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Chen Rong (chinois simplifié : 陈容 ; chinois traditionnel : 陳容 ; pinyin : chén róng ; Wade : Ch’en Jung) (1235 – 1262), également appelé Zi Gongchu (字公储, zì gōngchǔ) signant sous Suoweng (所翁), né à Changle, dans la province de Fujian, en Chine, sous la dynastie des Song du Sud (1127 – 1279), est un peintre et poète chinois, particulièrement réputé pour ses dessins de dragons.

▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Rong
#chine #représentation

A change of typeface: Microsoft’s new default font has arrived | by Microsoft Design | Microsoft Design | Medium
▻https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d

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enfin c’est surtout pour le tiktok de @elle.cordova:
▻https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.cordova/video/7329631432463109419

#Transition #animations: a practical guide | by Dongkyu Lee | Oct, 2023 | #UX Collective
▻https://uxdesign.cc/transition-animations-a-practical-guide-5dba4d42f659

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6 principles for better transition animations

– Fade in and out with opacity
– Scale to add liveliness
– Maintain consistent directionality
– Balance speed
– Prioritize, order, and group
– Establish spatiality

According to some articles, a speed from 100ms to 500ms is ideal and suitable for most cases.

#css

Braconnage numérique en bandes déterritorialisées | by Vincent Bernard | Jul, 2023 | Medium
▻https://medium.com/@MednumBBuzz/braconnage-num%C3%A9rique-en-bande-d%C3%A9territorialis%C3%A9e-4feb6b154aaf

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Je ne mets ici que la conclusion.

Education aux médias et à l’information

On commence à entendre ici et là qu’il faudrait un plan massif d’éducation aux médias. Comme à chaque fois cette éducation est appelée à la rescousse. Sauf qu’on ne l’a jamais venue venir.

A voir comment des jeunes sont passés en quelques jours du statut de gamins des quartiers à celui de délinquants en bandes déterritorialisées, je ne pense pas qu’ils soient ignorants du fonctionnement des médias ou qu’ils aient un déficit de compétences numériques. Au contraire, je pense qu’ils ne les maîtrisent que trop bien, au moins de manière implicite, mais surtout sans verbaliser ni conscientiser (Bernard, 2021). Et c’est justement là que réside le problème !

Jusqu’à présent, l’éducation aux médias consiste à sensibiliser à l’aide d’ateliers thématiques déconnectés des pratiques des jeunes. Des associations nationales et autres institutions dédiées se partagent le monopole à grand renfort de campagnes de communication, de tutoriels, de séquences pédagogiques clés en main, de kits éducatifs prémâchés ou encore de numéros verts. Focalisées sur les risques et les dangers d’Internet, elles instillent une vision technicienne et anxiogène du numérique : protéger ses comptes, se méfier des autres, gare au cyber-harcèlement et à l’addiction, faire attention à ce que l’on publie, etc..

Avec leurs stratégies de prédation de l’attention et de captation de l’audience, elles ont promu et soutenu une vision centralisée du numérique digne des GAFAM. Hors d’elles point de salut ! Les acteurs des territoires se retrouvent invisibilisés, démunis et non formés. En somme, tout le paquet a été mis sur une sensibilisation des jeunes en leur apprenant à renoncer à leur liberté d’expression et leur participation à la vie publique.

Finalement, ces jeunes casseurs viennent nous asséner une cruelle leçon de culture numérique. Là où nous essayons de contrôler, sécuriser et légiférer, ils ont réussi à hacker le système en braconnant un véritable réseau décentralisé voire distribué (Cardon, 2019) de délinquance dématérialisée. Et si je suis persuadé qu’ils n’en ont jamais entendu parler, dans le jeu des affordances, ils remettent sur le tapis l’utopie des pionniers d’Internet, ceux qui voulaient modifier les organisations pour changer les consciences (Turner, 2012). Autrement dit, il serait temps d’abandonner les fantasmagories technologiques et s’intéresser davantage aux changements culturels induits par le numérique (Bernard, 2021).
En quête de sens

En discutant avec une éducatrice de prévention spécialisée qui a passé une bonne partie de sa nuit à essayer de raisonner les jeunes (sauf que sitôt renvoyés dans leurs pénates, ils accouraient à nouveau dans la rue), je lui ai fait remarquer que “le passage à l’acte est un échec de la mise en mots”. Cette phrase a fait sens chez elle puisqu’elle m’a répondu : “C’est vrai ! Ils ne semblent avoir aucune revendication”.

