Paris, February 2025. The space we walk through is always marked, striated by relationships, made up of a sedimentation of traces of past activities and visual, sonic and tactile affordances open to the possibilities of future actions. Even the new […]
Stellenbosch, January 2025 The capitalist organisation of markets creates choices for consumers. In this case, the plastic in the bottle is supposed to be non-toxic, just like its contents, even if the plastic pollution generated is also part of this […]
Online, December 2024. It was the day the phone didn’t stopped vibrating. My number had been included in a group of a hundred users of the Telegram application. The administrator invited us to carry out microtasks paying 5 euros apiece. […]
Paris, November 2024. Spray paint spills out on all sides. It reveals the writing device: a stencil, temporarily fixed to the wall by eight pieces of adhesive tape, and a black spray can. Clumsiness, haste, anger, or perhaps the desire […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]