« Il ne faut jamais tuer l’enfant »

Abstract

Chez Narcisse is a café located on the threshold of the southern Vosges. Its particularity lies in the fact that since the middle of the 1980’s, it has included a “punk” concert hall in the garden behind the pub. This place is a bistrot anchored in the daily life of the village and doubles as a venue for festive events. Chez Narcisse thus appears as a “double” space that emphasizes the search for independence and culture in a rural environment. An ethnographic monograph carried out on this place highlights the conceptions of time in this specific punk culture. Formalized as “bubbles”, oscillating between a festive concert present, an idealized past and an uncertain future, punk time is not based on a linear conception of events. The question that arises is therefore to know how these temporal bubbles are expressed and, beyond that, how they invite us to think about utopia and, sometimes, the establishment of real alternatives.

Keywords

• time
• utopia
• leisure
• concert
• imaginary
• punk