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The Myth of the Coder
No full textInternational audienceDek : Considering the historical distinction between coder and programmer
De la langue de la mère à la langue héritée : comment ne pas en perdre son roumain ?Aspects sociolinguistiques et grammaticaux de la transmission du roumain langue d’héritage.
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La Titrisation: Analyse épistémologique et critique de la manufacture financière
No full textInternational audienceUne technique financière débridée, fondée sur des modèles mathématiques complexes, utilisée par des traders inconscients pour s’enrichir en cachant les risques extrêmes qu’elle fait subir à l’économie réelle : voilà ce qu'est la titrisation d’actifs pour le grand public. Qu’elle soit justifiée ou non, cette représentation l'opacité de cette pratique. Une opacité que même les spécialistes ne contestent pas, puisque la titrisation consiste en la transformation d’un portefeuille, composé le plus souvent de créances, le collatéral, en titres obligataires émis sur les marchés, et qui explique la dangerosité de la finance, cet "ennemi invisible" dont François Hollande avait fait principal adversaire durant la campagne présidentielle de 2012.Pour mieux comprendre cette technique financière, considérée comme la source de la crise financière de 2008, mais dont l'importance est proportionnelle à la taille gigantesque des marchés de produits titrisés, le présent livre entend présenter, avec pédagogie, les fondements épistémologiques de la titrisation et ainsi introduire le lecteur néophyte aux grands enjeux de la manufacture financière
Object and Practice: Creative Labour Throughout Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion
Full text linkThroughout In the Skin of a Lion, which was published in 1987, Michael Ondaatje portrays forms of labour that blur the boundaries between work and art, and thus between high and low culture. The text\u27s blurring of these boundaries shows how the text reflects both postmodernist values and Marxist theory. Raymond Williams wrote in 1973 that the “true crisis in cultural theory,” during the time in which both he and Ondaatje were writing, was between the view of “art as object” and the alternative view of “art as practice” (1349). Throughout In the Skin of a Lion then, Ondaatje expresses how labour is both worthy of celebration, as it constitutes a sort of art in itself, but also how readers can be critical of the forms of labour depicted, as they reveal brutal aspects of capitalist society.. In his depictions of the forms of labour that Nicholas as a builder, Alice as a performer, and Patrick as a caregiver partake in, all of which trouble the distinction between work and art, Ondaatje questions whether art is a practice or an object and dually refuses to draw stark divisions between the two
Introduction to the Special Issue: Disrupting and Expanding the Status Quo: including Editorial Board and Acknowledgements
No full textIntroduction to the Special Issue: Disrupting and Expanding the Status Quo, including Editorial Board and Acknowledgment
Iron and lead in Notre-Dame de Paris: An interdisciplinary perspective
No full textInternational audienceThe construction of cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris sheds new light on the use of iron and lead in the building. It encourages one to question the evolution of practices related to these metals over the centuries. On the one hand, the restoration work has brought to light various armatures, chains and series of iron staples that were previously unknown, the study of which makes it possible to specify their role in the structure of the building, their chronology, but also their quality and origin. Research is also being carried out into the various uses of lead (roofing, decoration, sealing, etc.) and the practices of craftsmen at different times. The identification of the lead sources is carried out by means of elemental and isotopic analyses, making it possible to highlight recycling practices, as well as to trace the lead possible contribution to the pollution of the environment. An interdisciplinary research group on metal bringing together archaeologists, archaeometers, chemists, art historians and heritage specialists has been set up within Notre-Dame scientific research program to jointly address all these issues
Terres cuites figurées du dépôt votif de Kirrha : de l'établissement du matériel à son exploitation
No full textInternational audienceBei den französischen Ausgrabungen von 1936 und 1938 in Kirrha wurde ein großes Votivdepot gefunden, das zahlreiche Tonstatuetten und Miniaturvasen aus der archaischen und der klassi- schen Periode enthält. Diese Deponierung wurde vor einem Tempel gefunden, der als der von Pausanias erwähnte Tempel von Apollon, Artemis und Leto identifiziert wurde. Die Untersuchung der Terrakotten, die 2013 begonnen wurde, bestätigt diese Hypothese noch nicht, liefert aber einige interessante Informationen über Votivpraktiken, religiöse Rituale und den Wirkungsbereich der Gottheit (oder der Gottheiten) die in diesem kleinen Heiligtum verehrt wurden. In diesem Artikel wird zuerst das Repertoire der ikonographi- schen Typen vorgestellt und dann versucht, sein Vorkommen in diesem spezifischen Kontext zu erklären, um den Kult und die Gottheit zu charakterisieren.The french excavations between 1936 and 1938 in Kirrha have brought to light a large votive deposit containing many terracotta figurines and miniaturistic vases dated to the archaic and classical periods. This deposit was found in front of a temple which was identified as that of Apollo, Artemis and Leto, mentioned by Pausanias. The study of the terracottas, begun in 2013, does not yet confirm this hypothesis, but gives us some interesting informations on the votive practices, the religious rituals and the sphere of activities of the divinity (or the divinities) honored in this small coastal shrine. In this communication, we will first present the repertory of the iconographic types, and then we will try to explain his presence in this specific context, in order to characterize the cult and the divinity
The perception of vowelless words in Tashlhiyt
No full textInternational audienceThis study examines the perceptual mechanisms involved in the processing of words without vowels, a lexical form that is common in Tashlhiyt but highly dispreferred cross-linguistically. In Experiment 1, native and naive (English-speaking) listeners completed a paired discrimination task where the middle segment of the different-pair contained either a different vowel (e.g., fan vs. fin), consonant (e.g., ʁbr vs. ʁdr), or vowelless vs. voweled contrast (e.g., tlf vs. tuf). Experiment 2 was a wordlikeness ratings task of Tashlhiyt-like tri-segmental nonwords constructed to vary in the sonority of the middle segment. We find that vowelless words containing different types of sonority profiles are generally discriminable by both native and naive listeners. This can be explained by the phonetic and acoustic properties of vowelless words: Since Tashlhiyt exhibits low consonant-to-consonant coarticulation, the presence of robust consonantal cues in the speech signal means that the internal phonological structure of vowelless words is recoverable by listeners. Moreover, speech style variation provides further evidence that the phonetic implementation of vowelless words makes them perceptually stable. At the same time, wordlikeness ratings of nonwords indicate that listeners rely on their native-language experience to process the wellformedness of new words: Tashlhiyt listeners accept sonorant- and obstruent-centered vowelless words equally; meanwhile, English listeners’ preferences increase with higher sonority values of the word center. Thus, our findings provide an overview of the low-level acoustic-phonetic and higher-level phonological processing mechanisms involved in the perception of vowelless words. Our results can inform understandings of the relationship between language-specific phonetic variation and phonotactic patterns, as well as how auditory processing mechanisms shape phonological typology