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. […]

By our guest : Florence Paterson Paris, Mai 2023. “I’ll tell you how to do, you grab your phone and you take a picture”. That’s what you’d call a concierge’s trick, or to put it better one of his techniques. […]

Paris, March 2023. We know the reasons for the distancing, blaming or denunciation of work, but we probably understand a little less well the love that can connect us to it. Not only the “real job” that emerges in a […]

Marseille, March 2023 It all started with vertical signs: parking bans all over the street with a decree reproduced in small, barely decipherable characters, but the street would be closed for weeks on the even-numbered side. And then horizontal green […]

Marseilles, February 2023 The art of writing is less about recognising shapes than about being able to reproduce them, trait by trait, with a pen, a pencil or a brush. Before reaching the virtuosity of Japanese calligraphy, it is necessary […]

Tirana, September 2022.
 In order not to forget the collective experience of the Socialist People’s Republic and to transform the paranoia of a 20th century dictator into a national heritage for the future, the new Republic of Albania has converted […]

The GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, has changed the life of European Internet users. Since its implementation, it has been impossible to visit a Web page without having to expressly state one’s choices regarding the use of the data that […]

Aix-en-Provence, Octobre 2022 In order to ensure the effective payment of the entrance fee, a simple and elegant solution has been chosen in this museum: a coloured sticker, displaying the logo of the place, is given to the visitors. It […]

Paris, November 2022.
 In France, depending on the relationship with the employer, the right to strike can be exercised either by the voluntary report of strikers, or by a bailiff going to the workplace to record the strikers. One of […]

Geneva, November 2022 Coming out of a joint seminar and before returning, the group had booked lunch for 18 people, and consequently occupied the whole central part of the venue in this cosy restaurant. Even though the menu was limited […]

By our guest: Florence Paterson Paris, November 2022. Emergency ward. After some paperwork at the counter and a stay in the waiting room, a nurse shouts my name. I follow him, passing the automatic doors that lead to the heart […]

By our guest: Victoria Brun Ugine, October 2022. While emptying my grandparents’ house after their death, I came across a stack of ‘Almanachs du vieux Savoyard’. Published since 1946, it is an institution in the Savoy region. About a hundred […]

Montpellier, July 2022. They retired, then moved to the South of France. It was a whole life of things to be arranged, sorted into carefully labeled boxes, transported and re-installed in a new apartment. In the process of administering his […]

Marseille, July 2022 They have invaded supermarkets, drugstores, the most diverse sales websites, public transportation, but also our professional and private meetings. Surgical masks have become a new source of complex plastic waste. Some have sought to recycle them by […]

Tirana, September 2022. Since its beginnings thirteen years ago, Scriptopolis has been describing the inscriptions on urban furniture and has shine a light on classified ads. In contrast to the city centre’s attempts to turn electrical cabinets into street art […]

London, September 2022. Portraits on each storefront. Her pixelated face followed by her name, white on black, form a circle that spins at the top of the tower dominating the city. And these two years, repeated over and over again, […]

Paris, July 2022. In this hot summer month, the door of the closet housing the photocopier reminds the agents of the Ministry of Finance that their writings are governed by other temporalities than those directly registered in the exchanges of […]

Zurich Airport, April 2022 Cigarettes are no longer popular in the West. Shared spaces have gradually become forbidden to them, pushing smokers and their foul-smelling and toxic odors further and further away. But what can be done in places that […]

Paris, June 2022.

 The first bell is visible in the hall. It arouses the curiosity of visitors, whose eyes have become familiar with terrariums, which have been trendy in recent years. As you walk through the floors and open the […]

Our guest : Florence Paterson Paris, June 2022. Small strip of pink paper pasted in the elevator, between 5 and 7, the warning oscillates between the register of a denunciation – sober, it must be said – of the surprising […]

Athens, May 2022. The international hotel was very classic: a cubic mass of about a dozen floors, located in a semi-central area with “sea view” for half of the rooms, i.e., the ability to look out over the port area. […]

Paris, March 2022. Since the return to the office, the posters in the social room have multiplied to remind users to behave. Clean the dishes, empty the fridge, leave the table clean, wipe up the coffee spills. It was as […]

Internet, March 2022 In the academic world, the verb “to publish” increasingly embraces two distinct meanings. On the one hand, it is about making public, sharing knowledge created by means of blog notes, working manuscripts or even preprints, all forms […]

Paris, March 2022.

 The approval of Parisian bouquinistes refers to a political-administrative practice from the seventeenth century: the control by a royal legal deposit and a corporation of booksellers that restricted the circulation of printed matter and regarded street vendors […]

Marseille, mars 2022. Writing is a powerful tool for collective alignment. Orders, instructions, rules, signals, information, guides, explanations, descriptions and designations are all concrete forms intended to create a society, mobilise, affect or simply communicate. The lower one defines the […]