Kaarle Parikka

BIG DAT(DNA)

Illustration : Noir&Clair Nous vivons une époque d'évolutions scientifiques où les chercheurs ne cessent d’avancer dans le décryptage du génome humain. Le séquençage du génome humain a été entamé...

The banality of the mask

Nadia Berz C’est par la voix de son directeur général, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, que l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a annoncé, vendredi 5 mai dans l’après-midi, la levée du niveau maximal...

Agrippa: end of pandemic and threat of a « double epidemic

From the end of the summer of 2020, the media of different countries relayed the fear of a "double epidemic" coronavirus and influenza, experts insisting on the importance of vaccination against influenza. Indeed,...

Every healthy man is a sick man who doesn’t know it

Imagine a dystopian society, where each citizen is constrained to a series of behaviors limiting not only his individual, but collective freedoms. In this society there is a presumption of guilt: everyone is guilty...

Ad doxa per aspera

One way of thinking about the Covid-19 pandemic is to consider it as revealing how our society functions. Indeed, by applying pressure, it amplifies the dynamics of our social organizations. As a result, certain...

Demystification: Vaccination — the only solution against the emergence of variants

The English term debunk has become common in recent years and even more so in this period of crisis. This verb means to demystify, refute, discredit. The YouTube platform is full of videos where conspiracy arguments...