Portrait of Michel Houellebecq (2010)
☛ 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 [...]
Heidegger on the way we use the word ‘science’ these days
As we use the word science these days, it means something essentially different from the doctrina and scientia of the Middle Ages, different, too, from the Greek ἐπιστήμη. Greek science was never exact precisely because, according to its essence, it neither could be, nor needed to be, exact. Hence, it makes no sense at all [...]
Peter Sloterdijk and the specificities of modern terrorism
German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk proposes a new way of thinking about modern terrorism: “The 20th century will be remembered as the age whose essential thought consisted in targeting no longer the body, but the enemy’s environment.”
Un rapport catastrophique (à la technique)
S’instaure alors un rapport ― ou plutôt un non-rapport ― que je crois catastrophique. Et c’est ainsi qu’à la fin du XXe siècle, au début de ce XXIe siècle, il arrive assez souvent que l’on entende des philosophes dire, soit avec un air presque effarouché, soit avec une espèce d’autosatisfaction, avec une jouissance très semblable [...]
