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Wondering Wii?
After I wrote Blurred, I kept thinking about Wii, as the device changes our perspective on the virtual, which is no longer synonymous of immobility. The relationship with the virtual engages us physically: an action calls for a feedback from the machine, which calls for another—sometimes violent—movement. It is our chance to actually stay […]

I asked: “Blade Runner?” [Ridley Scott, Blade Runner, 1982 (the Director’s cut!)]
_ “Sci-fi” section!
_ “Sci-fi? Really?”… [I think: “Weird!”]
Because I feel awkward to borrow the movie [it is a must have after all… but I am a nomad so I don’t like carrying things] I say:
_ “I have seen it five times [true!]; I am […]

New technologies have blurred the boundaries-protections of POP’s, People, Objects and Places. When in second life, avatars, still post-human behind their disguise… as computers have become people’s prosthetics, do mix the real to the virtual: avatars, even if half animal are made of known referents (they are not fantastic extra-terrestrial creatures; centaurs are still half […]

Its fibers cracked, expanded, lost their elasticity. That jeans became MY jeans, because with time… My body broke it in. I own it. And giving it in is like being skinned… as flesh and fabric has assembled. It is both the time and usage with consequently the fact that I recognize it (eyes and touch, […]

Hommage à l’Abbé Pierre…
Sometimes the guilt is too big… When such a great man leaves us, how can we not assess the world we build and the fights we choose? There are certainly more important things in life than owning the latest gadget! But here, to some, the battle seems unequal… To who is always […]

The term has been coined by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, himself a “kinetic elite”, to describe a certain kind of population on the move, the new aristocrats of the mobile world, these who earn bonus points and airport privileges (like going faster through the customs) because also they travel extensively…
I have my students read […]

You slide your thumb and you index away from each other and back, possibly like a conductor, or, if you imagine an ice skater, you develop an elegant figure on a surface that look like glass, a surface that has a depth to it because of the world it promises behind. I am talking about […]