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RéSUMé. — L'action scientifique est au centre de nombreuses recherches en sociologie des sciences. Le programme constructiviste tout particulièrement met en évidence ses dimensions tout à la fois manipulatoire, productive et communicationnelle. Mettant en perspective la représentation constructiviste de l'action scientifique du point de vue des registres interdépendants de toute analyse sociologique – théorie, interprétation et démarche empirique – l'auteur se propose non seulement d'établir les limites de modèles interprétatifs et explicatifs aujourd'hui dominants en sociologie des sciences, mais également d'ancrer l'analyse des sciences dans un actionnisme tempéré.

This research proposes a reflection on the relevance of a "art -action" current, based on an analysis of the acts for the art, characterized as "off limits", through a use of the physical presence, such as origin and support of the visual art, begun in the 1920s by Marcel Duchamp, and declined throughout the twentieth century with artistic groups as Dada, the Happening, the Viennese Actionnism, or the Body Art.We study here, through artists performers selected around the singular practices of Albrecht Becker, Ron Athey and Lukas Zpira, the possible limits of artistic acts, staging in extreme way, through performances considered shocking, aggressive, including piercings, tattoos, daring an art of faintness sometimes, being played of conventions, the taboos and the social-cultural codes in place. Thus we see whether it is necessary, today, to still speak about artistic acts political, militant, after the golden age of the Seventies, through a choice among many new esthetics of the human body, successively "hero, subject, material, object, victim, screen" of this transgressive acting-art. Our will is to understand the ambiguity contained in the representation, and all the shown symbolic system, compared to a first intention which is disintegration both thematic and formal in the plastic arts. The discussion is thus about the authenticity and the survival of these artistic extremists and transgressive practices, treating the concept of identity or even the genetics, the discussion being also about their avant-gardist position in the history of "the art for art" brought by the modernity, position to be reconsidered in a society called post-modern.Do this "body- hacking" bring us then towards a future virtual human being, a single existence in the digital universes? Is the body lost or, paradoxically the ultimate recourse, saved by these painful and radical modifications? ; Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur la pertinence d'un « art –action » actuel, à partir d'une analyse d'actes pour l'art, caractérisés comme ...

This research proposes a reflection on the relevance of a "art -action" current, based on an analysis of the acts for the art, characterized as "off limits", through a use of the physical presence, such as origin and support of the visual art, begun in the 1920s by Marcel Duchamp, and declined throughout the twentieth century with artistic groups as Dada, the Happening, the Viennese Actionnism, or the Body Art.We study here, through artists performers selected around the singular practices of Albrecht Becker, Ron Athey and Lukas Zpira, the possible limits of artistic acts, staging in extreme way, through performances considered shocking, aggressive, including piercings, tattoos, daring an art of faintness sometimes, being played of conventions, the taboos and the social-cultural codes in place. Thus we see whether it is necessary, today, to still speak about artistic acts political, militant, after the golden age of the Seventies, through a choice among many new esthetics of the human body, successively "hero, subject, material, object, victim, screen" of this transgressive acting-art. Our will is to understand the ambiguity contained in the representation, and all the shown symbolic system, compared to a first intention which is disintegration both thematic and formal in the plastic arts. The discussion is thus about the authenticity and the survival of these artistic extremists and transgressive practices, treating the concept of identity or even the genetics, the discussion being also about their avant-gardist position in the history of "the art for art" brought by the modernity, position to be reconsidered in a society called post-modern.Do this "body- hacking" bring us then towards a future virtual human being, a single existence in the digital universes? Is the body lost or, paradoxically the ultimate recourse, saved by these painful and radical modifications? ; Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur la pertinence d'un « art –action » actuel, à partir d'une analyse d'actes pour l'art, caractérisés comme ...

Hermann Nitsch's Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries (Orgien Mysterien Theater) grew out of the painful context of post-Fascist Austria. Although Austria had welcomed annexation with Germany in 1938 and the Austrians had been eager collaborators with the Nazis from the outset, as soon as the war was over, they portrayed themselves as victims, denying responsibility for or active participation in Nazi crimes, preferring to blame everything on their German neighbours.In this loathsome atmosphere, in which the majority of the intellectuals of the time remained silent, Hermann Nitsch set up his Theater, using a highly radical, visual language.Contrary to what one might suppose, however, it was not political art.And in fact, after the initial visual shock, the Theater was, above all, philosophical and anthropological. Nitsch maintained that modern man, stripped of mythology, was no longer in harmony with his essence. Postmodern societies, which he deemed alienating, were responsible for a semantic breach between the material and the spiritual. The experience of the Theater, through ritual and its emphasis on anthropological principles of invariance, was a way for the individual to rid himself of societal determinism in order to gain access to continuous knowledge (Bataille). Thus, the Theatre of Orgies andMysteries is a multi-referential, transhistoric work situated on the cusp of micro- and macro-history. Nitsch has stated that "the creative process and the Theater must contribute towards forming a unity with the whole" so as to "erase the difference between immanence and transcendence". All of the activities proposed by Nitsch consist in rituals, sometimes of life and sometimes of death, but all with the aim of erasing the immanence/transcendence dichotomy. Hermann Nitsch's Theater adapts inborn symbolic language (in the Freudian sense) and old traditions in an attempt to demonstrate to the modernindividual that the universe that surrounds them, despite its diversity, is a coherent whole, a surviving continuity in ...

