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Culture New technologies

BNF labo

Le Laboratoire de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Culture Nature New technologies Politics

ESU 2014

Université Européenne des mouvements sociaux, organisée par le réseau européen attac, cet été à Paris.

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Politics

Russell Tribunal

Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre created an International War Crimes Tribunal following the military intervention in Vietnam in 1954.
In March 2009, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine was created. It has no legal force per se : it is a Tribunal of Conscience.

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Education Science

How to use a library

An army of librarians has united to offer answers to any university-level scholarly question, via their online form.

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New technologies Performance Politics

Robots on strike

Will robots ever go on strike ?
The Parisian subway system, inaugurated in 1900, operates two lines (1 and 14) with no driver.

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Electronic arts Music Performance

Jani Christou

Incredible Jani Christou, disciple of both Jung and Wittgenstein, who invented the notion of «metapraxis» in the scoring of musical performance.

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Cinema

Dogme95

Le Voeu de chasteté du Dogme95, créé pour libérer les cinéastes du joug autoritaire des grands studios technocrates et de leur esthétique léchée.

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Storytelling

Future Zwei

An experimental future according to social psychologist and memory researcher Harald Welzer on Future Zwei.

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Electronic arts New technologies

Music, Mind and Meaning

Listen to some of Marvin Minsky’s piano improvisations, and (re-)read his classical paper on Music, Mind and Meaning.

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Culture Politics

Etienne Dolet

La statue d’Etienne Dolet, imprimeur brûlé avec ses livres en 1546 à la place Maubert, montrée par Breton dans Nadja, n’a toujours pas été remplacée depuis sa disparition en 1942 sous l’Occupation.