Public lettering, to use Petrucci‘s term, has been an essential element of the graphic ecology of cities for a very long time. Actually, they are crucial parts of the city itself, of what dwelling together in an organized, politicized, place […]
Great events always represent opportunities for exchanges. They are like objects on the skyline, big enough to be seen by almost everyone. At least discussed by almost everyone. These last days, approaching Apocalypse was one of them, a quite huge […]
The tale of the failing train has become a very stabilized narrative figure : passengers left to themselves for hours, no station agent present to answer them, locked in their steel vehicle unless they decide to get out and walk […]
How can we investigate an organism? How can we look inside a material object? According to situations and technical innovations, several technologies of vision are at one’s disposal to conduct such inquiries. The use of corporal sensations and of abilities […]
To go always faster, always farther. Similar injunctions are regularly heard, and one knows the principle of competition that grounds them: even when taking part of the leaders, one has to fight against oneself to excel. Here stands the quality […]
In the 1960s, an American sociologist, a Reverend, inspired by Erving Goffman’s work, decided to conduct an ethnography of the urinals in a small town. Then, homosexual relationships were prohibited by Law. It was therefore in those public places that […]
We have known each other for such a long time. We have gone through a large part of the 1980s, sharing several experiences when we were young. Then, we went on separate ways during the 1990s, before getting back in […]
Facing the ever-increasing expansion of information, he has tried everything. At first, he used to print out articles that had to be read in priority and he carefully staked them on his desk. Then, he stored every item in different […]
There he is, before my home, sitting on a bench on the boulevard. I had not seen him; in my office I was writing in my den full of books, papers and computers; while fetching a book from another bookcase […]
I did not stay too long behind the principal. As I had read the teacher’s name, I knew the most important thing. But back home, I understood in a few minutes that I only had done half of the job. […]