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What does life teach us?

Audio 48:30

The Third Way of the Living, Olivier Hamant © Odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

And if the living were the counter model of our societies which aim for performance, optimization, control and speed while the living favors slowness, errors, imperfection, redundancy and randomness... and if we had taken a wrong turn?

How can we be inspired by this other way of life?

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Have we taken our idea of ​​progress on the wrong track?

And why do we persist?

Faced with multiple crises, environmental, social, economic, in a word civilizational, it is urgent to do otherwise.

By drawing inspiration from the living, from the third way of the living, to use the title of the salutary and frankly revolutionary essay by our guest biologist

an interdisciplinary and very undisciplined researcher, who offers us original and unprecedented courses of action for a common viable and desirable future in connection with nature and with our nature. 

Olivier Hamant

 is research director at

 in the plant reproduction and development laboratory at ENS de Lyon.

He publishes

with Odile Jacob editions. 

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