« L’homme transcendé » de l’artiste japonais Suguru Goto (31 mars 2011)

Au Cube d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, une performance artistique pour explorer l’extension des potentialités dans la relation homme-machine : l’interaction entre les images vidéo représentant des corps virtuels et le corps de l’artiste Suguru Goto présent sur scène, qui peut, grâce à son BodySuit, transformer ces images en temps réel. Un puzzle se crée autour des différences et des ressemblances entre corps réel et virtuel.

Festival Némo

Le Cube – 20, Cours Saint Vincent 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
Tél. 01 58 88 3000 Fax. 01 58 88 3010

Le jeudi 31 mars 11

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mars 30, 2011 | Filed Under body | 3 Comments 

Consider submitting your paper to « Analytical Sociology at Work » (deadline April 1, 2011)

“Analytical Sociology at Work”, the Fourth Conference of the European Network of Analytical Sociologists (ENAS), will take place at the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne (Maison de la Recherche, 28, rue Serpente, Paris) on June 9th and 10th, 2011.

If you consider submitting your paper, the deadline for submission of abstracts is April 1st, 2011. Click here to read the call for papers.

The abstract (min.500-max1000 words) should contain the following elements:

  1. title of the paper ;
  2. author(s)’s affiliation and e-mail address ;
  3. type of the paper ;
  4. short bibliography (max 5 references).

Submissions should be sent to glmanzo@yahoo.fr with the subject: « ENAS 2011 – submission ». Authors will be let know about referees’ evaluation no later than the 30th of April 2011.

mars 11, 2011 | Filed Under social capital | 4 Comments 

Is « I google you » the new « I love you »?

In a recent interview for the French website OWNI, I hinted at how our information-intensive environment changes the way romantic relationships are created – and dissolved. Finding your significant other, as well as breaking up with him/her, becomes a cognitive task, as well as an emotional one. Consider Google, and how it can be used to either collect information about someone you just met at a party, or to passively stalk your ex. Love nowadays – as Cyrano de Bergerac would put it – is « a  rose-dot on the ‘i’ of ‘I google you’ ».

Title: I google you
Artist: Amanda Palmer
Lyrics: Neil Gaiman

I google you
late at night when I don’t know what to do
I find photos
you’ve forgotten
you were in
put up by your friends

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mars 6, 2011 | Filed Under social networks | 21 Comments