by Marie Bechetoille Marie Bechetoille: Zombies now play a major role in Western fictions, particularly in film and television series, but also in the visual arts. Artists use them to represent desires for vengeance and violence, but also possibilities of [...]
by Julie Portier Let’s provide some context: when the committee of La belle revue got together last summer, after the confinement that we’d already agreed to call – in a curious mixture of derision and lucidity – ‘the first confinement’, [...]
by Julie Portier I immediately thought of Laurent Le Deunff to discuss the figure of the zombie in film. I know that he is a fan and I have often seen him refer to zombie films to talk about sculpture [...]
by Sophie Lapalu Joseph Tonda is a sociologist and anthropologist; he teaches at Omar Bongo University in Libreville and regularly lectures at the EHESS in Paris. While his research is about Central Africa, he is also interested in works undertaken [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle ‘The idea of a world where human life might be artificially prolonged has a nightmare quality.’1 During the most recent Lyon Biennale (2019), a member of the editorial committee mentioned her exasperation with the [...]
by Pietro Della Giustina Pietro Della Giustina: In the mythological and religious tradition of Haitian Voodoo, the spirit of a deceased person can be summoned from the realm of the dead by a necromancer, through black magic, in order to [...]
