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Yves Citton is professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis. He has been executive director of the Ecole Universitaire de Recheche ArTeC from 2018 to 2021, he has taught for 13 years at the Université Grenoble Alpes and for 12 years in the department of French and Italian of the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He got his PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, has received a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the Université de Louvain in 2018 and has been invited Professor at New York University, Harvard and Sciences-Po Paris.

He co-directs the journal Multitudes. He animated for 10 years the weekly radio show Zazirocratie on Radio Campus Grenoble 90.8 FM, with past programs downloadable from this site and from the radio’s.

He has published more than a dozen books, including Altermodernités des Lumières (Seuil, 2022), Faire avec. Conflits, coalitions, contagions (Les Liens qui Libèrent, 2021), Générations collapsonautes. Naviguer par temps d’effondrement avec Jacopo Rasmi (Seuil, 2020),  Contre-courants politiques (Fayard, 2018), Médiarchie (Seuil 2017, published in English as Mediarchy by Polity Press in 2019), Pour une écologie de l’attention (Seuil, 2014, published in English translation by Polity Press as The Ecology of Attention in 2017), Pour une interprétation littéraire des controverses scientifiques (Éditions Quae, 2013), Gestes d’humanités. Anthropologie sauvage de nos expériences esthétiques (Paris, Armand Colin, 2012), Renverser l’insoutenable (Paris, Seuil, 2012), Zazirocratie. Très curieuse introduction à la biopolitique et à la critique de la croissance (Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2011), L’Avenir des Humanités. Économie de la connaissance ou cultures de l’interprétation ? (Paris, Éditions de la Découverte, 2010), Mythocratie. Storytelling et imaginaire de gauche (Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2010), Lire, interpréter, actualiser. Pourquoi les études littéraires ? (Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2007), L’Envers de la liberté. L’invention d’un imaginaire spinoziste dans la France des Lumières (Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2006, which won the Prix Rhône-Alpes du Livre 2007), Portrait de l’économiste en physiocrate. Critique littéraire de l’économie politique (L’Harmattan, 2000) and Impuissances. Défaillances masculines et pouvoir politique de Montaigne à Stendhal (Aubier, 1994).

He has also published more than three hundred articles, most of which can be downloaded from this site, as well as a few talks and interviews, in audio or video.