February Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in February 2017
La longue marche du cinéma afro-américain
by Isabelle Regnier
Source: Le Monde, 19 February
One year after the protest “Oscars so white”, the festivals of this beginning 2017 puts in foreground movies on the condition of the Black in America, telling the injustice and the deep anger with no conventional schemes that suggest that something is changing.
Où les génies des langues se parlent
Source: Le Monde, 17 February
The Mucem in Marseille is hosting a thematic exposition about the linguistic translation, with the intent to go beyond the sacredness of the untranslatable and to celebrate the blessing of languages in the act that has complicated and multiplied the universal in mirrors never identical and with a multiple sense.
Vermeer, artiste du doute
by Philippe Dagen
Source: Le Monde, 23 February
An exposition at the Louvre on Vermeer and the contemporary genre masters, even though their same social origin, clear in the representation of every day, nearly identical subjects and domestic environments, shows a different picture and narration, that Vermeer undoes until the essential and the doubt.
A century after the Russian revolution, a showcase of its art
Source: The Economist, 16 February
At the Royal Academy, an important retrospective on the Russian Avantgarde between 1917 and 1932 and inspired by a historic exhibition that took place in Leningrad and in Moscow in 1932, shows the unsettling double register of a euphoric political, technical, intellectual and artistic revolution.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/02/reds-whites-and-truths
Als ihn die Grenzer stoppten, schluckte er sein Gift
by Erhard Schütz
Source: Die Welt, 16 February
A new biography on Walter Benjamin rereads his work by the light of his precarious life and his suicide that signed an epoch, sounding out some conceptual figures of his thought, less known than those that made him a star in the intellectual landscape of the last century.
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Justice sans rémission
by Jean-Baptiste Jacquin
Source: Le Monde, 11 February
The French Parliament is going to vote a reform on the penal prescription whose terms will be doubled, without incurring in the violation of art. 6 Eur. Convention on human rights, to do justice to the victims, and not only to the society, for the committed crimes, what is today made possible by the new scientific techniques.
The Tate dives into the art of David Hockney
Source: The Economist, 14 February
The Tate has presented a retrospective of the courageously homosexual British painter, well-known for his sun super-exposed and aquamarine surfaces, crossed by tanned, naked figures, a superficiality that however suggests some deeper sides.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/02/making-splash
Gene editing, clones and the science of making babies
Source: The Economist, 18 February
The reproductive methods without sexual intercourse and that fight genetic diseases are progressing so fast that all possible ethical questions are appropriated, beyond science-fiction fantasies and dystopic alarms, so as not to postpone the right to health of disadvantaged children and not to forget the unborn.
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Why the American legal system is so flexible
Source: The Economist, 4 February
A book for academics and students of law illuminates the role of the Supreme Court and of law professors in America in defining the rule of law as internal to the written system of statutes or as a flexible instrument incorporating values of the evolving society.
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The giant shoulders of English
Source: The Economist, 4 February
If since ever a scientific lingua franca has been indispensable for the progress of science, a monolingual science has disadvantages also in its diffusion. Without replacing English as intermediary lingua, science needs multilingualism to flourish.
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Vingt-cinq ans après, le traité de Maastricht reste critiqué
by Marie Charrel
Source: Le Monde, 7 February
Twenty-five years ago was signed the Maastricht Treaty, that founded the European Union allowing the adoption of the euro through a series of financial rules, which couldn’t impede the economic crisis of the last years, and a broad perception of a dysfunctional Europe.
Les années Lumière
by Thomas Sotinel
Source: Le Monde, 4 February
The films of the Brothers Lumière, the first in the history of cinema, shot starting from 1895 and now restored by the Institut Lumière in Lion, show a commercial finding that knew from his beginnings to be a form of art and representation.
“La La Land” and its lineage of escapism during rotten times
Source: The Economist, 6 January
In spite of the current critical tensions, this tribute to the Hollywood history and a genre long since viewed with suspicion enchants us not just for its escapism but for the mastery of its representation that shows us a very resourceful America.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/01/get-me-out-here
Hanna Harendt, la désobéissance en héritage
Source: Le Monde, 1 February
A documentary by Ada Ushpiz retakes the figure of the German philosopher, interviewed about the most salient moments of her life and intellectual journey, to testimony the productiveness of her thought, which described the totalitarians regimes when there wasn’t Internet, for the contemporary political movements.
A digital dive into Freud’s mind
by Tara Bahrampour
Source: The Washington Post, 1 February
The Library of Congress has digitized the Sigmund Freud Collection, including 20.000 letters and interviews and miracolously rescued from Nazism, rewriting this piece of the history of human thought as a story of migration, under a light of especial actuality.
Arts Duchamp et la fable de la “Fontaine”
by Bernard Géniès
Source: L’OBS, 26 January
This year is celebrated the centenary of Duchamp’s “Fontaine”, the porcelain urinal crowned as a work of art through the ready-made, a linguistic reappropriation of the objects that on the other side has begun a tradition of hammerings and other exemplar performances blowing up the art market.
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- Vermeer, artiste du doute pdf
- Où les génies des langues se parlent pdf
- La longue marche du cinéma afro-américain pdf
- Justice sans rémission pdf
- Les années Lumière pdf
- Vingt-cinq ans après, le traité de Maastricht pdf
- Arts Duchamp et la fable del la "Fontaine" pdf
- Letters, interviews pdf
- Hannah Arendt, la désobéissance en héritage pdf