Pour être utile à ces jeunes, plutôt que de brocarder le numérique ou railler leurs parents, il faudrait les accompagner dans l’émergence de ces revendications. En 2020, la fédération des centres sociaux a essayé de le faire. Cela c’est soldé par un badbuzz, un lynchage public pour islamo-gauchisme et une inspection. Alors oui, les réseaux sociaux ont quelque chose à voir dans l’affaire. Par contre, il conviendrait de considérer qui souffle sur les braises, tandis que les gamins des quartiers appliquent la stratégie de la terre brûlée.

#Médias_sociaux #Réseaux_sociaux #Emeutes

Forever refugees — from the Nakba to Shatila | by Farah-Silvana Kanaan | May, 2023 | Medium
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Today marks 75 years since the Nakba — catastrophe in Arabic — began. Thousands of Palestinians were massacred by Zionist militias, hundreds of their villages were razed to the ground and about 750,000 of them were forced to flee their homeland. In the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila on the outskirts of Beirut, three generations of women from the same family share how it feels to live so close yet so far from their homeland.

des merdes en moins sous le sapin !
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Apple a dit dimanche 6 novembre 2022 s’attendre à des livraisons « plus faibles qu’anticipées » pour l’iPhone 14 Pro, en raison des restrictions anti-Covid en Chine qui affectent la production de ce #smartphone professionnel, à l’approche de la cruciale saison des fêtes. Le groupe californien explique que son usine située à Zhengzhou, en Chine, tourne au ralenti à cause des restrictions à nouveau en place à cause de rebond de cas positifs au #Covid-19. « Les clients vont devoir attendre plus longtemps pour recevoir leurs nouveaux produits », conclut Apple.

Google’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes “Diversity” to Silence Palestinians and Palestinian Human Rights Supporters | by Ariel Koren | Aug, 2022 | Medium
►https://medium.com/@arielkoren/googles-complicity-in-israeli-apartheid-how-google-weaponizes-diversity-to-s

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My name is Ariel Koren. I am a Jewish Google worker who has worked at Google for over seven years. I feel so grateful to over 700 Googlers (alongside 25,000 people externally) who recently signed a petition calling on Google to rescind its act of retaliation against me for protesting Google’s Project Nimbus—a $1.2 billion dollar contract between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government and military.

Due to retaliation, a hostile environment, and illegal actions by the company, I cannot continue to work at Google and have no choice but to leave the company at the end of this week. Instead of listening to employees who want Google to live up to its ethical principles, Google is aggressively pursuing military contracts and stripping away the voices of its employees through a pattern of silencing and retaliation towards me and many others. Google is weaponizing its DEI* and ERG* systems to justify the behavior, so it is no coincidence that retaliation has disproportionately impacted women, queer, and BIPOC employees. *[DEI = Diversity, Equity, Inclusion; ERG = Employee Resource Group].

I have consistently witnessed that instead of supporting diverse employees looking to make Google a more ethical company, Google systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim voices concerned about Google’s complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights — to the point of formally retaliating against workers and creating an environment of fear. In my experience, silencing dialogue and dissent in this way has helped Google protect its business interests with the Israeli military and government. I encourage Googlers to read up on Project Nimbus and to take action at go/Drop-Nimbus.

▻https://youtu.be/2GI-ePG0rTA

Hate fascism? Then don’t be a health supremacist | Medium
▻https://msteenhagen.medium.com/loathe-fascism-then-dont-be-a-health-supremacist-c8841acdf69

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Health supremacism is an ideology. Supremacist thinking always starts with an imaginary division of the world into supposedly ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’ people. Health supremacism is the idea that someone who is deemed ‘healthy’ is superior to someone who has some form of impairment to their health; any form of perceived illness or presumed health impairment — on this line of thinking — makes you a categorically ‘inferior’ person. Health supremacism says that those who are healthy have a natural privilege to dominate others in society.

At the heart of health supremacism is a piece of fantasy: that there is such a thing as a ‘naturally healthy’ person who is not and cannot get seriously ill or disabled. This is a fantasy, because it is simply not true. Health is one of the most contingent facts about us human beings. Every one of us is always one infection or accident away from acquiring an illness or disability.

To say that all health is fragile is not to deny that there are structural inequalities in health outcomes: if you cannot afford food, or live in an area with significant air pollution, this is bound to have an impact on your health. Structural inequalities leading to different health outcomes are precisely a reason not to essentialise health status. Yet essentialism about health is precisely what health supremacism demands. It is health supremacy’s backbone fantasy. And health supremacists do whatever they can to actively uphold and perform this fantasy.

