Author: Samuel Buchoul

January 8, 2015

National mourning, stuttering media, flags at half-mast and unprecedented millions over hundreds of silent solidarity walks. France has been hit, where it hurts. And even its remotest members, overconfident of their patriotic detachment, must acknowledge how lively its running nerves still remain – I, too, was and am shocked…

December 2, 2014

Juste une affaire de quelques précieuses minutes, a couple minutes of your time. Mais pas pour eux. Novembre, Décembre, deux mois, a couple of months, mois des couples dans le sous-continent. Ce weekend, plusieurs de mes amis se marient. A couple. Of Couples. Deux. Deux couples…

December 2, 2014

This will just take a couple minutes of your time. Not of theirs. November, December, a couple of months, months of the couples in the sub-continent. This weekend, a few of my friends are getting married. A couple. Of couples. Twice coupled, ‘fastened together’ (Latin: co-apere), together respectively, one to one other. But together, the four of them, the same weekend…

November 30, 2014

C’est là que Brossard et moi commençâmes à perdre notre complicité. J’étais le préféré du pion de toute la promo, pour toute l’année de sixième. Mais les temps avaient changés. Deux ans plus tard, et j’étais repéré à tenir la main d’une fille, ou surpris dans la cour de l’école à donner un piou furtif…

November 30, 2014

That is when Brossard and I started losing our complicity. I was the student advisor’s favourite in the whole batch, for the entire year of 6th grade. But times changed. A couple years down the line, and I was spotted holding a girl’s hand, or caught on the school’s courtyard giving a surreptitious peck…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— General Introduction

In the beginning, there never was the foreigner.

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Introduction

What is the history of ‘foreigner’? The question is obvious, and fundamental…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Part 1

The fact is undeniable : the earliest communities of what would later be conceived as the Western civilisation are cultures profoundly marked by the event of foreignness.

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book I — Foreigner, There : History of a Political Capture
— Part 2

The Renaissance : times of intellectual and artistic renewal after the long Middle Ages…

May 9, 2014