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Que l’écriture tienne donc la place de l’œil d’autrui », disait Antoine. Cette anecdote amène M. Foucault à réfléchir sur les formes qu’avait prises ce qu’il appelle l’« écriture de soi » dans l’Antiquité et notamment le genre littéraire des hypomnèmata, ce que l’on pourrait appeler les « carnets de notes » spirituels, où l’on consigne des pensées
... See morePierre Hadot • Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique (Bibliothèque de l'Evolution de l'Humanité) (French Edition)
It also poses the question of whether current forms of electronic separation and perceptual management are part of conditions that would inhibit or deflect the processes Sartre details.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." --Hannah Arendt
To connect Taylor with Ehrenberg, what modernity considers to be a mental ailment is always connected to its ethic, to its assertion of what is good.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Toute société est en soi complexe, c’est-à-dire constituée d’activités incessantes en inter-rétro-actions, comportant des relations à la fois de solidarité et d’antagonisme. Plus elle est complexe, plus elle comporte de libertés pour ses individus et ses groupes, plus ces libertés sont génératrices de désordres. Hegel a fort bien discerné la face n
... See moreEdgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
The two key existential facts about modern media are these: the ease with which the living may mingle with the communicable traces of the dead, and the difficulty of distinguishing communication at a distance from communication with the dead.
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
In his late writings, Michel Foucault examined classical Roman biographies to probe how individual subjects came to be formed not only through relationships of power and knowledge (or power/knowledge) but also co-constituted themselves through intentional practices as ethical subjects.3
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Salomé Viljoen • Data as Property? | Phenomenal World
“Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.”