In «Soleil de la Conscience», Edouard Glissant, when visiting Paris from La Martinique, contrasts the gaze of «the Son» (le Fils) and the vision of «the Stranger» (l’Étranger).
Category: Culture
First MOOC on The Holocaust of European Jews by two History professors of UC Santa Cruz (Jewish studies).
Slow Attitude
The Swiss have the reputation for being very slow : «chi va piano, va sano e va lontano».
Slow food, slow dance, slow stories, slow change : slow attitude.
Swiss contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn is building a temporary public monument in the Bronx dedicated to the memory of Italian marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who developed the concept of cultural hegemony.
Erich Auerbach’s «Mimesis»
Un monument d’introduction à la culture littéraire européenne, écrit par Erich Auerbach
à Istanbul quand il a dû fuir l’Allemagne nazie.
Inventer de nouveaux mots
Enrichir la langue française; désigner les nouveaux concepts et les nouvelles pratiques par des termes appropriés, les recommandations de l’Académie Française.
Situationnisme
Exposition sur Guy Debord à la BNF ; Debord’s Kriegspiel inspired by Clausewitz exists as a computer game.
An experimental space for artistic research (a kind of Kitchen?) in the North of Paris.
Swiss mythology
Nains de jardin, Gamins, Nabots… These mythical figures represent the hard-working Swiss,
in the popular imagination.