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Starting from the observation that the degradation of living conditions on earth by capitalism has highlighted the interdependence between human and non-human animals, we would like to raise the question of collective multi-species resistance. Recognising animals as comrades in struggle means first thinking about the conditions for building a “common” multi-species political discourse. We aim here to redraw, on the basis of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, the coordinates of the worldly flesh we share with living beings in general and animals in particular. We then turn to the very nature of multi-species political communication. It seems to us that this can only begin with forms of bodily conversation in which expressivity, coordination, empathy and emotional hybridity produce singular forms of communication.
Keywords: Capitalocène, communication interspécifique générative, théories politiques et études animales, collectifs multispécifiques, phénoménologie charnelle, langage animal, Capitalocene, Generative Interspecies Communication, Political Animal Studies, Multi-species Collectives, Flesh Phenomenology, Animal Language
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This article is part of a sociolinguistic research project on the linguistic landscape of the French-Brazilian border and presents a study of the language practices inscribed in the linguistic landscape of this border as mechanisms for managing linguistic uses between Oiapoque and Saint-Georges. The studies carried out in this field have shown that the landscape structures the space and dictates the norms of participation and exclusion from it. In this sense, we seek to understand the socio-cultural and linguistic relations from a corpus of images that reveals the language practices born from the socio-economic and cultural border relations. The research allows us to understand how the linguistic landscape reflects the conflicts and power relations between the adjacent political units, either in relation to the confrontation of the majority languages with each other (Portuguese and French), or in relation to the less prestigious languages (Khéuol, Créole Guyanais, Kalinã, etc.).
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The last centuries brought theology to Africa along with the secularized state and not without raising some long-lasting problems of political theology. Assessing them leads to ask a long overdue question : has theology learned something from its journey in Africa ? Answers may focus on the renewal of inculturation as a way of making home for the Church in (African) cultures. But is theology ever to be “at home” ? By answering negatively, this paper argues that there lies what theology needs to learn again, afresh : that the Church, wherever it dwells, should be a “xenotopia”, the never-settled stranger that raises ever new questions and renders hospitality a sacrosanct social value. This is not something new, but something theology seems to have forgotten of its origin. This is not to be the fate of theology in Africa, but the fate of theology as such, turning from diaspora, from sojourning in the South.
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This article explores the fact that the film How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, beyond its absurd and humorous appearances, offers a reflection on two emerging concepts in video art, that of the threshold of visibility and the inforensic. To do this, the author traces the origin of the assembled images and problematizes their attachment to the histories of surveillance photography and cartography. He also examines the symbolic and metaphorical references which indicate the exchanges between the real and the virtual worlds.
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Keywords: fin de la guerre froide, Politique étrangère américaine, Union soviétique (URSS), Russie, Think tank, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest