ART & Thoughts
Philosophy
Pardonner : Jacques Derrida
Pardon, oui, pardon. Je viens de dire« pardon», en français. Vous n’y comprenez sans doute rien, pour le moment. «Pardon.» C’est un mot, « pardon », ce mot est un nom : on dit « un pardon »; « le pardon ». C’est un nom de la langue française. On en trouve l’équivalent homonymique, à … Continue reading
How to Live Together – Roland Barthes / Christian Nyampeta
SESSION OF MARCH 16, 1977 ÉCOUTE / HEARING Hierarchy of the fi ve senses: not only is it different for animals and for man (dogs: smell → hearing → sight), it’s changed over the history of humankind. Febvre: 1 medieval man: the prevalence of hearing over sight; then, since the Renaissance, a reversal. A culture … Continue reading
Qu’est-ce que l’acte de création ? Gilles Deleuze
Pour le philosophe Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), l’œuvre d’art est irréductible au champ de la communication et constitue un moyen de s’opposer aux injonctions du pouvoir. Créer, c’est résister à ce qui entend contrôler nos vies. par Gilles Deleuze La communication, c’est la transmission et la propagation d’une information. Or, une information, c’est quoi? Ce n’est pas … Continue reading
L’esprit des Lumières: Tzvetan Todorov/ Kristian Krokfors
Après la fin des utopies, sur quel socle intellectuel et moral pouvons-nous bâtir notre vie commune? Pour Tzvetan Todorov, il n’y en a qu’un : le versant humaniste des Lumières. Ce petit essai majeur ne se contente pas de dégager dans une synthèse limpide les grandes lignes de ce courant de pensée : il le … Continue reading
Is Love an Art? Erich Fromm / Peter Seelig
IS LOVE an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one “falls into’ 5 if one is lucky? This little book is based on the former premise, while undoubtedly the majority of people today believe in the latter. Not that … Continue reading
I exist : Jean Paul Sartre / Suzanne Shevchenko
It’s nothing: I am the Thing. Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist. I exist. Above all, not move, not move… Ah I could not prevent this movement of the shoulders… The thing which was waiting was on the alert, it has pounced on me, it flows thorugh me, I am filled with it. … Continue reading
Combat – Albert Camus
Le monde est ce qu’il est, c’est-à-dire peu de chose. C’est ce que chacun sait depuis hier grâce au formidable concert que la radio, les journaux et les agences d’information viennent de déclencher au sujet de la bombe atomique. On nous apprend, en effet, au milieu d’une foule de commentaires enthousiastes que n’importe quelle ville … Continue reading
Half Truths and One and a Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms of Karl Kraus / Inoue Yūichi
Language Let language be the divining rod that finds sources of thought. Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails. When I don’t make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then … Continue reading
The Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel / M. C. Escher
Preface: On Scientific Knowledge In the case of a philosophical work it seems not only superfluous, but, in view of the nature of philosophy, even inappropriate and misleading to begin, as writers usually do in a preface, by explaining the end the author had in mind, the circumstances which gave rise to the work, and … Continue reading
The Adulterous Woman : Albert Camus / Pierre Boncompain
A HOUSEFLY had been circling for the last few minutes in the bus, though the windows were closed. An odd sight here, it had been silently flying back and forth on tired wings. Janine lost track of it, then saw it light on her husband’s motionless hand. The weather was cold. The fly shuddered with each … Continue reading
Michel Foucault —The Lost Interview
“Lost Interview” With Michel Foucault: Missing for 30 Years But Now Recovered Foucault discusses madness and his interest in psychology and psychopathology, repeating in brief the argument he made in Madness and Civilization, his 1961 work in which—through impressive feats of archival research and leaps of the imagination—Foucault attempted, as he wrote in his preface, “to … Continue reading
Madame Edwarda : Georges Bataille / René Magritte
I remembered my desire for scandal − or rather, that it would be necessary, at all costs, to be scandalous that night. I could hear laughter over the tumult of voices, reaching me through the lights and the smoke. But nothing mattered anymore. I took Madame Edwarda in my arms, and she smiled at me. … Continue reading
Photography as Adventure – Roland Barthes
I decided then to take as a guide for my new analysis the attraction I felt for certain photographs. For of this attraction, at least, I was certain. What to call it? Fascination? No, this photograph which I pick out and which I love has nothing in common with the shiny point which sways before … Continue reading
The Drive to love – Helen Fisher
The Drive to love: The neural Mechanism for Mate Selection Helen Fisher “Since the heaven and earth were created, you were made for me and I was made for you and I will not let you go,” declared Chang Po to his beloved Meilan(Yutang, 1954, p.73) The chinese still cry over this twelfth-century Chinese fable, … Continue reading
The path to bliss is bliss / Tantric Sex and the Inner Awakening
Juicy Buddhism: The Power of Sexual Yoga “Buddhahood is obtained from bliss, and apart from women there will not be bliss.” – Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra Praise to Vajravilāsinī, goddess of eternal love! India, 800 CE: Two practitioners, students of the great master Śabara, entered a beautiful pleasure garden to begin their practice. The garden was filled … Continue reading
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