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Revue de presse sur la #Chine semaine du 25.03.13

Boeing livre son millième #avion à la Chine

#Boeing a livré hier son #1000ème #appareil en Chine, un 737-800 destiné à la compagnie aérienne #China #Eastern #Airlines, l’empire du milieu étant son premier marché hors des Etats-Unis.

Bizarrement sur ce point, les #États-Unis ne semblent pas blâmer la Chine...

http://www.air-journal.fr/2013-03-29-boeing-livre-son-millieme-avion-a-la-chine-570529.html

Street Art - How to Use Cars in a Smart Way

Quelles oeuvres d’art avec des voitures ? Quelques exemples :

The Berwyn Spindle, Illinois

May 2, 2008 was a tragic day in the heart of Silly America. On that day a crane entered Cermak Plaza in Berwyn, Illinois and my beloved Spindle was torn down. And just like that, another glorious roadside attraction was stripped from the American landscape.

http://www.sillyamerica.com/photographs/berwyn/the_spindle_berwyn_1.jpg

http://www.sillyamerica.com/blog/tag/berwyn

Connecticut’s Ghost Parking Lot

In 1978, an artist half-buried and covered two dozen junker cars from the 60s and 70s with pavement at the Hamden Plaza, a suburban Connecticut shopping center of no other distinction besides being home to a duck pin bowling alley. There the ghost cars sat for 25 years.

http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/images/12/2011/11/a1b5dd62f8adbf27c48da8b4c00cbb27.jpg

http://jalopnik.com/5665629/connecticuts-ghost-parking-lot

Cadillac Range, Texas

Imaginez un amas de vieilles Cadillac sagement plantées au beau milieu de nulle part sur le bord de la mythique route 66. C’est le Cadillac Ranch, une sculpture démesurée réalisée par trois architectes américains en 1974. Quand l’art rencontre l’automobile quelque part au fin fond du Texas, le résultat est étonnant. Eve-Auto vous emmène à la découverte du Cadillac Ranch !

http://www.eve-auto.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cadillac-range.jpg

http://www.eve-auto.fr/cadillac-sexpose-en-plein-air-sur-la-route-66-cadillac-ranch

Curiosity rover writes Morse Code of JPL everywhere it goes | John Graham-Cumming
http://blog.jgc.org/2012/08/curiosity-rover-writes-morse-code-of.html

The Curiosity Rover than landed on Mars today has a neat feature in its wheels that allows it to spot if it gets stuck. The wheels have an asymmetric pattern of holes in them that leave a distinctive imprint on the surface of Mars. The rover views these marks with a camera to determine if it has traveled the distance it thinks it has. This ’visual odometry’ means that Curiosity can spot if it’s slipping or stuck and call home for help.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uK-YdcwJp9o/UB-cg-LCPCI/AAAAAAAABkw/6RjPV634JcI/s1600/467073main_pia13236-4x3_946-710.jpg

#EasterEgg #Mars

Merci, Monsieur Badiou
Secular fanaticism must be exposed for its own hatred and xenophobia, and get over the old cliches of #East and #West.

New York, NY - In a powerful new essay for Le Monde [Fr], Alain Badiou, arguably the greatest living French philosopher, pinpoints the principal culprit in the success of the far-right in the recent French presidential election that resulted in the presidency of Francois Hollande.

At issue is the evidently not-so-surprising success of the French #far-right, #anti-immigration, #Islamophobe nationalist politician #Marine Le Pen - to whom the French electorate handed a handsome 20 per cent and third place prestige.

As Neni Panourgia has recently warned, “the phenomenon of Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi in Greek), the #neo-Nazi organisation that received almost seven per cent of the vote in the Greek elections of May 6” is a clear indication that this rise of the right is not limited to France. The gruesome mass murderer Anders Breivik signalled from Northern Europe a common spectre that hovers over the entirety of the continent - most recently marked by the trial of the Bosnian Serb mass murderer General Ratko Mladic - accused of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including orchestrating the week-long massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian war.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012521133112754351.html

#David_Marquand on the End of the West

Before we talk about your five books, I am interested in definitions of #East and #West. What do you regard as the old fashioned perception of East and West?

