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 )
09.24.2018 Chance, what chance?
Chance is only “the accidental meeting of two independent causal series” says mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot.
10.13.2017 The gift
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
10.06.2017 Agate odyssey
«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
“Accident and creation are therefore not in opposition.” (Catherine Malabou)
07.21.2017 The Beautiful
It may well be that there are laws of harmony…
07.14.2017 Philosophy of Smell
“Smell acquires its pedigree via the art that expresses the beauty and power of fragrances. ” (Chantal Jaquet)
06.26.2017 Philosophical thought of cinema
“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
“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
Descartes’ wax argument is instructive thanks to its extreme plasticity.
09.16.2016 The face by Levinas
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
Botany only became a science, an autonomous field of knowledge, during the XVIIIth century.
06.20.2016 The smell of memory
So many poets and writers have deliberated on the mnemonic power of smell.
05.23.2016 Motionless voyage
The most dreadful journey can be undertaken with the smallest of steps.
02.25.2016 Wise monkeys
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
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” (Albert Camus, in The Rebel)
09.07.2015 Glass analogy
“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
“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)