June 2017 Culture and Society
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Le témoignage glaçant des esclaves de Daech
Source: Le Figaro, 16 June
The world attends to the massacre of the Yazidis, a religious minority in Islamic territory, qualified by the United Nations as a victim of genocide. Enslaved, they have no alternative between sharia and the death. Last among the last, protected by the Kurds and the American aviation, their tragedy is without an end.
A Paris, 350 ans d’astronomie
by Vahé Ter Minassian
Source: Le Monde, 21 June
The Paris Observatory, the most eminent scientific center in the world dedicated to astronomy, wanted under the reign of the Roi Soleil by Colbert, who was aware of the practical uselfulness of looking at the sky, celebrates its 350° anniversary, with a project of historical interest that will refurbish its decadent fortress.
In Japan, a band of decluttering disciples
by Anna Fifield
Source: The Washington Post, 19 June
In Japa,n a minimalist philosophy inspired by Taoism invites to free domestic spaces to purify the mind. The “danshari” method, known also in the Western thanks to Marie Kondo, ponders on the relationship between attachment to tangible things and excess of information that deviates the thought.
Grosse Auswahl für die Barbielorette
by Julia Bäher
Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine, 21 June
Every respected Barbie has always a fiancé, but now even dolls think of their career. And if Mattel continues to tell us the end of the great love-story with Ken, who refused to marry her, all girls know that Barbie has never been a fool, and always wanted just fun.
The globalisation counter-reaction
Source: The Economist, 14 June
The First World War can be read as the consequence of the tensions and destabilizing effects of globalization, that from 1870 to 1914 brought great prosperity, and today, with the increasing international crisis and migration flows, brings resentment that is translated in votes rewarding nativism.
The global inequality of blood supplies
Source: The Economist, 14 June
The June 14 is the World Blood Donor Day. A donation can save three lives at one time. This practice, made for free in Western countries, is less widespread in the poor ones, not only because of the better wealth condition of Western people but also of cultural barriers.
“Multikulti is gescheitert”
by Ruud Koopmans
Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine, 14 June
Multiculturalism has failed in Europe. Ascribing to migrants citizenship and political rights without requiring to them adaptation, is not the assumption of integration, standing to data about the occupation, the delivery of social help and the Islamic extremism. Better is the assimilation.
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Andy Warhol’s “first selfie” expected to fetch £7m at Sotherby’s auction
by Sherna Noah
Source: The Independent, 14 June
Thirty years after his death is on sale the first self-portrait of the most famous pop-artist, who painted a photo booth in 1963, after the series of images that represented icons of star-system and cult-objects of mass-media society, giving anybody his famous 15 minutes of celebrity and the aura of an artist.
Von der Hand in den Kopf
by Maria-Anna Schulze Brüning & Stephan Clauss
Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine, 6 June
The handwriting is inalienable even in the digital era. It is a technique structuring the thought, the fundament of the apparently simplified writings currently taught in the schools to facilitate learning and that risk to legitimate the gradual abolition of writing.
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Italian pipe organs, Europe’s oldest, are making a return
Source: The Economist, 6 June
The Maggio Organistico festival in Umbria is reviving the baroque church music written for pipe organs, originated in Italy in the 15th century and set aside for centuries after the success of Bach’s music, executed by the more developed Northern organs.
Migrants face “hell on hearth” after being returned by EU
by Lizzie Dearden
Source: The Indepedent, 2 June
A European program to reinforce protection of migrants and to slow Mediterranean crossings risks to turn into a contribution to the human rights violations perpetrated by authorities in Lybia. The European desperation to contain migrants flow collides with the “hell on hearth” experienced there.
A l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa mort, plusieurs parutions éclairent la pensée politique de la philosophe
by Antoine de Baecque
Source: Le Monde, 2 June
A classic of the liberal tradition is newly present in the bookshops: the political thought of M.me de Staël, not understood at her time, is today a topical subject for her feminine ability to balance pushes from the right and left against every form of extremism.
“I become more humble the longer I was in office” Barack Obama
by Barack Obama
Source: The Guardian, 27 May
Nobody is immune from climate change. Nobody could live without food. Food production is the second source of greenhouse gas in the world. A sustainable agriculture requires science and creativity, as well a conscious technology. The climate issue can’t be more a luxury for privileged classes or countries.
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Quand l’Asie réinvente les mégapoles
by Vincent Giret & Francis Pisani
Source: Le Monde, 30 May
The global cities are the new situation of the modernity, place of democratic experiments and multiple mutations that in the last twenty years have transformed metropoles into smart cities. While the Internet is materialized in the architecture space, big data and A.I help to better the environment.
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The man trap
by Emily Bobrow
Source: The Economist Magazine, June /July 2017
If marriage is still a “good deal” for men for the amount of housekeeping outsourced to women, the workplace is the proving ground for their masculinity, paid with increased labor hours although rewarded with the highest wages and the most promotions That reinforces the traditional gender roles.
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Machine-learning promises to shake-up large swathes of finance
Fonte: The Economist, 25 May
The financial industry is replacing the traditional rules of trading with decisions made by artificial intelligence. Machine-learning algorithms find new trading strategies based on vast amount of data, spot unusual transactions, sift through thousands of contracts in seconds, predict the impact of an event on market prices.
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