Cet article prend comme point de depart une carte dessinee de Frederic Bruly Bouabre afin de decr... more Cet article prend comme point de depart une carte dessinee de Frederic Bruly Bouabre afin de decrire la presentation de son syllabaire, concu en 1956 pour transcrire la langue bete, au sein de l’evolution de sa pratique dessinee. Il peut paraitre anecdotique de s’interesser a un seul dessin tant nous avons ete habitues a saisir la production de l’artiste ivoirien par le prisme de ses series. Cette carte offre cependant un support de choix pour suivre la dynamique qui trame la relation entre ces deux pans de son repertoire creatif – la serie Alphabet bete (1991) marquant l’etape decisive dans leur rencontre.
Cédric Vincent addresses the complex intersection of Pan-Africanism, Négritude and Black identiti... more Cédric Vincent addresses the complex intersection of Pan-Africanism, Négritude and Black identities at the 1966 Premier Festival mondial des arts nègres.
F ake it till you make it refers to the idea of projecting self-confidence in order to convince y... more F ake it till you make it refers to the idea of projecting self-confidence in order to convince yourself that you can attain a goal that you feel as though you do not yet have the skills to achieve. The Silicon Valley adaptation of this aphorism has led to the notion that, in an effort to attract investors, it is okay to talk the talk, even if you don’t quite yet know how to walk the walk. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who was the founder and former chief executive officer of Theranos Technology in Silicon Valley and was once heralded by the news media as the next Steve Jobs, represents a chilling example of how the self-confidence that undergirds the fake it till you make it ethos can lead to self-delusion and ultimately to self-downfall. At age 19, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in order to form the Silicon Valley startup company Theranos (a mashup of therapy and diagnosis), which promised to disrupt the bloodtesting industry with novel technology that would make blood tests cheaper, more convenient, and more accessible to the consumer. Because Theranos was a small private startup tech company, it was able to operate in stealth mode from 2003 to 2013. However, in 2013, Theranos began publicizing its technology, which purported to screen for more than 200 health conditions with a few drops of blood that were extracted from a single finger stick. The company’s valuation swelled and eventually reached more than $9 billion. As detailed in the book Bad Blood, medical authorities along with investigative reporting in The Wall Street Journal by John Carreyrou, began to question the actual effectiveness of Theranos’ technology. From 2015 to 2018, the company faced a series of uphill legal and commercial challenges from investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and patients, which culminated in the collapse of
Cet article prend comme point de depart une carte dessinee de Frederic Bruly Bouabre afin de decr... more Cet article prend comme point de depart une carte dessinee de Frederic Bruly Bouabre afin de decrire la presentation de son syllabaire, concu en 1956 pour transcrire la langue bete, au sein de l’evolution de sa pratique dessinee. Il peut paraitre anecdotique de s’interesser a un seul dessin tant nous avons ete habitues a saisir la production de l’artiste ivoirien par le prisme de ses series. Cette carte offre cependant un support de choix pour suivre la dynamique qui trame la relation entre ces deux pans de son repertoire creatif – la serie Alphabet bete (1991) marquant l’etape decisive dans leur rencontre.
Cédric Vincent addresses the complex intersection of Pan-Africanism, Négritude and Black identiti... more Cédric Vincent addresses the complex intersection of Pan-Africanism, Négritude and Black identities at the 1966 Premier Festival mondial des arts nègres.
F ake it till you make it refers to the idea of projecting self-confidence in order to convince y... more F ake it till you make it refers to the idea of projecting self-confidence in order to convince yourself that you can attain a goal that you feel as though you do not yet have the skills to achieve. The Silicon Valley adaptation of this aphorism has led to the notion that, in an effort to attract investors, it is okay to talk the talk, even if you don’t quite yet know how to walk the walk. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who was the founder and former chief executive officer of Theranos Technology in Silicon Valley and was once heralded by the news media as the next Steve Jobs, represents a chilling example of how the self-confidence that undergirds the fake it till you make it ethos can lead to self-delusion and ultimately to self-downfall. At age 19, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University in order to form the Silicon Valley startup company Theranos (a mashup of therapy and diagnosis), which promised to disrupt the bloodtesting industry with novel technology that would make blood tests cheaper, more convenient, and more accessible to the consumer. Because Theranos was a small private startup tech company, it was able to operate in stealth mode from 2003 to 2013. However, in 2013, Theranos began publicizing its technology, which purported to screen for more than 200 health conditions with a few drops of blood that were extracted from a single finger stick. The company’s valuation swelled and eventually reached more than $9 billion. As detailed in the book Bad Blood, medical authorities along with investigative reporting in The Wall Street Journal by John Carreyrou, began to question the actual effectiveness of Theranos’ technology. From 2015 to 2018, the company faced a series of uphill legal and commercial challenges from investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and patients, which culminated in the collapse of
The PANAFEST web documentary focuses on four major Pan-African festivals of the 1960s and 70s: th... more The PANAFEST web documentary focuses on four major Pan-African festivals of the 1960s and 70s: the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar 1966), the First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers 1969), Zaire74 (Kinshasa 1974) and Festac77 (Lagos 1977). 54 interviews recorded on three continents (Africa, North America, Europe) by a transdisciplinary team of researchers, interactive maps, archival documents and texts coalesce to bring to the fore novel, open takes of these four key events.
PANAFEST est un webdocumentaire à propos de duatre festivals panafricains majeurs des années 196... more PANAFEST est un webdocumentaire à propos de duatre festivals panafricains majeurs des années 1960 et 70 : le premier Festival mondial des arts nègres (Dakar 1966), le premier Festival culturel panafricain (Alger 1969), Zaïre74 (Kinshasa1974) et Festac77 (Lagos 1977). A travers cinquante-quatre entretiens menés sur trois continents (Afrique, Amérique du Nord, Europe) par une équipe transdisciplinaire de chercheur.e.s, via des cartographies interactives, des documents d’archives, des textes, il propose une version ouverte, autre de ces quatre événements fondamentaux.
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