Hollow portraits
Two exhibitions highlight the work of documentary photographer Mathieu Pernot. Through an assembly of diverse documents, he shows fragments of
Left bank 50s
At the end of the Second World War, artists and intellectuals were convinced that creation had a decisive role to
License to Kill
In the name of “state self-defense” in the fight against terrorism, we are witnessing a significant expansion of police powers.
The planned depletion of fish
The depletion of global fish resources is not so much the result of anarchic developments affecting the oceans as of
Trot, Lights!
By tracing the travels in Europe of a bookseller, the historian Robert Darnton confirms the role of mediators in the
The Greeks from top to bottom
Ancient Greek society was much more unequal and hierarchical than the idea of democracy suggests. It was better to be
Cuba under the words
The characteristic of totalitarianism is to corrupt language and customs: you say one thing, you think another. The Cuban regime
Is growth really so low?
Is the slowdown in economic activity observed in developed countries over the past 30 years the result of a real
Fascist violence
Italian fascism was undeniably a totalitarianism – it notably presented the violence and the ambition to transform man at all
The game space
What space is created between a musical work and its listener? Beyond questions of spatialization of sound, the acoustic space