— scriptopolis —

Strengths and weaknesses

Clamart, August 2013. Signature is both an amazing written object and an amazing scriptural gesture. We can experience it almost everyday, as we pay with a cheque, as we receive a parcel, as we check at the kids’ workbooks at […]

Posted: September 16th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Preuves

Suggestions

Visiting an unknown city in a limited time often leads to prepare or even simulate the journey ahead, relying on multiple devices: tourist guides with photos and addresses remarkable site bringing together fellow travelers opinions or a software to view […]

Posted: April 22nd, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Instruments, Marquages, Matières, Modes d'emploi

Landmarks

You’ve been regularly back in this station for thirty years. The first time that you stopped at Centraal Station, it was during a trip with friends a summer at the beginning of the nineties. For five days only, you appreciated […]

Posted: March 25th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Passages

Zero risk

In the past, things were simple: to stay healthy while eating, it was enough to avoid too rich foods that give an upset stomach, undercooked meat that transmits parasites, raw milk cheeses can cause listeriosis, eggs always suspected of harboring […]

Posted: January 14th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Circulations, Énonciations, Marquages, Preuves

Setting apart

Recently bicycle has been an object of reinvestment as a green technology of mobility. In numerous cities around the world, bicycle usage has dramatically increased in the last decade, notably through bicycle-sharing systems. As a consequence, various dedicated infrastructures have […]

Posted: October 8th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Preuves

Alignments

Some sociologists showed a great interest in the ways day-to-day work is accomplished, notably insisting on its collective nature. But not as a result of their analysis (they were sociologists, they already knew everything is collective), but as one of […]

Posted: September 10th, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Marquages

Historical folds

Among public lettering, epigraphical inscriptions are particular. They are generally used to qualify settings in an explicit or metaphorical way. Inscriptions in the pediment of numerous monuments may be a kind of a store sign: “National Parliament”. But they are […]

Posted: July 2nd, 2012 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Preuves

Between the lines

Streets are not only sites to display public lettering. They are also a milieu particularly favorable to their incredible development. Inscriptions of any kind are displayed, they swarm in certain places, some cover each other, others sometimes lose their greatness, […]

Posted: December 19th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages

Did you see that?

We were having a pretty passionate discussion, though I can’t remember the matter. We were walking at a good pace: we were supposed to meet with another guy in a restaurant a few blocks away and we were a bit […]

Posted: November 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Énonciations, Marquages

Seen

One day, as I went back home after grocery shopping, I walked by a store that was apparently being remodeled. What was being hidden by the semi-painted glass that obscured my view as much as it drew my attention and […]

Posted: February 11th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Surprise

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