as a reflection of society, but also as an active agent in the creation of new forms of media reality, thereby offering a perspective on television as a media that is permanently reinventing itself.

From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, anti-Chinese immigration laws structured the restriction and exclusion of Chinese migrants in Canada. However, Chinese strategies used to circumvent these laws were open secrets. This article examines the strategy of paper family migration to investigate the following ethical and methodological dilemmas: What is a secret? How might we study secrets without exposing community knowledge? How do we find archival traces of people who do not wish to be found? Chinese migrants created paper families when they purchased the identification papers, and performed the identity, of a person who was legally admissible to the country, a process I call passing. My contribution to this forum takes paper families as an opportunity to consider the role of secrecy in both Chinese migrants' passing and efforts by immigration agents to regulate them. I argue that secrecy conditioned knowledge production for Chinese paper families and state officials. Rather than approach secrets as hidden knowledge, I understand secrets as a particular kind of knowledge. Doing so not only avoids the risks of exposing passers but offers a method for studying secrecy that foregrounds understandings of why these secrets were produced, how they were kept, and what they achieved.

This contribution, based on the cross-referencing of administrative, missionary and medical sources, delves into the history of leprosy in New Caledonia to illuminate an aspect of disease management that has been relatively underexplored: the differentiated measures taken for the isolation of lepers and the punitive actions against those who resisted, based on their classification by the administration as “free” European settlers, “liberated” (former penal colony inmates), “penal elements” (those transported or relegated to the penal colony), and “Native and Asian/Oceanian immigrants”. The study reveals the coercive nature of policies applied to the most subordinate categories, the colonized and the convicts. It also highlights the Kanak people's resolute resistance to the exclusion and the dissolution of social bonds, as well as their ability to thwart isolation measures. This overview of the series of missteps, errors, and ultimately, the administrative and medical management fiasco of leprosy, until the advent of antibiotic treatments, in the 1950s, brought the epidemic under control, adds another layer to what Guillaume Lachenal has termed “the anthropology of colonial foolishness” (2014).

Keywords: Salomon, Nouvelle-Calédonie, période coloniale, lèpre, exclusion, catégorisation, résistance, Salomon, New Caledonia, colonial period, leprosy, exclusion, categorization, resistance, Salomon, Nueva Caledonia, periodo colonial, lepra, exclusión, categorización, resistencia

This study examines Banville's poems published in the press during the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. The article shows how poetic satire undergoes a renewal in contact with media culture and becomes a poetry of resistance to the invader. We examine the connections between Banville's poems and the caricatures of the time: their pictorial dimension, based on the interplay of black and white and the touch of expressive color; the art of skewering and caricatural portraiture; the use of highly suggestive allegories, featuring figures of the invader capable of mobilizing readers while making them aware of the dangers of imagery; a carnivalization of horror that liberates from its haunting. The study also underscores the importance of the theatrical model, which transforms speech into a comic performance, prompting a revival of verse and of experiments aimed at making this speech more expressive. It illustrates how poetic satire draws from the vibrant source of the French spirit, cultivated by the small press and popular theater, to unleash a vengeful laughter and create a versified comic language capable of elevating poetry above circumstances.

In West-Africa as elsewhere, disabled women’s sex life remains highly affected by risks of sexual violence and unprotected sex. Even if authors who have studied the issue tend to assert that they are more prone to sexual related risks in comparison to able-bodied women, the explanatory reasons of this finding remain fairly explored in this context. This article aims to understand the processes that expose disabled women to sexual risks in Ouagadougou. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with 32 lower limbs disabled and blind women, the article shows through the subjective experience, how the phenomena of “defeminisation” and “hyper sexuation”, participate to enhance their sexual vulnerability . Associated to the dependency due to the absence of enabling environment, these phenomena helps to create frameworks conducive to a risky sexual life, in a context where sexual intercourse with a disabled woman assumes moreover, cultural meanings.

Keywords: handicap au féminin, stigmate, représentations sociales, genre, violences sexuelles, Burkina Faso, feminine disability, stigma, social representations, gender, sexual violence, Burkina Faso

The article envisages the repercussions of the conflicts generally named "chemical or bacteriological warfare" on the populations, by insisting on the effects, true or supposed by these conflicts on the diseases or deficiencies which can possibly arise. The questions of the alliance between science and cruelty and of the scientific proof measuring the effects of these conflicts are handled under the civilizational angle.

Keywords: conflits armés, science, personnes ayant des incapacités, armes nucléaires et bactériologiques, armed conflicts, science, people with disabilities, nuclear and bacteriological weapons