Hermann Nitsch's Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries (Orgien Mysterien Theater) grew out of the painful context of post-Fascist Austria. Although Austria had welcomed annexation with Germany in 1938 and the Austrians had been eager collaborators with the Nazis from the outset, as soon as the war was over, they portrayed themselves as victims, denying responsibility for or active participation in Nazi crimes, preferring to blame everything on their German neighbours.In this loathsome atmosphere, in which the majority of the intellectuals of the time remained silent, Hermann Nitsch set up his Theater, using a highly radical, visual language.Contrary to what one might suppose, however, it was not political art.And in fact, after the initial visual shock, the Theater was, above all, philosophical and anthropological. Nitsch maintained that modern man, stripped of mythology, was no longer in harmony with his essence. Postmodern societies, which he deemed alienating, were responsible for a semantic breach between the material and the spiritual. The experience of the Theater, through ritual and its emphasis on anthropological principles of invariance, was a way for the individual to rid himself of societal determinism in order to gain access to continuous knowledge (Bataille). Thus, the Theatre of Orgies andMysteries is a multi-referential, transhistoric work situated on the cusp of micro- and macro-history. Nitsch has stated that "the creative process and the Theater must contribute towards forming a unity with the whole" so as to "erase the difference between immanence and transcendence". All of the activities proposed by Nitsch consist in rituals, sometimes of life and sometimes of death, but all with the aim of erasing the immanence/transcendence dichotomy. Hermann Nitsch's Theater adapts inborn symbolic language (in the Freudian sense) and old traditions in an attempt to demonstrate to the modernindividual that the universe that surrounds them, despite its diversity, is a coherent whole, a surviving continuity in which they participate.a ; Le Théâtre des Orgies et des Mystères d'Hermann Nitsch s'inscrit dans le contexte douloureux de l'Autriche post fasciste. En effet, alors que cette dernière affiche dès l'annexion de 1938 un collaborationnisme « joyeux », elle s'est, au lendemain de la guerre, victimisée en déniant sa responsabilité et sa participation active aux crimes nazis préférant l'imputer entièrement à son voisin germanique.Aussi, c'est dans cette atmosphère nauséabonde et face au silence de la majorité des intellectuels de l'époque, ou'Hermann Nitsch va mettre en place son Theater à travers un langage plastique d'une grande radicalité.Cependant, contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait penser, il ne s'agit pas d'un art politique. En effet, passé le premier choc visuel, le Theater est avant tout philosophique et anthropologique.L'homme moderne désacralisé ne serait plus selon l'artiste en harmonie avec ce qui le constitue dans son essence. Les sociétés postmodernes, jugées par Nitsch comme aliénantes, seraient à l'origine d'une rupture de sens entre le matériel et le spirituel. L'expérience du Theater propose ainsi à l'individu, par le rituel et la mise en exergue des principes anthropologiques d'invariances de se débarrasser des déterminismes sociétaux afin d'accéder, à une connaissance continue (Bataille).Ainsi, le Théâtre des Orgies et des Mystères est une oeuvre multi référentielle et transhistorique se situant au carrefour entre micro et macrohistoire. L'artiste affirme que « le processus de création et le Theater doivent contribuer à former une unité avec le tout » afin « d'en finir avec la séparation entre immanence et transcendance ». Aussi, chacune des actions proposées par Nitsch consistent en des rituels tantôt de vie tantôt de mort ayant précisément pour objectif de rompre avec l'antagonisme immanence/transcendance. Réactualisant un langage symbolique inné (au sens où l'entend Freud) et des traditions anciennes, le Theater d'Hermann Nitsch tente de démontrer à l'individu moderne que l'univers qui l'entoure, malgré sa diversité, est un tout cohérent relevant d'une continuité survivante auquel il participe.

