In 1959, Alain Resnais compared the Hiroshima bomb to failed relationships.
In 2010, Americans and Japanese have agreed to work together on the «Hiroshima Reconstruction Project», supervised by Eric Hanson (xRez Studio), to create a virtual model of what Hiroshima was like before 1945.
In «Soleil de la Conscience», Edouard Glissant, when visiting Paris from La Martinique, contrasts the gaze of «the Son» (le Fils) and the vision of «the Stranger» (l’Étranger).
First MOOC on The Holocaust of European Jews by two History professors of UC Santa Cruz (Jewish studies).
The Swiss have the reputation for being very slow : «chi va piano, va sano e va lontano».
Slow food, slow dance, slow stories, slow change : slow attitude.
Swiss contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn is building a temporary public monument in the Bronx dedicated to the memory of Italian marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who developed the concept of cultural hegemony.
Un monument d’introduction à la culture littéraire européenne, écrit par Erich Auerbach
à Istanbul quand il a dû fuir l’Allemagne nazie.
Enrichir la langue française; désigner les nouveaux concepts et les nouvelles pratiques par des termes appropriés, les recommandations de l’Académie Française.
Exposition sur Guy Debord à la BNF ; Debord’s Kriegspiel inspired by Clausewitz exists as a computer game.
An experimental space for artistic research (a kind of Kitchen?) in the North of Paris.