Tag: body

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A Semantic Desublimation of Donald Trump’s Handshake

(To be read at full speed, with frequent sniffings and a thick Žižek accent).   There’s something quasi-paranoid about the… read more A Semantic Desublimation of Donald Trump’s Handshake

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Dans ZDNet (1 août, 2016)

Depuis 2009, les ransomwares sont devenus l’arme favorite des cybercriminels. Pourtant, en 1989 déjà, un premier malware de ce type… read more Dans ZDNet (1 août, 2016)

Posted in body digital humanities social capital social networks

Nouvelles d’ANAMIA : conférences, vidéos et outils de visualisation de données

Je suis actuellement à Québec (plus précisément sur le campus de l’Université Laval) où j’ai été invité à présenter ANAMIA,… read more Nouvelles d’ANAMIA : conférences, vidéos et outils de visualisation de données

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Et in Athenis ego: update on ongoing research on the body + riots

I know I should be in Lyon for the www12 conference with all the Internet big shots, but instead I’m… read more Et in Athenis ego: update on ongoing research on the body + riots

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“Anamia” social networks and online privacy: our Sunbelt XXXII presentations (Redondo Beach, March 18, 2012)

[This is a joint post with Paola Tubaro’s Blog] So, here we are in the (intermittently) sunny state of California… read more “Anamia” social networks and online privacy: our Sunbelt XXXII presentations (Redondo Beach, March 18, 2012)

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DSK et la morale institutionnelle du FMI

L’agression sexuelle dont DSK est accusé n’est qu’un miroir cette image exécrable de son institution – le FMI – une image que la stigmatisation médiatique isole et (en la collant à un seul individu) exorcise ou niveau collectif.

Posted in body space

Avatar activism and the "survival of the mediated" hypothesis

By now, you’re all way too familiar with the Egyptian Facebook activism. And everybody and his sister has spent the last year-and-a-half discussing how wrong was Malcolm Gladwell in dismissing Moldovan Twitter activism. And millions of you have smiled at Gaddafi’s crazy rant against Tunisian Wikileaks activism. But I’m sure the notion of Avatar activism appeals to a more restricted audience.

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Doctoring Fukushima: from nuclear catastrophe to natural bodily function

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, an interesting video has been circulating. Disguised as an educational animation targeting… read more Doctoring Fukushima: from nuclear catastrophe to natural bodily function

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What is medicine all about? Staring at screens

Recently, the New York Times’s blog dealing with health and medicine, Well, featured an interesting piece on Desktop medicine. The… read more What is medicine all about? Staring at screens

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Bums, bridges, and primates: Some elements for a sociology of online interactions

What kind of social structures Web users contribute to put in place? And what do monkeys have to do with it? Text presented at the conference “Web Culture: New Modes of Knowledge, New Sociabilities”, Villa Gillet, Lyon (France), February 10th, 2011.