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As an editor for WYSIWYM text, Stylo is designed to change the entire digital editorial chain of scholarly journals the field of human sciences. The project is carried out in partnership with Érudit.
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Journal Sens Public
The journal Sens Public was founded in 2003 by Gérard Wormser in France and has been housed at the University of Montreal since 2012 under the direction of its editor, Marcello Vitali-Rosati.
Rewriting the Trans-Canada Highway in the Digital Age
How can we think of space in the digital age? This project aims to explore this question by proposing both theoretical and practical avenues of reflection. The mythical space of the Trans-Canada Highway will be just as much the field of study as the
Done
Projet Profil
Initially conceived for strictly practical reasons, users’ profiles have little by little become unexpected spaces of self-expression and writing. This project aims to understand this new profiling structure, in order to analyze the theoretical and a
Done
The status of the Author in Digital Era (FRQSC)
Questions relating to the author in the digital era constitute a major social issue that concerns entire communities of writers and readers. Since authors are the authority, how can we rethink the process of validation and legitimization of literary
Done
The road-trip novel at the digital age
An attempt at exhausting the North-South Highway (Gaspé and Miami)
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In particular, we focus on the case of the motorway axis connecting Gaspé (Québec) to Miami (Florida), whose mythology seems particularly rich in literary references, given the creative contributions of André Breton (<i>Arcane 17</i>, 1945), Michel Vézina (<i>Asphalt and vodka</i>, 2005), Gabriel Anctil (<i>Sur la 132</i>, 2012), Victor Lévy-Beaulieu (<i>Oh Miami Miami, Miami</i>, 1973), Jaques Poulin (<i>Volkswagen blues</i>, 1984) and even Emile Ollivier (<i>Mother-Solitude</i>, 1996). More recently, travel stories directly published on the web, by Jean Désy or Laure Morali for example, perpetuate this history of literary exploration of North American territory. This also represents an exploration of the potential of new digital tools and the reconfiguration of the space that they occupy.\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If the travel imaginary has been conceived of through many disciplines—in arts, literature, humanities and social sciences—the new links that have developed over the last twenty years, between geographical space and digital space, is a field of knowledge yet to be deciphered. At the crossroads of thinking on literature and digital technology, our project intends to contribute to this decipherment, while also working on the renewal of studies on travel narrative. More precisely, we elaborate a <em>new practical approach to thinking about space</em>. To this end, the creative research approach is essential because it demonstrates how, through theory and practice, new thinking on space emerges: today, more than ever, it is indeed necessary to be an actor in the construction of space, even though digital mediation has gradually imposed its own parameters on both the physical and mental the cartography of the world./p>\r\n\r\n<p>As the geographer David Harvey affirms, “the geographical imagination is far too pervasive and important to intellectual life to be left alone to geographers.” Thus, from the 1960s, human and social sciences were marked by the emergence of a spatial paradigm that encouraged, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the exploitation of spatial concepts to think about the construction of knowledge. This turning point will have two major consequences: it will mark an epistemological renewal in many disciplines—sociology, history, literature—while encouraging a new understanding of space, henceforth freed from a purely geographical approach. For space, this “imaginary body,” as Paul Valéry called it, is indeed a complex construction whose origin is multiple, being at once physical, symbolic, social and political, but also literary. In this respect, Valéry lends himself to reading and analyzing like a text, and even more so an intertext. Since Ulysses’s journeys told by Homer to <em>The attempt of exhaustion of a Parisian place</em> by Georges Perec, literature and in particular travel stories have always proposed a mental map of the world that is simultaneously poetic, romantic and intertextual. Our project aims to highlight this tension relating to the spatial imaginary and to participate in its reinvention, even though the concept of space seems to mutate and to (re)form as a result of the digital and of its institutional bodies (Google Map, Google Street view, etc.).</p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is, indeed, a completely different mental cartography that digital technologies, and in particular the web, are drawing today. Their almost exhaustive grid of the world has upset the way we understand and inhabit space. Recently, the daily emergence of immersive cartographic tools, combined with photographic or satellite imagery, at least superficially ensures a mastery of the world, a phenomenon which seems more important than ever; the generalization of the geolocation process suggests that it has become impossible to get lost. And yet in return, this kind of conduct entails certain drifts as relates to monitoring and controlling individuals. In this respect, the influence that digital tools have on both space and our way of living has become a major issue for thinking about the digital sphere. Do we still need to travel, now that everything seems accessible from our screen? There is indeed almost no space that is not already rendered accessible through the web. Google Maps even offers treks in the manner of a travel agency, combining themes with digitized landscapes; Churchill, Canada, is devoted to polar bears. . . As we can see, this “mapping” is far from neutral and conveys a series of myths associated with the places it represents. In fact, as some point out, we all run the risk of suffering from the layout of the space offered by these new devices and the large multinationals of the web who have shaped them.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>In these conditions, is it still possible to remain protagonists, producing the space in which we live? Can literature and its travel stories, themselves influenced by new media, still be a tool used to create the spatial imaginary, allowing us to reclaim places and territories that are apparently dispossessed of any literary value by the information giants? How to write the road trip today?</p>\r\n</div>",
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