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Popular writer and man of the people, Zamenga Batukezanga, in 1971, wrote, using his personal experience, his first book entitled The Ups and downs. In his novel, he describes the life of a young villager, Difwayame, who disenchanted acceded the developed class assigned to fight the customs of his native land. In 1986, he published a book entitled My husband on strike. In this novel, he depicts the life of Laurent Lubaki, disenchanted by his clan adheres first the sect called The world will change, and then a catholic church to fight the customs of his native environment. In1991, he wrote and published A Villager in Kinshasa. In this novel, he showed the reader how Amuly who disillusioned by the mores of Kinshasa’s people returned to the village training first agriculture becomes rich and helps villagers. In 2008, he published a book entitled Forbidden way. In this novel, he describes the Hassein Ben Diouf who disillusioned by the behaviour of his mother leaves the house of his parents and adheres to as path as banned group to fight corruption, prostitution, dictatorship which block the development of his country. After carefully reading the above four novels, one realizes that Zamenga Batukezanga puts bare retrograde and anti-values that are common after the independence of his country. That is why from a book to another, he struggles against the retrograde customs and anti- values by evoking the suffering of young people. He keeps coming in his novels on a thematic or dialectic – disenchantment and commitment. What does he mean by disenchantment and commitment? How the two concepts manifest themselves in the works of Congolese writer? What means has he put at the disposal of young struggling to fight retrogrades customs and anti-values in order to achieve freedom? / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Litt. et. Phil. (French)

Depuis le début des années 1990, Marcos Novak développe une architecture numérique expérimentale qu’il appelle « transarchitecture ». Le fil directeur de cette dernière est l’idée d’un « devenir alien », c’est-à-dire un devenir autre radical de l’homme comme de l’architecture, de l’habitant comme de l’habitation, impulsé par les nouvelles technologies. L’objet de cette recherche est d’interroger la notion de « devenir alien » à partir et à travers deux figures de l’étrangeté humaine : l’Unheimliche, théorisé par Sigmund Freud, et l’Unheimlichkeit, développé par Martin Heidegger. Notre thèse est que le « devenir alien » est une nouvelle figure de l’étrangeté, propre à notre époque. Quand l’Unheimliche serait la figure d’une étrangeté psychologique et l’Unheimlichkeit celle d’une étrangeté ontologique, le « devenir alien » serait la figure d’une « étrangeté numérique ». Par cette expression, nous visons à qualifier l’effacement des dichotomies classiques (proche/lointain, naturel/artificiel, organique/synthétique, etc.) entraîné par nos technologies et l’effet d’étrangeté diffus qui semble en résulter, affectant l’ensemble de nos expériences, de nos représentations et de notre habitation du monde.Nous proposons, enfin, de considérer en quoi, par la « transarchitecture » et la notion de « devenir alien », s’ébauchent à la fois la possibilité d’un « faire-monde » nouveau, ouvrant la voie à un réenchantement, et le risque d’une « immondation ». C’est alors la question de l’éthique qui émerge, une éthique technologique, mais aussi écologique, économique et politique : en somme, une éthique de l’habitation du monde que l’architecture doit plus que jamais porter.Mots-clés : inquiétante étrangeté, « transarchitecture », condition humaine, corps, identité, devenir, habitation, désenchantement/réenchantement, éthique. / Since the early 1990s, Marcos Novak has promoted a digital and experimental architecture called “transarchitecture.” The guiding principle of it is the idea of “becoming alien,” that is to say a radical becoming other of man and architecture, inhabitant and inhabitation, driven by new technologies.The purpose of this research is to examine the notion of "becoming alien" from and through two figures of human uncanniness: the Unheimliche theorized by Sigmund Freud, and the Unheimlichkeit developed by Martin Heidegger.Our thesis is that “becoming alien” is a new figure of uncanniness, proper to our time. When the Unheimliche would figure a psychological uncanniness, and the Unheimlichkeit an ontological one, “becoming alien” would be a figure of a “digital uncanniness.”By this expression, we aim to qualify the erasure of conventional dichotomies (near / far, natural / artificial, organic / synthetic, etc.) carried by our technologies, as well as the effect of diffuse strangeness that seems to result of it, affecting all of our experiences, our representations our inhabitation of the world.Finally, we suggest considering the ways in which “transarchitectures” and the notion of “becoming alien” sketch out both the possibility of a new “worldmaking” paving the way for a reenchantment, and the risk of a “deworldlizing.”Therefore, the question of ethics emerges; a technological ethics, but also an ecological, an economic and a political one: in short, an ethics of inhabitation of the world that architecture must address more than ever before.Keywords: uncanny, “transarchitecture,” human condition, body, identity, becoming, inhabitation, desenchantement/reenchantement, ethics.