In the air

Pratiqué à l’origine dans les monastères dès le 11e siècle, se développa dans les universités européennes à partir du 13e siècle un type de discussion orale ou écrite, la disputatio, dont les participants étaient ...

One evening in November 2019, a visiting academic in Beirut came across a building under construction, occupied by Syrian refugees. He was struck by a number of powerful impressions. First, he was ...

One evening in November 2019, a visiting academic in Beirut came across a building under construction, occupied by Syrian refugees. He was struck by a number of powerful impressions. First, he was ...

Every night, the Earth is illuminated by billions of lights, which reveal the presence of humans to the universe and the secret of their activities and organisation to those who are informed ...

While it is difficult to pinpoint a single cause for the proliferation of planning conflicts in France, it is essential to take account of the perceptions and representations of stakeholders in defining ...

This article analyses a fresco by the graffiti artist Lekto, in Avignon, depicting Emmanuel Macron as a puppet manipulated by Jacques Attali, echoing anti-semitic and anti-democratic clichés that power is in the ...

How does artificial intelligence resonate with an image? How do we reason with AI? This text begins with a figure produced by ChatGPT, responding to a prompt asking it to interpret graphically, ...

Do the figurative and the abstract constitute two very distinct worlds? On closer inspection, these two worlds overlap in rich borderlands to such an extent that the abstract can be seen as ...

The intention of inclusive writing is laudable, but its implementation presents numerous obstacles. In order to gain a better understanding of its nature, we propose to explore the limits of this innovation ...

The use of language is always informed by the context in which it is employed. Each field of study has its own vocabulary, and the vocabulary associated with describing images is no ...

For some, the Earth is a whole that stands as a principle of solidarity between all its cohabitants. Others see it rather as a piece of land that qualifies, or even identifies, ...

Although the 'cantography' of the Earth is not very abundant, it is sufficiently diverse to offer food for thought. Each song develops its own point of view on what it means by ...

While the songs most often deal with the theme of climate as a matter of romantic sentimentality, a few of them are concerned, if not openly, with climate change, at least with ...

To sing the climate is very often to summon the seasons, often separately, sometimes in their sequences, understood in the sense of temperate latitudes. But if the physical elements are sometimes mentioned, ...

Water, as an element of nature, whether it is raining or snowing, inspires songs in very different ways. And this suggests that there is no one nature, but that everyone understands and ...