Marseille, April 2025. Built in the 1960s, this hospital is located on the edge of town, very close to a motorway. Although you can catch a few buses to get there, the most common means of transport is by car, […]

Deshaies, November 2024.
 The green Greek cross, set out like a flag several metres above the ground, is a graphic identity that has become established in many countries as a way of signalling to passers-by the proximity of a pharmacy […]

Paris, March 2025. In the course of their careers, writings go through different exhibition regimes. They may be written for oneself or for others, displayed for legal or ceremonial reasons – in other words, to be seen, but not necessarily […]

Paris, March 2025. “Roman salute”, “unfortunate gesture of an autistic person”, “outburst of uncontrolled enthusiasm” were among the series of interpretations of Elon Musk’s (doubled) gesture during the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United […]

Paris, February 2025. 

The space we walk through is always marked, striated by relationships, made up of a sedimentation of traces of past activities and visual, sonic and tactile affordances open to the possibilities of future actions. Even the new […]

Stellenbosch, January 2025 The capitalist organisation of markets creates choices for consumers. In this case, the plastic in the bottle is supposed to be non-toxic, just like its contents, even if the plastic pollution generated is also part of this […]

As vehicles for collaboration, information or relaxation, the boards in the social rooms of computers science labs can also become the medium of a game, precipitating interactions in which researchers escape from the common conversation and abandon their cup of […]

Online, December 2024. It was the day the phone didn’t stopped vibrating. My number had been included in a group of a hundred users of the Telegram application. The administrator invited us to carry out microtasks paying 5 euros apiece. […]

Stellenbosch, January 2025 In the last century, crossing borders required a certain amount of preparation: going to a stockbroker or, in some cases, a bank, to pick up strange notes and coins, the value of which had to be memorised. […]

By our guest: Victoria Brun Paris, November 2024. Walking along the platform of the Champs-Élysées Clémenceau subway station on line 1, I stumble upon an abandoned sign from the march organized by the Nous Toutes collective that same day against […]

Paris, November 2024. 

Spray paint spills out on all sides. It reveals the writing device: a stencil, temporarily fixed to the wall by eight pieces of adhesive tape, and a black spray can. Clumsiness, haste, anger, or perhaps the desire […]

Marseille, December 2024. The researcher is sitting at her desk, reviewing the documents that interest her individually on the relevant electronic databases. On her screen are scanned documents, handwritten inscriptions, signatures, and multiple writings that only an informed eye can […]

Paris, November 2024. The location is so well suited to demonstrations. The wide Rivoli street crosses the start of the Sébastopol Boulevard in a very open space, now largely devoted to environmentally friendly mobility. But it’s a different kind of […]

Marseille, September 2024 For many pupils, going back to school also means going back to the school canteen. A culinary nightmare for some, an example of relentless privatisation for others, school canteens have become the focus of political battles over […]

Patara, September 2024. When it doesn’t go unnoticed, our experience of the past in the present may provoke the beginning of a heuristic trouble for Scriptopolis: viewing photos, exploring family archives or administrative archives, rediscovering traces or events witnesses. Among […]

Paris, April 2024.

 Since the early 1990s, in computer science as in many other fields of the exact and experimental sciences, conferences have played a central role in research activities. When we take a close look at what researchers do, […]

En ligne, septembre 2024 L’une des grandes leçons des études de sciences est qu’un artefact technique n’existe qu’avec son réseau associé. Parmi les exemples canoniques on trouve les moyens de transport, au premier rang desquels les trains. Sans rails, réseau […]

Patara, September 2024. Some public spaces are saturated with inscriptions, others, including beaches, are more preserved; advertising and signage are kept to a minimum. On this beach on the Lycean coast, bathers discover an additional number of inscriptions. They are […]

Bologna, June 2024. A suburban district with green spaces and shops, far from the places steeped in the trade union and political struggles of Europe’s oldest university city. You have to use your rudimentary Italian in restaurants or drugstores rather […]

Aix-en-Provence, March 2023. A letter of protest and mobilisation was sent from French Algeria to mainland France at war. The letters are still in circulation, but with new procedures: they are opened, read, censored or, on the contrary, put back […]

Online, February 2024 In the past, the procedure for presenting papers at a conference was simple, but relatively opaque. Anyone could send a contribution to the organisers, which was either accepted or rejected. It was then allocated to a panel, […]

Paris, January 2024. The lives of academic staff are often punctuated by assignments there is no shortage of reasons for travelling: presentations at conferences, invitations from colleagues to a workshop, the need to go out into the field to take […]

Paris, December 2023. Dismayed by the lack of realistic representation of the clitoris in courses taught both in secondary schools and in caregiver training, in 2016 Odile Fillod modeled a 3-D printable genital organ based on scientific literature. This small, […]

Rome, October 2023. In many European cities, posters showing the portraits of Israelis murdered or taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 have been torn down. This phenomenon, like other sequences of political collages and torn out, testify to the […]

Paris, October 2023 As with mobile phones, some electronic objects have become permanent extensions of the workplace. On a train, ticket inspectors are now equipped with a small connected terminal, which can be used to receive and send information, find […]

By our two guests: Florence Paterson and Clarisse Pradel Paris, October 2023. The Centre de sociologie de l’innovation is in effervescence: on October 23 “Une journée avec Bruno Latour” takes place, a day of tribute during which “members of the […]

Aubervilliers, October 2023. In April 2022, during the run-up to the French presidential election, the EHESS building in Aubervilliers, like other academic institutions, was occupied. The occupation left a lasting impression, not only because of the extent of the damage […]

Marseille, July 2023 It’s been a long journey, so when you arrive at your destination, all you want to do is go back home. Nevertheless, the mauve background of this sign catches the photographer’s eye, especially as maintenance is usually […]

Paris, August 2023. When it doesn’t take place in the studio, filming is set in a saturated space and requires the negotiation of an exceptional regime: rental of space, security and janitorial services, special authorization from the police, the complicity […]

Marseille, June 2023 This semi-pedestrianised street is teeming with restaurants, their terraces on the wide pavements stretching right up to the edge of the taller-than-usual buildings. This is particularly true of this former department stores, which itself has a terrace […]

Internet, May 2023 We know this well, at least since Umberto Eco: any published text depends solely on its readers, and authors can do little in the face of unforeseen circulation, unlikely support, unsolicited commentators, irascible critics and overall indifference. […]