Talk
Call for Doctoral contracts LREN, GREN, CRIHN (Université de Montréal)
The Research Laboratory on Digital Textualities, in collaboration with the GREN and the CRIHN, opens doctoral contract in Digital Humanities.
Colloquium
Conference on Artificial Creativity
From April 27 to 29, 2026, the XR2C2 Center is organizing a three-day conference on the relationship between creativity and AI in collaboration with the University of Montreal (CRIHN), EFELIA, Sic.Lab, and the City of Nice.
Launch
New episode of Skholé: Telescopic reading with Parham Aledavood
New episode of the Skhole podcast with Parham Aledavood
Colloquium
Answers to Models: Rethinking AI through the Greek Anthology
Marcello Vitali-Rosati will give an interview during the workshop organised by the CRIHN : "Quid deinde? New Ideas and Approaches to AI & DH"
Workshop
Workshop on Serendipity and AI led by Kim Martin
The Digital Writing Research Laboratory will have the pleasure of welcoming Kim Martin, from the University of Guelph.
Champ de recherche
Medias
What is a medium? What are the relationships between media? Can the web be considered a medium? The Research Laboratory is developing an intermedial approach for addressing these questions, all while challenging the traditional definitions of terms such as “media,” “mediation,” etc., in order to avoid adopting an essentialist perspective. One of the key concepts of this line of thought is that of “mediating conjunctures.”
Champ de recherche
Publishing
The web resembles a giant repository of published content. Indeed, everything on the web is published, from blog posts to restaurants on TripAdvisor and apartments on AirBNB. In light of this, it has become essential to reflect on publishing as a way of understanding the architecture of digital space. The Research Laboratory is working on developing the concept of editorialization in order to better understand this “published” world.
Champ de recherche
Literature
Our culture is deeply affected by digital praxis: the way we perceive space, time, relationships between public and private spheres, our identity and our privacy are undergoing intense structural changes. The entirety of our lives, our worldviews and our values are being altered. Literature has also experienced this metamorphosis in terms of its boundaries, styles and structures, as well as with its cultural, social and political functions. Digital praxis has an impact on both hypermedia literary forms and print literature. The Laboratory is less focused on digital literature itself, and more on literature in the digital era. This perspective involves understanding how our culture is being globally affected through the analysis of recent changes in every aspect of literature in the digital age (for example, the concepts of the author, the literary work, as well as the notions text and fiction).
Champ de recherche
Philosophy
If the advent of the digital, of new technologies and of new media has engendered a wide reflection in all areas of the humanities and social sciences, philosophical reflection seems to have lost some momentum, with some exceptions. The Research laboratory on Digital Textualities aims to mobilize the analytical tools, methodologies and concepts of philosophical thought in order to contribute to understandings of contemporary issues.
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The spatial and temporal unity that seems required to be able to speak of a “work” of art—and thus to list the characteristics pertaining to it—is very rare in digital space. Let us take the example of a blog: should we consider it as a work in its totality or should we rather consider each page as a separate work? The question becomes even more complex in the case of site workshops like the <a href=\"http://www.tierslivre.net/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tiers Livre</em></a> or <a href=\"http://www.desordre.net/\" target=\"_blank\">desordre.net</a> by Philippe de Jonkere, or <a href=\"https://www.liminaire.fr/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Liminaire</em></a> by Pierre Menard, or <em>Petite Racine</em> by Cécile Portier, or the website of Arnaud Maïsetti, to cite just a few examples. 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To take just one example, Arnaud Maïsetti’s website, called <em>Carnets</em>, has 2007 pages; <em>Liminaire</em> has about 2000; <em>Le Tiers Livre</em> has more than 4000 (even less if we rely on the automatic numbering of the CMS Spip that manages the site). It is obviously impossible to list all of these pages. Furthermore, a selection of about 100 pages (a figure which would represent approximately the number of works attributed to a relatively efficient author of the traditional book format) would be completely arbitrary. The choice of selecting projects is also very problematic. Although it would seem that this choice best fits a theoretical definition of a “work” of art, it is very difficult to identify and isolate projects from the rest of the site, as writers often alter, adapt and remodel the layout of their platforms.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Finally, the least problematic choice is to list entire sites and consider the entire site-workshop as a work. 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