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This article reports on an investigation into the channels through which intellectuals have gained public recognition since the 1970s (quality press, intellectual journals, think tanks, conference venues, cultural radio and TV programs, publishing houses, etc.). Through the prism of field theory, we explored a space – that of the visibility of ideas – situated at the crossroads of several institutionally established fields (academic, intellectual, media, political, and economic). While the number of studies devoted to this type of interstitial space has multiplied since the 2000s, the focus has mainly been on their heteronomy through comparisons with autonomous fields. This approach tends to lose sight of the fact that they could neither emerge nor endure in the absence of stability. Based on the notion of the space of visibility of ideas, the present paper attempts to show that it is possible to apprehend the stability of these labile spaces by adopting an ethnographic approach, conducive to the articulation of micro/meso/macro levels and the mixing of methods. In so doing, we put forward the idea that interstitial spaces can ultimately be analyzed in terms of perimeters and capital, in other words, as fields.

Cet article analyse l'emprise des médias de grande diffusion sur la circulation des idées à travers le rôle de groupes sociaux et d'institutions « intermédiaires » au sens où ils assurent le passage entre des régions distinctes de l'espace social. À cette fin, nous mobilisons une enquête sur les nouveaux circuits de visibilité des idées qui se sont développés au sortir des années 1970 en associant légitimité savante et audience élargie : presse de qualité, émissions de radio et de télévision, revues intellectuelles à grand tirage, laboratoires d'idées, établissements culturels, agences de conférenciers, maisons d'édition, etc. L'exploration de ce champ nouveau montre que le circuit des conférences savantes pour le grand public y occupe la position d'un espace intermédiaire qui favorise l'accès des intellectuels aux médias et redouble leurs chances d'y faire carrière. Avec l'essor de l'idéologie du décloisonnement culturel à la fin des années 1960, le circuit des conférences a pu bénéficier de la politique d'extension du domaine culturel mise en place au début des années 1980, de l'autolégitimation offerte par une production équivoque en termes de dispositif et de contenus et, enfin, de biens propices au marketing culturel (événementiel et produits dérivés). Par ailleurs, les professionnels engagés dans l'organisation des conférences ont su mobiliser les ressources du décloisonnement culturel pour placer le monde intellectuel dans l'orbite des classements médiatiques et accroître ainsi leur pouvoir d'intermédiaires.

International audience ; Under the effect of major technological innovations and increased globalization of commercial exchanges since the end of the 1980s, numerous transformations are constantly affecting the cultural industries. It is in this context, where the logic of profit tends to be accentuated in cultural markets, that many sectors have sought to distinguish their products from those of the mass market. Although it covers quite different practices and representations according to the sectors concerned, the claim of independence emanates from bodies having in common to have renounced neither the audience nor the economic profitability. Starting with the case of the University of All Knowledge (Utls), this article is devoted to the stakes of independence in a sector that is generally little studied: that of scientific popularization. What are the issues of independence specific to an activity that has to adjust the content of science to the constraints of wider dissemination? The article shows that the Utls formula, as conceived by Yves Michaud, is based on the promotion of a quality science (renowned scientists, prestigious academic institutions, etc.) for which the required line is imperatively that of participation, accommodation or, failing that, indifference to the political and economic orders. From this point of view, it can be said that such an enterprise reflects a rather unprecedented synthesis of arrangements in which the signs of independence are established on multiple dependencies, by virtue of the entangled relationships between the state and the market that these new dominant fractions institute within the local, national and international spaces of power. ; Sous l'effet d'importantes innovations technologiques et d'une mondialisation accrue des échanges commerciaux depuis la fin des années 1980, de nombreuses transformations ne cessent d'affecter les industries culturelles. C'est dans ce contexte où les logiques du profit tendent à s'accentuer sur les marchés de la culture que de ...

International audience ; Under the effect of major technological innovations and increased globalization of commercial exchanges since the end of the 1980s, numerous transformations are constantly affecting the cultural industries. It is in this context, where the logic of profit tends to be accentuated in cultural markets, that many sectors have sought to distinguish their products from those of the mass market. Although it covers quite different practices and representations according to the sectors concerned, the claim of independence emanates from bodies having in common to have renounced neither the audience nor the economic profitability. Starting with the case of the University of All Knowledge (Utls), this article is devoted to the stakes of independence in a sector that is generally little studied: that of scientific popularization. What are the issues of independence specific to an activity that has to adjust the content of science to the constraints of wider dissemination? The article shows that the Utls formula, as conceived by Yves Michaud, is based on the promotion of a quality science (renowned scientists, prestigious academic institutions, etc.) for which the required line is imperatively that of participation, accommodation or, failing that, indifference to the political and economic orders. From this point of view, it can be said that such an enterprise reflects a rather unprecedented synthesis of arrangements in which the signs of independence are established on multiple dependencies, by virtue of the entangled relationships between the state and the market that these new dominant fractions institute within the local, national and international spaces of power. ; Sous l'effet d'importantes innovations technologiques et d'une mondialisation accrue des échanges commerciaux depuis la fin des années 1980, de nombreuses transformations ne cessent d'affecter les industries culturelles. C'est dans ce contexte où les logiques du profit tendent à s'accentuer sur les marchés de la culture que de ...

