At once extraordinary and commonplace, underground and luxurious, happy and desperate, the complex figure of the contemporary star elicits various forms of collective adoration. At a time when the sacred is deserting the churches that had housed it during modernity, fashion, spectacle and consumption are the privileged sites for the apparitions of these new earthly divinities.

Which language do they speak? What do their sleek bodies harbor? What is their aura made of? Is Kate Moss the emblematic figure of postmodern stardom?

These questions will be discussed during the next Invitation to Imagination by Michel Maffesoli and his guests: Christian Salmon, a researcher at the CNRS and the author of Kate Moss machine (Éditions La Découverte, 2009); journalist Benjamin Dard, who reports on economic matters; journalist Nicolas Truong (Le Monde de l'éducation); and Vincenzo Susca, an assistant professor at the Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier III and a researcher at the Ceaq.