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Don Kent has decades of experience in live performance filming. For him, the transposition of dramatic “life” on screen is a translation from one language into another, from theatrical spatiality into cinematic temporality. This translation, which requires a lengthy phase of preparation, must be adapted each time to the artistic vision of the theater director. Here he tells us about his practice and his convictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the last decades, transhumance movements in the province of Ifrane are reduced in favor of a general progress of sedentarisation on high altitude rangelands. This permanent installation induces overexploitation of high-altitude rangelands and forests essentially composed of green oak and the Atlas cedar trees. The aim of this paper is first to quantify the evolution of sedentarisation on high-altitude rangelands through the evolution of construction' numbers, then to highlight the main factors inducing this phenomenon and finally to show the impacts of this progression on forest resources. The methodology adopted is based on data collected through semi-structured interviews; with groups of resource persons from all ethnic communities of the province. The results show an evolution of the sedentarisation of 24 new constructions per year between 2005 and 2015. This evolution took place under the effect of internal factors (demographic growth, cultivation of the low altitude rangelands, etc.) and external factors (installation of Adarouch Ranch and disengagement of the State from its enforcement role). Sedentarization is a threat to the sustainability of forest resources through the continuous exploitation in time and space of these resources, the abandonment of the practice of Agdal on the lawns and the generalization of delimbing and topping of forest trees in times of scarcity (autumn-- winter). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The school can therefore accommodate television screens and computers but provided they are confined to specific practices, limited, criticized, to allow time and space for a transmission of knowledge, know-how and skills which require a group, microcosm of humanity, and an authority, carrying values and ends. The screen must lose all its fantastic power, its omnipresence, to remain a complementary and partial tool in a school world, a space and a time proper, intended to instruct and educate the pupil or the student, to lead him towards a citizenship that is not confused with a consumer or with a player on screens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the relationship between convenience stores (konbini) and individualisation in contemporary Japanese society. As a retail form, konbini provide convenience in the form of a time and space which not only their goods, but also their organization type and information technologies make possible. They thus give birth to a new style of consumption, networked consumption. Social life that has "individuals" as its main unit will expand by relying on the "consumption networks" formed by konbini. We point out that the circulation of individuals and networks produced by these modern Japanese convenience stores defines the outer edges and interior of the society called Japanese, by referring to the two "outsides" of America and Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the world designed as a planetary site where modern means of communication are continually reducing the space between people, the society is in a continuous search for anything that could guarantee the achievement of the ultimate goal quickly and with little effort. The human language does not escape the tendency to resort to means that could reduce time and space either. There are various language phenomena and means in French, transmitting complete information by few elements, during a language exchange, a verbal or written interaction and thus allowing the realization of linguistic economy. It is a series of lexical and grammatical means ensuring the principle of economy in language. This article aims at analyzing some grammatical phenomena and means that could be used to express a large variety of things using a minimum quantity of time and effort. One of the most widespread phenomena of linguistic economy at the morphosyntactic level is considered the anaphora. We will examine not just the phenomena of anaphor and anaphoric words but also their role in the achievement and assurance of the economy principle in language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exoticism in Denis Roche's work is conveyed by an Orient in the broad sense which extends from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia. Nevertheless, in the book La Disparition des lucioles, the oriental pictures cannot be considered as an illustration for the traveler's thoughts. They are more like a fulcrum for a reflection on the fringes of writing and on the relationships between writing and photography, between the same and the other. This kind of exoticism is a way out, out of the self and out of the travel diary. It builds a poetical contemplation of the world, the light, the figures and their place in or out of a frame. In the works Eros énergumème and Louve basse, Denis Roche's writing can thus be described as exopoetic because it goes beyond the traditional limits of the literary genres in order to open up for an otherness that finds its origins in the relationships between text and image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The qualifiers of master and disciple are sometimes used without conformity with their deep contents. They are more than simple denominations that some could assign here and there to bring honour to transmitter or to learner. Fraught with meaning in terms of abilities, human values, aims, these two words weigh by the density of the legacy and by the weight of the responsibility of transmission which they suggest, by the exceptional qualities which they involve and by the socio-emotional context which they generate. Therefore, any holder of knowledge does not necessarily reach the position of master, nor any aspiring to the knowledge does necessarily access to the position of disciple. Both in terms of the respective individualities and in terms of the constitution of a space-time of the meeting and of a social space-time, it is a matter of a certain eligibility. We will place it in this article, on the both plans of a personal and ethical eligibility and of a temporal and social eligibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: What are we subject of? This major question works the work of Beckett in such a stubborn way that the reader, witnessing a vital fight of which he does not perceive the challenge, is embarrassed. If the desire to rise the subject is the cause, how to localize it? Mindful not to deflect Beckett from his own personal approach, we will examine him through his reading of Proust. Whereas Proust purports to save love, Beckett saves the body. From this perspective, we will read Watt, Molloy and The Unnamable, focusing closely on the bodies and the way the objects, which will direct them in the space that they will define, are chosen. Becket does not deduce that these objects are assumed by a subject, or even that these objects imply a subject; he supposes a body which assumes a topological subject. Thus, by tracking the objects provided by the body, Beckett gets the subject''s saying. In doing so, one wonders if the subject of the science with Proust is not replaced by the body of the science with Beckett. Thus, Proust did not affect Beckett; his analysis has determined his ethical stance as shown. Yet, in writing, Beckett keeps on a subject still possible. