The theme chosen by Michel Maffesoli for this Rendezvous of Imagination is "Expense and the Economic Crisis." It will bring together researcher Antoine Mahé, marketing director Nicolas Hirel, and journalist Benjamin Dard.

Georges Bataille's words on "consummation" resonate in many ways within contemporary imagination. A simple consumption founded on unlimited production and need has been replaced by the current "consummation" generated by desire. The former is quantitative, the latter qualitative.

Could the crisis be understood also through this shift in values? The question will be central to the debate.