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We want the world… now!

Paris, January 2015. In a wireless connected world everything appears smooth and seamless. One navigates almost simultaneously in several spaces upon the flat surface of a screen, being the one of a laptop, a smartphone or a touchpad. One jumps […]

Posted: January 26th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Modes d'emploi, Surprise

Weight

Paris & everywhere else, January 2015. In the streets, on TV, in newspapers, on social networks sites, on clothes: a few hours after the shock of the first murders, a graphic object has multiplied before our eyes, becoming a demonstration […]

Posted: January 12th, 2015 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies, Énonciations

Sharing

Western Massachussets, octobre 2013. At the corner of a small wooded street in a sleepy college town is a wooden shelter. It does not welcome birds or beneficial bugs so useful to biodiversity, but only used books. This is a […]

Posted: September 22nd, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies, Passages

Dividing Line

Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport, june 2014. Flying is a strange experience from a temporal and spatial point of view: it is the fastest way to get from one point to another and yet it is one with the most waiting times. […]

Posted: June 16th, 2014 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Marquages, Modes d'emploi

Ghost railstation

Saint-Saturnin-les-Avignon, June 2013 Finding the station has been easy, just follow the tracks going away from the village center. But once there, usual landmarks are blurred: the building that shall commonly be denominated “station” is walled on all sides. No […]

Posted: July 8th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Énonciations, Modes d'emploi, Mots d'ordre

Crazy Cretans

One of the most visible aspects of globalization is not “made in China” on the back of many manufactured goods, but the geographical extension of what was once attached to a territory, and its infinite reproduction in always different places. […]

Posted: April 2nd, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Énonciations, Surprise

Zero risk

In the past, things were simple: to stay healthy while eating, it was enough to avoid too rich foods that give an upset stomach, undercooked meat that transmits parasites, raw milk cheeses can cause listeriosis, eggs always suspected of harboring […]

Posted: January 14th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Circulations, Énonciations, Marquages, Preuves

Travelling light

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 […]

Posted: December 10th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Circulations, Énonciations

Multiple references

Facing the shelve, she compares colors and chooses a blended shades of blue. Then, she puts spay cans on the counter, and waits to pay the bill. Yet, the salesman does not tell her the price. Beforehand, he grasps a […]

Posted: November 12th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Circulations

Alignments

Some sociologists showed a great interest in the ways day-to-day work is accomplished, notably insisting on its collective nature. But not as a result of their analysis (they were sociologists, they already knew everything is collective), but as one of […]

Posted: September 10th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Marquages

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