The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the noti…
La forme des crises: logique et épistémologie
La 4ème page de couverture indique : "Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie …
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age-and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wi…
C'est une évidence : on ne parle plus aujourd'hui d'une crise succédant à d'autres crises - et préludant à d'autres encore -, mais de « la crise », qui plus est d'une crise globale qui touche aussi bien la finance que l'éducation, la culture, le couple ou l'environnement. Ce con…