RéSUMé. — Une grande diversité de paradigmes est souvent prise pour un indice du statut préscientifique d'une discipline. C'est pourquoi cet article se propose de contribuer à la réduction des paradigmes sociologiques. Il est montré que, par-delà leurs différences, la sociologie formelle de Simmel et la sociologie compréhensive de Weber sont réductibles au paradigme commun d'une sociologie nominaliste, dont nous proposons de reconstruire l'axiomatique. En outre, cette réduction des paradigmes permet de souligner la continuité existant entre tous les programmes de recherche qui revendiquent l'un ou l'autre de ces héritages (actionnisme, analyse stratégique, relationnisme, interactionnisme concret, sociologie des réseaux). Les différences constatées ne tiennent pas à une incommensurabilité des paradigmes, mais au fait que ces programmes de recherche se focalisent sur des aspects différents du même paradigme.

Willem Boshoff's work articulates around a pivotal date, April 1994, the first democratic elections in South Africa. He may choose to work gigantic rocks of granite or establish vast installations of accumulated material. The artist claims that his work is based on language, often taking the form of Dictionaries. While reviewing the main questions by artists of the twentieth century, texts or artworks from Europe are systematically tested against their South African counterpart. Boshoff's attitude is determined by a melancholic questioning of his role as a creator linked to a political situation and cultural milieu. He discovers more dynamic ways of presenting gestures when his artistic activity is related to the way of life of a druid. As a conscientious objector he learnt that it is often better to hide the true signification of a sign or to disqualify a text. Boshoff's "Notes towards a blind Aesthetic", where the essential is not visible, invent a dictionary to be read with the hands. Questioning perception theories provides the artist with a way of capsizing the occidental world towards patterns of thinking that he can claim for himself. The multiplicity of languages in South Africa opens up to questions of memory, ecology, disappearance, mental space as a site of creation, experiments with the limits of the fictional. The druid is one exceptional character amongst others in the contemporary art world. Boshoff obliges his visitor to participate in an act of translation which is given provisional but tangible form in such works as "Writing in the Sand" and the "Gardens of Words". The druid becomes the guardian of words and plants in danger of being forgotten also safeguarding them against being petrified or fossilized into a set theory or dogma. Kindred spirits working on all continents are: Sarkis, Mofokeng, Baumgarten, Mudzunga, Ulrichs, Kosuth, Wafer, Bochner, Gette, Filliou, Darboven, Alÿs, Acconci, Langa, Marshall McLuhan and Ivan Vladislavić. ; Le travail de Willem Boshoff s'articule autour de la date charnière d'avril 1994, les premières élections démocratiques en Afrique du Sud. Il fait des sculptures en granite et des installations de matériaux accumulés. L'artiste revendique son attachement à un art basé sur le langage, il est écrivain de dictionnaires. En revisitant les questions posées par les artistes du XXème siècle, textes et œuvres produits en Europe sont systématiquement vérifiés au regard de leur contrepartie sud-africaine. L'attitude de Boshoff, une mélancolique interrogation de son rôle de créateur, s'explique par les conditions politiques et son milieu culturel. L'artiste découvre des façons plus dynamiques de faire geste quand il adopte ce persona du druide. Lors de son objection de conscience au service militaire il avait appris qu'il est mieux de cacher la véritable signification d'un signe ou d'inventer des façons de disqualifier les textes. Les "Notes pour une esthétique aveugle" où l'essentiel n'est pas visible, inventent un dictionnaire à être lu avec les mains. Boshoff interroge ici les théories de perception qui munissent l'artiste sud-africain d'une façon de faire basculer le monde occidental vers une pensée qu'il peut réclamer sienne. La multiplicité des langues en Afrique du Sud s'ouvre à des questions de mémoire, d'écologie, de disparition, d'espace mental, des limites de la ficticité. Boshoff incite son spectateur à une opération de traduction qui peut être envisagée de façon tangible dans des œuvres tels que "Writing in the Sand" et les "Jardins de mots". Le druide est le berger des mots et des plantes en danger d'oubli. Par le même geste il les protège contre la possibilité d'être pétrifiés ou fossilisés dans une théorie ou dans un dogme. Un champ d'intelligibilité du travail de Boshoff est créé à l'aide d'esprits apparentés: Sarkis, Mofokeng, Baumgarten, Gette, Mudzunga, Ulrichs, Zulu, Kosuth, Wafer, Bochner, Filliou, Darboven, Alÿs, Acconci, Langa, Marshall McLuhan, Ivan Vladislavić.

