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Abstract I will be responding to Sloterdijk's leçon at the Collège de France, posing a question about what it means to take possession of the earth, and a question about the modern citizen's obligations in the era of globalization. Robert Pogue Harrison …

Abstract The starting point for the following reflections is provided by the theses of media and cultural theorist Friedrich Kittler, according to whom the poet Homer was the founder of the revolutionary cultural innovation of vowel notation in ancient …

Abstract This second lecture advances the thesis that, after the Second World War, a particular conception of democracy emerged in Western Europe - what the speaker describes as " constrained democracy ". This conception was based on a fear of …

Abstract The fourth   lecture will focus on the relationship between Greek and local cultures. After an overview of the problem, we will focus on the particularly significant case of Greek literature in Egypt. While current opinion tends to regard the …

Abstract Poetry and artistic expression are the means by which Amerindian peoples express their vision of the world. How is the diversity and creativity of the Amerindian arts and the spaces they occupy expressed today  ? Does artistic expression have a …

Abstract The indigenous languages of South America reveal visions of worlds present, past and future. They are also the vehicle for a way of thinking that unites and engages humans, the forest and living beings in a community. Since time immemorial, the …

Abstract We are interested in the question of counting cuspidal and selfdual automorphic representations of GL(n) over Q which are unramified at all primes and algebraic numbers of given distinct weights. Thanks to Arthur's work, it essentially amounts to …

Abstract Relations between indigenous peoples and European colonizers have been imbued with a multi-faceted violence that has developed over the centuries through the imposition of a single worldview, a single language and a single notion of territory. …

Abstract One of the most elementary foundations of living together, the relationship with the Earth, is expressed through language. For Amerindian peoples, a relationship with the land is an indication of their identity, and implies recognition of the …

Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca Andrea-Luz Gutierrez-Choquevilca is a linguistic anthropologist, director of the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (LAS), and holder of the Religions des Indiens Sud-Américains  : sociétés des Basses Terres chair at the …

Abstract Every syntactician is accustomed to experimenting with a given sentence. We modify it slightly, adding or removing a negation, changing the word order, replacing one word with another. Then we evaluate the result of the modification. Every …

Abstract Argumental semantics deals with "   who does what to whom   " in the event or state expressed by the sentence. Each sentence can be associated with a small mental scene, involving a small number of participants, the arguments. The different roles …