December Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in December 2016
Wenn Kinder vom nahen Tod erzählen
by Swantje Karich
Source: Die Welt, 17 December
We can’t classify them as “them”, but they are Bana, Yasmin and other individual children and adults that send videos shot with a phone telling us what it’s happening in Aleppo, and their faces and stories more than a useless call for help seem a legacy they want to give us forever.
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https://www.welt.de/kultur/article160388232/Wenn-Kinder-vom-nahen-Tod-erzaehlen.html
Security Council approves UN monitors for Aleppo evacuations
Source: http://www.un.org/, 19 December
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution that requests the United Nations to control and monitor the evacuations from Aleppo. Today 13, 5 million people don’t have food and shelter and 4.9 million are still trapped in besieged areas and are exposed to serious danger of life.
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55830#.WFkbhBvhAdV
Passé/présent Sur la route de la soie
di François Reynaert
Fonte: Le Nouvel Observateur, 15 Dicembre
Xi Jinping's geopolitical strategy to create an economic map of the great commercial roads that cross China from the inland and around the sea has been named as “the new road of the soy”, evoking a rich and fabulous past turned off by the conquest of the New World, they want to be revived.
Le poète Rabindranath Tagore, l’autre Nobel atypique
by Julien Bouisoou
Source: Le Monde, 17 December
The poetry of Rabindranath Tagore is a topical warning against the stupidity and the danger of nationalism. During the fight for the independence of India, he remembered that a Nation can’t matter more than humanity, and patriotism is not more important than the love for their land and nature.
Why sugar is bad for you
Source: The Economist, 17 December
An evocative name accompanies the alimentation history: sugar, precious ware in the past, considered the uppers of the 18th century, today it is a kind of Pandora’s box not only because it lurks in every product, but because of the poor scientists that dared to point out to its specific deleterious effects.
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Obituary: William Trevor died on November 20th
Source: The Economist, 3 December
The Irish writer compared to Joyce for the mastery of his short stories was an outsider of ideas and philosophies, who carved out his writing from tiny details forming gradually his characters designed with their secrets, feelings, and shame without anything to say.
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Twombly l’explorateur
by Bernard Géniès
Source: Le Nouvel Observateur, 8 December
At the Pompidou the most important retrospective ever dedicated to Cy Twombly. Started with the American Expressionism in the ‘Fifties, he found his own way with a painting that uses the sign as raw material, enlivened by literary assiduity and fixed on the canvas with a classicist patina.
Quand le Bauhaus voulait réinventer la beauté
by Emmanuelle Lequeux
Source: Le Monde, 13 December
An exposition by the Musée des arts décoratifs in Paris retraces the Bauhaus history, the industrial utopia of beauty, design, and décor of modernity, that brought in the everyday life the purity of forms and the freedom of colors as an aspiration to a total aesthetic dimension.
Einsteins pädagogishe Formel
by Marco Wehr
Source: Die Frankfurter Allgemeine, 29 November
The secret of the illuminated minds that most have contributed to human progress is a combination of hardest work and innate intuition: this sense and courage in the truth, that goes beyond the own perceived limits, is what joins geniuses like Einstein, Newton and Van Gogh.
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Katsuya Tomita trace sa route douce et affûtéè
by Nantes Jacques Mandelbaum
Source: Le Monde, 1 December
Bangkok Nites, a movie by the Japanese Katsuya Tomita presented after Locarno at the Festival des trois continents in Nantes, is a documentary fiction on a love story set during the Japanese invasion of Indochina and shot with not professional actors.
Enseignement. Dix bonnes raisons d’apprendre le latin
by Jacques Drillon
Source: Le Nouvel Observateur, 1 December
Teaching Latin and Greek as autonomous subjects in the schools means giving equal opportunities to disadvantaged scholars: these “useless” languages teach to say what you want to say, showing off the linguistic functions and putting the whole Western civilization on the table.
FMI Christine Lagarde veut s’attaquer aux inégalités
by Johnatan Ostry, Prakash Loungani & Davide Furceri
Source: Le Nouvel Observateur, 1 December
After Christine Lagarde, an inclusive growth is indispensable to fight the inequalities that trigger nationalist and protectionist policies. The international commerce has enhanced the buying power in the developed countries and taken outside the poverty millions of people.
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- Passé-présent sur la route de la soie pdf
- Le poète Rabindranath Tagore. L'autre Nobel atypique pdf
- Quand le Bauhaus voulait réinventer la beauté pdf
- Twombly l'explorateur pdf
- FMI Christine Lagarde veut s'attaquer aux inégalités pdf
- Enseignement Dix bonnes raisons d'apprendre la latins pdf
- Katsuya Tomita trace sa route douce pdf