Britain Is Rewriting the Rules of Social Collapse | by umair haque | Aug, 2022 | Eudaimonia and Co
▻https://eand.co/britain-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-social-collapse-d22abc4ee769

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The head of the NHS — or one of them, at any rate — recently warned his own government — that would be the British government — of a “humanitarian crisis.”
He said, let me quote, ‘Many people could face the awful choice of skipping meals to heat their homes and having to live in cold and very unpleasant conditions.” To translate that from polite British official-ese for you, that’s the head of the National Health Service warning his own government that scores of people are going to freeze to death.

Now. What causes humanitarian crises? Well, usually, it’s a natural disaster. A Category Five hurricane. An earthquake at the top of the Richter scale. Maybe, I don’t know, a tsunami, like the one in 2004. Other times, it’s wars.

But this time? It’s just…neglect.

Roger Waters added to Ukrainian Hit List | by Deborah L. Armstrong | Aug, 2022 | Medium
▻https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/roger-waters-added-to-ukrainian-hit-list-5acede7b0414

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Mirotvorets is a database which lists thousands of journalists, activists, and anyone else who is declared an “Enemy of Ukraine.” Their personal information is published, such as the addresses of their homes, their phone numbers and bank account numbers; anything that can help them be easily located. When the people on this list are murdered, like Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli was, the word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН, “LIQUIDATED,” written in Ukrainian, is stamped across their picture in big red letters.

The World Needs Russia to Win the Conflict in Ukraine. Here’s Why? | by John Wight | Statecraft and Global Affairs | Jun, 2022 | Medium
▻https://medium.com/statecraft-and-global-affairs/the-world-needs-russia-to-win-the-conflict-in-ukraine-heres-why-c4e8ec9c82e9

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The key point is that all through history it has only been when the major powers have come to understand that none — whether alone or as part of a bloc or alliance — has the power and ability to attain domination over the other that there have been sustained periods of peace and stability. Today is no different.

Are Cats Liquid ?. An in-depth study. (05/07/2019)
Cat science. | by Panda the Red | Tenderly
▻https://tenderly.medium.com/are-cats-liquid-ce6d5e5a881c

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What was the point of all of this?
Obviously this is a joke. Everything here and in Fardin’s paper is patently absurd. That said, except for a few instances of clever wordplay and terminology stretched to the breaking point, nothing that Fardin wrote is technically untrue.
The point is that pretending to take the “cats are liquid” meme seriously allows for an entertaining and accessible introduction of many important ideas in continuum mechanics, one of the main parts of modern physics and the foundation of mechanical and civil engineering.

l’article reprend la publication de M.-A. Fardin qui lui avait valu un Prix Ig-Nobel en 2017 (cf. ►https://seenthis.net/messages/629990 )

White Supremacy and Abortion. The foundation of the anti-abortion… | by Jennifer Lee | An Injustice!
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Abortions, birth control, and family planning resulted in reduced birth rates among white women at the same time that immigration rates soared in the U.S. Storer and his ilk fumed at the possibility of being out-populated by “others" and demanded that whites keep dominating the population. “Better them than blacks, Catholics, Mexicans, Chinese or Indians,” he said.

“Shall these regions be filled by our own children or by those of aliens? This is a question our women must answer; upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation,” Storer said, according to Reagan’s research.

“White male patriotism,” Reagan wrote, “demanded that maternity be enforced among white Protestant women.”

They’re not pro-life. You know what they are, they’re anti-woman… they believe a woman’s primary role is to function as a broodmare for the state. — George Carlin

Sorry, But Covid’s Not Over Yet. More People Died of Covid in the Last… | by umair haque | Dec, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co
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Here’s a sobering fact. More Americans have died in the last two days of Covid than died on 9/11. The last two days.

Sorry, America. But Covid isn’t over.

I say that for a reason. Americans are acting, by and large, like Covid’s over. It isn’t. If anything, a brutal, bitter pandemic winter lies ahead. Like the last one — perhaps not as bad, but still very bad. If 9/11, the greatest tragedy in modern American history is a barometer, than we should all be chilled, because multiple 9/11s are still happening…every week…due to Covid.

So if more Americans are dying of Covid every single week than died on 9/11, why are Americans acting like Covid’s over?

Before I ask that question, though, let me give you some examples of what I mean. We’re spending the year in America, unfortunately. I go to the little cafe in my fairly liberal East Coast town every night to have some thinking time, to ponder the issues of the day, to decide what to do with the music we’re working on, me and the amazing singer I’ve teamed up with. And you know what? Almost nobody’s wearing a mask. Social distancing? Forget it. People are thronged outside, worse, inside…acting like Covid’s over.

This is in an affluent liberal East Coast town, the kind Red Staters would make fun of. So how much worse is it in Red States?

