It is always a complicated question when it comes to knowledge and truth, and the propension of groups to try to push forward what they would consider as a truthful depiction of reality. Whether science or religion, many would tend to affirm that the system of representation that they would use is right and should… Lire la suite Ethics – On faith
Étiquette : Hannah Arendt
V – Inertia, metaphor, oxymoron and conceptual flexibility
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - The place the hands can't seek - V - Inertia, metaphor, oxymoron and conceptual flexibility 'Oui, je suis horrifié à l'idée qu'une femme que j'aime et qui a répondu à mon amour puisse se donner à un autre sans aucune pitié pour moi. Mais dans ce cas… Lire la suite V – Inertia, metaphor, oxymoron and conceptual flexibility
III – Self-destructiveness and the urban world
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - The place the hands can't seek - III - Self-destructiveness and the urban world To think demands distance. It demands room, space, and the possibility to distend time. Saint Augustine was quite aiming at it when he wondered about this distentio animi in his Confessions. Time… Lire la suite III – Self-destructiveness and the urban world
On violence and aggression
Text in pdf : Clémence Ortega Douville - On violence and aggression While reading Jacques Lacan's conference on The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, I happened to think back of this article I wanted to write - to explain a bit more our use of the concept of violence, its connection to the morals and… Lire la suite On violence and aggression