Ben : tout est art ?

Le livre est tout le problème

The search into new ways of writing is confronted with certain obstacles, the foremost of which is that of the book and its conventions inherited from 536 years of existence. Yet, literature is by in large independent of the particular medium that is the book, as reminds us the age-old oral tradition or the contemporary research of the Oulipo. The incursion of the computer into literature has t...

Nouvelles écritures de théâtre - Le texte est tout le problème

The term “new writings” refers globally to new forms of story telling. In the same way that the invention of cinema disrupted the writing of literature in both its themes and aesthetics, so the arrival of new technologies (cd-rom and the Internet) is bound to influence books and films by its own unique narrative modes. At the height of the breaches induced by reciprocal influences, where does t...

Éditorial: Informaticien tout court

Ben Scheres

that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...

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