Michael Haneke, love and finitude
☛ Amour (Love) by Michael Haneke, 2012, @ 1h 37mins 42s. In the sequence illustrated by the stills shown above, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) answers his daughter Eva (Isabelle Huppert). She wants to know what is going to happen next. Her mother Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) –Georges’s wife– suffered a serious stroke, and is returning from the […]
“la santé remplace le salut” in the work of Michel Foucault
La possibilité pour l’individu d’être à la fois sujet et objet de sa propre connaissance implique que soit inversé dans le savoir le jeu de la finitude. Pour la pensée classique, celle-ci n’avait d’autre contenu que la négation de l’infini, alors que la pensée qui se forme à la fin du XVIIIe siècle lui donne […]
“Theories are only made to die in the war of time”, Guy Debord, 1978
But theories are only made to die in the war of time. Like military units, they must be sent into battle at the right moment; and whatever their merits or insufficiencies, they can only be used if they are on hand when they’re needed. They have to be replaced because they are constantly being rendered […]