Well, it’s a lot worse. How do we know? Because hospitals and emergency rooms are already overflowing…again. Doctors are begging for if not mercy, then at least a little sanity. “We are finding ourselves in a situation where the lack of staffing in the broader community, and in the hospital, is just creating a perfect storm,” one doctor said. “We’re knocking on 100 percent, and it’s not over,” said another. “Nurses, doctors and respiratory therapists have all been working overtime, in some cases taking on multiple 18-hour shifts in a row.” “There are fewer ICU beds available now than at the peak of hospitalizations last December.”

But America’s acting like Covid’s over. Let me put that it in even starker terms. Germany’s gone back into lockdown — this time for the unvaccinated. France, having an election where the hard right is surging, is resisting doing that — but it’ll have to follow suit shortly, and it’s already got a vaccine passport system. Across Europe and the world, Covid restrictions are coming back into force. Even Britain, the bumbling idiot of Europe, has gone back to working from home and masking in public orders.

All that’s for a very simple reason. There’s a new variant. Every indication so far is that it’s much, much more virulent than the last one. Omicron’s R is more than twice Delta’s. Even if it’s “milder,” this is still a virus with a roughly 2% mortality rate. That means that if you’re not vaccinated, you have a serious, serious risk of death. And even if you are vaccinated, the indications are that Omicron’s resistant.

That is why America still has an incredibly high number of Covid deaths. Covid is not the flu, it’s not a cold, it’s not a joke. It is a disease that will suffocate you to death in horrific and nightmarish ways. Even if you’re vaccinated, a “mild” case is not something to mess around with. Not only can it have long-term consequences we’re barely beginning to understand — like brain and lung damage — but it can make you very, very sick.

Now note the difference in America vs the world, especially the rest of the rich world. So far as I know, no state has announced new Covid restrictions. Not one. The only place in America which has announced new restrictions of any kind is New York City, as far as I can tell, which is putting in place a vaccine order for businesses like gyms and restaurants. That’s about the barest minimum imaginable in a pandemic.

Americans are acting like Covid’s over. Why? Why are Americans so predictably ignorant? Don’t they care that there’s a 9/11 worth of deaths every couple of days? It’s OK if a virus does it, not Al-Qaeda? What the hell?

Well, the first thing to note is that this is a sociocultural problem. It’s not just backwards bumpkins in Red States. It’s America. America’s acting like Covid’s over as a whole, except maybe NYC. Maybe last time around Blue and Purple were ahead of the curve…even then not really in global terms…but they’re not this time.

Remember my little liberal cafe? Nobody wearing masks or distancing? It’s a pretty good snapshot of the better half of America — full of educated, thoughtful people. And yet even they’re acting like Covid’s over. Sometimes, I hear them laughing and joking about it. Meanwhile, my wife, the doctor, tells me spine-chilling stories of people suffocating to death. I admit it, sometimes I want to yell at the idiots next to me.

So it’s not just Red America. It’s all of America. Acting like Covid’s over. Or maybe I should say pretending.

America’s in a place it runs to and hides, like a baby, altogether too often. It’s buried it’s head in the cool, peaceful sand of denial.

Hey, Covid’s over! Let’s party!

There are reasons, that Americans can act like that. The first one is a lack of basic information about how bad Covid still is. Until I just told you that more people died in the last two days of Covid than on 9/11…did you know? I’d bet my right leg you didn’t. That’s because the media is doing an abysmal job providing Americans with basic information about Covid.

What American media does is punditry. So every night, there’s a panel of talking heads on CNN or Fox News or what have you. They opine, from left and right. And in the middle of all this, objective facts are left in the dust. Facts like: the number of deaths per day in America is sky high, and surging all over again. Facts like the entire rest of the rich world is heading straight back into lockdown…while America’s twiddling its thumbs.

Punditry has always cost America an enlightened populace, enriched with good informations, facts about the world they live in. But in Covid’s case, it’s coming at a steep, steep price. Americans appear to be completely ignorant about most basic facts of how the pandemic is going in their country — like deaths and cases per day.

What punditry does is give the average American the illusion of the right to have an opinion. So ask an American what they think of Omicron, and they’ll give you a speech in response. The problem is that they don’t know anything to begin with. They’re mostly just regurgitating the lines they hear on cable news or Facebook or what have you. Those lines come from pundits, who are rarely experts, and even if they are, people still lack the most basic information on which to found a sane and thoughtful opinion.

