Revisiting Saint-Simonianism as an Innovative Utopia Summary The SAINT-SIMONISME 18-21 project is a multidisciplinary rediscovery of the largest utopian thought of the 19th century, designed and developed in its practical form between 1810 and 1880. It generated intellectual and practical innovations to deal with the uncertainties and risks of a changing world. Saint-Simonianism is examined through two different but interconnected ways. The first way is by retrospectively reinterpreting, back and forth across centuries (18th-21st), the great questions that Saint-Simonian thought confronted: new methods of organization and production, social justice, family and gender equality, the end of ideology and religious revival, the rejection of an independent economic discipline... The second way is by examining afresh the original writings — which are often hard to get through – with a modern gaze. With multi-version critical editions, it reanalyzes these texts and brings out potential for present-day application.

Based on work on the emergence of "free zones" (Mercier, 1997, 2017) from industrial-commercial “grey zones” (Azaïs, 2014), we hypothesise that the storage function plays a crucial role the organisation of what some economists call the "warehouse economy" (Porter M., 1947; Gereffy G. and Korzeniewicz M., 1994). As they combine the rational management of stocks, the flexibility of employment and the multiscalarity of circuits, these zones are privileged space-times for understanding the ongoing changes in transnational economies. The purpose of this project is to show the major strategic role of the warehouse as a reference space and centrality of production systems. We want to conduct this research: 1) At strategic industrial or commercial locations that this economy reactivates or reinvents 2) From commercial channels, which particularly illustrate the complexity and mode of deployment 3) Lastly, we want to focus on the networks of actors who find there a particular identity and the labour organisation modes that they value. 4) In these networks of actors, we want to pay more particular attention to those who, coming from the popular cultures, contribute to this warehouse economy at the end of the chain by bringing "rejects" and surpluses to dedicated markets.