January Culture and Society

Read the articles selected in January 2017

L’humour francais opère sa mue

Source: Le Monde, 24 January

The 20° Festival International du film de comédie shows the persisting tradition of the French comédie, with its legacy from the vaudeville and quiproquo, contaminated by the television building of its writing, structured after the American formats.

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One country, two systems.

Source: The Economist, 21 January

Zhou Youguang was the creator of pinyin, the writing system that uses roman characters to write Mandarin. Wanted by Mao to make easier the access to literacy, it failed to root in the Chinese culture.

“Mes films rachètent mes péchés”, confession de Martin Scorsese

by François Forestier

Source: Le Nouvel Observateur, 12 January

In "Silence" Martin Scorsese tells the spiritual path of a Jesuit priest who, lifting the intrinsic identity with the represented of images, saves the believers’ life and finds his deepest faith in a God, that atrocities and the most reasonable pragmatism can’t delete.

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Impressionism from the land down under

Source: The Economist, 28 December 2016

An exhibition at the London National Gallery presents the European spectators the Australian Impressionism, characterized by a stronger sense of naturalism and a different quality of light, a sun that only lightens the world of the white settlers.

L’Europe doit inventer une nouvelle mondialisation

by Paul Magnette

Source: Le Monde, 13 January

The commercial UE politics should serve its ambitions and its action about sustainable development, inequalities, and climate change if it intends overtaking the legitimacy crisis it is going through.

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Zygmunt Bauman

Source: Le Monde, 14 January

The sociologist and philosopher who has coined the expression “liquid society” is dead, after describing our contemporary world that put aside the collective, solid and rational projects of the modern and post-Enlightenment societies, dissolving in a disposable, interchangeable form human beings, feelings, and norms.

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Der Mensch als Emoji;)

by Sibylle Anderl

Source: Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 January

Stephanie A. Malone and Helen J. Wall describe in an article on “Trends in Cognitive Sciences” the human behaviour of our time, struggling with emojis and emoticons that have apparently erased the communicative ambiguity and made the human face a faded version.

Robert Doisneau, shy street photographer

Source: The Economist, 17 January

A collection of black and white photographs by Robert Doisneau from the 1940s and 1950s are now exposed at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius –Bau museum. The shots document the European life in post-war and sketch out the streets of Paris, the hungry city despoiled of its bourgeois standard of living, to find there the unexpected.

La finance de l’ombre pêut-elle provoquer un nouveau krach?

by Isabelle Chaperon

Source: Le Monde, 10 January

Out of the banks, subject to strict control by governments and financial authorities, there is almost in the USA a parallel shadow banking operated by insurance companies and investment funds that give credit without the precautionary assessment of risk that banks do, threatening the financial stability.

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Warum wir mit Hunden in Babysprache sprechen

by Viola Ulrich

Source: Die Welt, 11 January

A research team of the City University in New York has led a study that explains why humans speak to dogs with the same tones and language used towards children observing the reactions of these pets of different ages to our effusions.

Las mejores piernas del Antiguo Egipto

by Jacinto Antón

Source: El País, 10 January

The mummified remains of an Egyptian grave, exposed in the Turin Museum and attributed since they have been discovered in 1905 to the Queen Nefertari have been subjected to a rigorous scientific study confirming the possibility that it’s about her legs.

Berlin’s unique new music academy

Source: The Economist, 9 January

The West- Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded in 1999 as an experiment to promote the peace, hosting in the historic city of Weimar Israelian and Palestinian musicians, has become a permanent academy that passes on students from enemy areas the tolerance inspired by humanistic teaching.

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