A thoughtful, sane opinion like: if cases and deaths and surging all over again, then Covid’s not over. An even more sophisticated one like: this variant is way more infectious, so even if it’s a little milder, that’s very bad news, because in terms of social costs, the loss of severity is outweighed by the larger number of people infected. Hospitals and emergency rooms will be inundated, systems will break, and even a “mild” case of this might do me long-term damage, and that’s if I’m vaccinated.

See what I mean?

Hence, the conversations I overhear at my little cafe. They’re from, again, the better half of America — educated, thoughtful, informed. But in this case, not enough. So the conversations are just…shockingly stupid. Foolish. Uninformed. They consist of baseless opinions. I hear every day people like professors and engineers and executives talking as if Covid’s over…while more Americans die…well, you know the rest.

Because information isn’t spread, disinformation rules. Hence, the situation in my little liberal town is bad, ridiculous — but in Red State America it’s ludicrous. Covid’s a hoax, a scamdemic, take some horse tranquilizer, it’s just a cold, oh wait, I’m in the hospital dying…and now someone can’t get a transplant they needed because I took up a hospital bed with irresponsibility and stupidity.

Red State America is allowed to be like this. Because Americans are not given good information. They don’t have it shoved down their mouths, which is sometimes what needs to happen in a society. How do I mean? Well, in most of the rest of the rich world, and even in the poor, one, governments give daily or weekly Covid briefings and press conferences. Here are the numbers, here’s the data, here’s what steps we’ve taken, here’s what we’re doing.

Nothing remotely like that happens in America. Biden’s Press Secretary gets up on her podium once in a while, and spends a whole lot of words saying everything but what needs to be said. More Americans died in the last two days from Covid than on 9/11. America, we have a problem. We need to fight off this pandemic. Here’s how it’s going to evolve if we don’t. This is how many more people will get infected and die. This is how many new variants will emerge, every winter, for this long.

Do you see what I mean a little bit?

This combination is destroying America. Poor information, which leaves a massive, idiot-sized gap for bad information. Bad information seeps in from every digital pore of society now — Facebook, Instagram, whatever — and corrodes peoples’ minds. But the way that we fight bad information is with good information to begin with. America doesn’t do that. It leaves the job of enlightening and educating and informing people up to Fox News and Facebook, or at best, CNN. It isn’t working. It isn’t working for democratic systems — witness how many Republicans think the election was stolen — and it isn’t working for the pandemic, either.

So let me try to warn you a little bit, loud and clear.

Covid isn’t over.

You can pretend like it is — but you’re being not just an idiot, but also an assh*le. Because if you end up in the hospital, it’s not just about you. Someone else who actually needed care probably isn’t going to get it. You are being irresponsible and selfish and backwards. Maybe, like Red America, you’re proud of it.

What’s that other statistic you might have read? People in Trump-voting counties were three times more likely to die of Covid. Laugh? Cry? They’ve been conned into giving up their lives for a demagogue. Even if you think they’re terrible people, racists and bigots and supremacists, pity them. Because Covid is a terrible way to die. Do you really want anyone to suffocate to death? Gasping for air? Clawing at their throat?

That is how you die of Covid. More Americans are dying that way every couple of days than died on 9/11. Let’s get real. Covid isn’t over. It’s not going to be over anytime soon. Fatigued? Grow up. Our grandparents fought world wars, dealt with genocides, huddled in bunkers. You? All you have to do is get a shot, wear a mask, and keep your distance. Consider yourself lucky.

LEGACY — First Land Sale Starts Tomorrow | by Gala Games | Dec, 2021 | Gala Games Official Blog
▻https://blog.gala.games/legacy-land-sale-starts-tomorrow-c54761629c0f

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Launching in 2022, from Peter Molyneux and 22cans, comes an innovative new game that pushes the boundaries of Blockchain Gaming, the first ever Blockchain Business Sim: Legacy!

#jeu_vidéo #jeux_vidéo #peter_molyneux #blockchain #jeu_vidéo_legacy #gala_games #22cans #play_to_earn #nft #ethereum

ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, a controversy erupted in the Australian #permaculture network. | by Russ Grayson | PERMACULTURE journal | Dec, 2021 | Medium

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It started with permaculture co-founder, David Holmgren and his partner, Su Dennett, participating in the November 20 rally in Melbourne against the proposed Victorian government legislation on pandemic emergencies and #Covid19 #vaccine mandates, including requirements for worker vaccination in certain industries. They were at the rally of the following Saturday.

