Publications by Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Counterculture as a Financial Asset: The Commodification of LX Factory in Lisbon

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

In recent decades, European cultural policies have become inseparable from urban policies, with culture becoming both the new promotional tool for cities aiming to be ‘creative’ (Vanolo, 2008; Vivant, 2009) and the source of unprecedented real estate profi ...

2023

L'aménagement du territoire comme espace public : quelques questions de démocratie locale posées par l’extension de l’École hôtelière dans le périurbain lausannois

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Based on a field survey on the conflicts regarding the extension of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, this text discusses the production of public space. These controversies make possible an understanding of the production process of peri-urban space in ter ...

2022

L'irruption des contre-cultures dans la ville. Petite histoire genevoise de la dimension spatiale des subversions

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Metispresses2020

L'avènement de la post contre-culture. Fragmentations, coalitions et nouvelle géographie culturelle

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Metispresses2020

L'invention de la culture alternative : Quand la question culturelle devient question urbaine

Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Metispresses2020

Le piège de la créativité : examen sémantique et pragmatique du capitalisme créatif

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

The urban order has fashioned a new grammar. In literal terms, the theories of the creative class, creative economy and creative city function as a unit that is both descriptive and prescriptive; they have the advantage of taking into account the utility o ...

2017

The creativity trap : semantic and pragmatic study of creative capitalism

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

The urban order has fashioned a new grammar. In literal terms, the theories of the creative class, creative economy and creative city function as a unit that is both descriptive and prescriptive; they have the advantage of taking into account the utility o ...

Revues Org2017

Ambiguïtés de la « ville créative » : néolibéralisation, condition urbaine et puissances politiques de l'art

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

Art and culture have a renewed role in the contemporary city. Theories relative to the creative class, the creative economy and the creative city are both descriptive and prescriptive; they focus on the role of culture in the urban production process and, ...

EPFL2017

"Au-delà du bassin des enfants, la stabilisation bienvenue d’un champ critique" - À propos de Christian Laval, Luca Paltrinieri & Ferhat Taylan (dir.), Marx & Foucault. Lectures, usages, confrontations, La Découverte, Paris 2015 (300 p.)

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

2016

Creativity without critique: An inquiry into the aesthetization of alternative culture

Yves Pedrazzini, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Mischa-Sébastien Piraud, Letícia Cabeçadas Do Carmo

Based on a research in Lisbon, Geneva and Ljubljana, this paper aim to analyse the uses of the term “alternative” (along its formal and aesthetic registers) in order to tackle the question of the aesthetization of creativity, away from its critical dimensi ...

2014