Articles in English

The first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. Clearly, the prospects for the one opening up seem, if not bleak, at least confused. Black Mirror and Oppenheimer in the short term? Children of Men in the medium term? Mad Max then Dune in the longer run? There’s something of all that in

Born on July 12, 1967 in Pyongyang (North Korea), Lee Chang-soo/Chang Su Li won a world medal in the U71kg category in 1989. He passed away on January 20, 2026 at the age of fifty-eight. His singular trajectory was poorly known in our latitudes. A memorial injustice now rectified by the ever-perceptive Oon Yeoh who,

The promise to approach judo “by words, beings and acts” on JudoAKD sometimes leads to joyful confluences. This is the case with the text below, reproduced with the kind permission of Rémi Guyot, its author. Rémi is a passionate and fascinating man. Not a judoka but far more martial and disciplined than many practitioners encountered

“I learned hope from people who had every reason to despair, and didn’t.” Passing away on November 8, 2025 at eighty-one in a silence inversely proportional to the size of the imprint left by his writings and lectures over more than half a century devoted to dissecting and understanding what he called “contemporary disarray,” French