International audience ; Under the effect of major technological innovations and increased globalization of commercial exchanges since the end of the 1980s, numerous transformations are constantly affecting the cultural industries. It is in this context, where the logic of profit tends to be accentuated in cultural markets, that many sectors have sought to distinguish their products from those of the mass market. Although it covers quite different practices and representations according to the sectors concerned, the claim of independence emanates from bodies having in common to have renounced neither the audience nor the economic profitability. Starting with the case of the University of All Knowledge (Utls), this article is devoted to the stakes of independence in a sector that is generally little studied: that of scientific popularization. What are the issues of independence specific to an activity that has to adjust the content of science to the constraints of wider dissemination? The article shows that the Utls formula, as conceived by Yves Michaud, is based on the promotion of a quality science (renowned scientists, prestigious academic institutions, etc.) for which the required line is imperatively that of participation, accommodation or, failing that, indifference to the political and economic orders. From this point of view, it can be said that such an enterprise reflects a rather unprecedented synthesis of arrangements in which the signs of independence are established on multiple dependencies, by virtue of the entangled relationships between the state and the market that these new dominant fractions institute within the local, national and international spaces of power. ; Sous l'effet d'importantes innovations technologiques et d'une mondialisation accrue des échanges commerciaux depuis la fin des années 1980, de nombreuses transformations ne cessent d'affecter les industries culturelles. C'est dans ce contexte où les logiques du profit tendent à s'accentuer sur les marchés de la culture que de nombreuses filières ont cherché à démarquer leurs produits de ceux qui se rattachent au pôle de la grande diffusion. Bien qu'elle recouvre des pratiques et des représentations assez différentes suivant les secteurs concernés, la revendication d'indépendance émane d'instances ayant en commun de n'avoir renoncé ni à l'audience ni à la rentabilité économique. À partir du cas de l'Université de tous les savoirs (Utls), cet article est consacré aux enjeux de l'indépendance s'agissant d'un secteur généralement peu étudié : celui de la vulgarisation scientifique. Qu'en est- il en effet des enjeux de l'indépendance propres à une activité ayant à ajuster le contenu de la science aux contraintes de la diffusion élargie ? L'article montre ainsi que la formule de l'Utls, telle que l'a conçue Yves Michaud, est fondée sur la mise en avant d'une science de qualité (personnalités scientifiques de renom, institutions académiques prestigieuses, etc.) pour laquelle la ligne exigée est impérativement celle de la participation, de l'accommodement ou, à défaut, de l'indifférence aux ordres politique et économique. De ce point de vue, on peut dire qu'une telle entreprise reflète une synthèse plutôt inédite de dispositifs où les signes de l'indépendance s'établissent sur des dépendances multiples, en vertu des rapports d'intrication entre l'État et le marché qu'instituent ces nouvelles fractions dominantes au sein des espaces locaux, nationaux et internationaux du pouvoir.

from 2009, French intellectuals Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut meet in various public scenes. This article is intended to show that, in view of the inclusion of this debate in these cultural bodies, the meeting between Badiou and Finkielkraut was unlikely. By providing a sociological explanation of the (sub) text of the explanation, the aim was to understand, from a comparative perspective, the structural, longitudinal and design dimensions underlying the manufacture of this co-product. The first part of that article sought, first of all, to establish, on the basis of a sociography of the respective routes of Badiou and Finkielkraut, that they share heterodox intellectual profiles associated with those same external careers of the cultural celebration. Secondly, we sought to show that the confrontatio set up following a radical ideological opposition offers them, above all, the opportunity to strengthen the prevalence within these channels of the intellectual reputation of this academic and mondal style, in a highly sophisticated way of combining those of anti-school with the effects of schools. This meeting between Badiou and Finkielkraut therefore condense on its own all the changes in the intellectual field since the late 1970s as a result of the emergence of these visibility circuits. First, it confirms the monopoly exercised by those cultural celebration networks in access to the public knowledge of intellectuals and, therefore, the bottom-up of the resources of the relational network over the autonomous species of cultural capital. On the other hand, editorial arrangements such as the explanation, by seeking to overcome ideological divisions, remain an example of the intellectual world's compliance with the journalistic methods of mediation and consensus. ; International audience Since 2009, the French intellectuals Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut have been meeting on various public stages. This article proposes to show that, given the inclusion of this debate in these instances of cultural ...