Pas lu plus que ça

#permaculture_critique

L’humain-l’inhumain : l’impensé des nouveaux matérialismes | by École Urbaine de Lyon | Anthropocene 2050 | Medium
▻https://medium.com/anthropocene2050/lhumain-l-inhumain-l-impens%C3%A9-des-nouveaux-mat%C3%A9rialismes-787acd917e

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L’humain-l’inhumain : l’impensé des nouveaux matérialismes
Par Christine Chivallon, directrice de recherche au CNRS, Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales, LC2S- UMR 8053
École Urbaine de Lyon
École Urbaine de Lyon
Jun 4 · 51 min read
Jean-François Boclé, The Tears of Bananaman, 2009–2012, installation, 300 kilos de bananes, écrits de l’artiste scarifiés sur les bananes, socle en bois (330 x 130 x 25 cm), Première Biennale Encuentro Bienal di Caribe, Happy islands, Aruba, Caraïbes, 2012. ©Jean-François Boclé /Adagp.

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Ce texte propose une traversée critique des nouveaux matérialismes en se concentrant sur le « tournant ontologique » qui en constitue la principale composante. Après avoir dressé une généalogie de l’arrivée de ces nouveaux matérialismes et défini en quoi consistait « la nouveauté », le propos envisage les contradictions sur lesquelles bute « l’ontologisme ». Préoccupé à rendre compte de la pluralité des mondes sur la base du rejet du « constructivisme » et du partage « nature/culture » qu’il serait censé reconduire, ce nouveau discours produit néanmoins des notions qui peuvent apparaître comme des substituts à celles rejetées, telle celle de « culture ». Dans le paysage théorique proposé, en lien avec la menace de « l’effondrement », les ontologies « indigènes » reçoivent une attention démultipliée, en tant qu’exemplaire de l’hybridité des mondes humains et non-humains, tandis que ce nouvel engouement pose la question du maintien d’un savoir anthropologique hégémonique et colonial. En faisant intervenir « l’inhumain », comme pratique au cœur de la modernité occidentale dès l’établissement de l’esclavage, l’article propose une autre approche où l’humain est réinvesti pour dépasser le binôme humain-non-humain qu’ont créé ces nouveaux matérialismes et pour revenir aux rapports de pouvoir que semble perdre de vue le tournant ontologique. C’est avec la notion de « plantationocène », outil critique de l’anthropocène, que se termine cette exploration, notion estimée comme la plus heuristique parmi ces nouveaux matérialismes dans la mesure où elle ramène le politique dans les analyses par la prise en compte résolue de l’esclavage dans la formation de la modernité et dans la définition de subjectivités dissidentes qui en a résulté.

#écologie_décoloniale #banane #Caraïbes #anthropocène #écologie #plantation #matérialisme

Why Everything is Suddenly Getting More Expensive — And Why It Won’t Stop | by umair haque | Oct, 2021 | Eudaimonia and Co
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It’s not just me. It’s probably you, too. Have you noticed that it’s starting to be hard to just…get stuff? If you’ve tried buying a car lately, you might have observed that even used car prices have climbed to relatively astronomical levels. The same is beginning to hold true for good after good — from electronics to energy. What’s going on here?

I have some bad news, and I have some…well…worse news. We’re at the beginning of of an era in economic history that’ll probably come to be known as the Great Inflation.

Prices are going to rise, probably exponentially, over the course of the next few decades. The reason for that’s simple: everything, more or less, has been artificially cheap. The costs of everything from carbon to fascism to ecological collapse to social fracture haven’t been factored in — ever, from the beginning of the industrial age. But that age is now coming to a sudden, climactic, explosive end. The problem is that, well, we’re standing in the way.

Let me explain, with an example. I was looking for a microphone for a singer I’m working with. I was shocked to read that a well-know German microphone company had just…stopped making them. And furloughed all its workers. It didn’t say why — but it didn’t need to. The reason’s obvious. Steel prices are rising, and they’re going to to keep rising, because energy prices are rising. Then there’s the by now infamous “chip shortage,” chips they probably rely on, too. Add all that up, and bang — you’ve got an historic company suddenly imploding.

I’ve heard story after story like this. Small or medium sized companies just…shutting down. They can’t get raw materials. They can’t afford the raw materials they can get. In either case, bang, it’s game over — for the foreseeable future. It’s not just a microphone company — I’ve heard similar stories in industries from medical devices to auto parts to technology. So far, this is just anecdotal — precisely because it’ll take a year or two for the quantitative data to reflect it. But we don’t have to wait that long to see what’s right before our eyes.

The economy is undergoing a profound shock. Unfortunately for us, it’s going to be one of the largest shocks in economic history. It’s a “supply shock,” as economists formally call it — perhaps the greatest of all time. No, I’m not exaggerating. The world can’t get microchips right about now.

