Marseille, December 2024. The researcher is sitting at her desk, reviewing the documents that interest her individually on the relevant electronic databases. On her screen are scanned documents, handwritten inscriptions, signatures, and multiple writings that only an informed eye can […]

Paris, November 2024. The location is so well suited to demonstrations. The wide Rivoli street crosses the start of the Sébastopol Boulevard in a very open space, now largely devoted to environmentally friendly mobility. But it’s a different kind of […]

Marseille, September 2024 For many pupils, going back to school also means going back to the school canteen. A culinary nightmare for some, an example of relentless privatisation for others, school canteens have become the focus of political battles over […]

Patara, September 2024. When it doesn’t go unnoticed, our experience of the past in the present may provoke the beginning of a heuristic trouble for Scriptopolis: viewing photos, exploring family archives or administrative archives, rediscovering traces or events witnesses. Among […]

Paris, April 2024.

 Since the early 1990s, in computer science as in many other fields of the exact and experimental sciences, conferences have played a central role in research activities. When we take a close look at what researchers do, […]

En ligne, septembre 2024 L’une des grandes leçons des études de sciences est qu’un artefact technique n’existe qu’avec son réseau associé. Parmi les exemples canoniques on trouve les moyens de transport, au premier rang desquels les trains. Sans rails, réseau […]

Patara, September 2024. Some public spaces are saturated with inscriptions, others, including beaches, are more preserved; advertising and signage are kept to a minimum. On this beach on the Lycean coast, bathers discover an additional number of inscriptions. They are […]

Bologna, June 2024. A suburban district with green spaces and shops, far from the places steeped in the trade union and political struggles of Europe’s oldest university city. You have to use your rudimentary Italian in restaurants or drugstores rather […]

Aix-en-Provence, March 2023. A letter of protest and mobilisation was sent from French Algeria to mainland France at war. The letters are still in circulation, but with new procedures: they are opened, read, censored or, on the contrary, put back […]

Online, February 2024 In the past, the procedure for presenting papers at a conference was simple, but relatively opaque. Anyone could send a contribution to the organisers, which was either accepted or rejected. It was then allocated to a panel, […]

Paris, January 2024. The lives of academic staff are often punctuated by assignments there is no shortage of reasons for travelling: presentations at conferences, invitations from colleagues to a workshop, the need to go out into the field to take […]

Paris, December 2023. Dismayed by the lack of realistic representation of the clitoris in courses taught both in secondary schools and in caregiver training, in 2016 Odile Fillod modeled a 3-D printable genital organ based on scientific literature. This small, […]

Rome, October 2023. In many European cities, posters showing the portraits of Israelis murdered or taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 have been torn down. This phenomenon, like other sequences of political collages and torn out, testify to the […]

Paris, October 2023 As with mobile phones, some electronic objects have become permanent extensions of the workplace. On a train, ticket inspectors are now equipped with a small connected terminal, which can be used to receive and send information, find […]

By our two guests: Florence Paterson and Clarisse Pradel Paris, October 2023. The Centre de sociologie de l’innovation is in effervescence: on October 23 “Une journée avec Bruno Latour” takes place, a day of tribute during which “members of the […]

Aubervilliers, October 2023. In April 2022, during the run-up to the French presidential election, the EHESS building in Aubervilliers, like other academic institutions, was occupied. The occupation left a lasting impression, not only because of the extent of the damage […]

Marseille, July 2023 It’s been a long journey, so when you arrive at your destination, all you want to do is go back home. Nevertheless, the mauve background of this sign catches the photographer’s eye, especially as maintenance is usually […]

Paris, August 2023. When it doesn’t take place in the studio, filming is set in a saturated space and requires the negotiation of an exceptional regime: rental of space, security and janitorial services, special authorization from the police, the complicity […]

Marseille, June 2023 This semi-pedestrianised street is teeming with restaurants, their terraces on the wide pavements stretching right up to the edge of the taller-than-usual buildings. This is particularly true of this former department stores, which itself has a terrace […]

Internet, May 2023 We know this well, at least since Umberto Eco: any published text depends solely on its readers, and authors can do little in the face of unforeseen circulation, unlikely support, unsolicited commentators, irascible critics and overall indifference. […]

By our guest : Florence Paterson Paris, Mai 2023. “I’ll tell you how to do, you grab your phone and you take a picture”. That’s what you’d call a concierge’s trick, or to put it better one of his techniques. […]

Paris, March 2023. We know the reasons for the distancing, blaming or denunciation of work, but we probably understand a little less well the love that can connect us to it. Not only the “real job” that emerges in a […]

Marseille, March 2023 It all started with vertical signs: parking bans all over the street with a decree reproduced in small, barely decipherable characters, but the street would be closed for weeks on the even-numbered side. And then horizontal green […]

Marseilles, February 2023 The art of writing is less about recognising shapes than about being able to reproduce them, trait by trait, with a pen, a pencil or a brush. Before reaching the virtuosity of Japanese calligraphy, it is necessary […]

Tirana, September 2022.
 In order not to forget the collective experience of the Socialist People’s Republic and to transform the paranoia of a 20th century dictator into a national heritage for the future, the new Republic of Albania has converted […]

The GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, has changed the life of European Internet users. Since its implementation, it has been impossible to visit a Web page without having to expressly state one’s choices regarding the use of the data that […]

Aix-en-Provence, Octobre 2022 In order to ensure the effective payment of the entrance fee, a simple and elegant solution has been chosen in this museum: a coloured sticker, displaying the logo of the place, is given to the visitors. It […]

Paris, November 2022.
 In France, depending on the relationship with the employer, the right to strike can be exercised either by the voluntary report of strikers, or by a bailiff going to the workplace to record the strikers. One of […]

Geneva, November 2022 Coming out of a joint seminar and before returning, the group had booked lunch for 18 people, and consequently occupied the whole central part of the venue in this cosy restaurant. Even though the menu was limited […]

By our guest: Florence Paterson Paris, November 2022. Emergency ward. After some paperwork at the counter and a stay in the waiting room, a nurse shouts my name. I follow him, passing the automatic doors that lead to the heart […]

By our guest: Victoria Brun Ugine, October 2022. While emptying my grandparents’ house after their death, I came across a stack of ‘Almanachs du vieux Savoyard’. Published since 1946, it is an institution in the Savoy region. About a hundred […]

Montpellier, July 2022. They retired, then moved to the South of France. It was a whole life of things to be arranged, sorted into carefully labeled boxes, transported and re-installed in a new apartment. In the process of administering his […]