Media

Greek audiovisual tragedy 

By Nicolas Brodard · 21 February 2026

In 2013, crisis-stricken Greece abruptly shut down its public broadcasting system. Nicolas Brodard recounts the battle over ERT: social struggles, control of the narrative and the illusions of a public service reinvented under Greek austerity, in the heart of chaos. 

Policy

Neither left nor right: thinking politics through «Le Je et le Nous»

By Nicolas Brodard · December 14, 2025

By comparing the «I» and the «We», François Huguenin offers a challenging survey of the history of Western political thought. An ambitious synthesis that invites us to look beyond contemporary divisions without giving in to ideological shortcuts.

Films

«Megalopolis», the twilight of an idol

By Nicolas Brodard · 23 November 2025

Ostracized by critics and shunned by audiences, Francis Ford Coppola's civilizational fresco illuminates the ethical and aesthetic dilemmas of Western culture.

Photography

From artistic singularity to formatted thinking

By Nicolas Brodard · June 17, 2025

One of the members of our editorial team recently received a definitive rejection from an art school. His work was deemed insufficiently imbued with a certain type of «critical» discourse. His testimony serves as a warning.

Photography

Representing the Alps in Switzerland

By Nicolas Brodard · 16 April 2025

This subject is an extract from Nicolas Brodard's photographic project «De la représentation des Alpes en Suisse». This forthcoming book explores Switzerland's visual identity based on the Alpine landscape.

Photography

Image generators take on the challenge of ugliness

By Nicolas Brodard · 02 April 2025

If the aesthetic aspect of images created by artificial intelligence has now reached the ultimate stage of photorealism, their semantic field remains human, all too human.

Photography

Out of the world, for the world

By Nicolas Brodard · May 29, 2024

In the monastery, the individual body and the community body are conceived in unison, respectful of the rule and out of sight. Survey