Collective book
CNES editions
Date of parution : march 2016
ISBN 978-2-85440-031-1
19 € / 256 pages

How to revisit the notion of a robot or a cyborg, so entrenched in our collective unconscious ? How to go beyond the simple man-robot, friend-foe duality without falling into a pursuit of transhumanism ? To retrieve what is human studying our artificial doubles, to go through the literature to avoid the pitfall of scientific realism, to set morality aside to go for artistic expression, that was the program set for this twelfth issue of Espace(s) journal. Because what matters the most is the emergence of a relationship, however strange, with that other, that symbol of otherness.

The authors invited to write for the magazine tried to answer, each in their own way, to contemporary questions about robots and cyborgs. Always at the heart of the editorial line of “Espace(s),” the diversity of submissions and the freedom of literary and artistic creation provide evidence of the richness of the subject. The “Protocol” category offers this year an attempt at exhausting a piece from the archives through a conversation between different authors and artists. Ten authors seized on words from the French Language and Francophony Week, bringing outer space meanings to that very earthly lexicon. From “fada” to “ristrette”, new interpretations, plays on language are what is offered to the reader through the discovery of these texts of literary creation. From “Invitation” into “Exploration,” the group find their way into the magazine through text and graphic submissions with replies in the form of work by artists in external residence at the Space Observatory.

L’avenir du genre humain
Gérard Azoulay

Résidency
Karin Serres · Quelques instants sans gravité
Didier Petit · La main de l’âme
Raphaël Dallaporta · Secrets
Bertrand Rigaux · Un objet à l’infini de déclinaison

Invitation
Sylvie Corroler-Talairach · Autre compagnon

Vocabulary
Matériau
Nathalie Blanc · Chafouine au pays des vaches
Frédérique Martin · Dissoudre la distance
Sébastien Rongier · Le Dépanneur
Jocelyn Bonnerave · Space is the place
Virginie Poitrasson · Sonzai-kan exploration
Emmanuel Rabu · Des exceptions gênent une définition
Marc Molk · Le Princesse de Clèves
Julien Blaine · 67P : Chury chéri(e)
Frédéric Dumond · tap-tap messenger
Marie Cosnay · L’horizon des événements

Protocole
Éric Pessan
Bernard Chambaz
Sylvie Bonnot
Coline Pierré
Mariette Navarro
Thaddée
Karin Serres
Philippe Braz
François Matton
Éric Pistouley

Exploration
Manuel Candré · Gobot, nuit et jour
Mathias Richard · Léon
Boris Crack · Cybergirls
Livia Galeazzi · NRXO
Raphaël Gouisset · Tout le monde a peur de mourir
Nicolas Grenier · Philae
Loïc Daverat · Spirit
Hortense Gauthier · CosmOsEroS
Éric Vial-Bonacci · En attendant Lobo
Poulpy · Perpétuité
Ian Monk · Modèle 17

Extension numérique
Une aventure spatiale

Les Auteurs
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