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  • Of Chimeras and Men

    By François Ansermet & Ariane Giacobino | December 4th, 2015

    In fact the embryo of an animal is a living environment capable of producing the necessary signals for differentiation: in animals (in pigs for example) one has a “natural” environment […]

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  • Donald Trump’s Lunatic Fringe

    By Scott Wilson | December 4th, 2015

    Media discussions concerned its style, ‘a sunken apricot soufflé’, its preparation, whether Trump uses spray or gel, and even its ‘tactile feel and texture’.2 Scurrilous reports suggested that the toupee […]

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  • Eros Facing Exile

    By Marina Frangiadaki | November 27th, 2015

    The volunteers on the Greek islands who welcome refugees, who save them – when they actually manage to save them – are mostly everyday civilians of these islands. All of […]

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  • Politics in the Marketing Era

    By Jorge Assef | November 27th, 2015

    This is simple and useful advice from one of the most famous political advertisers in Latin America. The whole video can be watched here. In September 2015, the 7th American […]

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  • Barbarians at the Gates of Speech

    By Colin Wright | November 27th, 2015

    It is a signifier that resonates in the deepest echo-chamber of Europe’s self-understanding, bequeathed to us as it is – along with philosophy, rhetoric and democratic ideals – by the […]

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  • #portesouverte

    By Nancy Gillespie & Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakof | November 20th, 2015

    But also how to speak as people living across the Atlantic, removed from the more direct experience of this assault on the citizens of Paris. We nevertheless believe it is […]

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  • Pourquoi La France

    By Marie-Hélène Brousse | November 20th, 2015

    The first answer that came to mind had to do with historical reasons. To take Paris and France as a target is the reverse of the reactions that were heard […]

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  • Almost Famous

    By Timothy Lachin | November 13th, 2015

    Like many Americans, waiters make me uncomfortable. Their performance of servitude hypostasizes ontological difference, therefore symbolic castration, and as a neurotic, that bothers me. It didn’t bother Lacan. He loved […]

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  • René Girard, 1923-2015

    By Scott Wilson | November 13th, 2015

    Indeed, Girard opened the door to them. After spending the 1950s as a junior academic in various US institutions, Girard became full Professor at John Hopkins University in 1961, publishing […]

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