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Abstract The Enlightenment is as relevant as ever. They are extolled as the living source of modern values of freedom, tolerance and equality, or, conversely, denounced as the ideology of Western imperialism and the origin of a thoughtless cult of …

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Abstract The northern suburb of Pompeii, in front of the Vesuvius gate, was excavated discontinuously from the very end of the 19th century and the first decade of the following century. The reinterpretation of archival documents, combined with recent …

Abstract Large random matrices tend to exhibit universal spectral fluctuations. Besides overviewing the well-known Wigner-Dyson and Tracy-Widom universality for Hermitian Wigner matrices, we present new analogous results for non-Hermitian matrices. In …

" A definition of myself is like asking for the definition of infinity... There is an inner infinity and an inner infinity... For you I am a finite thing, but for me I am infinite... I am the mirror of the outer infinity. " Pasolini, 1966 Hervé …

Abstract In continuity with the previous lecture. The lecture discusses liquid phase transitions in the presence of chemical reactions, following the approach proposed by F. Julicher's group. Emphasis is placed on non-equilibrium chemical reactions and …

Abstract The philosophical literature on so-called first-person thinking or se thinking is based on a battery of examples that contrast two types of case. Reflexivity occurs in both cases because the subject thinks of himself and attributes a certain …

Abstract Brecht Evens loves polyphonic narratives, disjointed narratives in which voices and points of view intermingle in a seemingly chaotic way, where we follow numerous characters without the boundary between " main " and "secondary " being really …

" Gags are born of accidents with the pencil ", Hergé once declared. And Baudoin said it in other words : " The black lines that my brush draws on white paper send me messages that I have to answer, questions I hadn't anticipated, unexpected answers. " …