For more than twenty-five years, FYP éditions has published books that help readers understand the present and think about the future: essays in the human sciences, technology and society, foresight, design and the world of work, alongside a fiction collection, Zone grise, and Némoris, a label devoted to the memory of places and the stories of the regions. FYP éditions has published more than 250 titles. Our books are available in bookshops in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg, distributed by Les Belles Lettres. We also publish French editions of international authors, including Paul Bloom, Edward Slingerland, Carole Hooven, Ara Norenzayan, Marion Gibson and Giulio Boccaletti.
Previously licensed: Homo mobilis (Spanish), IA générative (Romanian), Les drones débarquent ! (Chinese, traditional and simplified characters), Anonymous (German), Le modèle Google (English, published as The Google Way by No Starch Press).
Activism has crossed the laboratory threshold: it appears in journals as prestigious as Nature, Science and The Lancet, weighs on funding and reaches into medical practice. What becomes of science when the result it is meant to demonstrate is fixed in advance? Drawing on a long career in biomedical research, Andreas Bikfalvi examines precise cases, including a paper retracted after a public controversy, to show how ideological pressure leads researchers to favour results that serve a cause and set aside those that contradict it. He closes with eleven recommendations to defend the independence of research.
Why it travels
written by a senior biomedical scientist from inside the profession
eleven concrete recommendations
a debate under way in every research system
Author
Physician, scientist and philosopher of science, Andreas Bikfalvi is professor emeritus at the University of Bordeaux. For more than twenty years he headed the LAMC laboratory (Inserm U1029), devoted to angiogenesis and the tumour microenvironment. A senior member of the Institut universitaire de France since 2011, he is the author of more than 250 scientific publications.
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Ce que l’IA fait de nous
English working titleWhat AI Is Doing to Us
Nicolas Spatola
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-285-7
Artificial intelligence is changing not only what we do, but what we are still able to do without it. We ask it to draft an email, summarise a file, help us choose.
It saves time. Yet the more we rely on it, the less we memorise in the same way, and the more its answers weigh on our decisions. At work, the time saved turns into a demand for speed: using AI, optional at first, becomes the expected way of working. A researcher in social and cognitive psychology, Nicolas Spatola uncovers the mechanisms through which this delegation reshapes memory, judgement and decision-making.
Why it travels
a cognitive scientist who has studied human–AI interaction for over a decade
focused on everyday uses at work and at home
relevant to every market adopting generative AI
Author
Nicolas Spatola holds a PhD in social and cognitive psychology. For more than ten years he has studied how our interactions with robots and AI systems transform our perceptions, decisions and behaviour.
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IA générative
English working titleGenerative AI
Ioan Roxin
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-279-6
Understand tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Midjourney, and above all the mechanisms that make them possible. Latent space, neural networks, language models and the generation of images, sounds and video are explained step by step, in a clear, illustrated approach that requires no mathematics.
Generative AI answers with assurance, writes fluent text, creates realistic images, composes sounds and produces videos. But does it understand what it produces? Does it truly create, or does it recombine representations learned in an invisible mathematical space?
Why it travels
illustrated and accessible without mathematical background
written by a pioneer of the field
a universal need for clear explanation
Author
Ioan Roxin is professor emeritus at the Université Marie-et-Louis-Pasteur, former director of the ELLIADD laboratory and former president of the Université ouverte de Montbéliard. He trained in cybernetics in Bucharest.
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Big Tech, le 7e continent
English working titleBig Tech, the Seventh Continent
Jean-François Soupizet
Essay · 224 pages · ISBN 978-2-36405-269-7
A territory with no soil and no borders, whose power now rivals that of states. You already live there.
It appears on no map, yet it covers the whole planet: it steers your purchases, ranks information, shapes your exchanges and tracks your movements. This digital space, which Jean-François Soupizet calls the “seventh continent”, has been captured by a handful of private giants who, within a few decades, have taken on a sovereignty that states allowed to settle in. Infrastructure, interfaces, logistics and algorithmic cognition: the four pillars of this invisible power are analysed with an economist's rigour.
Why it travels
a geopolitical reading of Big Tech as a territory
written by a former European Commission official
a framework that applies to any country
Author
Jean-François Soupizet holds a PhD in economics and is a graduate of ENSAE Paris. A former official of the European Commission and a consultant in digital strategy, he is scientific adviser to the foresight journal Futuribles.
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Guerre en mer
English working titleWar at Sea: From Sail to Drones, Understanding the Revolutions in Naval Combat
Hugo Dufrane
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-287-1
A ship can be targeted without ever having seen its adversary. How is a submarine detected?
What can a crew do against a missile? Why can a single radio signal betray a warship? A senior petty officer in the French Navy and a specialist in electronic warfare, Hugo Dufrane opens the doors of contemporary naval combat. He explains how a warship detects a threat, shares information, protects itself and strikes, and he conveys the reality of the crews who operate these systems, behind the screens and on deck. Illustrated with some thirty original diagrams and completed by a glossary.
