Etiket: dessai
[Coup d’essai] “Mythanalysis of color”: for a sociology of color
Philosopher and artist, Quebecer Hervé Fischer worked for decades on his monumental sociology of colors before deciding to submit the table of contents of his book proposal to the NRF…
[Série Coup d’essai] “Should we (still) protect fiction? asks author Pierre Hébert
It was believed to have disappeared, flown away, passed into the dustbin of history. A matter of the past, censorship? Not so fast, says Pierre Hébert, professor emeritus in literary…
[Série Coup d’essai] Rethinking the contribution of women in agriculture thanks to the trial “Sortir du rang”
Behind the carrots, tomatoes or cheese that are found on our plates are hidden passionate producers and farmers, hard workers who fight against winds, tides and other vagaries of the…
[Coup d’essai] The Chronicles of Reason
“There’s so much madness and too much misery,” sang Jacques Higelin. And it is not Véronique Dassas who would say the opposite. In his test Chronicle of crazy times, the…
[Coup d’essai] “The great escape”: seduced by the regions
The village of Hérouxville, made famous for its defunct code of life which prohibited burning alive or stoning women, has made a 180 degree turn. The small municipality is no…
[Coup d’essai] “And Franquin created the gaffe”: the one to whom Franquin said yes
Numa Sadoul made the Hergé, Uderzo, Gir/Moebius, Bilal and company speak, speak, speak, geniuses cartoonists. As he prepares to meet Riad Sattouf, the redesign of the extraordinary And Franquin created…
[Coup d’essai] “Arsenic my love”: joys and sorrows of a mining town
Last July, a study by the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec (INSPQ) confirmed that the ambient air of the city of Rouyn-Noranda was loaded with contaminants, which exposes…
[Coup d’essai] “The coronation of slippers”: too good at home?
In March 2020, when nearly the entire globe was locked down in an effort to limit the damage caused by COVID-19, novelist and philosopher Pascal Bruckner was initially horrified. Not…
[Coup d’essai] Superheroes in comics in Quebec
The adventures of Batman, Superman and company invade our screens today with lucrative blockbusters. In his test Alter Ego. The superheroic genre in Quebec comics (1968-1995)Philippe Rioux goes back to…
[Coup d’essai] Véronique Grenier, “to the end” of being tired
We say that we are drained, washed out, drained, exhausted, overworked or out of breath. You feel tired, at the end of your rope, your tongue on the ground and…
“Coup d’essai” series: housekeeping by thought
Have a room of your own. A house of one’s own, accommodation, one’s keys. To have a door to cross, which allows you to say to yourself, finally barefoot and…