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Chroniques d'Altaride n°037 Juin 2015
Misère ! Quel thème compliqué que celui de la misère en jeu de rôle ! Mais ce n’est pas ça qui va empêcher les Chroniques d’Altaride de s’y attaquer en ce mois de juin 2015 ! Vous trouverez donc dans ce numéro aides de jeu et réflexions rôlistes autour de la question de la misère, qui s’étend aussi à l’attrition dans les mécaniques de règles. Et bien sûr, comme tous les mois dans la revue rôliste, des entretiens avec des acteurs du milieu ludico-geek, qu’ils soient éditeurs, auteurs, maîtres d’hôtel ou, misère, même des chevaliers Jedi, des vrais !
Vallées de résilience
Jean-Yves Quentric est venu à l'écriture comme il a pu être amené à vivre bien d'autres passions. Avec un parcours professionnel d'officier de marine marchande, de marin pêcheur et de pilote de ligne, des violons d'Ingres en musique (guitare, clarinette, chant) et en peinture, la richesse de sa vie est une source d'inspirations. "Vallées de résilience" est un troisième roman publié à la suite d'une autobiographie intitulée "Traversées et turbulences / Portrait d'un touche à tout", d'un roman historique 'Lettres détournées" et d'un roman d'aventure "Le Camino d'Arthur / Chemin d'un délinquant", disponibles chez BoD. En 2023, un quatrième roman, polar maritime, intitulé "Eaux troubles en haute mer" paraît au printemps.
Satanism: A Social History
A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A well-known scientist from the 20th century established a cult of the Antichrist and exploded in a laboratory experiment. Three Italian girls in 2000 sacrificed a nun to the Devil. A Black Metal band honored Satan in Krakow, Poland, in 2004 by exhibiting on stage 120 decapitated sheep heads. Some of these stories, as absurd as they might sound, were real. Others, which might appear to be equally well reported, are false. But even false stories have generated real societal reactions. For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.
The Theatre of Naturalism
The impact of naturalism, a literary approach invented by Zola and especially significant in the field of the novel through his American «disciples» Crane, Norris, and Dreiser, is well acknowledged and recognized. Not so well recognized, but equally important, is naturalistic theatre; this was a style that also originated with Zola, but its progeny was more international and its significance more radical and insurrectionary than in the less «spectacular» genre of fiction. The Theatre of Naturalism: Disappearing Act establishes the incipiently revolutionary context (between the Paris Communist Commune, crushed in 1871, and the successful Bolshevik insurrection of October 1917) - more or l...
Being and the Screen
How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive. Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stéphane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and t...
Lethal and Non-Lethal Fires
Lethal and Non-Lethal Fires: Historical Case Studies of Converging Cross-Domain Fires in Large Scale Combat Operations, provides a collection of ten historical case studies from World War I through Desert Storm. The case studies detail the use of lethal and non-lethal fires conducted by US, British, Canadian, and Israeli forces against peer or near-peer threats. The case studies span the major wars of the twentieth-century and present the doctrine the various organizations used, together with the challenges the leaders encountered with the doctrine and the operational environment, as well as the leaders' actions and decisions during the conduct of operations. Most importantly, each chapter highlights the lessons learned from those large scale combat operations, how they were applied or ignored and how they remain relevant today and in the future.