Why it travels
an insider's account from a serving naval specialist
some thirty original diagrams
naval warfare is back at the centre of strategic debate worldwide
Author
Hugo Dufrane is a senior petty officer in the French Navy. Holder of the Brevet supérieur Opérations, he has completed many missions at sea and served as watch officer in a CROSS, a French maritime rescue and surveillance coordination centre.
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Graines du mal
English working titleSeeds of Evil
Mohamed Louizi
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-282-6
How can you teach a child who is convinced that the imam's word outweighs the teacher's? Such convictions do not arise by themselves.
A former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Louizi knows this system of control from the inside: he served it for fifteen years before leaving in 2006. Here he looks back, honestly, at what he himself believed, learned and helped to pass on. Twelve seeds that Brotherhood ideology plants in children's minds; twelve fears that make them grow. A mechanism described piece by piece, from its founding texts to today's classroom, for parents, teachers, educators and elected officials.
Why it travels
rare first-hand testimony from a former member
a question facing schools across Europe
precise and pedagogical structure
Author
A Franco-Moroccan engineer and essayist and a father of three, Mohamed Louizi is a specialist in Islamism and Muslim Brotherhood strategies. He is a former president of Étudiants musulmans de France in Lille.
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La Constitution confisquée
English working titleThe Confiscated Constitution: Giving Citizens the Power to Decide
Clara Egger and Raul Magni-Berton
Souscription
En librairie le 15 janvier 2027
Essay · approx. 224 pages · ISBN 978-2-36405-294-9
Does the constitution still belong to its citizens? Purchasing power, security, public services, a sense of decline: governments come and go, the problems remain and distrust grows.
What if the deadlock lay first in the rules of the game? For Clara Egger and Raul Magni-Berton, before asking who governs, we must ask who has the final say. In France, citizens choose their representatives, but the initiative to revise the Constitution remains in the hands of the executive and Parliament. The authors propose to remove this lock and give citizens the last word on the rules that govern them.
Why it travels
two specialists of direct democracy
a debate on citizen-initiated reform found in many democracies
clear and argued
Authors
Clara Egger teaches and researches global governance at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Raul Magni-Berton is professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lille and a specialist in direct democracy.
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La haine en toutes lettres
English working titleHatred Spelled Out: The New Antisemitism from Stalin to Chomsky, up to 7 October
Yana Grinshpun
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-260-4
Antisemitism is the oldest hatred in the world, yet it has never been as insidious as it is today. Under the guise of morality, progressivism, anti-racism or decolonialism, it has seeped into schools, universities, the media, and political and religious institutions.
The Shoah is no longer denied; it is recycled. People no longer say “Jew”; they say “Zionist”. And in the name of virtue, yesterday's victims are recast as today's executioners. As a linguist and historian of ideas, Yana Grinshpun shows with relentless precision how this hatred has disguised itself in the language of virtue.
Why it travels
an analysis of language and discourse rather than a polemic
an urgent subject in every country since 7 October
endorsed by leading French scholars
Author
Yana Grinshpun is a linguist and historian of ideas, specialising in discourse analysis. [University affiliation to be confirmed]
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Nos tiers-lieux
English working titleOur Third Places: Defending Everyday Places of Sociability
Antoine Burret
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-232-1
A rigorous and engaging investigation into third places. From the taverns of Antiquity to the hackerspaces of the twenty-first century, Antoine Burret traces the history and evolution of the third-place concept formulated by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg.
He questions it, dissects it and confronts it with today's reality. What makes a space a third place? Have third places become mere places of consumption and work? How can their social function be restored? In a world where the privatisation of public space and the commodification of human relationships have become the norm, he reveals the importance of everyday places of sociability.
Why it travels
in direct dialogue with Ray Oldenburg's classic work
a worldwide movement of third places
written by the leading French specialist
Author
Antoine Burret is a sociologist specialising in third places. He wrote the first doctoral thesis and the first French-language book devoted to the concept, and is an experienced practitioner and international scientific expert in the field.
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Le design des choses à l’heure du numérique et de l’intelligence artificielle
English working titleThe Design of Things in the Age of Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Jean-Louis Fréchin
Essay · New expanded edition, 2023 · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-234-5
Design has become a powerful lever for the transformations shaping our society, our economy and our environment. A pioneer of digital design, a recognised practitioner and a major theorist of the discipline, Jean-Louis Fréchin offers a complete exploration of a multidimensional and constantly evolving field.
He shows how design redefines our relationship with objects, services and interfaces, addresses essential questions such as the energy transition and ethics, and explores in depth how artificial intelligence and design together open new horizons.
