Bruce Bégout (Talence, 1967), one of the most important French thinkers of today, is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Picardie. Author of a monographic study on Husserl (The genealogy of logic), gained international relevance with the publication of Zeropolis. Since then, his work has continued the systematic analysis of the elements that make up human and everyday life with the publication of Common Place: the North American Motel, to be published soon in this collection.