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AbstractWhat's in a Name ?The Social Construction of Riskfor AIDS in the Moral Imaginationof IV Drug Users in HarlemThis essay profiles the life stories of five individuals from Harlem in New York City, an impoverished community with high levels of drug use and HIV seroprevalence. AU are intravenous drug users, and each profile is concerned with documenting the way in which risk for HIV infection is perceived relative to other kinds of dangers, as well as the way it is managed relative to other kinds of needs. The paper explores the significance of thèse correspondences, locales thèse ideas within the larger social fabric of the community, particularly as they relate to poverty, and explores the implications of thèse correspondences for AIDS intervention.
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On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, the editors of the Revue internationale PME asked us, as its founders, to take stock of its career and its future. We return, on the one hand, to its role in the development of the discipline affecting this research theme, and on the other hand, to its foreseeable evolution in the coming years. This exercise allows us to stress once again the importance of such a theme not only because of the very large number of these enterprises in all economies, but because of their increasingly recognized impact on their development. In this article, we summarize the choices of themes chosen by researchers in the early years of the journal. Subsequently, we focus on the themes that were expanded in the following decade, marking in particular the specificity and complexity of the subject. To then make some projections on what is possibly coming in this world of SMEs. Finally, we stop at the scientific importance of French precisely for the enrichment of this science as for any other science.
Keywords: Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Naissance, Connaissance, Reconnaissance, Langue française, Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Birth or specificity, Knowledge, Recognition, French language, Revue internationale PME, RIPME, Nacimiento o especificidades, Conocimiento, Reconocimiento, Lengua francesa
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This article returns to Roger Caillois’ analysis of gambling in his classic text Man, Play, and Games, to provide a framework for understanding the place of widespread legal gambling in late modern culture. The discussion begins with Caillois’ response to Johan Huizinga’s formulations of play and exclusion of gambling from the world of play and games. It then proceeds with Caillois’ rehabilitation of games of chance as culturally significant phenomena. Drawing on some of the central themes of Man, Play, and Games, contemporary gambling is then analyzed, and factors such as the cultural and economic shaping of the social distribution of agon (competition) and alea (chance) provide the basis for an interpretation of the contemporary pervasiveness of games of chance as a socially- and culturally- situated historical phenomenon and “theme” of late modern culture. In this culture, the spatial and temporal boundaries that both Huizinga and Caillois claim mark play off from everyday life have been blurred in the case of gambling games. The article also posits that alea not only “complements” agon, but competes with it, as alea has been legitimated as a social and economic ethic.
Keywords: gambling, Roger Caillois, alea, agon, late modernity
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Best known for her 2016 suspense novel, Chanson douce, Leïla Slimani first attracted attention for her novel about a female sex addict, Dans le jardin de l’ogre. Having realized that women never figure in media accounts of sexual addiction, she immersed herself in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, François Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux, Joseph Kessel’s Belle de jour, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Reviewers of Dans le jardin de l’ogre often mention the latter in passing, and Slimani herself has identified Emma as one of her favorite heroines, but thus far there has been only one scholarly study that deals with specific connections between the two novels. While they seem unlikely bedfellows on the surface—Flaubert’s text is a traditional nineteenth-century roman de formation that unfolds in linear fashion, while Slimani’s is decidedly modern in subject and in its slippage back and forth in time—a close reading reveals numerous uncanny similarities in narrative technique, characterization, themes, and motifs. It is hard to imagine a more promising pairing to test Julia Kristeva’s theory that “tout texte se construit comme mosaïque de citations, tout texte est absorption et transformation d’un autre texte” (85). This study shows that Dans le jardin de l’ogre is one of those mosaics that has “absorbed” many of Madame Bovary’s salient features and “transformed” them into something quite modern and distinctive.
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AbstractThis study of Blue Eyes Black Hair by Marguerite Duras analyzes the development of a fiduciary contract, exploring its constitutive intersubjective matrices and proposing a schema that identifies tendencies toward mutuality and autonomy, respectively. The article examines the organization of a narrative of dispossession, identifying contrasts with narratives of the recuperation and of the institution of values. Returning to the problematic of the “ interaction ” of different “ semiotic systems ” entering into a text that A. J. Greimas discusses in On Meaning, the essay strives above all to observe how the two semiotic practices in play, the elaboration of the contract and the response to loss, combine and act one on the other in Duras's work.
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Keywords: Bourdaret, Jeanne Bellonie, Chantre, Madame B., Ernest, Voyage, Empire ottoman, Craniologie