Jean-Miguel Pire is a historian and sociologist. He has made otium, this free time devoted to “intelligent leisure’, his object of research and his hobby horse.
Faced with increasingly invasive work and a massive addiction to screens, it encourages us to reconnect with slowness and reflection. “We neglect too much the importance of how we imagine our free time, and how we value it or not,” says Pire. ‘Never before have so many people had as much free time as today’