
☛ The New Yorker: accompanying photo for James Woods’ review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq, January 23, 2011, p. 79. Photo by WireImage contributor Dominique Charriau. © WireImage. The original caption by WireImage reads as follows: Michel Houellebecq gives a press conference after he received the 2010 Prix Goncourt at Restaurant [...]
• January 19, 2012 ― Published in Art, Communication, Literature, Photography | Tagged: Apostle, event, Goncourt, Gospel, Houellebecq, media, message, Messiah, modernity, news

A photograph by Christopher Anderson showing a dense crowd of busy cameramen and photographers attending a fashion show in New York, 2008
• October 22, 2010 ― Published in Art, Photography | Tagged: camera, celebrity, crowd, event, fashion, icon, image, lens, Magnum, media, photograph, photographer, star
Exceptionnel dans le domaine de la Raison suffisante, mais d’une nécessité et d’une logique implacable dans celui de la Raison insuffisante – en ce que ces événements n’ont pas besoin d’un acteur ni de motivation subjective pour avoir lieu: ils traduisent le fait qu’une puissance, n’importe quelle puissance, porte au plus profond d’elle-même sa potentialité [...]
• July 15, 2008 ― Published in Excerpt, Philosophie | Tagged: anéantissement, Baudrillard, cannibale, carnaval, destruction, événement, event, mal, puissance, raison, singulier, ventriloque