A chimeric being from Kyushu,Japan: Amabie's revival during Covid-19

This article explores how the resurgence of a forgotten chimeric figure from the Japanese history of disasters and epidemics intersects with some central ecological and political discourses in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially those associated with culinary practices, human rights and relations with other historical epidemics. Presented as a mascot but viewed as an icon of protection, this uncanny little yōkai from southern Japan in the pre-modern Edo period addresses our lives as they are caught in a suspension of our usual temporal and spatial dimensions. A monster, a hyperobject and an art effigy of our pandemic present.     

VISITE VIRTUELLE: LA PLACE DE DRUMMONDVILLE AU SEIN DU WEB

L'automate de l'information est souvent présentée comme un outil de développement des régions. Or, très peu d'études ont été réalisées à ce jour sur les façons dont les villes et les régions se sont appropriées l'internet et l'analyse des effets socio-spatiaux de l'autoroute de l'information reste à faire. Cet article propose un éclairage empirique sur l'appropriation d'Internet dans une ville moyenne particulièrement dynamique au plan économique, Drummondville au Québec. Un total de 127 sites et pages Web portant sur la ville ont ainsi été analysés, tant au plan des organismes associés à leur production que de leur contenu. C'est ce portrait d'une toile en pleine construction qui est présenté ici. II met en lumière une appropriation plutôt timide de l'Internet, dont les usages se rapprochent beaucoup de ceux offerts par les médias traditionnels.
Much hope is placed in the information highway as an opportunity for regional development. Very few studies have been conducted on the actual degree to which the Internet has actually been appropriated at the local and regional scales, and its overall social and spatial impact has been hardly measured. This paper is aimed at shedding some light on the development of the Internet in a mid-sized city of southern Quebec, Drummondville, known for its economic dynamism. A total of 127 websites and pages are analyzed, in terms of the organizations associated with their creation and in terms of their content. The results highlight a very timid approach toward the Internet and uses not very different from those offered by traditional media.