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CUISINE DE A à Z, (« A to Z Cooking Review »)
ELLE Articles : Health Food Restaurants Devil by auction EXPRESS In the Fall of 1967, I took a job at the Express, in the Literary column, as a secretary, and that was a cul-de-sac and not at all the introduction to the Seraglio, as I had naively thought. I wrote also for other magazines, and one of my first interviews was on the caricaturist Siné, anarchist and fan of cats, who offered me a drawing … on my back, for the illustration of the article. Then, at the Express, I published my first reports, whose two interviews appeared in the most prestigious column of the paper, “The Express goes further with” ; those particular interviews were with Scottish anti-psychiatrist Ronald Laing (to read the Article) and American architect Buckminster Fuller. With Buckminster Fuller
and an article on Magic: 
Articles :
Article : New Year’s Eve Supper for the Year 2000
1. Alginate Caviar: gel extracted from seaweed and combined together into the wonderful « little eggs » by Satia (branch of Sanofi-Elf-Bioindustrie). From the same, Vegetarian grilled meat carrot-based, in puree with no added fibre and stabilizer thanks to alginates again. 2. Reconstituted white sausage, and pâté of raw and cooked fish, guaranteed boneless, and done with fish, first ground, to be, then, recombined. 3. Mousse of hypocaloric liver. 4. Terrine of chicken-soya : 10% chicken fat with vegetable proteins taking the form of a chicken (INRA, Nantes). 5. Protein chicken : no more chicken at all, just a vegetable protein mixture taking the form of a chicken. Chicken of that (third) type was tested by firms such as Unilever and Marlowe Foods (Great-Britain). The taste of chicken is given by a flavouring agent. 6. Ratatouille of giant cloned vegetables : a dream of science-fiction recreation, using just a single cell, an entire organism in unlimited quantities. Eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes, red or green peppers, artichokes born at the INRA, in Avignon. 6. The prototype goose: genetically improved, its perfection will be available at any time of the year, thanks to the Experimental Goose Station INRA at Mont-de-Marsan. 7. Very sophisticated pears and apples: Produced by Delbard, expert in … roses. They are the resultof genetic selection and improvements at a very high level of technology. 8. Gum Yule log : A xanthane-based Yule log, made with the gum given by Rhône-Poulenc. Produced by a bacterium, the gum xanthane is a thickening and stabilizing agent of high quality. 9. Seaweed cherries: alginates again, « embossed » by Satia. ...Read the Article
LUI
Probably, it was in Lui that I published my best articles: as, generally speaking, the audience used to put the emphasis (and the eye) on the charming unclothed women, the funny introductory paragraphs of the articles permitted indeed a degree of freedom of tone and a length very unusual in the press.
Hello Magic, I call you from the Dark (1969)
Magic and black masses, spiritism and mysticism, more or less secret, more or less religious sects: in our world of today, still, one can use a kit of doctrines and methods to invoke the fearsome powers of the world beyond. . Elizabeth Antébi has brought together for you a great many practitioners or formidable masters of all kinds of occult rites, and reports the extent of practice. As a modern medium, she delivers here the messages of the kingdom of the shadows... Read the Article City of Nowhere (1976), ... Read the Article
The Folly of the State (1977),
Silicon Valley : with silicon, you make chips, and with chips, computers’ brain and nerves. A chip and a gold rush – the West, where you can meet more billionaires per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world! Elizabeth Antébi, who will publish next November in Hologramme, The Electronic Epoch , met the gods of High Tech .... Read the Article Risk and Adventure : Capital-Venture (1983) « The Rock stars of the 80s » : that’s the name given in the States to this very special new race of businessmen, whose ideas are new in Europe as well, the « venture-capitalists ».... Read the Article MAGAZINE LITTERAIRE, (« Literary magazine ») At the time, too, I was working regularly, as a free-lance writer, with the Magazine Littéraire by Jean-Jacques Brochier. In 1968, I published a report on the artist, writer, moviemaker Roland Topor. The following year, I did one on his friend, the Spanish play-writer Fernando Arrabal : I also wrote about the dictatorship of colonels in Greece, at the time when Vassili Vassilikos published his book (later made into a film) Z. Approximately at the same time, I shot a film on well-known Greeks living in Paris; art gallery director Iris Clerc, professor Ilios Yannakakis, movie-maker Niko Papatakis and actress Melina Mercouri.
MATIN DE PARIS My experience with the very leftist Matin de Paris was interesting though quite brief : I participated in the trial issue (February 19, 1977), before realizing that I was not really as hemiplegic as the « elite » around me would have liked –not political enough, too philosophical… When re-reading my article ‘The State is the Big Winner’, I find that it was quite premonitory of what was happening at that time, in the field of the virtual.
Games : The State is the Big Winner, Read the Article NOTRE HISTOIRE, ("Our history") Articles : Factories for the Elite: Jesuit pedagogy, Read the Article
Edmond de Rothschild, patron of the Jews in Palestine, Read the Article
Article : Juliette Gréco or the key for women
PRIVE There, I published a profile of Jacques Chancel, one of the most popular French TV hosts and presenters.
