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• “Unclassfiable”

  
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  By the time of the Platonic dialogues Socrates was called atopos , that is, “unclassifiable.” What makes him atopos is precisely the fact that he is a “philo-sopher” in the etymological sense of the word; that is, he is in love with wisdom. For wisdom, says Diotima in Plato’s Symposium , is not a human ...
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• Fuse Book Review: Inclement “Climates”

  
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  While reading Andre Maurois "Climates" you feel your world narrowing in uncomfortable ways.
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• Not Knowing How to Look

  
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  Bourdieu’s judgement, and that of all those who denounce the aesthetic illusion, rests on a simple alternative: you know or you do not [on connaît ou on méconnaît]. If you do not know [méconnaît], it is because you do not know [sait] how to look or you cannot look. But to not be able to look is still a way of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Links of the Week

  
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  Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter . Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly. Jorge Luis Borges The ...
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• Links of the Week

  
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  Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter . Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly. Bridget Riley in her ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Shaping of the Self

  
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  Yesterday I alluded to Foucault’s Self Writing  [PDF: Technologies of the Self/Self Writing ], one of a series of studies on “the arts of oneself” that draws heavily on Greco-Roman thought, particularly that of Seneca. Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his ...
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• The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust

  
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  Today I am a stop on Serena’s National Poetry Month Blog Tour . Click on the link for the entire month’s schedule and to enjoy some fine poetry blog posts. When someone from Penguin asked me if I would like a review copy of The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust I said sure! I’m stuck in the middle of ...
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• Technologies of the Self

  
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  On Twitter yesterday I posted a link to Michael Foucault: Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works 1954-1984 Volume 1) .  In the book are important interviews and lectures that Foucault gave, often not covered directly in his major works. I went through a Foucault phase about fifteen years ago when I ...
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• Looking for the amazing

  
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  METAPHYSICIANS OF TLÖN: Kircher is like them, he is not looking for the truth, nor even the probable, hes looking for the amazing. It never occurred to him that metaphysics is a branch of literature of the fantastic, but his work belongs entirely to fiction and therefore also to Jorge Luis Borges. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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• Simple Existence

  
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  Clément Rosset This morning I’ve rummaged around the internet for information about philosopher Clément Rosset , whose philosophy seems to share certain characteristics of the Epicureans, Pierre Bourdieu and Gilles Deleuze. It seems that  Joyful Cruelty: toward a philosophy of the real , the book I’d like to ...
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• ‘Be more careful how you express yourself, my child. Calling people and things by their names has never done anyone any good.’

  
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  Gigi and The Cat, by Colette, translated by Roger Senhouse and Antonia White respectively I grew up with musicals. As a child, staying with my maternal grandmother, I used to love watching them with her. Dazzling choreography, great songs, and all in glorious Technicolor. Singin’ in the Rain remains my favourite ...
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• Returning to the bosom of obedience

  
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  "Do you know what word the Jesuits use to describe one of their order who has renounced his vows? They say he has become a satellite, by which they mean that despite himself he remains in orbit around the Society, in a trajectory in which the forces of repulsion are in equilibrium with an attraction which he will ...
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