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The author presents a synthesis of current work on the role of the motor representations of action in the construction of self. After this literature review sweeping cognitive, psychoanalytical and neurophysiological conceptualizations, the self seems to consist of a matrix of multiple representation divided into three parts: conceptual, body and motor. These three component require a general process generating the time-space coordinates equilibration which is cause of any action. The movement and action feeds the sense of existence and form the core column to allow any human to act on reality, to achieve its goals, to forge an identity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This article presents, from a case study, the particularities of a device designed to take care of severely disturbed children. This device is studied under the point of view of spatial and temporal dimensions. The care is based on the connection between a care-place and a school. This articulation is brought into question by René, age 10, lost in an unmentalisated space–time. Parents, therapeutic and pedagogic teams are overwhelmed by the behaviour of the child. The metaphor of the way school–hospital underlines the work made by the child in which gradually punctuation, pause, rhythm, tempo will open innovative modalities of relationship to the reality and emergence of school interests. This work questions us about a possible setting in stand-by mode of the drive relieves and about a possible opening towards a latent period for the psychotic child. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In the era of cyber culture and collective intelligence, video game establishes itself more and more nearby the artistic disciplines historically settled. Its aesthetics and its way of revisiting the real reveal a new “formal representation” and an increasing number of contemporary artists use it as an expression mean. The spatial development of video games is comparable to contemporary installations; it presents itself as a distinctive space recreated into a public or a domestic dimension. Video games, like installations, intensify the feeling of displacement or ubiquity that any kind of show may provide. The installations using video games mechanism make us pass from the idea of “esthetique relationnelle” introduced by Nicolas Bourriaud to a participative aesthetics where the spectator takes the place of the protagonist. The analyze of different works: “Vigilance 1.0” of Martin Le Chevalier, Kolkoz in “Hong Kong 2002”, “Nekropolis” of Tobias Bernstrup, and “Sam” of Palle Torsson shows some examples of reappropriation and diversion of the video games universe in contemporary art. Those examples allow us to see in a new way the world of video games. The contemporary artists appropriate this form of expression to make new plastic and participative explorations far of from the first play and entertainment finality. In these pieces the role of the spectator in the device is fundamental and it produces a total experience mobilizing at the same time: the vision, the hearing and the touch. The video game represents a post-modern form where contemporary artists may express the idea of “Gesamtkunstwerk” evoked by Richard Wagner in the second half of the XIX century with his theory of the “complete art work piece”. We are witnessing a turning point in the way of experimenting life which consists in interrogating the body into space and time in synaesthesia. Contemporary artist seem indisputably to make their own the Duchamp''s words: “the viewers are the ones who make the painting”, the art of work remains unfinished until the spectator hasn''t received it, the viewer turns up into an actor in a spectacular dynamics and his relation to the work of art goes beyond a simple passive contemplation. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: This Note is devoted to obtaining an approximate integral formula giving the value of the electromagnetic field at a space–time point from values measured on a polyedral surface . The main result leads to time-localized calculations, geometrically split in space along the adaptative parts of , and optimisable as a function of the point''s distance. To cite this article: V. Mouysset, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 341 (2005). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In the present Note we introduce an extension of the conservative space–time mesh refinement method presented by Fouquet et al. We also propose a post-treatment of the solution that reduces the spurious phenomena due to the non-conformity between the time meshes. A reinterpretation of the equations in terms of new unknowns leads to a new scheme with second order consistent coupling equations. Numerical experiments in 2D and a plane wave analysis for the 1D model show that the method is second order accurate for an arbitrary refinement. To cite this article: J. Rodríguez, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 339 (2004). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

In this Note we propose a rigorous justification of the limit constitutive law of a periodic bi-anisotropic electromagnetic structure with memory. This study is based on the periodic unfolding method, introduced by D. Cioranescu, A. Damlamian and G. Griso, and is applied on the time domain and on the frequency domain. To cite this article: A. Bossavit et al., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 338 (2004). [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

According to the psychology of form, the forms of objects appear on a background. The author resumes this idea, considering in similar manner that the forms of psychic representations appear on a background, which we call “consciousness”. Hypothesis is made that the background of consciousness is made of recollection of tonico-posturals floods according to the supporting points of the body, normally coordinated by tonico-postural reflexes of prime infancy. The tonico-postural effects of innate reflexes and schemas of action all together constituting a tonico-postural wrapper doubling the “Ego-Skin” described by Didier Anzieu. On this background, the first perceptions disorganize temporarily the innate reflexes. Later, perceptions inscribe themselves on this disorganization, forms on a background. Until decline of oedipeus conflicts, the background—space for thinking—is a topological space, as Boy’s surface or similar, where the baby do not distinguish his body from his mother’s one, and no more take in account the dimensions. Between age from 5 to 8, capacity appears of thinking space no more in topological terms, but euclidean terms, thinking time in terms of continuous from past to future, and objects in terms of numbers, dimensions, attributes and representations of transformations. Various occasions can disturb the elaboration of thought containers, scolar and no-scolar apprenticeship. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]