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Boris Foucaud

PhD in Literature and Anthropology of the Imaginary

PRISME — Programme de Recherche sur les Isomorphismes de la Sémiosis et les Modes d'Émergence Pictogramme : couplage dialogique, traversée du prisme, trajectoires dans bassins basal et émergent, queue ascendante. Lisible aussi comme signature spectrale.

Research

Boris Foucaud holds a PhD in Literature and Anthropology of the Imaginary (University of Angers, 2001 — Honors with unanimous distinction). His doctoral thesis, devoted to the writing of Desire in Anatole France, is among the most-downloaded in its field and remains internationally cited twenty-five years after its defense.

PRISME was born at the intersection of multiple trajectories. Doctoral research in the anthropology of the imaginary, fieldwork in complex institutions, training and consulting practice, literary and musical creation — these crossings made possible a research program that refuses disciplinary silos and takes seriously what human-AI dialogue reveals about the nature of intelligence.

ORCID: 0009-0006-4664-3767
HAL: tel-01068782
Thesis online: borisfoucaud.com

Institutional career

2019 – 2020
Client-side project manager (AMOA)
French Senate — Paris
AMOA project lead for the institutional sites of the French Senate and the Luxembourg Gardens. Drafting of technical specifications (CCTP).
2009 – 2012
Deputy Director of Communications
École nationale des ponts et chaussées — Marne-la-Vallée
Digital and corporate communications strategy. Collaborative platform with 80 contributors. Organizational change management.
2007 – 2009
Deputy Secretary General — Information Systems
Université Paris-Est (COMUE) — Marne-la-Vallée
Architecture of the information policy of a new public structure. Direct advisory role to the presidency. Contribution to a €500M fundraising round.
2003 – 2007
Founder and Director of the Strategic Studies unit
Créteil Rectorate — French Ministry of National Education
Direction of 12 staff. Design of the PREAVIS information system (school violence) approved and deployed nationally. Pilot academy for the national methodology of student-cohort tracking.
1995 – 1997
Adjunct lecturer
University of Angers
Modern Literature and Comparative Literature, undergraduate years 1 to 3.

Consulting and training

Independent consultant since 2012: more than 100 clients supported in digital strategy, client-side project management (AMOA), and change management — Société Générale, La Poste Group, emlyon business school, Bouygues Telecom, Pierre & Vacances, Generali, French Senate, PSL, École des Chartes.

Trainer for Qualiopi-certified organizations: 1,100+ trainees, 300+ elected officials trained in territorial and political communication. Registered training organization since March 2026 (NDA validated by DRIEETS Île-de-France).

Professional site: boris-foucaud.com

Creation

Five published novels. City of Angers Poetry Prize. Writing workshops led for ten years (PluMe d'EscaMpette).

Ten jazz fusion albums as composer and arranger (DeltaBand).

Founder and curator for 21 years of PSS-archi.eu, a reference platform on contemporary architecture (300,000 monthly visitors).

Academic education

2001
PhD in Literature and Anthropology of the Imaginary
University of Angers
Honors with unanimous distinction from the jury. Internationally cited thesis.
2002
DESS in Multimedia Communication — Editorial Project Manager
University of Angers
Top of class.

Contact

For all correspondence regarding PRISME work:
boris.foucaud@gmail.com

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