Mémoires et sauts de mémoires du « sur-mesure de masse ».
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.04.2019
Conducted in an innocuous manner, the search for the title of a song heard in a mini-series mobilizes, however, the tools made available to all by information technologies. The sociologies of everyone cross the algorithms and other "filter bubbles". These forms of intelligence as well as their combinations, far beyond their amazing efficiency, question. Do the constructions of this contemporary "sur-mesure de masse" open up to the world or do they lock everyone with what they already know ? [...]
Ce que nous dit la langue.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.03.2019
Why did the word « problem » almost completely vanish from French-speaking public communication ? This event does confirm the importance of hyperbole, euphemism, and litotes in the dynamic of languages. This process also gives us clues about the actors of these changes: an uncoordinated multitude of ordinary speakers is capable, without any pre-set scheme, to set languages in motion. [...]
Le petit déjeuner, exception accessible.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 01.02.2019
Réouvert en juillet 2018 après être resté fermé quatre ans pour d’importants travaux d’aménagement, l’hôtel Lutetia de Paris a d’emblée proposé des services de luxe au-delà de la simple hôtellerie. Centre de bien-être (associant spa, cours de fitness et de nutrition), piscine, salon de coiffure… viennent ainsi compléter une offre de restauration élargie. Comme d’autres [...]
Moment ordinaire de l’inhabitable.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 03.01.2019
To experience the crowd, whether in the metropolitan area or anywhere else, is, strictly speaking, to suffer under the weight of others. What is revealed are the workings of these uninhabitable ordinary people, who occasionally populate daily life and make us wonder : is the « overflow » of men and women a reasonable way to think the notion of habiter (to dwell), starting from its worst variations ? [...]
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 04.12.2018
Making cats veggie ? This is a plan well under way, which deserves attention. It is quite different from a classical protest against animal exploitation, but rather the sketch of a new political relationship that humans could entertain with the living world. [...]
Sous le passage, les piétons…
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 31.10.2018
Au printemps 2018, le quartier du Marais à Paris a été le théâtre d’évènements politiques qui n’ont pas manqué d’attirer l’attention. Rappelons les faits. À l’occasion, en juin, de l’anniversaire de « la Marche des Fiertés » ou Gay Pride, plusieurs passages piétons avaient été peints aux couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel, une référence aujourd’hui bien identifiée de la [...]
Les pays de Jean-Philippe Smet
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 02.10.2018
La rumeur ne devint-elle pas certitude ? Elle enflait depuis quelques temps, mais cette fois c’était sûr. Chacun pourra bientôt le voir, le toucher, l’écouter. L’entendre ? Il faut dire que le choc avait été rude dans le pays. Un cortège d’un million de personnes dans Paris. Plus de dix millions devant leur télévision : Arc de Triomphe, [...]
Graves dissensions au sein du cabinet.
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 14.09.2018
Controversies, sometimes strongly conflictual, on public toilets signs tell us something about the state of a notable societal debate : can we choose our sex or should we comply with what (various) others say ? Do we want a hyper-gendered or a post-gender world ? [...]
Jacques Lévy et Irène Sartoretti | 02.08.2018
Relationships between arts and sciences have been experiencing a long lasting misunderstanding. This situation notably derived from an underestimation of the role imagination plays in sciences and reflexivity in arts. If we accept the idea that sciences and arts both contribute, each in their own way, to the cognitive dimension of cultural productions, then we can more easily make visible many similarities and some differences between those two realms. As a result, a programme of interactions, translations, and hybridizations [...]
Xavier Bernier, Olivier Lazzarotti et Jacques Lévy | 02.07.2018
Why football players’ haircuts have gained such prominence on stadiums ? What do they tell us about those who choose them, about those who look at them, and about the relation forged thanks to them ? Numerous and various things turn out to be condensed in little information : the length, the colour, and the arrangement of a haircut. [...]