Article : The A.A. are among us. .... Read the Article REPORTAGES Listening to the sacred drums : purification through mud and water In 1979, I wrote the commentary on photos of the mud ceremonies in Haïti, taken by the great voodoo photographer Chantal Regnault. Chantal Regnault, Chantal took also a photo of me with Mother Teresa when I was her translator during a visit to:
Vaudou : des pélerins pas comme les autres ...., Read the Article
At the portals of Nouvel Observateur and Matin de Paris, I happened to meet an atypical director of papers, who then founded a magazine devoted to ecology and alternative culture, which were just emerging at the time. His name was Alain Hervé. He hired me and I wrote for Le Sauvage, until its demise because of money problems and because of the deep originality of his founder. I often miss our free and passionate discussions, our diverging analysis, at a time where you could discuss ideas, very openly. Waiting for Hitler : an interview with Arnold Toynbee, Read the Article
Burst of laughter : last interview with Alan Watts. 1974, Read the Article
TEMPS STRATEGIQUE, (« Strategic Times ») In Switzerland, the Director of that superb magazine, Claude Monnier, asked me to do an interview with the poet, Kenneth White, living in France :
Kenneth White, visionary traveller, “poet to the edge of the word", Read the Article USINE NOUVELLE, "New Factory"
I published there, for example, two articles on the History of Electronics, the theme of my book The Electronic Epoch (Van Nostrand Reinhold, November 1982). Articles : VALEURS ACTUELLES, (“Values of Today”) In 1970, I wrote articles for this publication, under the penname of Eric Dorian, on Love Story by Erich Segal, Galsworthy’s Forsythe Saga as a TV soap opera, the actress Arletty, and on Jacques Isorni, lawyer of Maréchal Pétain. But the collaboration, dare I say it, in the magazine by the author of the despicable and especially anti-Semitic History of Music, Lucien Rebattet, convinced me to write elsewhere. Again, it was not my cup of tea. VSD July 1, 1977-January 31, 1978, I was international reporter at VSD. I made a bet with someone that I was able to stay and to sit in an office, as a salaried employee. I did it !
VARIED REPORTS At the end of May 1971, for French Broadcast, I went with William Skyvington to a Congress of Futurology in the utopian city of Arc-et-Senans. Futurology was, at the time, a very fashionable discipline. It was a blend of predictions and forecasting, fortune-telling and mathematical laws. The big boss was a giant who looked like an ogre out of a fairytale, Hermann Kahn.
BUSINESS ARTICLES At the end of the 1970s, I wrote articles for Publicist Agency “Publicis”. In the 1980s, for “Copexen”. I participated in the creation of a Newspaper, Siemenscope. After the publication of The Electronic Epoch (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981), Avnet asked me to write an historical account of the society for its Annual Report. ACADEMIC ARTICLES 1999 : after the Ph. D., I presented material at many conferences and published academic articles. |
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Written Reports
« The Express Magazine goes Further with Buckminster Fuller» 
« The Night of the Devil » February 23, 1982 – at the very fashionable, at the time, Bus Palladium with the painter Cueva who did the “fresk” : Nora Sagnes, 
Still at the Express, I started a collaboration as a free-lance writer with the « charming magazine » Lui of which Jean Demachy was director and Jean-Pierre Binchet was editor-in-chief. At the time of my report on Artificial Intelligence, two of the “fathers” of that so-called “intelligence” (one of them was John McCarthy) offered me my portrait done by a form-recognizing computer – a big “first” for the 1970s:
When I snared a new fish for them, the form of my co-author of 
« Goulags, camps, mental hospitals : the horrors of Russian roulette ».
"Journey into California, to the Mecca of the tycoons of the chips and the cheap"
With Vassilikos (g.) and Mercouri (dr.) 
Issue n° 0. And my article : 
The article on Jesuit Pedagogy has been then reproduced in a book, Jesuits, in 1996, published by Desclée de Brouwer, pp. 111-121. I had already published a beautiful coffee table book on the History of Jesuits, throughout the entire world (New World included), from their origins to the present, 
I published this article while preparing 
At the time of the writing of 
My first article was published, thanks to the writer and journalist Guy Dumur, in Le Nouvel Observateur n° 167 of January 24, 1968, page 32. It was on the poet and painter Jean Cocteau on whom I was preparing a Diploma in Art History. At the same time, the legendary Director of the daily France-Soir, Pierre Lazareff, accepted a serial on authors of suspense writing and thrillers, with interviews and portraits of James Hadley Chase, Patricia Highsmith, Georges Simenon, and others…
The history of this article was a little weird. How did I end up, early one morning, in the sad suburb of Bois-Colombes with all these strange people, with shaven heads and eyes rolling upward, smelling of that kind of socks odour usual in human jumbles ? Because of photographer François Gagnon who was a friend and who had asked me to write an article for his photos on that Austrian community, adepts of the psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich. Again a prophecy of the times of today…
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