Paris, march 2011. Springtime is a delight for scriptopolian people. As the nature awakes day after day, he looks away from writing for once. He pays attention to the small vegetable marks that announce the great transformation, to the light, […]
Toulouse, august 2009. For some, it is very often, indeed every day. For others, it is rather on saturdays. All of them walk down the street and, above all, they quiver with the idea to go shopping. Buying the last […]
Paris, february 2011. This sunday, it’s time for the agricultural fair. Have to take the kid to see cows and pigs. Leaving dowtown, taking the subway, getting off at Porte de Versailles, passing behind the barriers, validating the bar code […]
Paris, march 2011. The world of work is inhabited by writing tools. A great number of them are dedicated to the production of more or less strong forms of control. For instance, some have said, here and there, that Taylor’s […]
Paris, may 2009. Street nameplates, shop signs, billboards do not only punctuate public places, they are especially favorable sites where names are displayed. A proper name of a great historical figure here, a common noun that is part of the […]
I had received the invitation for a long time, I had not paid any particular attention to the address of the hotel. In the past, I used to buy a map of the city. I used to come back quickly […]
It’s always the same with machines: they’re badly thought of. Especially among historians and sociologists. As if humanities meant defense of humanoids. And above all, as if a clear line could be drawn to separate humans and machines. On one […]
Urban settings are made of so familiar components that we do not pay any attention to them: crosswalks, traffic lines, bike lanes, parking lots, bus lanes… only become salient when we miss them and we consider that their presence should […]