CENTRES AND CENTRALITIES
This article stems from The Centre and the Name, readings in Beirut’s toponymy, a thesis defended at the Sorbonne in May 2018. Hannah Arendt is not very present in studies and research related to geography....
Quand Paris s’enrhume, l’Europe prend froid (“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold“, Prince Klemens von Metternich) Paris is hit for a second time in 2015, and this time the victims are way more...
“A la base de notre civilisation, il y a la liberté de chacun dans sa pensée, ses croyances, ses opinions, son travail, ses loisirs.”
(Charles de Gaulle)
« Je me rends compte que la liberté est un combat » (Le Monde, 7 January 2015) Je suis Charlie, “I am Charlie” or “I follow Charlie” or both: this simple phrase has made me...
The map we are presenting here is spectacular: Le tour du Monde en un clin d’oeil (the world in the blink of an eye) is an example of how “we” tend to put ourselves...
“Au mois d’avril 1768, le chapitre de Notre-Dame de Paris a fait placer dans son parvis, au pied de la tour septentrionale de son église, une pierre triangulaire, du milieu de laquelle sort un...
“La France est une nation, c’est-à-dire une œuvre humaine, une création de l’homme; notre peuple […] est composé d’autant d’éléments divers qu’un poème ou une symphonie”. (George Bernanos, Le chemin de la Croix-des-Âmes)...
The Gare de Paris-Nord (aka Gare du Nord) is where trains from Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and the UK arrive in Paris, and it is the last main Parisian RER station before the Aéroport Charles-de-Gaulle,...
We said that the “centre of the world” is a notion which always stems from social construction, from human perception and not from a physical reality. In this regard we do know, today, that Jerusalem is not a physical centre of our Planet; unless we followed the idea that all points of the Planet are its centre: so Jerusalem would be one out of an infinity.
Yes, Sex and the City is about things central: Sex, of course, and New York. Sex and the City happens principally in Manhattan, and when the camera leaves Manhattan to shoot elsewhere: Brooklyn, Los Angeles...
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