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Counterpoints
Multimedia experiments are everywhere in contemporary art, but the collaboration and conflict between the various arts has a long history. From opera to the symphonic poem, to paintings inspired by music, many attempts have been made to pair sounds with pictures and to combine the arts of time and space. Counterpoints: Dialogues between Music and the Visual Arts explores this artistic evolution from ancient times to the present day. Philippe Junod’s main focus is music and its relationship with painting, sculpture and architecture. He draws on theoretical and practical examples to show how different art movements throughout history have embraced or rejected creative combinations: The Renaissance, Neoclassicism and certain brands of modernism tried to claim the purity of each mode of expression, while other movements such as Romanticism, Symbolism and Surrealism called for a fusion of the arts. Counterpoints is a unique cultural history that provides a critical understanding of a popular but unheralded art form.
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Regimes of historicity
François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's \"regimes of historicity,\" or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of historical consciousness and contrasting it with an investigation of the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins's concept of \"heroic history.\" He tracks changing perspectives on time in Chateaubriand's Historical Essay and Travels in America and sets them alongside other writings from the French Revolution. He revisits the insights of the French Annales School and situates Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory within a history of heritage and today's presentism, from which he addresses Jonas's notion of our responsibility for the future. Our presentist present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced very differently depending on the position we occupy in society. We are caught up in global movement and accelerated flows, or else condemned to the life of casual workers, living from hand to mouth in a stagnant present, with no recognized past, and no real future either (since the temporality of plans and projects is inaccessible). The present is therefore experienced as emancipation or enclosure, and the perspective of the future is no longer reassuring, since it is perceived not as a promise, but as a threat. Hartog's resonant readings show us how the motor of history(-writing) has stalled and help us understand the contradictory qualities of our contemporary presentist relation to time.
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Imperial borderlands : maps and territory-building in the northern Indochinese peninsula (1885-1914)
\"This book presents a connected history of South-East Asian borderlands, drawing on late nineteenth-century British and French geographical policies and practice at the margins of their empires. It focuses on the 'scramble' in Asia, when the British Raj incorporated Upper Burma (1885), and the French created a protectorate in Annam-Tonkin, the Northern part of present-day Vietnam (1884). Fought over by the colonial states and neighbouring nations, the frontier zones were fashioned and represented not only by the two European powers, but also by the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Siam, and the local populations. The counterpoint between the discourses produced and the cartographical practices on the ground, in the longue durée, lays bare the interacting processes of territory-building in all their unpredictability. This book, translated by Saskia Brown, is the updated version of the author's Aux confins des empires. Cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885-1914) (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2018)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Imperial Borderlands
Based on colonial archives and indigenous maps, this book delivers a connected history of imperial margins in Southeast Asia by comparing the British and French geographical policies and practices at the end of the 19th century.
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The childhood of reason: Pedagogical strategies in Descartes's La Recherche De La Verite Par La Lumiere Naturelle
[...] despite the traditional opposition between Descartes and Freud, the persistence of the child in the adult and consequently of the irrational in the rational might indicate that these two thinkers can be set in a different relation to each other, the confusion of the effects of 'raison' and 'autorité' being an early gesture towards what will later be theorised as transference. [...] one can find the attempt to articulate the passage from child to adult, irrational to rational in several literary and critical texts of the seventeenth century.24 For the literary texts, one could cite the explicit didacticism of Molière's comedies, aimed at reintegrating the 'déraisonnable' to the norm of reason and propriety; at the same time, these plays, especially the later ones, also show up the limits and paradoxes in this process (L'Ecole des Femmes is but one example).
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AND TILL THE GHASTLY TALE IS TOLD: SARAH KOFMAN – PRIMO LEVI: SURVIVORS OF THE SHOAH AND THE DANGERS OF TESTIMONY
The great catastrophes of history can be recognised through the paralysed silence which they leave in their wake, a silence which frequently is broken only to make way for the falsifications of memory. BEtween silence and falsification, a third path may be opened. For those who are capable of it, this path involves saying what happened, writing in the first person. This third possibility is doubly valorised. First of all, it offers a public testimony. It allows a truth which is unspeakable or not to be spoken to erupt onto the social scene. Secondly, it is meant to have a cathartic function. The author of the testimony would in this way be unburdening himself o a horror too heavy to bear. Put into words, his suffering would become something which could be shared. It is this sharing which will be discussed here, its power to grant peace. One may doubt this power.
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