Newsletter March 2016

NEWSLETTER MARCH 2016

… After that, philosophy will only be a word, memory of an epoch, testimony of a species, species, kind, race, race of another kind, obsolete in its monkey cries, monkeys whom we are, only that the natural border will be shifted by a vector, a change of reference, this humanity of another time will judge itself retrospectively as placed scarcely any better than a group of advanced primates. New item of a list populated with alchemies and other phrenologies, philosophy, outmoded science, will speak of a time, of an epoch of the human race, -500 +2100, twenty six centuries of a test, of a plot-twist ridden attempt, minder of the force of the ideal at the heart of an existence of species capped at the material. A baton passing, vital, but outmoded.
In the memories, unknowns by the hundreds of thousands, and a few survivors, saved by the ideal intensity of their being, but also and mostly, the cult of those whom time will discover as the actual precursors. Common thread of the “beings from the sides”, from the cave painter to these few words, the creator and his opaque logic, tenacious existential coat, always too warm or too closed for the summers and winters of the human emotion. His dreams of the soft and effective breeze, when he would finally be able to throw it, the coat, flat to the troughs of his contemporaries’ faces, worked by the time of genomes, he always reminds himself, of his forebears also, and even of his descendants, finally the only addresses worthy of the potential of his thought. Squall-temptation of each instant, with a quasi-universal intention: partner, close “friends”, parents, family, and even, and especially, the least passer-by in the street — all, they deserve it, for my good and for theirs, to taste it, my coat…

Samuel

SAMVRITI MONTHLY ・ MARCH 2016
ESSAYS
The Order of Madness 26 August 2013
Heidegger and Science: Questioning the Question 16 September 2013
Pour voyager heureux… 30 January 2009
Ayurveda and the Structuralist Beef 30 September 2013

The Order of Madness
The Order of Madness
26 August 2013

Even though Michel Foucault’s critical readings of health and health institutions have proved infinitely insightful and in turn, inspiring for the updating of these institutions, his enterprise did not only receive praises. One of the most rigorous and thorough critiques came from a budding celebrity, Jacques Derrida, who used to be a student of Foucault. Less than two years after the publication of Folie et Déraison (Madness and Civilization), Derrida presented the outcomes of his reflections about the project attempted by Foucault, during a lecture at the Collège Philosophique in March 1963 . . .

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Heidegger and Science: Questioning the Question
Heidegger and Science: Questioning the Question
16 September 2013

“What is happening to us, in the grounds of our existence, when science becomes our passion?”

The possible meeting points between science and the thought of German phenomenologist Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) have often been tackled through the thinker’s later works on technology. While Heidegger truly brought crucial insights on the question of the 20th century human and her use of technology, reducing to this sole question the possible intersections between science and Heidegger would be forgetting that the very foundation of Heidegger phenomenological approach to ontology is in itself a response to science . . .

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Pour voyager heureux...
Pour voyager heureux…
30 January 2009

Paris, Hôtel Chevalier. Jack (Jason Schwartzman), élégant, la trentaine, le regard dans le vide. Un coup de fil imprévu, et son ex-copine, interprétée par une attirante Natalie Portman aux cheveux courts, rentre en scène. Quelques mots, un peu de malaise, et la nature reprend ses droits. « Si je couche avec toi, je me sentirais comme une merde demain matin », dit-elle. « Ca me va », répond Jack . . .

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Ayurveda and the Structuralist Beef
Ayurveda and the Structuralist Beef
30 September 2013

In The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats (1999), French structuralist Francis Zimmerman attempts a discussion of ancient practices and conceptions of health in India, framed on a speculated geographical representation of the concerned populations. He argues that in ancient Hindu medical texts the land and fauna classification was directly related to bodily function, disease classification and therapeutics . . .

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