Plural Chronicles

The jizz hypothesis is the one defended by the philosopher, Baptiste Morizot, in his latest work: The Lost Gaze, at the Origin of Animal Cave Art. According to him, cave paintings are first and foremost representations of the jizz of animals, that is to say, reproductions of their silhouette, their visual signature. Chauvet horses In 2016, after fourteen days tracking large animals (bison, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves) in Yellowstone National Park, Baptiste Morizot sat

Recent discoveries in systems biology give rise to a new hope: that of trading performance (so precious in the eyes of the West) for robustness, this fundamental principle of life whose richness we will see. The Tempest by Giorgiono (circa 1508). This mysterious painting can be seen as a metaphor for protection, fragility, and also the resilience of life in an unstable world. Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* has often been misinterpreted (social Darwinism), a misconceptio

Kelly Kramer (editor-in-chief of "Arizona Highways") with Jim Harrison in Patagonia, Arizona 2012 About ten years after Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison published Dalva in 1988. With this choral, lyrical, and humanist novel, translated into 23 languages, the American author (who died three years ago) achieved cult status: Dalva is now a classic of contemporary literature. It is also, along with Little Big Man , the 1970 film by Arthur Penn, a masterpiece of th

On November 7, 1492, a flash of light pierced the Swiss sky: the first classified meteorite in the Western world crashed over Ensisheim, a small Alsatian town located 20 kilometers from Basel. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) , then a young painter and engraver apprenticed in the Swiss town, witnessed the fall of the stone, impressed like all the witnesses to the event (1). Interpreted as a celestial sign, a divine manifestation, the Ensisheim meteorite was greeted with optimism

In his essay *Courts-circuits *, published in April 2023, Étienne Klein devotes a fascinating chapter to Jean Cavaillès. We discover an innovative philosopher-mathematician, a Resistance network leader endowed with terrifying courage… The Germans executed him in the citadel of Arras on April 4, 1944. Jean Cavaillès, resistance fighter, philosopher, mathematician, and university professor (1903-1944). Let's state it from the outset: what makes Jean Cavaillès unique is his a

Women occupy a central place in David Lynch's films: often splendid, enigmatic and tormented, they are subject to the madness of men. Naomi Watts and David Lynch during filming « Mulholland Drive » (2000). © Crédit photo : Studiocanal In 2017, in a documentary about him, David Lynch: The Art Life , the director shared a disturbing memory: as a child, while walking home from school with his brother, they saw a woman wandering naked in the street, dazed and lost. Frightened, t