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Chic and serious
Channel is not Chanel
Vie Parisienne, June 1925
The idea of our female politicians pulling that off is almost as preposterous as Gordon Brown doing a Sarko and eloping with, say, Linda Evangelista. But the UK’s chic deficit is not confined to Westminster. As one British executive said to me over lunch last week, French businesswomen are [...]
Sir Ken Robinson
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy
Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally-renowned expert in the field of creativity and innovation for business and education.
He makes a compelling case for the importance of creativity and innovative thinking. He stresses the importance of an educational system that takes creativity and the arts seriously [...]
The unbearable arrogance of the hoi polloi
A propos de la “rentrée littéraire”.
C’est impressionnnant tout ces gens qui se doivent de lire la même chose au même moment.
C’est important de garder du temps pour les livres que personne ne lit.
Ca donnerait même envie d’en écrire.
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How do you distinguish yourself from the hoi polloi ?
Eventually, by quoting Euripides.
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Deleuze et Guattari enrôlés dans la théorisation de la guerre
Essaimage et guerre réticulaire
“C’est le technovisionnaire Kevin Kelley qui fut le premier à parler de la figure biologique de l’essaim, dans son livre Out of Control en 1994. Mais ce sont des analystes de la Rand Corporation (une boîte-à-penser militaire) qui l’ont théorisée comme la forme organisationnelle de la « guerre sociale réticulaire ». La [...]
Things to Come
Back to the future
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William Cameron Menzies : “Things to Come” (1936)
Things to Come opens with a near-future forecast of Christmas 1940 in the metropolis of Everytown (obviously London), a city threatened by world war. (see the thumbnails)
Pacifist intellectuals, such as John Cabal (Massey), try to turn the tide.
But Cabal’s efforts go unheeded by the self-interested [...]
Persisting signs of cognitive dissonance
It is a common view that a blogger can express ideas about almost anything provided that his or her speculations are substantiated by a reasonable amount of primary sources of information. Most of the time, the exercise consists in browsing the online mainstream media, and picking up news abstracts that suits best your personal bias [...]
Globalization and Its Enemies
In Globalization and Its Enemies 1, Daniel Cohen, a professor of economics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, provides a refreshing antidote to some of the most misleading features of this consensus. His starting point is the seemingly paradoxical claim that for most people in the world it is not a reality but a [...]
The spring, Monsieur, the spring !
The permanent revolution
A few months ago, the French rejected the project of European Constitution, making clear that they are yearning for an ambitious political project for Europe, which was desperately lacking in the draft of constitution presented for their approval.
Last december, the riotters who set fire to the suburbs raged against the system, complaining that [...]
