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I'm really starting to be out-Performa-ed out. Three weeks. I mean, wouldn't 2 weeks been enough? But not in New York, oh no...

I was inside an astronaut's body last night. It was cosy and nurturing. We were offered milk shakes. A fashion show followed with charac...

Today lots and lots of pictures, and less words. I went to the Joan Jonas performance at Performa last night. Didn't talk to me much. We...

The Performa festival has changed my relationship to New York. It looks and it feels different. Walking around the city from one venue to an...

If you're about to go and see Quartett with Isabelle Huppert, you might prefer to skip reading this entry. In the first 10 minutes of t...

Depressed people are the only ones who see the world objectively, says Jon Elster. Everybody else is wearing pink-tinted eyeglasses. They ha...

Back to Jon Elster, and no fussing around this time. Here's what he says of what he calls addiction to reason. "Some people do inde...

You know how I was saying there are many arguments against astrology? Well, when I started looking on the Internet, I didn't find that m...

Isn't it time for a new music genre? We had swing, bebop, latin jazz, rock, funk, soul, disco, reggae, ska, rap, garage, acid jazz, hiph...

La vengeance! Bon, j'admets, il m'est arrivé de me venger. Les détails dans un blog séparé, accessible uniquement par invitation. D...

Revenge is discouraged in our society. Obviously, christianity and the other cheek had not reached Corsica in the 19th century. When we are ...

For the record, I never bought that we can only taste sweet, sour, salt and bitter with our tongue. Recently an additional taste has been id...

Speaking of emotions, what are they? Various authors make different lists: anger, sadness, joy, pride are the obvious ones. Then come the le...

In 1840, a group of young people went wheat hoeing in Corsica. Children spread the rumour, that two of them, Cornelia and Antono had been in...

Two experiments about chimps. Chimps have a sense of justice : In the first one, a chimp, chimp 1, gets a piece of apple every time he goes ...