La télévision, on le sait, joue aujourd'hui un rôle majeur dans l'uniformité de la représentation du réel. Elle y procède par banalisation. On prête aux présentateurs du journal télévisé l'aveu de montrer, chaque soir, « un monde lisse ». Le fer de lance de ce processus de banalisation uniforme est
PlusDans La Crise de la culture (1), Hannah Arendt avait affirmé que la continuité d'une civilisation ne peut être assurée que si règne une autorité qui amène les nouveaux venus à accepter, comme une valeur absolue, des règles préétablies . Cette autorité ne devait s'appuyer ni sur la violence ni
Plus50 ans de stratégies publiques de la Recherche et de l’Innovation en France : les trois étapes de l’affaiblissement de la régulation politique. Voilà ! Les Assises de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, promesse du candidat François Hollande à la Présidence de la République, se sont tenues jusqu'au 26
PlusQui ne connaît ces soirées hebdomadaires devenues presque institutionnelles, aux conférences cultes, véritables phares pour une diffusion de la culture de l'innovation ? Plus de 300 cours/conférences, plus de 700 professionnels formés, plus de 15 000 auditeurs libres, 300 témoignages d'entreprises parmi les plus innovantes. Une encyclopédie vivante, ouverte et
PlusConversation libre à l’Assemblée Nationale sur le financement du prototype ou démonstrateur technologique des inventions industrielles et la mise en lumière des Centres Techniques Industriels (CTI) avec Monsieur François Brottes, député de l’IsèrePrésident de la Commission des affaires économiques à l’Assemblée Nationale Chez UP’ Magazine, nous faisons du journalisme autrement. Nous sommes tous
PlusThe 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
PlusThe 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
PlusCrisis 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
PlusWhereas 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
PlusReinventing 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.
PlusThe 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".
PlusThe 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.
PlusThe 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
PlusSocialization 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
PlusBy 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
PlusThe 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
PlusThe 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
PlusWhat 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
PlusInnovation 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
PlusPending 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
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