Introduction: The Other Caillois: The Many Masks of Game Studies

The legacy of the rich, stratified work of Roger Caillois, the multifaceted and complex French scholar and intellectual, seems to have almost solely impinged on game studies through his most popular work, Les Jeux et les Hommes. Translated in English as Man, Play and Games, this is the text which popularized Caillois’ ideas among those who do study and research on games and game cultures today, and which most often appears in publications that attempt to historicize and introduce to the study of games—perhaps on a par with Johan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens. The purpose of this article is to introduce the papers and general purposes of a collected edition that aims to shift the attention of game scholars toward a more nuanced and comprehensive view of Roger Caillois, beyond the textbook interpretations usually received in game studies over the last decade or so

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), it aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over an hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR, browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters. Finally we briefly discuss on the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, and touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation, and finally on the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of the original X-IFU related scientific objectives of the Athena mission to be retained. (abridged).Comment: 48 pages, 29 figures, Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy with minor editin

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory. Athena is a versatile observatory designed to address the Hot and Energetic Universe science theme, as selected in November 2013 by the Survey Science Committee. Based on a large format array of Transition Edge Sensors (TES), X-IFU aims to provide spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, with a spectral resolution of 2.5 eV (up to 7 keV) over a hexagonal field of view of 5 arc minutes (equivalent diameter). The X-IFU entered its System Requirement Review (SRR) in June 2022, at about the same time when ESA called for an overall X-IFU redesign (including the X-IFU cryostat and the cooling chain), due to an unanticipated cost overrun of Athena. In this paper, after illustrating the breakthrough capabilities of the X-IFU, we describe the instrument as presented at its SRR (i.e. in the course of its preliminary definition phase, so-called B1), browsing through all the subsystems and associated requirements. We then show the instrument budgets, with a particular emphasis on the anticipated budgets of some of its key performance parameters, such as the instrument efficiency, spectral resolution, energy scale knowledge, count rate capability, non X-ray background and target of opportunity efficiency. Finally, we briefly discuss the ongoing key technology demonstration activities, the calibration and the activities foreseen in the X-IFU Instrument Science Center, touch on communication and outreach activities, the consortium organisation and the life cycle assessment of X-IFU aiming at minimising the environmental footprint, associated with the development of the instrument. Thanks to the studies conducted so far on X-IFU, it is expected that along the design-to-cost exercise requested by ESA, the X-IFU will maintain flagship capabilities in spatially resolved high resolution X-ray spectroscopy, enabling most of the original X-IFU related scientific objectives of the Athena mission to be retained. The X-IFU will be provided by an international consortium led by France, The Netherlands and Italy, with ESA member state contributions from Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, with additional contributions from the United States and Japan.The French contribution to X-IFU is funded by CNES, CNRS and CEA. This work has been also supported by ASI (Italian Space Agency) through the Contract 2019-27-HH.0, and by the ESA (European Space Agency) Core Technology Program (CTP) Contract No. 4000114932/15/NL/BW and the AREMBES - ESA CTP No.4000116655/16/NL/BW. This publication is part of grant RTI2018-096686-B-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”. This publication is part of grant RTI2018-096686-B-C21 and PID2020-115325GB-C31 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033

Du cinéma ethnographique et de ses prétendus rapports avec le surréalisme

Massonet Stéphane. Du cinéma ethnographique et de ses prétendus rapports avec le surréalisme. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°22, 1997. pp. 105-113

La case du peintre : échec et mat à l’ombre de Marcel Duchamp

En explorant la case du peintre, l’auteur de cet article montre qu’elle n’est pas une case comme les autres. Il montre qu’elle prend racine dans le texte inaugural du livre, « La Découverte de l’art » pour traverser l’ensemble de l’échiquier et nouer des passages entre les différentes cases du livre. En partant de la figure inaugurale de Marcel Duchamp, figure centrale de la logique de l’imaginaire, la découverte de l’art n’est autre que ce mouvement de renoncement à l’esthétique et à l’art pour se consacrer à la mélancolie du jeu d’échec. En passant par la case du peintre, « La Découverte de l’art » n’est autre que la découverte des correspondances qui se nouent entre les images des peintres et celles des formes naturelles. De la figuration jusqu’à l’abstrait, la taxonomie des images peintes propose des ressemblances troublantes avec les images des pierres, comme si par échos, le dialogue que Caillois n’avait cessé d’entretenir avec les peintres mettait en évidence les rapports entre l’art et la nature, au point que Caillois découvre une des formes les plus achevées chez les peintres chinois qui ne faisaient qu’ajouter leur signature à une plaque de marbre

Luc de Heusch, Mémoire, mon beau navire. Les vacances d’un ethnologue

Intitulée Mémoire, mon beau navire, cette autobiographie devrait se lire à la croisée entre l’expérience d’une certaine avant-garde et l’ethnographie. La perpétuelle mise en question de soi se déploie entre ces deux activités inconciliables, que pourtant l’auteur ne cessera de rendre complémentaires. Ainsi, nous retrouvons à travers ces pages l’écrivain-anthropologue qui publia jadis dans la revue Cobra (n° vii) un étrange collage, qui mettait en évidence la parenté entre la gidouille d’Ubu e..

Phénoménologie et esthétique de l'imaginaire dans l'oeuvre de Roger Caillois

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Denis Marion, Les Masques du destin. Trois dialogues et un monologue imaginaires

Donner la parole à Socrate, Francis Bacon, Mozart, Grimm ou encore Dostoïevski, c’est le défi que lance Denis Marion avec son recueil Les Masques du destin (Minuit, 1955). Le premier dialogue propose une « Suite au Gorgias », dans laquelle Socrate, Calliclès et un étranger poursuivent la réflexion en matière de politique et de rhétorique. Le deuxième texte est un monologue attribué à Francis Bacon, au moment de sa destitution de la fonction de Grand Chancelier en 1621 ; il y dévoile la mesqui..

Quelques lettres à propos du relativisme culturel. Roger Caillois, Jean Paulhan et René de Solier

Massonet Stéphane, Caillois Roger, Paulhan Jean, Solier René de. Quelques lettres à propos du relativisme culturel. Roger Caillois, Jean Paulhan et René de Solier. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°19, 1996. Dossier : Naître en marge. pp. 96-114