For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes have provided us with spectacular images of galaxies. Everything changed when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched in December 2021 and successfully completed its commissioning in the first half of 2022. For astronomers, the universe, as we saw it, is now revealed in new … Read more
After reading this text, you will never look like before a football match again! “There is no eroticism without the art of ambiguity: the more powerful the ambiguity, the greater the excitement.” (Mr. Kundera- Immortality} What a wonderful human invention the World Cup! Allegory of substitute products offered by societies looking out for the well-being … Read more
Philippe Charlier at the Quai Branly Museum, October 16, 2018. THIBAUT CHAPOTOT / QUAI BRANLY MUSEUM As far back as he can remember, Philippe Charlier has always loved archaeology. At the age of 6, he digs everywhere in the family garden and ends up discovering, astonished and fascinated, the skeleton of a mole. At the … Read more
85 Why this new obsession with these small ocher, brown or orange spots? Philosopher Gilles Deleuze succumbed to the charm of these freckles (the learned name for freckles). In a text written less than 20 years ago, Description of the Woman. For a gendered philosophy of others (1944), Deleuze’s thoughts show a surprising contemporaneity. In … Read more