Journalist moderator: Pascal Paradou
Guests:
- N'Goné Fall, curator and cultural engineering consultant, general curator of the Africa2020 Season.
- William Marx, writer, essayist, critic and literary historian, Professor of Comparative Literatures at the Collège de France.
- Olivia Rosenthal, writer, playwright and performer, co-director of the master's degree in literary creation at Université Paris 8.
- Hugues de Thé, physician and biologist, professor of Cellular and Molecular Oncology at the Collège de France.
Moving away sometimes brings us closer together. In these times of pandemics and social distancing, the right distance is not only a metric issue, but also a scientific and critical one. In the humanities as in the experimental sciences, the observer's position implies detaching oneself, moving away in the same way as one looks at a work of art, to get the whole picture without losing the detail. To see well, to see better, distance is necessary and always paradoxical: the distance of fiction in order to become one, of the scientific researcher in order to treat better, of history to apprehend the present and to better account for the living. The debate between cultural appropriation and cross-fertilization also illustrates the Rimbaldian aphorism "I is another".