Willem Boshoff's work articulates around a pivotal date, April 1994, the first democratic elections in South Africa. He may choose to work gigantic rocks of granite or establish vast installations of accumulated material. The artist claims that his work is based on language, often taking the form of Dictionaries. While reviewing the main questions by artists of the twentieth century, texts or artworks from Europe are systematically tested against their South African counterpart. Boshoff's attitude is determined by a melancholic questioning of his role as a creator linked to a political situation and cultural milieu. He discovers more dynamic ways of presenting gestures when his artistic activity is related to the way of life of a druid. As a conscientious objector he learnt that it is often better to hide the true signification of a sign or to disqualify a text. Boshoff's "Notes towards a blind Aesthetic", where the essential is not visible, invent a dictionary to be read with the hands. Questioning perception theories provides the artist with a way of capsizing the occidental world towards patterns of thinking that he can claim for himself. The multiplicity of languages in South Africa opens up to questions of memory, ecology, disappearance, mental space as a site of creation, experiments with the limits of the fictional. The druid is one exceptional character amongst others in the contemporary art world. Boshoff obliges his visitor to participate in an act of translation which is given provisional but tangible form in such works as "Writing in the Sand" and the "Gardens of Words". The druid becomes the guardian of words and plants in danger of being forgotten also safeguarding them against being petrified or fossilized into a set theory or dogma. Kindred spirits working on all continents are: Sarkis, Mofokeng, Baumgarten, Mudzunga, Ulrichs, Kosuth, Wafer, Bochner, Gette, Filliou, Darboven, Alÿs, Acconci, Langa, Marshall McLuhan and Ivan Vladislavić. ; Le travail de Willem Boshoff s'articule autour de la date ...

In the space of a few decades, climate change has established itself as a central object of research for the scientific community and as a high profile social and political question. Closely associated with the work of the IPCC, two dominant modes of action have supplied the institutional response : these are, respectively, mitigation and adaptation. The latter has established itself as a potential path for policy by appealing to the imperative of human survival and adopting the form of a vast normative program. In the first part, I question the scientific and political construction and dissemination of these policies for adapting to climate change as an emerging framework for structuring cross-and multi-global public action. In particular, I analyze the institutionalization process of convergent adaptation policies to climate change in France and Quebec. In the second part, I consider the issues involved in the spread of climate change adaptation via territorial risk management policies and water resource governance. By mobilizing a theoretical framework borrowed from the sociology of tests, actionnism and sociology of social problems, the thesis determines that can produce increasing the visibility of climate change in the territorial management water. This will return three contrasting situations. First, a case of flood management (Richelieu, Quebec) that have been criticized by experts in hydrology and climate change. A situation where expertise integrates into current issues of water management (revision of the management plan for low flow of the Garonne), however ownership of the strategic uncertainties of climate change by water stakeholders forced the transformative potential and the last one situation where the clear expertise of current issues (prospective Garonne 2050) tends to produce an insufficient cognitive tension to engage stakeholders on new practices. Finally, these new requirements imposed by adaptation to climate change conflict with the interests and shorter time frames that still prevail ...

The research relates to the relation between the political actors and subversive art and their respective position on dominant themes such as anti-Semitism, the denial of the Nazi past, the status of women, ecology. From existing theories on relations between engaged art and politics, it is a question of studying the works of art of four artists representative on both policy statements and newer technologies through history from 1945 up to now, in the Second Republic of Austria : the sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka, the painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the Viennese actionist Günter Brus, the feminist Valie Export. Each one, in his own way, shakes up the established order through his aggressive art and writings. The aim is to specify the type and level of protest of these artists and to assess to what extent they have participated in the democratic debate and modernisation within Austrian society as well as in the identity building of Austria after 1945. ; La recherche porte sur les relations entre les acteurs politiques et l'art subversif et leur positionnement face à des thèmes récurrents tels l'antisémitisme, l'oubli du passé, la condition de la femme, l'écologie. Partant des théories existantes sur les rapports entre l'art engagé et le politique, il s'agit d'étudier les œuvres de quatre artistes représentatifs à la fois de l'évolution des positions politiques et des techniques nouvelles à travers l'histoire de 1945 à nos jours, dans la IIe République d'Autriche : le sculpteur Alfred Hrdlicka, le peintre et architecte Friedensreich Hundertwasser, l'actionniste viennois Günter Brus, la féministe Valie Export. Ces artistes bousculent l'ordre établi à travers leur art agressif et leurs écrits. Le but est de définir la nature et le degré de leur protestation et de déterminer dans quelle mesure ils ont participé au débat démocratique et à la modernisation de la société autrichienne ainsi qu'à la construction identitaire de l'Autriche après 1945.