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Archive for the ‘Modes d’emploi’ Category
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50 shades of brown
The food industry has learned to manipulate our senses: taste enhancers, thickeners, dyes and artificial flavors regularly deceive our eyes and palate. It has set new standards on the appearance of products: strawberry ice cream should be a sparkling rose, […]
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Broadening the field of reflexivity
One of the key features of our times seems to be a certain kind of reflexivity. Not our capacity to mentally examine our own actions ex-post (we have been able to do that for a long time), but the ability […]
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Staircase wit
Hong-Kong, july 2010. For the traveler, taking the escalator is not always a means of transportation, it can also be some sightseeing experience: there is a real monument in Hong Kong, the Central to Mid-Level escalator , the world’s longest […]
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Being human
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where shall we go? It’s been centuries that these questions are addressed by most philosophical theories. Whether they claim to be or are labelled as evolutionist, existentialist, humanist, ethic, analytical… the very […]
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This country and its signs
You love this country. Its lands, its cities, its forests. And above all, its skies. You came here a lot, but for the first time you have the opportunity to drive a car. Doing the driver: a good way to […]
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Instructions for non-use
In domestic spaces, as well as in public settings, explicit instructions for use directly attached to objects are rare. They are usally written on a separate document, possibly on the package protecting objects before their use. We surely all have […]
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Closets
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 […]
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Table decorations
Learning how to eat is pre-eminentely a question of skills: to handle correctly various kitchenware, to lay on a first-rate meal, to sort out the sheep from the goats, and to adopt specific postures that fit with the manipulation of […]
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Good pick
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 […]
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Back to School (episode 1)
We have been watching the wall of the school for few days now, in search of the fateful lists. The same lists we used to run our eyes over, when we were kids, sick with fear. And today, I come […]