Images of the Saturn Hexagon before Voyager 1

In 1981 the Voyager 1 probe photographed – and later the Cassini probe confirmed – a hexagonal vortex on Saturn's North pole. This cloud features extends for almost 30,000 km keeping its shape unchanged as it rotates with the planet. But, since we see it very foreshortened, it appears to us with the greater extension of 4" and the smaller one of 1.3": this makes it virtually visible from Earth with telescopes. And in fact, after the first images of Voyager 1, many amateur astronomers managed to photograph it even with modest instruments of a few tens of centimeters in diameter, but using digital photography techniques. We therefore wondered if the hexagon had been seen by astronomers of the past mainly using their professional telescopes. Our research gave positive results: E.E. Barnard (with the Yerkes' refractor) and E.M. Antoniadi (earlier with Juvisy's and later with Meudon's refractors) pictured it since the end of the 19th century, but they never mentioned it in their writings, probably because it was at the limit of visibility and it was impossible to explain the hexagon with the knowledge of that time. These pictures prove that the hexagon has been present and active for at least 124 years on the North pole of Saturn, similar to the (longer-lived) red spot of Jupiter

The Dossier Novel: (Post)Modern Fiction and the Discourse of the Archive

This paper focuses on the relationship tying modern novels to the archive in the Modern Age following the centralization of the national archives during the French Revolution. It argues that a specific type of fiction that it calls the dossier novel embodies the significant intersection between archival and novelistic discourses.The archive is the location where society preserves the heritage of its past, the workplace where the bureaucrat copies and stores records, and the institution where documents are authenticated by matching them with their originals. It establishes a peculiar truth that relies on the exhibition of written proofs. Novelistic discourse significantly overlaps that of the archive. Since writing means recording, an innate archival quality must be inscribed in the novel, the only major literary genre in the Western tradition that originates in the written page. Novels, too, above all historical and realist novels, aim at being stored as written records, in the archives available to society. Telling the truth by printing it on paper is the bread and butter of the novel, so to speak.Dossier novels are hybrids that find an operational balance between narrative and documentation. They perform a dynamic compromise between archives, novels, and printed books. They collect records, and are structured, at times, as dossiers, presenting factual evidence of those ties linking the archival and novelistic discourses which represent the concern of this study

La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires

A través del análisis de los textos de Enrique Gómez Carrillo y Jules Huret, viajeros que visitaron Argentina en ocasión de las celebraciones del Centenario de la Independencia, y de las crónicas de cuño higienista de Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, así como de los estudios más recientes de James Scobie y Jorge Liernur, este artículo propone pensar la Buenos Aires de finales del XIX y comienzos del XX como una ciudad escenográfica. Ésta se manifestaría en la lectura en continuidad, que de ella promocionó la élite oligárquica durante la modernización de la ciudad que, si por un lado, produjo la elegante Avenida de Mayo, por el otro, también generó las aporías de la pobreza urbana simbolizadas por el Barrio de las Ranas. Los intentos de promocionar una visión homogénea y disciplinada de la ciudad chocarían, sin embargo, con el espacio urbano entendido como un territorio plural y en tensión continua.By analyzing the texts of Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Jules Huret (travelers who visited Argentina during the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence), the hygienist chronicles of Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, as well as the most recent studies of James Scobie and Jorge Liernur, this article proposes an understanding of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century as a scenographic city. It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. These attempts to promote a homogeneous and disciplined vision of the city collided, however, with the urban space understood as a perennially contested and plurally-constituted territory

La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires

By analyzing the texts of Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Jules Huret (travelers who visited Argentina during the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence), the hygienist chronicles of Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, as well as the most recent studies of James Scobie and Jorge Liernur, this article proposes an understanding of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century as a scenographic city. It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. These attempts to promote a homogeneous and disciplined vision of the city collided, however, with the urban space understood as a perennially contested and plurally-constituted territory

The Dossier Novel: (Post)Modern Fiction and the Discourse of the Archive

This paper focuses on the relationship tying modern novels to the archive in the Modern Age following the centralization of the national archives during the French Revolution. It argues that a specific type of fiction that it calls the dossier novel embodies the significant intersection between archival and novelistic discourses.The archive is the location where society preserves the heritage of its past, the workplace where the bureaucrat copies and stores records, and the institution where documents are authenticated by matching them with their originals. It establishes a peculiar truth that relies on the exhibition of written proofs. Novelistic discourse significantly overlaps that of the archive. Since writing means recording, an innate archival quality must be inscribed in the novel, the only major literary genre in the Western tradition that originates in the written page. Novels, too, above all historical and realist novels, aim at being stored as written records, in the archives available to society. Telling the truth by printing it on paper is the bread and butter of the novel, so to speak.Dossier novels are hybrids that find an operational balance between narrative and documentation. They perform a dynamic compromise between archives, novels, and printed books. They collect records, and are structured, at times, as dossiers, presenting factual evidence of those ties linking the archival and novelistic discourses which represent the concern of this study

La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires

A través del análisis de los textos de Enrique Gómez Carrillo y Jules Huret, viajeros que visitaron Argentina en ocasión de las celebraciones del Centenario de la Independencia, y de las crónicas de cuño higienista de Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, así como de los estudios más recientes de James Scobie y Jorge Liernur, este artículo propone pensar la Buenos Aires de finales del XIX y comienzos del XX como una ciudad escenográfica. Ésta se manifestaría en la lectura en continuidad, que de ella promocionó la élite oligárquica durante la modernización de la ciudad que, si por un lado, produjo la elegante Avenida de Mayo, por el otro, también generó las aporías de la pobreza urbana simbolizadas por el Barrio de las Ranas. Los intentos de promocionar una visión homogénea y disciplinada de la ciudad chocarían, sin embargo, con el espacio urbano entendido como un territorio plural y en tensión continua.By analyzing the texts of Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Jules Huret (travelers who visited Argentina during the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence), the hygienist chronicles of Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, as well as the most recent studies of James Scobie and Jorge Liernur, this article proposes an understanding of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century as a scenographic city. It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. These attempts to promote a homogeneous and disciplined vision of the city collided, however, with the urban space understood as a perennially contested and plurally-constituted territory

Émotions et travail : quels apports sociologiques ?

Les organisations de travail entendent de plus en plus mobiliser les émotions des travailleurs, qui expriment pour leur part un malaise croissant au travail. Les premières mettent les émotions au travail en les normant et en les instrumentalisant (le « travail émotionnel »), les seconds éprouvent une large palette d’émotions, parmi lesquelles la peur, l’ennui, l’excitation sont sans doute les plus courantes. Mais loin d’être homogènes, des colorations émotionnelles varient en fonction du métier, des formations suivies à l’origine, du genre

La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires

By analyzing the texts of Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Jules Huret (travelers who visited Argentina during the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence), the hygienist chronicles of Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, as well as the most recent studies of James Scobie and Jorge Liernur, this article proposes an understanding of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century as a scenographic city. It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. These attempts to promote a homogeneous and disciplined vision of the city collided, however, with the urban space understood as a perennially contested and plurally-constituted territory