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This paper looks at the emergence of video game creation in Québec prior to the industrial boom and the popularization of independent games. Built from personal archives and oral history, the paper highlights two unknown personalities from the history of video games in Québec: Christian Boutin and I-Grec. These portraits contribute to diversify the “indie” narrative and reconsider it as part of a longer history.
Keywords: Histoire, Jeu vidéo, Québec, indépendant, partagiciel, Historie, video game, quebec, independant, shareware
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The manuscript as narrator in Icelandic children’s novel Bál tímans (2022) belongs to a literary tradition of sentient object narrators who document the domestic spaces in which they circulate. Bál tímans shifts the reader’s focus to normally invisible manuscript owners and users, including women and children, bringing attention to disparities in access created through archive-building activities. In domestic settings, Möðruvallabók is accessible to a broad segment of the Icelandic population through practices of social reading, women’s book ownership, and home education. In the archive, human-manuscript interactions are restricted to a narrow and initially male-only elite. While tensions between preservation and access are resolved when the codex is exhibited in a museum space where it can share its stories with a wider audience, Bál tímans examines what can be lost by bringing cultural objects into archival spaces.
Keywords: Nordic children’s literature, object biography, manuscript culture, Möðruvallabók, materiality
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The double relationship of art to social dynamic expresses its complex links to the political and economic powers. The influence of the Prince and the Market on arts and the critic of powers through the means of art have as main issues free speech and genuine experiences. In a context of redefinition of the social role of the artists, where the figure of a psychoanalyst is replacing the one of a revolutionary, and of the public space, less visible in the urban development and more enclosed in the media, the new artistic activism aims at conscience awaking more than at social structures changes. Its impacts are therefore compromised by the taste of the population for amusement and the control of powers over the media.
Keywords: Arte, art, Art, power, pouvoir, poder, marché, market, mercado, luttes sociales, luchas sociales, social struggles
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AbstractSo far, the study of surveillance as a sociological phenomenon has suffered from a number of shortcomings mostly due to oversimplified categories of objectives, targets, agents and methods, as well as a lack of attention paid to the dynamics of surveillance and counter-surveillance activities. This paper offers suggestions which may be helpful to alleviate both types of problems. It also shows why more empirical observation is required before claims of impending doom, either from insufficient or from excessive surveillance, is to be considered.
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Since 2013 and Edward Snowden's revelations, the problem of cyber (or digital) sovereignty has become a fundamental concern in Russia. The Russian authorities have adopted new policies in order to ensure the security of digital infrastructures around the country. Within this frame, new promotion policies for the development of Russian software have been launched by State actors and private corporations, which primarily beneficiate from them. A strategy of russification of the software programs used in Russia seems to have emerged in the form of new norms and regulations to regulate the design, functioning and usage of informatic tools. This new central -and strategic- position of the digital industry in Russia, which is designed to safeguard the interests of the Russian corporations and the State, both inside and outside the country, allows us to wonder if the country can now be regarded as an international digital power: did Russia become a cyber power ?
Keywords: Russie, numérique, puissance, stratégie, cyber, Russia, digital, power, strategy, cyber
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Until now, and according to a descriptive approach, researchers have been trying to answer the question “How do we translate an advertisement?” without considering the intrinsic nature of advertising discourse. Yet, to adapt an advertisement, translators are supposed to know and understand the rhetoric nature of advertising, meaning by rhetoric the art of communication and persuasive discourse. Thus, the real question for translators in the advertising sector is not really “How do we translate?” but rather “What do we translate?” Taking a prescriptive approach, we analyze in this paper advertising discourse as a perlocutionary act, focusing on argumentation and its more elementary models. Therefore, we propose a theoretical guideline aimed at translators and based on argumentation theory applied to advertising and its translation.
Keywords: traduction, publicité, rhétorique, argument fallacieux, enthymème, translation, advertising, rhetoric, fallacy, enthymeme