Libraries have been constituting crucial repositories of information since centuries. After being locations reserved to particular powerful elites (clergy or royal courts) that restricted the circulation of certain books or even censured the content of others, libraries have been progressively […]
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 […]
Hong-Kong, july 2010. For the traveler, taking the escalator is not always a means of transportation, it can also be some sightseeing experience: there is a real monument in Hong Kong, the Central to Mid-Level escalator , the world’s longest […]
Amongst the objects that display writing, we often insisted on the crucial role of doors. There are of course a lot more. Windshields, for exemple, are not only transparent surfaces that protect the car driver and the other passengers from […]
This is not the first time we do this, here. There is nothing like the observation of children practices to understand what writing does to the world. It is a very good exercise to avoid any temptation of functionalism. Not […]
It all started with a few notes written on loose sheets. Maybe a notebook. There were, before and after that, conversations. Comments, advices, face to face or on the phone. Choices were made, a strategy was planned. And then she […]
« We have more urgent problems to solve than Gypsies social integration, in which I hardly believe. File away. 06-29-1956. »
Capbreton, avril 2010. La télécommande est un objet merveilleux qui a alimenté, lors de son apparition, la frayeur des directeurs de programmes comme le bonheur des chercheurs. Avec ce petit dispositif, c’est le rapport même à la télévision qui s’est […]
Genève, avril 2010. J’aime la Suisse et ses trottoirs nets et propres, ses sobres élégantes, ses montagnes carte postale, ses banques sans enseigne tapageuse ; tout y est discrètement à sa place. Dans les rues l’affichage est lui aussi soigneusement […]
Paris, mars 2010. Ils nous répètent à longueur de journée combien l’écriture est un geste intime. Ils nous expliquent combien elle est une forme d’expression de personnes à part. Ils en concluent que celles-ci savent, contrairement à la majorité des […]