Réflexions pour 1985: a study in the vernacular of progressive compliance

Brian  Sudlow

doi:10.1080/1369801X.2017.1336466

Réflexions pour 1985: a study in the vernacular of progressive compliance

Brian Sudlow^*

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"Réflexions pour 1985", a prospective report published in 1964, envisaged what France might look like in 1985. This article argues that the blend of "probable" and "desirable" in its imagined vision of the future reveals an agenda of enforcing social compliance with its techno-scientific assumptions. To test such an assessment of the text, this article offers a study of the shaping factors and shaping actors of the report, before analysing the language of the report itself.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	692-705
Journal	Interventions
Volume	19
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1336466
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2017

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Interventions on 12/06/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1336466

Keywords

réflexions pour 1985
Gaston Berger
Jean Fourastié
progress
ideology
techno-politics

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Réflexions pour 1985 a study in the vernacular of progressive compliance
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Interventions on 12/06/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1336466
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