Catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse: amid the existential fear instilled by climate change, pandemics, and artificial intelligence, a group of authors encourages us to contemplate the future of humanity with active optimism. The risks that threaten the
Enmeshed with microhistories, we yearn for great narratives. The Annales school taught us to look at the longue durée of history under the prism of geography and economics, and there is perhaps no better expression of its method than La Méditerranée
Today, the combination of technological innovation and international economic integration has created entirely new forms of network. We must ask ourselves: is our age likely to repeat the experience of the period after 1500, when the printing revolut
