Idéologie de la ligne droite et nomadisme communicationnel

Abstract

The ideology of the straight line and nomadism in communication The ideology of the straight line, the myth of transparency and the boom of capitalism have considerably modified the reality of travel, migration and exile. Nomads in particular have increasingly been hampered in their wanderings by the linear and authoritative nature of borders. As a result, spaces can seem closed, the planet grided and delimited, and the undefined zones on the map which were once invitations to travel, now seem to implode under the weight of a growing population. This article proposes to reconstitute the nature of travel in the spaces of a world which we could have dismissed as "enclosed", a world contracted and narrowed by networks of communication. On the contrary, any sociological analysis of the advent of a nomadic and "communicational" tribalism must comprehend a reality which appears to be open, versatile and in expansion.