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09.28.2018 Chance and Serendipity of Guy Debord

Constant New Babylon (1969)
Crossed paths

” Situationists suggest going against the flow of dominant urbanism that is outside the emotional sensitivity of men.” (Corinne Melin )

09.24.2018 Chance, what chance?

Bas-reliefs mettant en scène le Farvahar, symbole accompagnant les préceptes essentiels du zoroastrisme, dans l'antique ville de Persépolis en Iran (©CC BY-SAOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA)
Along the way

Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.

10.13.2017 The gift

Annonciation (Fra Angelico, 1400-1455 ) - détail de l'Archange Gabriel vers 1432-1433, 175x180 cm, ©Cortona, Museo Diocesano.
Along the way

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)

10.06.2017 Agate odyssey

Agate, collection de Roger Caillois, dans son ouvrage L'écriture des pierres (photo © François Farges)
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Along the way

«The patterns on agate or jasper are not in the stones themselves but within the imagination that puts them there » (Roger Caillois)

09.22.2017 When an accident creates a new identity

Bertrand Lavier, Giulietta, 1993, vue de l’exposition Bertrand Lavier, depuis 1969, Paris, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’Art moderne, 2012.
Crossed paths

“Accident and creation are therefore not in opposition.” (Catherine Malabou)

07.21.2017 The Beautiful

La frontière de l'ensemble de Mandelbrot.
Along the way

It may well be that there are laws of harmony…

07.14.2017 Philosophy of Smell

Portrait de Eleonora Tommasi par Silvestro Lega (1826-1895), (CRÉDITLEEMAGE - AFP)
Crossed paths

“Smell acquires its pedigree via the art that expresses the beauty and power of fragrances. ” (Chantal Jaquet)

06.26.2017 Philosophical thought of cinema

Image extraite de Rear Window (Fenêtre sur cour), film réalisé par  Alfred Hitchcock, sorti en 1954.
Crossed paths

“The moment is not overcome. It turns into a drama and a sequence that confronts action with time.” (Jean-Clet Martin)

06.05.2017 Bachelard: the candle and the hourglass

Détail d'une photographie de Gaston Bachelard reproduite p. 128 du livre de Pierre Quillet intitulé Bachelard, Seghers, 1964.
Along the way

“Time is a reality curled up in the instant, and suspended between two voids.” (Gaston Bachelard, The Intuition of the Instant)

02.20.2017 The sensible seal

Portrait de René Descartes (1596-1650) par Jan Baptist Weenix (162-1659/61), Utrecht Centraal Museum.
Along the way

Descartes’ wax argument is instructive thanks to its extreme plasticity.

09.16.2016 The face by Levinas

Emmanuel_Levinas (1906-1995)
Along the way

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.

08.15.2016 This ancient branch of Botany

Carl von Linné - Systema Naturae 
En 1735, Carl von Linné (1707-1778) publie le premier essai de classification systématique des trois règnes minéral, végétal et animal. Son Systema naturæ divise les animaux en six groupes (Quadrupèdes, Oiseaux, Amphibiens, Poissons, Insectes et Vers), déterminés en fonction d’organes spécifiques : dents, becs, nageoires ou ailes. La dixième édition, de 1758, généralise le système de nomenclature binomiale (un double nom latin, générique et spécifique, pour chaque espèce).
Along the way

Botany only became a science, an autonomous field of knowledge, during the XVIIIth century.

06.20.2016 The smell of memory

Flacon d'eau de toilette (cheramy) A REDECOUPER STP
Crossed paths

So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.

05.23.2016 Motionless voyage

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Crossed paths

The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.

02.25.2016 Wise monkeys

Eau_des_Sens_singes-bd
Shadow of scents

The origin of the three wise monkeys (“see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”) is lost in the mists of time.

12.24.2015 The gift

Annonciation (Fra Angelico, 1400-1455 ) - détail de l'Archange Gabriel vers 1432-1433, 175x180 cm, ©Cortona, Museo Diocesano.
Along the way

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)

09.07.2015 Glass analogy

Aalto Vase Savoy
Along the way

“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.

06.08.2015 Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze et Claire Parnet (photo © Marie-Laure Decker)
Along the way

“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)

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