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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and(...)
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and(...)
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Nights of the dispossessed: riots unbound
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an 'age of riots' has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, 'Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound' brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to 'sense,' chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings - evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
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Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an 'age of riots' has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, 'Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound' brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to 'sense,' chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings - evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
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Where are the tiny revolts?
Where are the tiny revolts?
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This is the first book in a new annual series published by CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco). Each book in the series is driven by a central question: what are we learning from artists today? This volume is informed by themes related to the work of Dodie Bellamy and revolves around questions related to contemporary forms of feminism and sexualities, the rebirth of the(...)
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This is the first book in a new annual series published by CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco). Each book in the series is driven by a central question: what are we learning from artists today? This volume is informed by themes related to the work of Dodie Bellamy and revolves around questions related to contemporary forms of feminism and sexualities, the rebirth of the(...)
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This is the first book in a new annual series published by CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco). Each book in the series is driven by a central question: what are we learning from artists today? This volume is informed by themes related to the work of Dodie Bellamy and revolves around questions related to contemporary forms of feminism and sexualities, the rebirth of the author, and ways in which vulnerability, perversion, vulgarity, and self-exposure can be forms of empowerment. The texts cover a broad array of styles, including memoir, theoretical essay, art historical analysis, poetry, and fiction. The visual elements are equally diverse, ranging from photographs to collage to drawing.
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This is the first book in a new annual series published by CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco). Each book in the series is driven by a central question: what are we learning from artists today? This volume is informed by themes related to the work of Dodie Bellamy and revolves around questions related to contemporary forms of feminism and sexualities, the rebirth of the author, and ways in which vulnerability, perversion, vulgarity, and self-exposure can be forms of empowerment. The texts cover a broad array of styles, including memoir, theoretical essay, art historical analysis, poetry, and fiction. The visual elements are equally diverse, ranging from photographs to collage to drawing.
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Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Sud ont connu une forme de fin du monde au XVIe siècle après l'invasion de leurs terres par les Européens. Dans ce petit livre Ailton Krenak, figure éminente des luttes autochtones du Brésil, se demande en quoi cet héritage ne pourrait pas fournir un regard averti pour affronter les conséquences du nouveau régime climatique de(...)
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Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Sud ont connu une forme de fin du monde au XVIe siècle après l'invasion de leurs terres par les Européens. Dans ce petit livre Ailton Krenak, figure éminente des luttes autochtones du Brésil, se demande en quoi cet héritage ne pourrait pas fournir un regard averti pour affronter les conséquences du nouveau régime climatique de(...)
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Idées pour retarder la fin du monde
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Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Sud ont connu une forme de fin du monde au XVIe siècle après l'invasion de leurs terres par les Européens. Dans ce petit livre Ailton Krenak, figure éminente des luttes autochtones du Brésil, se demande en quoi cet héritage ne pourrait pas fournir un regard averti pour affronter les conséquences du nouveau régime climatique de l'Anthropocène. Cette parole, véritable anthropologie inversée, se situe au lieu d'un renversement de perspectives : avec la mutation en cours des conditions du maintien de la vie sur Terre, ne serait-ce pas l'humanité organisée sur les fondements de la modernité dont il serait plus à craindre qu'elle soit démunie des facultés d'adaptation requises ? Tout compte fait, ne serait-ce pas plutôt les peuples autochtones, par leurs ancestrales stratégies de résistance, qui pourraient indiquer une voie susceptible de retarder l'avancée « du désert et de la dévastation » engendrée par le surdéveloppement technocapitaliste ?
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Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Sud ont connu une forme de fin du monde au XVIe siècle après l'invasion de leurs terres par les Européens. Dans ce petit livre Ailton Krenak, figure éminente des luttes autochtones du Brésil, se demande en quoi cet héritage ne pourrait pas fournir un regard averti pour affronter les conséquences du nouveau régime climatique de l'Anthropocène. Cette parole, véritable anthropologie inversée, se situe au lieu d'un renversement de perspectives : avec la mutation en cours des conditions du maintien de la vie sur Terre, ne serait-ce pas l'humanité organisée sur les fondements de la modernité dont il serait plus à craindre qu'elle soit démunie des facultés d'adaptation requises ? Tout compte fait, ne serait-ce pas plutôt les peuples autochtones, par leurs ancestrales stratégies de résistance, qui pourraient indiquer une voie susceptible de retarder l'avancée « du désert et de la dévastation » engendrée par le surdéveloppement technocapitaliste ?
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Rencontre entre deux très grandes figures de l'anthropologie sur les origines de l'État. L’originalité du commentaire de Viveiros de Castro s’exprime de deux manières : 1. en proposant une analyse inédite de la réception philosophique de Clastres en France. 2. en montrant en quoi l’œuvre de Clastres a introduit une « révolution copernicienne » dans les théories classiques(...)
