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In line with the annual theme of Cultural Events, the collection managers at BCUL site Unithèque offer you a selection of documents on self-awareness, the world, and their existential impact. A selection of documents to discover – and borrow – at BCUL site Unithèque from October 18 to 14, 2018. Beyond this date, the selection […]

In connection with the UNIL Mysteries, the Unithèque collection managers are offering you a selection of documents on the history of emotions and their representations over the centuries. A thematic selection to discover on the Unithèque site from May 20 to June 2, 2019, as well as in the Renouvaud catalog. A thematic selection on […]

As Laurent de Sutter explains in Qu’est-ce que la pop’philosophie? the genesis and late fortune of this concept coined by Gilles Deleuze in the 1970s, “pop’philosophie is the philosophical practice of transforming anything into something” (p. 31). But more than just a concept, it’s another way of philosophizing: “what we’re talking about, in practicing pop’philosophie, […]

In line with the BCUL’s annual Cultural Events theme, the Unithèque collection managers have put together a selection of documents on transhumanism. This intellectual movement advocates the use of science and new technologies to enhance human physical and intellectual capacities and thus improve the human condition. But augmented man, widely represented in the science-fiction imagination, […]

Beethoven is everywhere, an icon who has left an infinite mark. His music is reused in many contexts and situations. It can be found in jazz, pop or rock arrangements, in auteur cinema, but also in advertising, played on a loop in elevators or as a ringtone on telephones. An arrangement of the Ode to […]

To coincide with the signing of an agreement between the International Alliance for the Protection of Cultural Property in Conflict Zones(ALIPH) and the Collart-Palmyra project of the Institut d’archéologie et des sciences de l’antiquité(IASA), the head of the Antiquarian Sciences collection presents a selection of documents on the Syrian city of Palmyra. Discover this thematic […]