A useful lesson from neurobiologist Alain Prochiantz The neurobiologist Alain Prochiantz gives us here a useful lesson. He reminds us that it is not only in art that one is alone and confronted with intuition and danger. He worries about a current organization of scientific production that favors safety over risk-taking, speed over long term, ...
# 31-2 | New Soviet Fashions | Cécile Pichon-Bonin
Our knowledge of Russia and the USSR is no longer in focus. That is the conclusion delivered here by three researchers who offer us a historiographical overview of painting, film, architecture, and urban planning. In their company, we exit a history centered around the decryption of ideological messages effectively imposed by the state apparatus. ...
# 30 | On Evaluation | Jacinto Lageira
Jacinto Lageira, who has recently published a book on the derealization of the world, is known for his texts about contemporary art and about theoretical reflections upon it. Lageira studies for us here how the considerable broadening of the notions of aesthetics and the artistic has had its effects on all sorts of objects. ...
# 17-2 | Appropriations | Rémi Labrusse
“Race wars are perhaps going to start up again. Within a century, we shall see several million men kill one another other in one fell swoop. The entire East against the entirety of Europe, the Old World against the New! Why not? In another form, great collective projects like the Isthmus of Suez are ...
# 17-1 | Appropriations | Benoît de L’Estoile
“Race wars are perhaps going to start up again. Within a century, we shall see several million men kill one another other in one fell swoop. The entire East against the entirety of Europe, the Old World against the New! Why not? In another form, great collective projects like the Isthmus of Suez are ...
