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This article is about the parliamentary election campaign in June 2012 conducted by the French Pirate Party. We examine how this partisan organization–whose particularity is that it relies on cyberculture to define its political approach–is trying to break the rules of the political game. Indeed, the Pirate Party and its activists want to hack politics by designing and practicing it differently. Accordingly, the Pirate campaign is a relevant practical case to understand how the candidates and the Pirate organization are trying to practice politics. We first analyze the sociography of the Pirate candidates and alternates, and then the campaign strategy and organization, as regards both candidates/alternates and the Pirate organization. Finally, we show the political and organizational consequences of this election campaign.
Keywords: Parti Pirate, partis politiques, campagne, cyberculture, engagement, Pirate Party, political parties, campaign, cyberculture, commitment
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The Seine creates a particular challenge for authors of urban mysteries attempting to unveil the secrets of Paris: it would seem just as incongruous to omit this unavoidable component of the city's geography as it would be to claim this well-known river as a mystery. Thus, several of the novels chosen embrace the second option, while also painting a complex picture of the Seine as a space organized around a cast of characters engaged in odd jobs, which are mostly unknown to the reader. Two figures emerge: the chiffonnier, or the rag picker, and the pirate, both of which are used to provide a socioeconomic representation of the river. By examining the terms of this representation, this paper aims to show how urban mysteries place the expanse of the Seine within the big city.
Keywords: Mystères urbains, chiffonnier, pirate, ville, criminalité, Paris, petits métiers, Urban mysteries, Chiffonnier, Pirate, City, Crime, Paris, Odd Jobs
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