http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/france The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/digital-democracy-inside-french-presidential-elections <p>&quot;FRANCE HAS A NEW PRESIDENT.&quot; It does not look like much of a statement on paper, or on a computer screen: five little words, almost too short for a tweet. But France today is still dazed from the news, floating between disbelief, relief, and exhaustion.  </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/digital-democracy-inside-french-presidential-elections">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/digital-democracy-inside-french-presidential-elections#comments democracy Elections France politics http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1472 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:24:50 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1472 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-french-election-matters <p>On May 6, Americans will understandably be more impatient to watch the 2012 Comedy Awards than to discover the winner of the second round of the French presidential elections. And this is not because now that Stephen Colbert has a Super-Pac, American politics have officially merged with comedy. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-french-election-matters">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/why-french-election-matters#comments Constitution democracy France politics Presidential Elections http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1466 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:04:02 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1466 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/au-travail <p>One of the first dramatic conflicts to propel <i><a href="/portrait-of-artist-age-of-wikipedia">The Map And The Territory</a>, </i>Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, is a quintessentially French scene of heroism and vexation: the protagonist’s water-heater wheezes, hisses, sputters, peters out and dies.  It’s Christmas Eve (when else for a  water-heater to die but on extended week-end holi</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/au-travail">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/au-travail#comments American Economy France Houellebecq Labor Rights The Map And The Territory Work http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1459 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:01:31 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1459 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/portrait-of-artist-age-of-wikipedia <p>Michel Houellebecq is quite a character. The bad boy of French letters has made his name building post-humanist novels where dogs and clones are the rare creatures achieving a modicum of happiness.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/portrait-of-artist-age-of-wikipedia">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/portrait-of-artist-age-of-wikipedia#comments art Bernard-Henri Levy Depressionism Elementary Particles France Houellebecq Map and Territory novel Pastiche Plagiarism poetry Wikipedia Work http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1422 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:26:38 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1422 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/what%E2%80%99s-new-new-storyline <p>It's hard to catch up with the latest episodes in the Strauss-Kahn drama (rumor has it that screenwriters are frantically taking notes to spurt out a series for cable television come September).</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/what%E2%80%99s-new-new-storyline">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/what%E2%80%99s-new-new-storyline#comments feminism France Journalism justice media Nafitassou Diallo politics Strauss-Kahn http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1283 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:04:35 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1283 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/french-feminisms <p>The debate heats up in France after a pointed critique of &quot;<a href="http://www.liberation.fr/politiques/01012342214-feminisme-a-la-francaise">Le Féminisme à la française</a>&quot; by Joan W. Scott in <i>Libération</i> (06/10/2011). [Edited 07/06/2011]</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/french-feminisms">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/french-feminisms#comments Cultures DSK feminism France Irène Théry Joan W. Scott Strauss-Kahn Women&#039;s Rights http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1260 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:24:43 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1260 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-strauss-kahn-indictment-of-french-political-culture <p>“It’s our September 11th” confides a socialist supporter to reporters as the news broke that former IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also known as “DSK,” has been charged for sexual assault and attempted rape in New York. And as for September 11th, there are some in France that are more comfortable imagining fictions of conspiracies than trying to think through the unthinkable.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-strauss-kahn-indictment-of-french-political-culture">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/beyond-strauss-kahn-indictment-of-french-political-culture#comments Bernard-Henri Levy feminism France French Politics intellectuals Jean-François Kahn Polanski Rape Sexual Harassment Strauss-Kahn Women http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1221 Mon, 23 May 2011 16:27:38 -0700 Cecile Alduy 1221 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/roots-of-strangeness <p class="MsoNormal">God knows, exile and wandering is as old as the hills, and some of the world's greatest stories are about this Odyssey or another.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/roots-of-strangeness">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/roots-of-strangeness#comments Afghanistan exile France full-face veil globalization Roger Cohen Serbia Simmel The New York Times http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/858 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:02:04 -0700 Gregory Freidin 858 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/that%E2%80%99s-me-television-aka-nuit-brooklyn-les-nuits-de-fourvi%C3%A8re-2010 <p>The National, Dirty Projectors, Sharon Jones &amp; St. Vincent all shared a stage earlier tonight (Central European Summer Time) at Les Nuits de Fourvière, a two-month long, multidisciplinary arts festival that happens every year in Lyon, France, about four hours Southeast of Paris by car.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/that%E2%80%99s-me-television-aka-nuit-brooklyn-les-nuits-de-fourvi%C3%A8re-2010">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/that%E2%80%99s-me-television-aka-nuit-brooklyn-les-nuits-de-fourvi%C3%A8re-2010#comments Alec Hanley Bemis Brooklyn Bryce Dessner Dirty Projectors France Lyon Sharon Jones Smooth Jazz The Dap-Kings The National Things French People Like Tuck &amp; Patti Windham Hill http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/830 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:34:06 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 830 at http://arcade.stanford.edu