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The traditional media form puts limits on the path to the real. The medium, whatever it is, always puts itself in an intermediate position - it is in its etymological nature - between the real and the spectator. Its function is to bring the real to the spectator. Live is, in this

The air of time sometimes becomes unbreathable. When poverty appears at every street corner, when precariousness nibbles away at ordinary lives like a sneaky gangrene, when inequalities look like endless abysses, suffocation and anger reveal the tragedy of impotence. Indignation in the face of social suffering

Crisis is the catch-all word of our contemporary era: overused, tinkered with, overworked, it comes into play for everything and expresses its confusion: crisis of society, of the couple, of the family, of politics, of meaning, of oil, of world finance, of civilization, of values, of the

Whereas seeing concerns the visible and its visual representations of the world, from the outside, from the other, believing can be exercised in at least two ways: belief and credibility. Belief involves the impression of believability, of verisimilitude; whereas credibility involves the feeling of truth and

Reinventing the meaning of politics Today's political triumph consists in the monopolization of the eyes. Contemporary political art is that of being noticed, of appearing. Politics is thus, more than ever, the object of unlimited observation; it is hyper-observed (1) , which is not without consequences for nature.

The ultimate determining unit of survival of every human being is the whole of humanity. It is the end point of the evolutionary mechanism in which we are engaged. The expansion on all continents of globalization, the global development of hyperinformation, the defection of nation-states to supra-national entities, the emergence of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village".

The dilated present is the space-time of the present man whose consciousness becomes Odyssean (1) . In his eternal present, man does not stop walking, quenching his thirst that devours him to try the adventure of the elsewhere of time. The same adventure as that of Odysseus abandoning Penelope and his island of Ithaca, or the island of Ithaca.

The information was not invented by humans. It is life itself. Credit Illustration © Denis Leenhardt Erwin Schrödinger, founding father of quantum mechanics, published in 1944 a small book with a simple but ambitious title: What is life? In a dazzling intuition, he saw that the

Socialization is traditionally a condition of individual awareness. Norbert Elias taught us that "it is only because men live in the society of others that they can feel themselves to be individuals different from others. "Socialization is not only what makes it possible

By the end of the 20th century, "fatigue of being oneself" took precedence over neurotic anxiety, which was the dominant disease in the 19th century (1). (1) Today's society imposes levels of demands that are increasingly unbearable for the individual, leaving the field open for new suffering. The neurotic suffers because he or she

  The universality and diversity of the knowledge available through hyperinformational flows calls for the collectivisation of knowledge for the first time. It is impossible today for a single human being or a single group to master all the knowledge made available to them on digital networks. "Encyclopedia" meant a circle

The predominance of information-emotions that pervade the entire media sphere (whether informative, entertaining or advertising) leads, at times, to a spectacular aggregation of individuals. The examples are numerous and everyone can measure the acceleration of the phenomenon. Two cases can be distinguished: those that are

What we see today is a profusion of technologies designed to increase intelligence. But whose intelligence is it, that of humans or that of machines increasingly designed to hybridize with the intelligence of humans. What is the project of this immense technological deployment? Sculpture

Innovation Historians who will be studying our contemporary era in a few years' time will observe a very singular feature: not only has electronics rapidly become the mother of all other technologies, but since its emergence it has been evolving at exponential speed. Read More

Pending the multiplication, in the immediate future, of "intelligent objects", the ordinary mobile phone is already a particularly effective tool for better understanding and possibly for tracing our social interactions. To know in detail the intimacy of our private life. Some researchers talk about

Seeing the world is no longer just about observing it through glasses or telescopes; it is no longer about imagining it through scriptural or photographic transpositions, it is no longer just about discovering it through giant, luminous or flat screens; it is nowadays about pulling it out, making it

Contemporary consumer society has created a very particular consumer: he co-produces the goods and services he consumes, performing tasks usually performed by workers . The habit had been established a few decades ago when clever retailers offered the consumer the opportunity to finish the products himself. À

Cooperation requires the implementation of mechanisms to reduce complexity that are reciprocal, i.e. accepted by all parties. The aim of these mechanisms is, on the one hand, to bring about a relative self-limitation and consideration for others and, on the other hand, to develop a perspective for the future.

"Trust" is one of those words that invariably haunt the vocabulary of politics. Politicians of all eras have made it their recurring lexical reference (1) if not their electoral slogan (2). Confidence thus appears to be the touchstone of the relationship between

When war causes thunder to rumble somewhere in the world, when a crisis of global proportions breaks out, when nature is unleashed at the end of the oceans, then our contemporaries launch their pleas to the "international community". As if this misty concept was supposed to represent the awareness of