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 Diaphanous

06 Wednesday Sep 2023

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1888., Camille Flammarion, diaphanous, Météorologie

” A naive missionary of the Middle Ages even relates that, in one of his journeys in search of the Paradise on earth, he reached the horizon where the Sky and the Earth meet, he found a certain point where they were not welded, where he passed, bending his shoulders under the cover of the heavens. […] 
What is this blue that certainly exists, and whose veil hides the stars from us during the day? “. 

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Find a way

29 Tuesday Aug 2023

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The Fall of Saigon

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L’espace nourricier.

28 Monday Aug 2023

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Henri Michaux

Un jour.

Un jour, bientôt peut-être.

Un jour j’arracherai l’ancre qui tient mon navire loin des mers.

Avec la sorte de courage qu’il faut pour être rien et rien que rien, je lâcherai ce qui paraissait m’être indissolublement proche.

Je le trancherai, je le renverserai, je le romprai, je le ferai dégringoler.

D’un coup dégorgeant ma misérable pudeur, mes misérables combinaisons et enchaînement « de fil en aiguille ».

Vidé de l’abcès d’être quelqu’un, je boirai à nouveau l’espace nourricier.

Henri Michaux

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Dégoût des mots

06 Sunday Aug 2023

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Les gens sont en effet las d’entendre parler. Ils ont un profond dégoût des mots. Car les mots se sont interposés devant les choses. L’ouï-dire a absorbé l’univers. Les mensonges infiniment complexes de l’époque, les mensonges rancis de la tradition, les mensonges des administrations, tout cela est posé sur notre pauvre vie comme des myriades de mouches mortellement pernicieuses. Nous sommes en possession d’un affreux procédé pour étouffer entièrement la pensée sous les concepts. Il n’y a quasiment plus personne en état de se rendre compte de ce qu’il comprend et ne comprend pas, de dire ce qu’il éprouve n’éprouve pas. […] l’enchaînement fantomatique des mots triomphe de la force oratoire native des hommes. Ils parlent alors constamment comme des « rôles », dans des sentiments illusoires, des opinions, des convictions qui font illusion. Ils parviennent carrément lors des propres événements de leur vie à être constamment absents. Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Les trous noirs

19 Wednesday Jul 2023

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Ce qui est appelé le mal désigne une erreur, un aiguillage fatal, le point initial regardé du fond du trou pour ne plus en bouger. Les trous noirs sont un mystère, que quelqu’un existe et les mesure est plus mystérieux encore. D’un pas qui à chaque pas détermine la précision de la mesure du pas sans tenir aucun compte de la distance prise.

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Wheels of change

17 Monday Jul 2023

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Bike, cycling, depression, Wheels

I was asked by a professor of psychiatry once if I ever experienced depression. I answered ‘not to the best of my knowledge/experience’.

He replied simply: ‘of course not. You move too much….’

I tell all people I meet but especially those battling depression, loss of meaning and similar states: MORE NON-VERBAL EXPERIENCES DAILY is what the doc prescribes and movement is the best medium.

All roads will eventually lead back to the unspoken thing(s)we corrupt with our words.The path there passes through the body, movement, stillness. It has long been understood by some spiritual paths, processes, methods, religions and various systems but knowing is not enough, cause that is achieved through the same problematic medium we wish to avoid.

You must EXPERIENCE – through the practicum.

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Apathetic future

23 Thursday Feb 2023

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Milan Kundera

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten”

Milan Kundera

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Anthropocene

11 Wednesday Jan 2023

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Anthropocene, Jacques Ellul

Shadows draw light, light draws shadows, flowers wash memories. In the caves the subtracting machines are full, in the sky the colonies of autopilots satellites cross the switching screens of a sleeping robot.

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Le Corps

06 Friday Jan 2023

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rebecca hytting, Sharon Eyal

Le corps récupère ses bras, retrouve la verticale pesanteur, s’accroche. Un enfantement du miracle par sauts successifs dans le noir.

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Walkability 2

12 Monday Dec 2022

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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary…(…) In this lonely glen, with its brook draining the slopes, its creased ice and crystals of all hues, where the spruces and hemlocks stand up on either side, and the rush and sere wild oats in the rivulet itself, our lives are more serene and worthy to contemplate. Henry David Thoreau.

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