Do you know this little Sufi story? It is night; a man is there on all fours under a street light, scrutinizing every inch of the ground. A passer-by comes to lend him a hand. - Hey! Friend, can I help you? Did you lose something? - Yes! My
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A growing number of citizens are looking for new alternatives to their consumption patterns. They are becoming aware that this can become a political act. Because the act of buying is a way of voting economically and participating in changing the world. Alternative consumption can be a way of changing the
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The Roman Empire lasted five centuries and had a profound effect on our culture and civilization. For a long time it was believed that this Empire, seemingly indestructible, had suffered a long degradation, a decadence, until its end. However, the historians of ancient Rome are no longer wise old men, distinguished Latin scholars
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Is the Covid-19 crisis the marker of an imminent collapse of our civilization? The crisis linked to the pandemic has brought a wind of collapse that would have convinced new followers. What if the story of the future collapse of our civilisations was the new avatar of French pessimism?
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Recent discoveries are prompting some researchers to argue that the synthetic theory of evolution needs to be updated. This article is an account of a meeting held at the Royal Society in London. Kevin Laland, an eminent evolutionary biologist from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, proposed to his prestigious colleagues
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Like a police investigation, the epistemologist Vincent Israel-Jost worked for UP' Magazine on the incredible controversy caused by Hydroxychloroquine in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis and was able to dissect, in its most intimate springs, the speech system of the most famous professor in France: Didier Raoult. EXCLUSIVE With
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Pour une révolution de la confiance - Réformer l'école, refonder l'entreprise, transformer la société, de Michel Hervé - Edition Dunod, 2020 Reforming school, rebuilding the company, transforming society, these are the three axes that structure Michel Hervé's social project. This book is a plea for the establishment of a real
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After the global health crisis of VIDOC-19, what would be our greatest risk? The philosopher Hannah Arendt said, "A crisis only becomes catastrophic if we respond to it with preconceived ideas. Indeed, the risk would be to resume our lives on the same basis as before,
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It's an enigma that has been with us since the early days of the pandemic. Where did this coronavirus come from that turned the world upside down? Hypotheses have been put forward and everyone has put forward their own explanation: the virus comes from a bat, a pangolin, it escaped from a Chinese lab,
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Reopening of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, starting June 16, with the largest exhibition ever devoted to the work of the great Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar who, since the 1970s, has dedicated her life to photography and to the defence of the Yanomami, an Amerindian people among the
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Urban planning and biodiversity - Towards a living landscape structuring the urban project, under the direction of Philippe Clergeau - Edition Apogée, 3 June 2020 - 328 Pages Urban planning is at a turning point in its history. The consideration of nature in the city, and particularly of vegetation, is contributing to the development of the urban landscape.
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Détournement de science - Etre scientifique au temps du libéralisme, by Jean-Marie Vigoureux - Edition écosociété, 28 May 2020 - 215 Pages Is scientific development responsible for the destruction of nature, biodiversity, climate change and pollution? Science is increasingly
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After the global health crisis of VIDOC-19, what would be our greatest risk? The philosopher Hannah Arendt said, "A crisis only becomes catastrophic if we respond to it with preconceived ideas. Indeed, the risk would be to resume our lives on the same basis as before,
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After the global health crisis of VIDOC-19, what would be our greatest risk? The philosopher Hannah Arendt said, "A crisis only becomes catastrophic if we respond to it with preconceived ideas. Indeed, the risk would be to resume our lives on the same basis as before,
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The coronavirus pandemic has led half of humanity to change their way of life. People in every country adopted the protective measures they considered most appropriate or within their reach in the face of unexpected risk. Each of us looks at the coronavirus through the lens of
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On Tuesday, May 12th, I should be at school... eight weeks after I left you in shock and awe. I should be in school and I don't know what our school will be like then... Will there be white marks drawn in front of each class, one metre apart so that
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Handbook of Political Action - For those who want to act, by Michael Walzer - First Parallel Edition, October 2019 - 176 Pages 1971. Michael Walzer is 36 years old; he teaches at Harvard and is an active campaigner against the Vietnam War. The United States has just invaded Cambodia
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Faced with the coronavirus and the containment it causes, Gallimard publishes one or two "Crisis leaflets" every day, free of charge, signed by the House's leading figures such as Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Cynthia Fleury, Régis Debray and Danièle Sallenave, in order to reflect on the questions raised by the coronavirus and the containment it causes.
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According to its own definition, the online platform MyOwnDocumenta is "a virtual object not identified by the artists themselves", who pose, during their infinite residencies, the traces of their ongoing projects. A collective logbook where each artist or author regularly posts, at his own pace, some of their works.
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