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27 Sunday Mar 2016
17 Thursday Mar 2016
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In Yiddish Lebns Fragn (Life Questions )
“My subject, in almost all my films, is deep and true socialism, of the kind I found in the Bund’s writings. All the people I interviewed for this film are first of all socialists. They speak socialist-ese, and only afterward Yiddish. Socialism comes first for them, even before the Jewish national identity. That is a legitimate and respectable identity, but it is not connected to the primary goal. That goal is for all human beings to be equal, worthy and decent.” Eran Torbiner
16 Wednesday Mar 2016
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“Dans ce monde d’avortons et de poufiasses, il s’agit malgré tout d’être digne.” Cioran
Extraits d’une lettre de Jean Malaquais :
“Quel que soit le courage des uns, l’escapisme conscient ou non des autres, j’ai l’impression qu’il n’y a plus rien à espérer d’aucun de ces « hommes de gauche ». Plus que l’homme de la rue, plus que ceux qui n’ont pas de passé politique, ils me paraissent définitivement liquéfiés intellectuellement. Malgré eux, ils ont abdiqué toute pensée révolutionnaire authentique, tout effort d’analyse cohérente des phénomènes historiques. Je doute même qu’ils en aient été jamais capables. Il me semble qu’ils étaient aussi mécaniquement « marxistes » hier, qu’ils se proclament « démocrates » aujourd’hui. Leur incapacité d’entreprendre un essai d’investigation dialectique correspond d’ailleurs à l’incapacité de la bourgeoisie d’approfondir la nature de sa propre crise sociale. Mais, en ce qui concerne nos « hommes de gauche », la prime au marasme intellectuel n’explique pas tout : s’il est vrai que la bourgeoisie rend désormais impossible l’exercice d’une pensée constructive du fait que la pensée tout court, en ce qu’elle implique de destructif, en ce qu’elle questionne les valeurs et les tabous sociaux, représente un danger à proprement parler nihiliste ; si cela est vrai, il me semble néanmoins que nos amants de la liberté et de la démocratie occidentales n’ont rendu si facilement leurs armes « révolutionnaires » que parce qu’ils ne les eurent jamais bien en mains.”
15 Tuesday Mar 2016
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היצירה של משהו חדש לא מושגת על ידי האינטלקט, השכל, אלא על ידי אינסטינקט המשחק הפועל מהכרח פנימי, המוח היצירתי משחק עם האובייקטים שהוא אוהב – קארל יונג
14 Monday Mar 2016
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My new book arrived this week. “The universe is made of stories not atoms” poet Muriel Rukeyser famousely remarked but some of the most fascinating and important stories are those that explain atoms and Psyche such in this case. I was so intrigued to discover this collaboration between such great scientits. It’s fascinating and difficult but very important book. As said my favorite scientist Brian Cox:
“This shift of the configuration of the electrons inside the diamond has consequences, because the sum total of all the electrons of the universe must respect Pauli. Therefore, every electron around every atom in the universe must be shifting as I heat the diamond up, to make sure that none of them end up in the same energy level. When I heat this diamond up, all the electrons in the universe instantly but imperceptibly change their energy levels. So everything is connected to everything else.”
05 Saturday Mar 2016
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” I consider that the trace of my hand is the gesture in itself. The trace of my hand is sufficient to communicate the energy of the gesture. It could even become a symbol of it”. David Altmedj
” Flux” was the last exhibition of David Altmejd I saw in Mudam Luxembourg. It’s all about dislocation and fragmentation in constructions modules, mirrors and multiplied visual effects. David is attached to the idea of an universal world that is absorbed as it is reflected in this stunning representation of crystallization of time, cultures and images that we face and that engulfs us. It evokes the Library of Babel of Jorge Borges and the minimalism of Robert Irwin or Donald Judd.
Insects; animals, fruits, flowers, trees, crystals..etc are the expression of a naturalized archeology of the world were the vegetable, animal and mineral coexist. David in this fantastic exhibition shows how the energy that is contained in the flesh and in chainlets is carried by birds and flowers in a complex associative relations that maintain our biodiversity.

” I am interested in the dualities between beauty and ugliness. I believe that an object must have the two aspects to be fascinating”. David Altmedj

04 Friday Mar 2016
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“To find yourself in the infinite,
You must distinguish and then combine;
Therefore my winged song thanks
The man who distinguished cloud from cloud. ”
Goethe Homage to the Scientist Richard Hamblyn who classified clouds.
Picture from Solaris, full movie here:
03 Thursday Mar 2016
Posted in Uncategorized, חיים נחמן ביאליק

Translation of the highlighted text:
And what can I tell you, lovely bird,
what do you hope to hear from me?
From this cold and distant land you will not hear songs,
only lamentations, only weeping and wailing.
העברים הוא מיזם של תיעוד הקאנון של התרבות העברית, שכולל סרטים, ספרים ושיחות וידיאו. במסגרתו נוצרו הסרטים התיעודיים “מלך היהודים” על ביאליק, “לאה גולדברג בחמישה בתים” ו”שבעת הסלילים של יונה וולך”, יצא לאור הספר “זאת היונה” על יצירת וולך בעריכת הלית ישורון ויאיר קדר והספר “לאה גולדברג – ספר, סרט, מבחר שירים” מאת גדעון טיקוצקי.
03 Thursday Mar 2016
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“(…) Depuis vingt ans je les ai éprouvés, nous nous sommes éprouvés mutuellement. Je les ai trouvé toujours solides au poste, autant que personne, affectueux, solides, d’une tendresse propre, autant que personne, d’un attachement, d’un dévouement, d’un pitié inébranlable, d’une fidélité, à toute épreuve, d’une amitié réellement mystique, d’un attachement, d’une fidélité inébranlable à la mystique de l’amitié…(….)
Charles Péguy
01 Tuesday Mar 2016
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I ordered this book when a friend of mine went to see the last exhibition of Tauba Auerbach in New York. He thinks that she is one of the most important American artist today so I decided to take a look at her first inspiration : Beautiful Necessity by the American architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon.
Using Bragdon’s methodology as a point of departure, Auerbach empowers projective geometry, recasting Ornament as Instrument.
I am myself as an architect very close to Adolf Loos (in his essay “Ornament and Crime“), his chief antagonist, who describes ornament as a sign of wasted time and a marker of evolutionary lag but what I understand from reading this book is that Bragdon engaged with the argument by proposing that architects put aside historical and natural pastiche and look to geometry for a new style of decoration.
Link to Bragdon work here :
http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/g/geom/cb.htm

Picture of Tauba Auerbach’s exhibition, taken by my Friend S.I in NY last Januray 2016.
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