A “supply shock” means, in this case, supply itself suddenly implodes. A city’s, town’s, country’s, or in this case, a world’s.

Let’s think about that microchip shortage. What’s it really about? Well, there are three factories in which the majority of the world’s chips are made. Three factories — each hit in a different way. The one in Japan caught fire due to an equipment malfunction — apparently the blaze took hours to put out because of the conditions. The one in Texas was hit by an historic snowstorm, which knocked out power for days. The one in Taiwan is being affected by the worst drought in half a century — and microchips require huge amounts of water to manufacture.

These are all effects of climate change. They might not be the kinds of monocausal direct effects climate change deniers and American pundits look for — the hand of God roasting a factory alive — but they are very much caused by living on a rapidly heating planet. It should be eminently clear to see that when factories are freezing and burning, that is what climate change does to an economy before your very eyes. (And even if you think the Japan fire had little to do with global warming, the face of the matter is that without climate change, two of the world’s largest chip factories would still be open.)

The “chip shortage” is something that the world doesn’t really grasp yet, in its full importance and magnitude. It is the first climate catastrophe related shortage to hit us at a civilizational, global level. In a world of stable temperatures, guess what, we’d probably still have microchips to power our cars and gadgets and AV studios, because factories wouldn’t be losing power or be so parched they don’t have enough water. But they are — and so we do have a microchip shortage that has been caused by climate change, aka global warming.

That’s the first such catastrophe, but it won’t be the last. The chip shortage is just the tip of the immense shockwave rolling down the volcano. It’s just the first burning rock soaring through the ash-filled sky. Today, it’s chips. Tomorrow? Well, some of the things that are already becoming more and more costly to produce are steel, food, and water. That is because all those things rely on energy, and energy is getting more expensive.

Why is energy getting more expensive? The short-term answer is: Covid. Gas producers are hesitant to turn on the taps because they’re afraid that Covid will send the world into lockdown again. But that’s not the real answer. The real answer is that even if they begin to produce more gas, energy prices will go on rising over the long run.

Why? Because right about now, energy is vastly underpriced, like it has been since the beginning of the industrial age. When you buy a gallon of gas, who pays for the pollution, the carbon it emits, which heats the planet? Right about now, nobody does. But over the next few decades, someone’s going to have to. Because we are going to need to use that money to rebuild all the cities and towns and systems and factories wrecked by flood and fire and drought and plague.

Who’s that somebody going to be? Well, it’s probably not going to be energy companies. It’s probably going to be you, since they’re powerful, and you’re powerless.

As the price of energy rises, the price of everything has to rise, too. Because the dirty truth is that our civilisation is still about 80% dependent on fossil fuels. The problem isn’t the electricity grid, as you might think. It’s that making things like steel and cement and glass still use gas. The world has just one fossil fuel free steel factory so far. But our civilisation depends fundamentally on all these things. Without them? We go back to living medieval lives. All our steel and glass and concrete skyscrapers, factories, universities, cities, towns — kiss them goodbye.

What’s made in all those factories which are still ultimately made of by fossil fuels — of steel, cement, glass? Everything. Everything you rely and depend on. Cars, clothes, medicine. The stuff that clothes and feeds your kids. The stuff you “work” on and are tasked with buying and selling. See how deep this rabbit hole really goes?

All that adds up to the prices of everything rising. For how long? For the foreseeable future. At least for a generation or two, I’d say.

Now let me tell you the story that might help make it even clearer, and I’ll put it a little bit more formally.

From the beginning of the industrial age, our economy has “externalized” costs. Costs like what? Costs like carbon. Like the plastic that’s now jamming up the oceans, of cleaning it up. Of the misery and despair that poverty breeds — the political costs of fascism and supremacy, which rear their heads in times of poverty. Of ecological collapse.

How have we “externalised” those costs? Who have we externalised them to? Well, to “future generations,” economists once used to say. All the people who’d have to clean up the oceans and the skies and replant the forests and nurture the animals back to life. And do all that while figuring out ways to make things like steel and concrete and food and glass without killing the planet we lived on, or pushing our societies into fascism by way of inequality. Big job? Biggest in history.

Guess what? We are those “future generations.” The ones economists used to speak of, like it was in some remote future. It wasn’t. We don’t have much a choice left. We clean up the oceans and rivers, beginning now, or we ruin them for a millennia or two. That means killing off fish we eat and water we drink, too. We clean up the skies — or we don’t breathe. We decarbonise how we make stuff — or we don’t have it.

