{"id":569429,"date":"2024-04-12T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_news&p=569429"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T21:34:49","slug":"explore-the-albertine-collection-a-new-villa-albertine-editions-du-seuil-partnership","status":"publish","type":"app_news","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/news\/explore-the-albertine-collection-a-new-villa-albertine-editions-du-seuil-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore the Albertine Collection: A Villa Albertine-Editions du Seuil Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All texts featured in the collection are written by Villa Albertine residents, who enriched their works during their immersive stays in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2021 by the French Embassy in the United States, Villa Albertine supports cultural exchanges between the United States, France, and beyond. Present in 10 American cities, the institutions offers 50+ residencies each year for artists, thinkers, and creators across all disciplines as well as grants, resources, and incubator programs for professionals in the cultural sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Albertine Collection serves as part of Villa Albertine’s wider editorial offerings, which includes States, <\/em>an English-language online and print magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore the latest books featured in the Albertine Collection below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When July comes, L\u00e9a Hirschfeld takes her brother to Zeno, a summer camp like no other, in Vermont. There, Anton, an unconventional young man, blends into a group where differences related to disabilities have been erased to make way for more direct and equal relationships.<\/p>\n

The stays at Zeno, in the heart of magnificent nature, promise unforgettable summers and formative experiences for Anton and L\u00e9a, centered around shared artistic projects. As her brother gains more independence, L\u00e9a undergoes an inner transformation: is there really a world she could share with him? A world where the word “brother,” which had long been associated with absence and pain, would finally make sense?<\/p>\n

A sensitive and intimate narrative about disability, Zeno is also the story of a little sister whose life has been deeply impacted by her brother’s.<\/p>\n

2023 Villa Albertine resident L\u00e9a Hirschfeld is the creator of D\u00e9cal\u00e9s, a podcast featuring intimate discussions that explore mental, physical, and psychological disabilities through the lens of family relationships and cultural influences. Zeno<\/em> is her first book.<\/p>\n

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Science-fiction writer Alain Damasio was irresistibly drawn to Silicon Valley, at the heart of the new technologies that shape our lives. In Vall\u00e9e du silicium<\/em>, he observes and takes it in, being jostled by a reality he didn’t anticipate. Readers follow his deep reflections on how technology shapes us: how it penetrates and controls our bodies;\u00a0 how it supplants and reinvents our intelligence; and how it deforms and reconstructs our relationship to the world, to others, and to ourselves. From the headquarters of Apple, “the Mecca of the Mac,” to San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, Alain Damasio examines the metaverse, the generalization of AI, and the burgeoning empire of autonomous cars, to draw out a political reading of the times and let us understand the new era that await us.<\/p>\n

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Alain Damasio is the author of numerous science fiction novels and short stories, including La Horde du Contrevent<\/em> (La Volte, 2004, Grand prix de l’Imaginaire 2006), which has sold 500,000 copies, and Les Furtifs<\/em> (La Volte, 2019, Prix du Meilleur livre Lire and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire).<\/p>\n

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