From translations to problematic networks: An introduction to co-word analysis

Abstract

This article is the story of a summer shock, my encounter with the manuscript of a book. And what happened little by little. A fragmented and incomplete narrative. He wanted to see things “irreducible and festive”! That's Bruno Latour's youthful, resonant cry.And so it was, my electroshock when I read “Irréductions”, the second part of “Microbes, War and Peace” « The pasteurization France (1984), on a mediterranean beach in July 1981, under a friendly blue sun, and a breeze for playful sails. In the previous decade, I had already been shaken, oh so much! by a thunderclap in an August-lit sky, by the publication of Anti-Œdipe: 1972. The shock was renewed nine years later with the publication of Mille Plateaux. What a decade and what a world, beginning with the Soviet army's entry into the war in Afghanistan! A living crack in « Communism in action », leading to its collapse. This article also attempts to express the gradual, hesitant emergence of doubt about the effects of insomniac reason. And of the development of “hypercontrol” societies.