Faits divers : l’extraordinaire ordinaire

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

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Family. The law of supply and demand

Dans 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

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50 years of research and innovation policies

50 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

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Rencontre avec Marc Giget, l’âme des « Mardis de l’innovation »

Qui 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

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Ah, that'll be innovation!

Conversation 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

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Courage

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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.

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We (Humanity)

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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".

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Nostalgia, the land of still time

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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.

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Information: that's life!

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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

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Stress, man's suffering insufficient

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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

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Knowledge, the knowledge revolution

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  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

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Crowd: Emotional Communion

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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

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Privacy: the issue of privacy

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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

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