February 2018 Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in February 2018
Heisenbergs Weltformel
By Christopher Schrader
Source: Die Zeit, 21 February
Sixty years ago Werner Heisenberg presented his equation which aspired to explain all the physical phenomena. With the advancing and overlapping theories of the universe, the dream to find a simple and exhaustive formel containing the whole reality seems more and more a chimera.
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Nuit gravement à la santé
By Éric Favereau
Source: Libération, 17 February
After a recent study, the industrial food increases proportionally the risk of cancer. Not only the low nutritional quality, but also the transformation of the food, principally through cooking, and the packaging of plastic develop substances that are extremely toxic.
Féminisme: de Beauvoir à #Metoo
By Doan Bui & Marie Vaton
Source: L’Obs, 22 February
If many feminist fights have concerned the body of the women, Metoo remains beyond its false moralisms a feminist quérelle, bringing on the court of the public sphere the ordinary relation between man and woman, when it is mediated by the power.
After 200 years, Italian maestro’s “lost” opera finally gets its premiere… in Covent Garden
By Dalya Alberge
Source: The Observer, 18 February
L’Ange de Nisida, a Donizetti’s opera which was thought to have been lost has been reconstructed through a meticulous philological work led in Europe and US archives. The work, designed for a small theatre, will be premiered in July.
Hat der Evangelist Matthäus etwa Ovid gelesen?
By Ulf von Rauchhaupt
Source: Die FAZ, 14 February
In the Valentine’s day, the Ars Amatoria by Ovidio, classical and not very politically correct handbook of the erotism, is worthy of a philological rereading to discover unexpected exchanges with the culture of his time.
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“L’Origine du monde”, polémique relancée
By Eric Tariant
Source: Le Temps, 13 February
A study which shows that the painting found in 2013, where appears the whole figure of the famous masterpiece by Courbet, represents actually the head of the throughout not allusive frame. Given the polemic arisen, they wait for the scientific report by the police.
Foucault: le dernier tome d’”Histoire de la sexualité” enfin publié
By Robert Maggiori
Source: Libération, 8 February
This just published work shows how the art of governance of people, starting from the Greek philosophy, as research of ourselves under a spiritual direction, has been retaken by the Christian theology, then laicized by the civil societies in the scientific and technological forms of control on the body and the conscience.
Valentine’s Day leads to spike in new pregnancies
By Alex Matthews-King Health
Source: The Independent, 14 February
After Christmas holidays, during and after the week of the Valentine’s Day is recorded the highest number of conceptions in the year. After a research, the most important religious celebrations of different beliefs are linked to a peak in births nine months later.
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Kultur allein macht noch nicht zivilisiert
By Thierry Chervel
Source: Die Welt, 7 February
The concept of culture is historically grown on an issue of identity, which used to imply a definition of the “other” as an enemy. Just with the democracies, it has become a space for leisure and freedom from the totems. Against the new fundamentalisms, we have to recognize that without civilization culture is the pretext to barbary.
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Learning from Europe’s populists
Fonte: The Economist, 3 Febbraio
The populist wave in Europe is to see as an opportunity for the establishment to change what doesn’t work in their policies. Historically there have always been populist movements and we owe them also important social and democratic reforms.
A century on from getting the vote, how do women’s rights compare?
By Emily Goddard & Josie Cox
Source: The Independent, 6 February
The Representation of the People Act, whose centenary is celebrated in the United Kingdom, although was at the beginning selective and restrictive, changed dramatically the face of the electorate, showing that it is still worth fighting for a true gender parity to innovate.
Sociologie. Quand Bernard Lahire interprète nos rêves
By Véronique Radier
Source: L’Obs, 1 February
Despite the progress in neurosciences, dreams remain a matter for interpretation. A sociological lecture of these implicit narrations using social logics at a different scale reaches the individual in his most intimate dimension, rereading Freud.
Liberalism is the most successful idea of the past 400 years
Source: The Economist, 25 January
Sharing the experience of this fragmented world is the imperative of the post-liberalism, the wreckage of its belief into a social contract as the space for individual self-expression. Why liberalism failed by Patrick Deneen recovers the premodern notions of liberty calling to action.
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With its museum of fascism, town aims to vilify, not glorify
By Michael Birnbaum & Stefano Pitrelli
Source: The Washington Post, 1 February
In Predappio, Mussolini’s town, the building of a museum dedicated to the fascism, so poorly understood in the Italian society where is grown a nostalgia of a past never really reckoned with, intends to use the culture to destroy the ignorance in sight of March elections.
Debussy Cent ans de solitude
By Thierry Hillériteau
Source: Le Figaro, 27 January
The centenary of Debussy’s death is the occasion to rediscover an artist who was aware that we would be left for long misunderstood. His sophisticated music, reclaimed in its heredity by the minimalist American composers, reinvents the acoustic space as synesthesia of sounds and colors they have compared to Monet paintings.
Ai Weiwei: “Le métier d’artiste est un métier dangereux
By Valérie Duponchelle
Source: Le Figaro, 24 January
Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow captures a moment of the evolution of the humanity, linked with the current mass migrations. Shot in forty camps of twenty-three countries, it tells the sufferings and the injustice that have built whole civilizations, and that through the language of art achieve a deeply human sense.
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- Donizetti's lost operafinally gets its première pdf
- Nuit gravement à la santé pdf
- Féminisme: de Beauvoir à Metoo
- Publié le dernier tome de l'Histoire de la sexualité pdf
- L'Origine du monde pdf
- La sociologie et nos reves pdf
- A century on from getting the vote pdf
- Learning from populists pdf
- Ai Weiwei et le métier de l'art pdf
- Debussy Cent ans de solitude pdf
- Predappio and the fascism pdf