We are pleased to announce the release of issue 142 (2025/04) of Flux magazine, Technical Utopias (1/2), coordinated by Fanny Lopez, Anaël Marrec, and Olivier Coutard.
The second volume of this issue is scheduled for publication in March 2026.
Summary of Technical Utopias
Technical utopias, between political imaginaries and social mobilizations, by Anaël Marrec and Fanny Lopez
Henri de Graffigny, Electroculture and the Genealogy of Electric Utopias, by François Jarrige
The circulus in the 20th century: resurgence and metamorphosis of the ideal of agricultural recycling of excreta in the era of the Great Acceleration (France, 1930s–1980s), by Étienne Dufour
"Peace through sewers," or Mediterranean unity as an urban, geopolitical, and environmental utopia (1950s–1990s), by Samuel Ripoll
Believing in fast breeder reactors. The transformations of a nuclear utopia, by Martin Denoun, Claire Le Renard, and Ange Pottin
Bibliographical references
Martine Bartolomei, Francis Beaucire, and Arnaud Passalacqua (eds.), The Sea, Wind Turbines, and Citizens: New Territories of Energy, Paris, Hermann, 2022, 281 p., by Didier Kahn
Emmanuel Foëx (with an essay by Nicola Braghieri), Power Plants – Hydroelectric Architecture and Landscapes of the Alps, Geneva, MétisPresses, 2024, 440 p., by Elke Mittmann
Pascal Auzannet, The mobility puzzle in Île-de-France, Paris, Hermann, 2025, 212 p., by Félicien Boiron
Jean-Baptiste Butlen, Pauline Sirot, Mathurin Basile (eds.), Living Soils: Taking Soils into Account in Land Use Planning, Marseille, Parenthèses, 2024, 224 p., by Arturo Romero Carnicero