We are delighted to announce the publication of issue 143 (2026/01) of the journal Flux, ‘Technical Utopias’ (2/2), edited by Fanny Lopez, Anaël Marrec and Olivier Coutard.
Contents
Technological utopias: between political imaginaries and social movements
- By Anaël Marrec and Fanny Lopez
The Mask, or the Utopia of the Healthy Mine: Socio-technical Controversies Surrounding the Dust Mask at the Twilight of the Coal Industry (1930s–1980s)
The Last Lighthouse: From Navigation Aids to Coastal Surveillance in France (1967–1988)
Driving an old car: a technological dystopia?
Saving eastern Paris from decline: the urban motorway as a technocratic utopia in the service of urban regeneration
- By Marion Emery
Can automation be harnessed to serve a post-capitalist society? From reclaiming the promises of widespread automation to rebuilding a political project
Reading notes
Roseau, N., and Tassin, B., 2024 (eds.), *With Our Backs to the Wall: Imagining Socio-Ecological Futures*, *Transitions: The New Annals of Ponts et Chaussées*, vol. 4, 149 pp.
Jarrigeon, A., Roseau, N., 2024, *Condition mobile. Ressorts de l’imaginaire*, Infolio, Archigraphy-Futurs Urbains series, 179 pp.
Vérin, H., 2024, Building a Science of Man: Antoine Raucourt, a Committed Graduate of the École Polytechnique (1789–1841), Paris, Classiques Garnier, 514 pp.