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Amazighité, oralité et territorialité
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.8 pp.253-271
AbstractAll scientists agree that Africa, the continent of the longest inhabitation, is the “Cradle of Humankind”. In this regard, the South African site of Swantkrans Cave, a World Heritage Site by Unesco, is considered the territory where Homo erectus, the “first” man stood up and walked, this is where the Man became bipedal. If I brought this idea to my status as researcher “Companies” and language and if I assemble these two fundamental changes “man up” that “works”, this is probably the first attempt to subscribe to the “territory” of the human vitality. This is also where the same man committed the first expression to identify themselves around fire and through the vis-à-vis orality of its environment. This paper aims to comprehend the political sociology of identity rather than the effects of the development of the sociology of complexity and the identity of complexity of imazeghen, by raising following issues: 1) orality and Amazighité 2) regionalization of Amazighité 3) Amazighité and territoriality 4) what is the communicative dimension of orality?
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Photo-index and Tuché
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.8 pp.273-287
AbstractThis paper aims to elucidate what photographic meaning is with reference to 'punctum,' the central term introduced in Barthes' Camera Lucida. Separated from structuralist model, the project in the book seems to rely on a sort of phenomenology that is for private writing. However, a number of methodologies were implied in Barthes' writing and among them are Peirce's semiotics and Lacan's psychology. What is revealed here is how Barthes seeks the photographic meaning in terms of indexical feature of photographic signification and traumatic experiences the punctum of a photograph provides.
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Présentation du numéro : Nouveaux modèles, nouveaux paradigmes
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.1-2
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For a New History of Writing
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.5-19
AbstractFor last fifty years, studies on the history of writing have changed various sides: among the domain of linguists, many of them increased in the graphic aspect. Reviewing back to the ideas of Saussure on writing as a transcript of the language, studies of writing turn to its symbolic and spatial dimension. While all human sciences have participated in this revision, especially philosophy and ethnology, we probably see the backlash of the development of new image technologies, although they consist of languages and mathematical writings.
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Figuration of Taste and Web-design of Flavor Between Aesthesia and Aesthetics
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.21-41
AbstractSolid relationships between aesthetics and ethics are always discussed, as so are many complex ramifications between the sensible and the intelligible. The question comes to enrich a third term which is often set back from these basic polarities: the aesthesia, the world of the senses, sensations, which are intended to cooperate. Schematically, it creates a fundamental relationship among aesthesia (sensations), aesthetic (forms) and ethics (values), which governs the approach of the sensible world and directs a complex issue such as the representation taste, the taste sensation, emotion gourmet, in terms of communication. It is understood that the heart of the semiotization process of taste, served by new technologies which are defined as aesthetic, must deal with strategies of the indexical representation in connection with the aesthesia and the sensations of taste. The simplest way is to articulate the purpose of aesthesia, assuming that the logic of representation is deployed in the registered aesthetics in order to represent the flavor and the form of system with guaranteed consistency and uniformity in the figurative strategies. However, it is not able to think a possible system to articulate aesthesia, synesthesia, hyperesthesia, and anesthesia with aesthetic resources outside of food life forms ethically at this time.
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Approches sensorielles et sensibles des soins : vers un nouveau paradigme de la relation de soin
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.43-63
AbstractLike in all human relationships, the care relationship happens in a space-time environment where there is an encounter between the care giver and the care receiver. Care relationships mobilize all our senses and require a singular physical contact, thus, the hand becomes a technical mediation as well as symbolic of human communication. This article aims to comprehend the sensory, perceptible and symbolic dimensions that are involved in this perceptible experience from a cross-disciplinary point of view of the Information and Communication Sciences (ICS). Questioning the areas of the care relationship with a multidimensional view, characteristic of the ICS, can permit to suggest new viewpoints and to lead towards other ways of seeing proper to this research. We are coming into the era of a new confluence between the ICS and the sciences of health and care.
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Reframing Intercultural Communication Research : Theories and Approaches to Communicating in a Culturally Diverse World
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.65-84
AbstractThis paper discusses a possible paradigm shift within the field of intercultural communication. Distinguishing cross-cultural and intercultural approaches from historical and epistemological standpoints, it echoes the need expressed by scholars to develop a new model for examining intercultural interactions. Arguing that nation-centric studies have difficulty accounting for the complexity of communication processes taking place between foreigners, the author suggests that communication science and a “semiopragmatics” approach to interpersonal interactions can be used to reconceptualise the relationship between cultures, identities and communication, taking into account the mediating role of the contextual factors specific to the encounter itself.
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Smart-Information : An Actor-Centered Approach From Shannon to the Sketch of New Paradigms
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.85-112
AbstractDealing with Smart Information (Intelligence of Information) the purpose of this paper is to enlighten the various paradigms of information. First we propose a definition of information including its heterogeneous and scientific aspects both at the same time. Second, we place the concept of information in its context, reaffirming there is no information without the concepts of information user, data and knowledge. Then we conclude by the sketch of new paradigms and by offering two ways of future research in actor-centered information theory.
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Couples of the Internet Age: Towards a New Paradigm of Relations?
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.113-131
AbstractThe introduction of mobile communication devices disrupts the domestic sphere, including couple relations. Indeed, the individual may now establish more easily relations with the “intruders” at home (in various fields: friendship, love or career) and find themselves in poly-commitment situations causing de-synchronization of everyday life. This article will try to show that this intrusion of ICT at home questions the idea of the relationship and leads to new strategies of actors within the couple.
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Entre indexicalité et réflexivité, la «fabrique» du sens commun, théorie et usages ethnométhodologiques
EPISTÉMÈ :: Vol.7 pp.133-154
AbstractWe owe the intensive use of the terms “indexicality” and “reflexivity” to Harold Garfinkel's ethnomethodology. After being controversial when it first appeared, to the point of being compared to a cult, but then tolerated as “marginal”, ethnomethodology is now a growing response as an operational discipline of observation and reporting of professional practices. Paradoxically, this applicability is largely due to the radicalism of its epistemological position, based entirely on a careful consideration of the manufacturing operations of common sense. The purpose of this paper is to clarify this apparent paradox by showing how this “factory” works, to point the limits it imposes but also to mention the opportunities it opens, and to list some of its practical applications.
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