And that is what the Great Inflation really is. Let’s begin with the last point. We have to figure out how to decarbonise basics — steel, cement, food, water, how to make without destroying the planet. We don’t know how. Until we figure it out, prices are going to rise — prices of everything made in factories made of steel, largely still powered by fossil fuels, using raw materials made in other factories powered by other fossil fuels. That’s everything you can think of, from cars to clothes.

We have to figure out how to perform a Great Cleanup, too — cleaning up the oceans, skies, rivers, mountains, rainforests. Then comes a Great Replenishment. We have to replant the forests and nurture the animals and nature — biotic matter — back to life. We have no idea how to do that — we haven’t even begun. Until we do, prices are going to rise, because, well, nature’s underling a mass extinction, the first man-made one in history.

Remember when I said this was the greatest supply shock in history? Now you should be able to get why a little bit. What even comes close to: “we’re annihilating nature so fast we’ve caused the first human-made mass extinction”? Now that’s a supply shock: we’re making nature extinct. Of course prices of everything dependent on it are going to skyrocket, because we’re running out of the supply.

Or let’s come back to decarbonising steel, cement, glass — all the basics of industrial production. Until we do figure it out, all that stuff is just going to keep on getting more expensive. Sure, there’ll be a dip here and there, but the basic principle remains: making that stuff poisons the planet at an accelerating rate, and it’s going to cost more and more to produce, manufacture, distribute, and sell.

That’s not just because of carbon taxes, but for a deeper reason.

Making, producing, distributing, buying, selling the basics of civilisation the dirty way that we do causes climate change — and climate change is trying to teach us a lesson. Climate change is made of fire and flood and typhoon and plague. See the feedback effect? Good luck distributing that batch of steel when there’s a megaflood or megafire in the way. Good luck getting that supertanker full of clothes and gadgets to the right shore when a megatyphoon lasting a month and wrecking a coastline hits…all winter long. And good luck when Covid-21 hits, because, well, we haven’t vaccinated the planet, so it’s sure to — and there goes the economy all over again.

I can put that more simply: the costs of mega floods and fires and typhoons and droughts and plagues now have to be internalized, because the costs of carbon, natural extinction, poverty, ill health, inequality, were all externalized. But these are asymmetrical effects. These costs were externalised for centuries. They will have to be internalized over decades.

See the problem? The huge timescale difference? We’ve been externalising the costs of carbon and natural extinction and inequality and ecological collapse since the beginning of the industrial age. But now we have to internalise them over the next few decades — or its light out.

Human civilisation has never faced the wave of inflationary pressures it does now. It has never had to internalize centuries of externalities over decades — because if someone doesn’t pay those costs, well, then, there is more civilization, no more glass, steel, cement, medicine, factories, clothes, electronics…no more clean air, water, food…no shelter from the megafire or megaflood…and good luck having democracy or rights then.

Someone has to pay for all that. That leaves three parties. One, you and me, average folks, living average lives. Two, megacorporations. Three, the billionaires who own them. Good luck getting them to pay up. It’s a noble effort, don’t get me wrong. But if you ask me realistically? So far, there’s an effort to make global tax rates…15%. LOL. So far, they pay zero, which means you and me are going to have to pay for it all — climate change, mass extinction, ecological collapse, probably while they jet off to Mars.

You’d better prepare for the greatest inflationary wave in human history. It’s going to be really bad. This is just the beginning. It’s going to be a lot like Covid, or climate change — harder, faster, and much, much worse than anyone really thinks right about now.

Umair
October 2021

Il ne faut jamais débattre avec l’extrême-droite | by Nicolas Galita | Dépenser, repenser | Medium
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5 raisons ne de pas débattre publiquement avec l’extrême droite

L’extrême-droite possède une tactique vieille comme l’extrême-droite : l’injonction au débat. C’est une arme extrêmement puissante qui joue sur nos valeurs progressistes pour les retourner contre nous.

Si on accepte, on a perdu car on leur donne une tribune. Si on refuse, ils érigent le débat comme la valeur suprême de la démocratie (ou plutôt font semblant, comme on va le voir). La démocratie vient donc d’être mise en péril par ce refus de débattre. Ils crient à la censure, jusqu’à ce qu’on finisse par accepter.
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Attention, avant de commencer, il faut qu’on se mette d’accord : à chaque fois que je vais parler de “débat”, je vais parler de débat public. Débattre en privé avec l’extrême-droite ne comporte pas les mêmes dangers. Car, les dangers qu’on va étudier viennent exclusivement du fait que l’on tienne ce débat devant un public.

The worst volume control UI in the world | by Fabricio Teixeira | UX Collective
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A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume control interface in the world:

#interface_utilisateur #gui #ux #volume_sonore #original #absurde #inspiration