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Rencontre entre deux très grandes figures de l'anthropologie sur les origines de l'État. L’originalité du commentaire de Viveiros de Castro s’exprime de deux manières : 1. en proposant une analyse inédite de la réception philosophique de Clastres en France. 2. en montrant en quoi l’œuvre de Clastres a introduit une « révolution copernicienne » dans les théories classiques(...)
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Politique des multiplicités : Pierre Clastres face à l'état
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Rencontre entre deux très grandes figures de l'anthropologie sur les origines de l'État. L’originalité du commentaire de Viveiros de Castro s’exprime de deux manières : 1. en proposant une analyse inédite de la réception philosophique de Clastres en France. 2. en montrant en quoi l’œuvre de Clastres a introduit une « révolution copernicienne » dans les théories classiques de l’anthropologie politique qui voudraient que l'État organisé fût la finalité de toute société. Viveiros de Castro se saisi du mot d’ordre de Clastres « société contre l’État » en faisant du signifiant « indigène » le mot d’ordre d’un Brésil « mineur » (Deleuze et Guattari : comme devenir résistant à une norme répressive). Pour montrer cela il développe l'idée de « politique indigène » qui, au regard de la crise environnementale, redéfini le politique selon nos capacités à habiter, partout localement, la Terre.
Politique des multiplicités : Pierre Clastres face à l'état
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Rencontre entre deux très grandes figures de l'anthropologie sur les origines de l'État. L’originalité du commentaire de Viveiros de Castro s’exprime de deux manières : 1. en proposant une analyse inédite de la réception philosophique de Clastres en France. 2. en montrant en quoi l’œuvre de Clastres a introduit une « révolution copernicienne » dans les théories classiques de l’anthropologie politique qui voudraient que l'État organisé fût la finalité de toute société. Viveiros de Castro se saisi du mot d’ordre de Clastres « société contre l’État » en faisant du signifiant « indigène » le mot d’ordre d’un Brésil « mineur » (Deleuze et Guattari : comme devenir résistant à une norme répressive). Pour montrer cela il développe l'idée de « politique indigène » qui, au regard de la crise environnementale, redéfini le politique selon nos capacités à habiter, partout localement, la Terre.
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Communism for kids
Communism for kids
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents(...)
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents(...)
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
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The Agony of Eros
The Agony of Eros
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In "The agony of Eros", a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today’s society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of(...)
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In "The agony of Eros", a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today’s society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of(...)
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The Agony of Eros
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In "The agony of Eros", a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today’s society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today’s increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the “inferno of the same.” Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources—Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault’s valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the “pornographication” of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism’s leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today’s “burnout society.” To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself.
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In "The agony of Eros", a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today’s society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today’s increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the “inferno of the same.” Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources—Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault’s valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the “pornographication” of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism’s leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today’s “burnout society.” To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself.
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The terror of evidence
The terror of evidence
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This is the first book by the prolific German philosopher Marcus Steinweg to be available in English translation. "The terror of evidence" offers meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments—191 texts ranging in length from three words to three pages—the deceptive simplicity of which challenges the reader to think. “Thinking means getting lost again and again,”(...)
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This is the first book by the prolific German philosopher Marcus Steinweg to be available in English translation. "The terror of evidence" offers meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments—191 texts ranging in length from three words to three pages—the deceptive simplicity of which challenges the reader to think. “Thinking means getting lost again and again,”(...)
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This is the first book by the prolific German philosopher Marcus Steinweg to be available in English translation. "The terror of evidence" offers meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments—191 texts ranging in length from three words to three pages—the deceptive simplicity of which challenges the reader to think. “Thinking means getting lost again and again,” Steinweg observes. Reality is the ever-broken promise of consistency; “the terror of evidence” arises from the inconsistency before our eyes. Thinking is a means of coping with that inconsistency.
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This is the first book by the prolific German philosopher Marcus Steinweg to be available in English translation. "The terror of evidence" offers meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments—191 texts ranging in length from three words to three pages—the deceptive simplicity of which challenges the reader to think. “Thinking means getting lost again and again,” Steinweg observes. Reality is the ever-broken promise of consistency; “the terror of evidence” arises from the inconsistency before our eyes. Thinking is a means of coping with that inconsistency.
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Work: the last 1000 years
Work: the last 1000 years
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Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from(...)
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Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from(...)
