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Standing

Paris, April 2018. It is in the first pages of The Second Sex, “Childhood”: one of the founding events that make little girls aware of their difference (the so-called castration anxiety) is the inability to urinate standing. In 2018, there […]

Posted: November 5th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
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“At the same time”

Paris, february 2014. There is a tendency to believe that some things resist the writing powers. Irony, for example, or innuendo. Stripped of gestures and intonation, sentences would not fully bring out in their readers this fine form of understanding […]

Posted: July 2nd, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Énonciations, Modes d'emploi

Law adjustments

Paris, December 2017. The highway code states a general rule on the distribution of public space: the road is made for vehicles whereas the pavement is made for pedestrians. And parking enforcement officers take disciplinary action when somebody breaches of […]

Posted: June 18th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
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Freedom of speech

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, march 2018. A metal plate framed and supported by feet riveted to the ground, the whole overhung by an inscription. That’s it. The smooth, vertical surface is offered for sight. An urban furniture being part of the environment, it […]

Posted: April 9th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Énonciations, Instruments

Minutes

Paris & Twitter, March 2018. In French Law, the criminal trial is one of the places where orality is sacred. You don’t skip through files in all directions, you do not spread the thousands of pages of the instruction, only […]

Posted: March 26th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Capteurs et traçeurs, Énonciations

Help yourselves

Paris, December 2017. You’ve been walking past this glass door every day for years. The gilded brass plate shows a Japanese name, which you have already copied on your mobile phone to make a request. Then, you were looking for […]

Posted: March 19th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
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Edited

Paris, December 2017. Today I am afraid to show up totally soaked at an interview, so I drop my bicycle and take the subway with you. Do you pay attention to advertisement? A little attention you say. I bet that […]

Posted: January 8th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations

Left behind accounts

In the South of France, November 2017. The psychiatric hospital is a huge 1900’s building surmounted by a bell tower. Built out of the city town, it now belongs to the vast University clinic that has renamed the district “Hôpitaux-facultés” […]

Posted: December 11th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations

Facts

We live in a quantified, evidence-based world in which more and more of our actions are framed by indicators and figures that support or evaluate them. Basically, our day-to-day experience increasingly looks like a mix of elementary schools where grades […]

Posted: October 9th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Énonciations, Preuves

Borders

Northern Alps, February 2017. Above the cloud sea, the sky is blue and the slopes are not full of people. Obsession of the skiers once the slope is done, the queue to the chairlift remains short in this supposed period […]

Posted: February 20th, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Mots d'ordre

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