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Keywords: Syndicalisme, Démocratie, Printemps érable, grève étudiante
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Death haunts the works of Georges Bataille (1897-1962), where it is the object of deliberately provocative description. The reason for this is simple : death belongs to the world of the sacred. It is from here that we get the two rites – the one horrific, the other more expected – which mark its appearance : necrophilia and the wake. These two rites appear to be very different, but they are, in fact, identical : they both underline the necessity, as pointed out by Hegel, an inspiration to Bataille, of bearing in mind the negativity of death. Placed in a contemporary context, Bataille seems to have thus anticipated the “denial” of death and of the dead body which, according to the experts, characterizes today's society, a denial which the author of the article illustrates through his personal experience (case of a French village affected by the “de-ritualization” of funerals). To remedy this crisis, Bataille proposes that the living not turn away from the dead.
Keywords: « thanatocentrisme », nécrophilie, veillée mortuaire, effroi, sexe, rite, sacré, déni, socialisation, communauté, “thanatocentrism”, necrophilia, wake, fear, sex, rite, sacred, denial, socialisation, community
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This article explores how the Animal Crossing series represents and invites players to practice writing. Adopting several frameworks including media speleology, affect theory, and writing studies, this article argues that the representation of writing in the first game in the Animal Crossing series, Animal Forest, resists both the technological and gendered histories typically ascribed to writing and video games. Turning to the ways that players actually practice writing, this article suggests that affect plays a key role in the deep connections that players develop with fellow villagers through the act of letter writing. Ultimately, this article calls for further examination of writing’s role in the cultural significance of Animal Crossing and careful study of its representations in other video games.
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Hitoshi Iwaaki's masterpiece Parasyte (1988-1994), though ignored by academic critics, encapsulates in a particularly striking way the different issues surrounding manga bodies as they are torn between body horror and the pleasures and disgraces of becoming-posthuman.
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AbstractStill little-known, Emma Santos (whose real name was Marie-Anne Le Rozick) published eight books between 1971 and 1978. In her texts, she recounts her ten-year depression during which she spent her time either at the psychiatric hospital or alone in the city. She mentions her life-long attachment to death and to the negative ; she tells about the pain her body regularly feels because of a car accident, and finally, entrusts her desperation linked to a violent breaking-off and to repeated abortions she was forced to undergo. Paradoxically, her texts are also a claim for writing to be a resistance against the influence of psychoactive drugs that she is constantly prescribed, and an act of survival ; writing would therefore be a way for the subject to hold at the limit of the negative.
Keywords: dépression, rupture amoureuse, maladie, négativité, maternité, écriture, depression, breaking-off, illness, negativity, maternity, writing
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This article brings together the results of research, first, on popular medicine of women and families in Quebec from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s and, secondly, on the history of fertility in Quebec since the French Regime. Different ways of dealing with unwanted pregnancies before the introduction of modem contraception and abortion, practices of popular medicine (control of breastfeeding, of menstrual cycles, of deliveries and miscarriages) and social practices (abandonments of children, infanticides) are presented here and discussed.
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