Paris invisible city

Paris is given so easily to painters and tourists, it has so often been the subject of books or photographs that we forget the difficulties of thousands of engineers, technicians, civil servants, residents and traders. to make it visible. Bruno Latour and Émilie Hermant take us on a tour of places, usually closed to passers-by, in which the innumerable techniques that make life possible for Parisians are developed - these so-called “panoptic” places from which we never see the whole of Paris. whole. Through their photographic investigation reissued here in a new form, the authors dissect what constitutes the uniqueness of a city like Paris, both sociologically, architecturally and urbanistically. Following in the footsteps of the practical problems posed by the coexistence of such a large number of individuals in such a small area, they understand differently what we mean by the notion of "collective". Each of the unexpected paths of Paris, an invisible city, in its own way, raises the question of the nature of the social bond. By following the myriad of traces we leave daily, this book gradually reveals that Paris, as a whole, is as elusive as it is invisible - except perhaps for its tourists!