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Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from the labour market. In this important intervention, Andrea Komlosy demonstrates that popular understandings of work have varied radically in different ages and countries. Looking at labour history around the globe from the 13th to the 21st centuries, Komlosy sheds light on both discursive concepts as well as the concrete coexistence of multiple forms of labour—paid and unpaid, free and unfree. Komlosy’s narrative adopts a distinctly global and feminist approach, revealing the hidden forms of unpaid and hyper-exploited labour which often go ignored, yet are key to the functioning of the capitalist world-system.
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Say the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most people—whether in colonies, developing countries, or the industrialized world. That gap between common assumptions and reality grows even more pronounced in the case of women and other groups excluded from the labour market. In this important intervention, Andrea Komlosy demonstrates that popular understandings of work have varied radically in different ages and countries. Looking at labour history around the globe from the 13th to the 21st centuries, Komlosy sheds light on both discursive concepts as well as the concrete coexistence of multiple forms of labour—paid and unpaid, free and unfree. Komlosy’s narrative adopts a distinctly global and feminist approach, revealing the hidden forms of unpaid and hyper-exploited labour which often go ignored, yet are key to the functioning of the capitalist world-system.
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The seeds of time
The seeds of time
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Long considered the foremost American Marxist theorist, Fredric Jameson continues his investigation of postmodernism under late capitalism in "The seeds of time". In three parts Jameson presents the problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a(...)
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Long considered the foremost American Marxist theorist, Fredric Jameson continues his investigation of postmodernism under late capitalism in "The seeds of time". In three parts Jameson presents the problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a(...)
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Long considered the foremost American Marxist theorist, Fredric Jameson continues his investigation of postmodernism under late capitalism in "The seeds of time". In three parts Jameson presents the problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a telling of the future", as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck"
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Long considered the foremost American Marxist theorist, Fredric Jameson continues his investigation of postmodernism under late capitalism in "The seeds of time". In three parts Jameson presents the problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty - "a telling of the future", as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck"
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A l'anesthésie du vivant qui frappe déjà nos sociétés modernes, vient dorénavant s'ajouter une amnésie sournoise, effet d'une glorification de l'instant présent (digitalisé et immédiatement "posté"), qui nous fait nous demander à partir de quand, désormais, peut-on dire que nous sommes déjà morts, alors que notre corps, décomposé en pixels, recomposé de mémoires(...)
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A l'anesthésie du vivant qui frappe déjà nos sociétés modernes, vient dorénavant s'ajouter une amnésie sournoise, effet d'une glorification de l'instant présent (digitalisé et immédiatement "posté"), qui nous fait nous demander à partir de quand, désormais, peut-on dire que nous sommes déjà morts, alors que notre corps, décomposé en pixels, recomposé de mémoires(...)
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Après la mort : essai sur l'envers du présent
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A l'anesthésie du vivant qui frappe déjà nos sociétés modernes, vient dorénavant s'ajouter une amnésie sournoise, effet d'une glorification de l'instant présent (digitalisé et immédiatement "posté"), qui nous fait nous demander à partir de quand, désormais, peut-on dire que nous sommes déjà morts, alors que notre corps, décomposé en pixels, recomposé de mémoires artificielles, et bientôt même cryogénisé, doit répondre encore aux injonctions exclusives du présent, sans cesse rebooté, reseté, reformaté. L'aurait-on retrouvée, enfin, l'éternité ? Ce leurre, parmi d'autres, profite aux dispositifs de pouvoir qui voient d'un oeil mauvais les débrayages du cours du temps, les écarts et les lenteurs du devenir, les retours en arrière qui sont des avancées, d'une vie en profondeur, dans l'épaisseur du réel. Ce sont pourtant à ces débrayages, à ces écarts, à ces lenteurs qu'appelle Après la mort, portes ouvertes sur la vie.
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A l'anesthésie du vivant qui frappe déjà nos sociétés modernes, vient dorénavant s'ajouter une amnésie sournoise, effet d'une glorification de l'instant présent (digitalisé et immédiatement "posté"), qui nous fait nous demander à partir de quand, désormais, peut-on dire que nous sommes déjà morts, alors que notre corps, décomposé en pixels, recomposé de mémoires artificielles, et bientôt même cryogénisé, doit répondre encore aux injonctions exclusives du présent, sans cesse rebooté, reseté, reformaté. L'aurait-on retrouvée, enfin, l'éternité ? Ce leurre, parmi d'autres, profite aux dispositifs de pouvoir qui voient d'un oeil mauvais les débrayages du cours du temps, les écarts et les lenteurs du devenir, les retours en arrière qui sont des avancées, d'une vie en profondeur, dans l'épaisseur du réel. Ce sont pourtant à ces débrayages, à ces écarts, à ces lenteurs qu'appelle Après la mort, portes ouvertes sur la vie.
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