Jean-Pierre Martin is a writer, a professor emeritus at the University of Lyon 2, a member of the editorial board of Temps Modernes and a member of the Mobile Lives Forum’s steering and prospective committee. He has recently published Les Liaisons Ferroviaires (J’ai lu, 2013), Queneau losophe (Gallimard, 2011) and L’autre vie d’Orwell (Gallimard, 2013).