Les paradoxes de l'art performance

in Culture, le Magazine Culturel de l'Université de Liège (2012)

Même en reprécisant le contexte historique d’émergence de l’art performance, la définition de ce genre relativement nouveau au regard de l’histoire de l’art reste difficile à fournir. Plusieurs raisons ... [more ▼]

Même en reprécisant le contexte historique d’émergence de l’art performance, la définition de ce genre relativement nouveau au regard de l’histoire de l’art reste difficile à fournir. Plusieurs raisons peuvent être évoquées : immaturité du médium, anti-conformisme revendiqué, variété des formes. Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, on peut néanmoins dégager plusieurs caractéristiques récurrentes et tenter de poser les premiers jalons d’une théorie critique de la performance. Une telle entreprise ne me semble pas pouvoir négliger les paradoxes qu’entraîne ce genre. Car entre le potentiel émancipateur de l’art performance et la réception effective de ses propositions par le public, il y a parfois un gouffre étonnant – mais fascinant à observer (et finalement révélateur). Le week-end ACTUS1 est venu confirmer les ambiguïtés qu’il s’agira dans ce texte d’analyser. [less ▲]

Les paradoxes de la multicompétence

in Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines (2006), 61(juillet/août/septembre), 22-33

La question que nous discutons dans ce papier est de savoir si cette nouvelle forme de division du travail parvient conjointement à améliorer le fonctionnement de l’organisation, tout en favorisant, comme ... [more ▼]

La question que nous discutons dans ce papier est de savoir si cette nouvelle forme de division du travail parvient conjointement à améliorer le fonctionnement de l’organisation, tout en favorisant, comme l’affirme une partie importante de la littérature en GRH, l’employabilité des collaborateurs. Nous montrerons, à l’aide d’études de cas, que cette relation semble rarement vérifiée. Quand la multicompétence reste inscrite dans une logique de poste, les résultats en termes d’employabilité ne sont guère probants, conduisant alors à des problèmes concrets de qualité. Si elle s’inscrit davantage dans une logique de développement individuel, la contribution à l’employabilité se renforce mais en générant de sérieux dysfonctionnements organisationnels. [less ▲]

The Paradoxes of Grace: New Impingements on Australian Literary Territory

Conference (2009, September 24)

The title of Robert Drewe’s latest novel, Grace (2005), shares with J. M. Coetzee’s antonymous Disgrace (1999) a polysemous quality which derives from both works’ attempt to capture the ethical stance of ... [more ▼]

The title of Robert Drewe’s latest novel, Grace (2005), shares with J. M. Coetzee’s antonymous Disgrace (1999) a polysemous quality which derives from both works’ attempt to capture the ethical stance of a society in a way which has personal and political ramifications at the same time. The Australian text shows some concern with the predicament of a boatload of asylum seekers from Indonesia, who later escape from their detention centre in the Kimberleys; but Drewe’s progressive denunciation of Australia’s treatment of refugees is potentially compromised by the Australian anxiety over territorial integrity which provides an unshakeable context for this kind of thematic development. More generally, my paper will explore the ambiguities attending a discursive move which seeks to absorb race into larger categories of political meaning, and the related difficulty of achieving the ‘grace’ of complete freedom from colonialist parameters in an Australian culture where some suspense over territory continues to brood. [less ▲]

The Paradoxes of Marginalization: David Malouf and the "Great World"

in Durix, Jean-Pierre (Ed.) The Global and the Particular in the English-Speaking World (2003)

Paradoxical Sleep Deprivation Increases the Content of Glutamate and Glutamine in Rat Cerebral Cortex

in Sleep (1996), 19(1), 65-71

We investigated the influence of the sleep/waking cycle, the effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) and of the vigilance-promoting drug modafinil on the amino acid contents of rat brain cortex. No ... [more ▼]

We investigated the influence of the sleep/waking cycle, the effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) and of the vigilance-promoting drug modafinil on the amino acid contents of rat brain cortex. No significant nycthemeral variations in amino acid levels could be detected. PSD (12-24 hours), using the water tank method, significantly increased the levels of glutamate and glutamine. The increase was still observed after the sleep rebound period. gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels did not change significantly during the instrumental sleep deprivation but increased during the rebound period. Control experiments indicate that the increase in glutamate and glutamine levels is due to PSD rather than to the stress associated with the experimental procedure. The increase in glutamate content cannot arise only from transamination reactions, because the levels of other amino acids (such as aspartate) did not decrease. Modafinil treatment did not significantly modify the brain cortex content of any of the amino acids tested. [less ▲]

Paraffinpräparate

in Verhandlungen der physiologischen Gesellscharft zu Berlin (1879), (3), 13

Parahormones or cybernins ?

in Bizollon, Charles (Ed.) Monoclonal antibodies and new trends in immunoassays (1984)

A parallel computing model for the acceleration of a finite element software

in Arabnia, H. R. (Ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (2002)

This paper presents the parallelization model used for the non-linear finite element software LAGAMINE. The proposed model is based on the use of a coarse grain approach for the parallelization of the ... [more ▼]

This paper presents the parallelization model used for the non-linear finite element software LAGAMINE. The proposed model is based on the use of a coarse grain approach for the parallelization of the assembly of the stiffness matrix. For the solver of the generated linear problem, we used a parallel direct solver of Gauss type. Finally, we present a discussion of the results of our approach on an example of depp drawing. [less ▲]

Parallel propagating electromagnetic solitons and oscillitons in space plasmas and in relativistic electron-positron plasmas

in Physica Scripta (2005), T116

An overview is given of methods to study weak and strong nonlinear modes in multispecies plasmas, with a discussion of how they correspond (or not) for phenomena at not too strong amplitudes. Reductive ... [more ▼]

An overview is given of methods to study weak and strong nonlinear modes in multispecies plasmas, with a discussion of how they correspond (or not) for phenomena at not too strong amplitudes. Reductive perturbation analysis leads for weak nonlinear waves to several well known nonlinear evolution equations. In contrast, strong nonlinear phenomena are dealt with by immediately looking for stationary solutions of the model equations. While this works well for electrostatic modes via the Sagdeev pseudopotential technique, large amplitude, parallel propagating solitary electromagnetic waves occur as oscillitons, for which the correct nonlinear evolution equation is still lacking. Electromagnetic modes in (relativistic) electron-positron plasmas are an exception, in that they give pure solitons, both at large and smaller nonlinear amplitudes. The behaviour of the wave magnetic field is expressed through an energy integral that involves the Mach number of the structure, thus yielding the limits on the allowable Mach numbers and soliton amplitudes. [less ▲]

Parallel reversibility of biological markers of the metabolic syndrome and liver steatosis after gastroplasty-induced weight loss in severe obesity.

in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1999), 84(11), 4293