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Social Movement
Publication : Fantasmagories du capital
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10-12.05.2011, Conference in St Andrews: Anthropology of Political Violence
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Chronique du mur de Berlin. Sur le rapport entre temps et mémoire
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The Revolution is Man-made
Dans son approche des révolutions, Walter Benjamin nous rappelle le rôle de l’être humain. Une révolution se produit seulement en présence de l’intervention des gens, grâce à leur collaboration et leur confrontation, dans un espace commun comme la rue. Benjamin cite par exemple les émeutes du « Boulevard de Bonnes Nouvelles » au XIXème siècle ou,...
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All that is Solid Melts into Pixels
For the Sixth Berlin Biennal, Marc Boulos mounts a video installation (that you can see above), with two channels facing one another: on one screen the rebels, on the other the traders. The goal, however, is not to show, by means of technical finesse in filming, editing and assembling beautiful collages, a...
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Bloodshed
Bangkok is the venue of bloodshed these days. The number of dead and injured people rises every couple of days. It had all started with a different sort of bloodshed in March this year, when many demonstrators against the government (that had seized power in a military putsch in 2006) and its police forces...
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The Echo of Injustice
What happens to the world when you wake up one day and get the news that your loved one is in “Evin” prison (The Iranian detention center for political detainees), or worse, that they have been taken off life-support, and buried, without an autopsy? The blogger Amir (www.zahras-paradise.com) asks this question before interviewing Stephan Kazemi whose mother...
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Iranian internet a glasshouse?
In ‘Experience and Poverty’, Benjamin embraces glass architecture as a revolutionary change of collective experience. Glass architecture, he states, dissolves the distinction between interior and exterior and annuls the possibility of the secret, of a hermetically closed self-assuring worldview. ‘Glass is generally the enemy of secrets’, writes Benjamin in his 1933 text, ‘and the...
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Actualité des grèves des travailleurs au Chili.
Qu’y a-t-il en commun entre la grève des mineurs du cuivre de janvier 2010 et la grève des travailleurs du salpêtre de 1907 ? Rien d’autre que la présence du minerai comme source de richesse. Le cuivre représente aujourd’hui 35% des exportations chiliennes. Les variations de son prix se répercutent directement sur le budget du...
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Social Movement and Phantasmagorias (Abstract)
Une version française de ce résumé se trouve ici. Abstract of PhD Thesis. Author : Marc Berdet. Title : Social Movement and Phantasmagorias in The Arcades Project. A Ragpicker’s Historical-Sociological Reasoning. Language : French. Members of the jury : Alain Gras (advisor, professor. in sociology, university Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jan Spurk (professor. in sociology, university...
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