La richesse n'est pas produite ou Essai sur la nature et l'origine de la valeur marchande et la rich

Le matérialisme est aujourd'hui devenu le présupposé implicite de toute vision du monde. Il imprègne les discours théoriques, la recherche scientifique et même le langage courant, au point de constituer le cadre naturel de la pensée contemporaine. Mais sur quoi repose une telle adhésion universelle ? Si tout provient de la matière, y compris la pensée, pourquoi lui accorder un tel pouvoir - au point de remettre en cause l'évidence première de la conscience ? Paradoxalement, le matérialisme tire sa force de cette prétention étonnante de la pensée à juger ce qui peut exister et comment. Cet essai interroge la légitimité d'une telle présomption, en revenant sur l'évidence de la conscience.

The 2011 war in Syria triggered a wave of people seeking asylum in Europe, which brought immigration into the political and media spotlight and sparked numerous debates on displaced people. These debates have been marked by a heightened focus on the terminology used to describe people on the move. Terms such as refugee, migrant, immigrant, asylum seeker, illegal immigrant, and displaced person have circulated in the media, often blurring our understanding of events or conveying contradictory representations of those involved. Moreover, the words used to define people on the move are not fixed in time ; their meaning and reference emerge from events and social representations, thus shaping both the public issue of migration and the image of the social actors concerned. Using a discursive approach that combines discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this book examines how the Belgian media referred to displaced people. It is innovative in three key ways. First, it analyses media coverage in both the French- and Dutch-speaking communities of Belgium, which allows for comparisons of how migration was represented in two culturally, linguistically, and politically distinct regions of the same country. Secondly, it studies both written and audiovisual media by drawing on an extensive dataset of 13, 391 press articles and 3, 490 television news items. Finally, it goes beyond the most commonly used terms related to migration while exploring a significantly broader range of designations than have previously been studied. This book contributes to the understanding of how language shapes social debates and constitutes an essential resource for anyone interested in the multilingual analysis of media texts.