Why it travels
written by the founder of France's first digital design agency
a reference for design schools and professionals
updated for the age of AI
Author
Jean-Louis Fréchin is one of France's leading contemporary designers. Trained as an architect and a graduate of ENSCI, he founded NoDesign, the first digital design agency in France, and teaches design.
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Bullshit Corporation
English working titleBullshit Corporation: A Survival Guide to Corporate Life
Paul Tomassieu
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-243-7
Go behind the scenes of the modern company, a ruthless world ruled by things left unsaid, managerial jargon and unwritten rules. With biting irony and an incisive pen, far from the conventional discourse of management manuals, Bullshit Corporation exposes the hidden side of working life.
Through striking examples and colourful characters, Paul Tomassieu shows how bullshit infiltrates our professional lives, influences our decisions and manipulates our behaviour, and reveals the hidden workings of organisations, the cognitive biases that trap us and the secret tactics of managers.
Why it travels
a title that works in every language
humour grounded in cognitive science
corporate culture is universal
Author
An engineer and essayist, Paul Tomassieu has built wide experience of how companies work through an eclectic career with major French industrial groups and in various sectors.
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La beauté sous algorithmes
English working titleBeauty Under Algorithms: When Machines Upend Our Cultural Codes
Hugues Dufour
Essay · [Pagination to be confirmed] · ISBN 978-2-36405-241-3
As works generated with artificial intelligence become ever more accomplished, the very definition of art is open to question again. What becomes of the sacred nature of art when a machine can imitate the human hand?
How does this affect our aesthetic judgements and our perception of beauty? In a subtle and erudite analysis, Hugues Dufour takes us to the heart of this cultural revolution. He traces the paths that lead to beauty and exposes the artistic manipulations at work, from classical canons to the new norms imposed by algorithms.
Why it travels
art and AI, a debate in every cultural scene
written by an artist and creative director
opens with the case of an AI-generated image that won an art competition
Author
Essayist, screenwriter and creative director, Hugues Dufour is a graduate of the Conservatoire and of Enjmin, the French national school of games and interactive digital media. He has composed symphonic works.
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La paresse de penser
English working titleThe Laziness of Thinking: Why We Let AI Decide for Us
Mastafa Foufa
Essay · 192 pages · ISBN 978-2-36405-277-2
When did you last look for an answer on your own, without checking your phone? This reflex, now as natural as breathing, is not trivial.
It is the symptom of a profound shift: we have stopped searching and started asking, handing our judgement to algorithms, our memory to machines and our capacity for doubt to a digital oracle. Mastafa Foufa does not observe artificial intelligence from afar: he builds it. A Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft in Redmond with six patents filed, he reveals from inside the engine room what few insiders are willing to say.
Why it travels
written by a Big Tech insider
a question every reader faces daily
short, direct and accessible
Author
Mastafa Foufa is a researcher specialising in machine learning and natural language processing. He taught at EPITA before joining Microsoft in Redmond. His work has led to six patents filed.
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U-977
English working titleU-977: The Ice Gate
Enzo Brocard
Souscription
En librairie le 20 novembre 2026
Novel · 208 pages · ISBN 978-2-36405-288-8
A closed-door thriller in which historical mystery tips into cosmic horror. May 1945.
The Reich is collapsing. The submarine U-977 is ordered to disappear. On board, an SS officer whose face is hidden behind a metal mask leads a secret mission to Antarctica. With his team of scientists, he hopes to find beneath the ice something that could overturn the history of mankind. During the crossing, tension rises between the commander and the SS officer. The instruments give false readings and the logs count one man too many. In his journal, the second officer finds sentences written in his own hand that he has no memory of writing.
Why it travels
inspired by a real U-boat, U-977, which surrendered in Argentina in August 1945
a crossover of Second World War thriller and cosmic horror
a strongly visual universe with screen potential
Author
Enzo Brocard is a writer and artist. Trained in the visual arts, he develops a highly visual universe drawing on the fantastic, cosmic horror and history.
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Translated editions
Anonymous
Frédéric Bardeau and Nicolas Danet
German · Anonymous. Von der Spaßbewegung zur MedienguerillaUnrast Verlag · Germany · 2012
Greek · Anonymous. Μπορούν, στ' αλήθεια, να αλλάξουν τον κόσμο;Konidaris · Greece
Homo mobilis
Georges Amar
Spanish · Homo mobilis. La nueva era de la movilidadLa Crujía · Argentina · 2011
L’intimité au travail
Stefana Broadbent
Italian · Internet, lavoro, vita privata. Come le nuove tecnologie cambiano il nostro mondoIl Mulino · Italy · 2012
Le modèle Google
Bernard Girard
Chinese (traditional characters) · 推翻Google上奇時代 · Taiwan
English · The Google WayNo Starch Press · United States · 2009
Les drones débarquent !
Paul Guermonprez
Chinese (simplified characters) · China
Chinese (traditional characters) · 無人機起飛Morning Star (晨星出版) · Taiwan
