For 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.

Solid 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.

Like 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.

This 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.

Dealing 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.

The 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.

We 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.

Victor Segalen was a poet, an archeologist and a navy doctor. But he was first a great traveler. Although its first text was published in 1902, his work was largely unknown until the late 20th century. As a thinker of the Multiple, he strongly influenced the approaches of modern anthropology.

We approach topics such as: the rise of the digital-analogous interaction, as a consequence of the emergence in many fields of the discrete-continuous interaction; the consequences in the field of the visual and the related physical, biological, linguistic, psychological and computational aspects; ‘visible' versus ‘intelligible' the place of the ‘visual' with respect to ‘reality' and ‘fiction' the visual accounting for infinities of various types; the challenge of the wrong visual representations; ‘visual' and ‘macroscopic' ‘visual' and ‘fractal' ‘visual' and non-Euclidean universes.