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mardi 21 août 2007

John Zorn on the air

john. Ten hours with John Zorn or his music, a precious gift of Radio France this week, a true painkiller.

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jeudi 21 juin 2007

Hommage

Discovered today the youtube of avant-garde gave me the opportunity to honor two favorite artists of mine in one unique clip: Pippilotti Rist and Kevin Coyne.

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lundi 27 juin 2005

The No Force

enemyOpposition gets his power by a clearly defined enemy. According to Carl Schmitt it isn't enough to say that there is an opposition between friends and enemies. As they have the same appearence, you have to make an artificial distinction in order to indicate the enemies.
The Jews, the communists, the capitalists, the fondamentalists, it has not to be too precise, just enough to put the maximum in it. So you can on the other side have the idea of union against someone even if this union may be very heterogeneous.
They know that's fragile and not lasting, but every time the union is working till the instant when there's no enemy any more, when they won and have to construct something new.
And then jokes have come to an end.

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dimanche 5 juin 2005

Translation ...

... is our real language. It's not only the language of Europe as suggested by Umberto Eco, but also valuable for communicative context between two native speakers. Everyone is a blackbox one to another, and the interpretation of discourse is quite undeterminable. You don't know if your interlocutor will reply to your words, to the supposed intention behind or to your body language, even if you're constantly anticipating all possible consequences. Your interlocator does exactly the same. Understanding in this sense becomes a pure accident, and we haven't even approached the polysemy of words.

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mercredi 1 juin 2005

Querdenker

strategiesIf german language is without surprise, far from polysemic french, it offers like a toolbox pieces to combine in almost unlimited ways. "Querdenker" is one of these: Denker = thinker, quer = crosswise. Thinking in a way that's crossing borders, changing directions, prefering not the opposite but the oblique way to attack problems, meanings, opinions and disturbing political correctness.

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jeudi 26 mai 2005

Fuzziness in-sight

oblique strategiesThe metaphor of the light is predominant in all we consider as truth, evidence, knowledge. You have to leave darkness like Minerva leaving his cave to reach the light of knowledge. But this light can't be other than a blinding light, it's impossible to face it as it is impossible to stare at the sun without getting blind.
In short the face-to-face is always an oblique approach. Or the simply the light is nothing without its opposite, dark and the shadow that's signifying the border. Staying on the border is rather uncomfortable, but the only way to see clear, so fuzziness could be a good technique.

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dimanche 8 mai 2005

8th of may

No more war in Europe for 60 years, we can celebrate this at least.

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