The essence of the old fashioned perception is this. The West is seen as the home of modernity, of the values of the Enlightenment, of democracy and of market economics. The East is seen as backward, and lacking in the values of the Enlightenment which it never experienced. In the eyes of many people in the West, it follows that the West is both more advanced than the East and morally superior to it. This is a gross over-simplification of course, but that is the old perception.
http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-marquand-on-end-west?page=1

The #Cosmopolitanisation of #Cartography Raising The Specter of Legitimacy in #Geography

This work is about arguing that the maps of the world should be reconsidered in a #global_dialogue: in a process that opens the dispute of boundaries between union-states, regions, zones, or other similar #geo-political terms. David Marquand, in his important opus The End of the West (2011) reminds us that #West and #East perhaps never existed and in the case wherein we are told that they do, have, and are: such are parochial and illegitimate claims.

BY DR JEAN-PAUL GAGNON | APRIL 16, 2012

We shall have to put the (Indian) inventors of Arabic numerals in our pantheon alongside the Greek inventors of geometry, and Ibn Rushd alongside Aristotle. We shall have to abandon our self-centred and patronizing belief that #democracy and free discussion were exported to a backward “East” by a progressive “West,” and reconstruct our mental universe to take account of the indigenous Indian tradition of public reasoning and religious toleration that long antedated the “Western” presence in the subcontinent. More generally, we shall have to recognize that the familiar “Western” narrative of global history, in which uniquely precious and, in evolutionary terms, uniquely successful “Western” values moulded the modern world in our great-grandparents’ image, is a parochial distortion of a far more complex truth. (Marquand, 2011: 176-77)

His argument, I feel, is important because it challenges what many in this world have come to take for granted. In the case of this paper, it is the maps we are familiar with, the design of the globe that we have on our desks or which are offered to our children, which are parochial and relics of imperial abuses. This discussion is a needed one, as we have for example, no clear indication as to where Europe stops and that indigenous peoples for example have not had the inclusive and legitimate chance to contest the territorial boundaries which often split their nations. It is an attempt to bring a democratic legitimacy to cartography which is patently lacking.

This will be done firstly by discussing in a broad and simple way why current maps are parochial and relics of #imperial_domination. We will then follow this argument up with another broad argument detailing how we could begin a global dialogue designed to spark debate over maps and to form a call for the democratic reform of cartography. Essentially, it argues that we must give people and groups a chance to define their boundaries and not have them imposed on us by those holding the Maxim Gun. Lastly, we will engage this discussion in relation to China’s territorial claims.

http://cesran.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1422%3Athe-cosmopolitanisation-

Global Interests : #Renaissance Art between #East and #West: East and West fixed each other with an equal reciprocal gaze… by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton.

European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550. Over this period Europe was in trading terms with the East, and notably with the #Ottoman_Empire of #Mehmet the Conqueror and Süleyman the Magnificent. The authors analyze cultural exchanges taking place between East and West, relationships between Hapsburg emperors, Kings of Europe and Ottoman sultans, through “portraits medals”, “tapestries”, and “equestrian art”.

“Boundaries between […] East and West were thoroughly permeable in the Renaissance”.

It might seem surprising for a contemporary audience, but the image of Saint George slaying a dragon, for example, was used in both Eastern and Western churches, sitting in a pivotal position “on the permeable boundary between East and West”.

►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/renaissance-art-between-east-and-west

Global Interests : #Renaissance Art between #East and #West: East and West fixed each other with an equal reciprocal gaze… by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton.

European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550. Over this period Europe was in trading terms with the East, and notably with the #Ottoman_Empire of #Mehmet the Conqueror and Süleyman the Magnificent. The authors analyze cultural exchanges taking place between East and West, relationships between Hapsburg emperors, Kings of Europe and Ottoman sultans, through “portraits medals”, “tapestries”, and “equestrian art”.

“Boundaries between […] East and West were thoroughly permeable in the Renaissance”.

It might seem surprising for a contemporary audience, but the image of Saint George slaying a dragon, for example, was used in both Eastern and Western churches, sitting in a pivotal position “on the permeable boundary between East and West”.

►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/renaissance-art-between-east-and-west

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