09.28.2018 Chance and Serendipity of Guy Debord
” Situationists suggest going against the flow of dominant urbanism that is outside the emotional sensitivity of men.” (Corinne Melin )
” Situationists suggest going against the flow of dominant urbanism that is outside the emotional sensitivity of men.” (Corinne Melin )
Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
«The patterns on agate or jasper are not in the stones themselves but within the imagination that puts them there » (Roger Caillois)
“Accident and creation are therefore not in opposition.” (Catherine Malabou)
It may well be that there are laws of harmony…
“Smell acquires its pedigree via the art that expresses the beauty and power of fragrances. ” (Chantal Jaquet)
“The moment is not overcome. It turns into a drama and a sequence that confronts action with time.” (Jean-Clet Martin)
“Time is a reality curled up in the instant, and suspended between two voids.” (Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant)
Descartes’ wax argument is instructive thanks to its extreme plasticity.
For Emmanuel Levinas, the encounter of the Other via the face is a key to human consciousness, his work as a philosopher and his moral teachings.
Botany only became a science, an autonomous field of knowledge, during the XVIIIth century.
So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.
The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.
The origin of the three wise monkeys (“see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”) is lost in the mists of time.
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
“According to advertising it’s “the raw material of the future” and being transparent is the material and ideal to be achieved” writes Jean Baudrillard and indeed, the features of glass express an ideal.
“In this abécédaire, with the letter C for Culture, Gilles Deleuze speaks of incredible letters he received from the paper folders’ club after he’d written a book about philosopher Leibniz” (Claire Parnet)