Category: Academia

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Blogging journeys

For years now, I have only seldom managed to blog.  It has to do with having time or not having time to blog, obviously. Still, even in the phases when I least had free time, I managed to blog. Ten years ago, I needed it as a mental and discursive...

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Un autre numérique reste possible

Signataires : Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Enseignante-chercheuse en mathématiques appliquées à MINES ParisTech ; Anne Baillot, Professeure des Universités à l’Université du Mans, Etudes germaniques et Humanités numériques ; Frédéric Clavert, Professeur assistant en histoire contemporaine, C2DH, université du Luxembourg ; Alix Deleporte, Maître de Conférences, Institut Mathématique d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay ;...

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A New Year’s Eve

I have dreaded the approach of 2016 for quite some time. I had a nagging feeling about turning 40 in 2016 and having achieved nothing. But something changed, somehow, at some point. While I spent the whole Christmas break working on copy-editing a volume and improving my introduction to it (an...

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Science vs. – not science?

When I answered the questions for the paper in the Berliner Morgenpost, I had trouble explaining how and where I find the time I invest in the volunteer work for refugees. The answer I gave was not very satisfactory – luckily, the article does not reflect this lack of precision....

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Practical intellectuals

During the Napoleon Wars, French (invader) troops were dispatched in the homes of Berlin inhabitants. Some of these cohabitations went well, others were depicted as being quite catastrophic. But the letters written by intellectuals in that time generally show that their abstract consideration of the political situation (mainly a patriotic discourse)...

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