Valentine's Law

[Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky in "The Son of the Sheik" (1926)]

My funny valentine
Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart
Your looks are laughable
Unphotographable
Yet youre my favourite work of art

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But dont change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

Is your figure less than greek
Is your mouth a little weak
When you open it to speak
Are you smart?

But dont you change one hair for me
Not if you care for me
Stay little valentine stay
Each day is valentines day

[Rogers and Hart, 1937]

Flowers of Evil

[Samuel Fuller cameo in: Jean-Luc Godard, "Pierrot le fou" (1965)]

Destruction

The Demon is always moving about at my side;
He floats about me like an impalpable air;
I swallow him, I feel him burn my lungs
And fill them with an eternal, sinful desire.

Sometimes, knowing my deep love for Art, he assumes
The form of a most seductive woman,
And, with pretexts specious and hypocritical,
Accustoms my lips to infamous philtres.

He leads me thus, far from the sight of God,
Panting and broken with fatigue, into the midst
Of the plains of Ennui, endless and deserted,

And thrusts before my eyes full of bewilderment,
Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds,
And all the bloody instruments of Destruction!

[William Aggeler (Charles Baudelaire), The Flowers of Evil
(Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)]

Hors-champ

"C'est d'après le roman d'Alberto Moravia.
Il y a Brigitte Bardot et Michel Piccoli.
Il y a aussi Jack Palance et Giorgia Moll.
Et Fritz Lang.
Les Prises de vue sont de Raoul Coutard.
Georges Delerue a écrit la musique.
Et le son a été enregistré par William Sivel.
Le montage est d'Agnès Guillemot.
Philippe Dussart c'est occupé de la régie avec Carlo Lastricatti.
C'est un film de Jean-Luc Godard.
Il est tourné en Scope et tiré en couleur par GTC à Jouinville.
Il a été produit par Georges de Beauregard et Carlo Ponti, pour les sociétés
Rome-Paris Films, Concordia, Compagnia Cinematograffica Champion à Rome.
'Le cinéma', disait André Bazin, 'substitut à notre regard un monde qui s'accorde à nos désirs.'
«Le Mépris» est l'histoire de ce monde."

[Au générique.]

[Et puis, à la fin:]

SILENZIO!

[Samuel van HOOGSTRATEN, "Vue d'intérieur", ou "Les Pantoufles" (título tradicional dado no séc. XIX), entre 1654 e 1662. No Museu do Louvre, doado em 1932, como um Vermeer, pela princesa Louis de Croÿ. No séc. XIX pensou-se que se tratava de um pastiche do séc. XVIII ou inícios do séc. XIX, enquanto outros achavam que era um quadro de Pieter de Hooch, chegando ao cúmulo de inscreverem as iniciais deste.
O quadro dentro do quadro parece a "Admoestação parental" de Ter Borch (1654), mas nem tudo o que parece é, e, segundo parece, o parecer dos peritos mais recentes é de que se trata de uma reprodução de um quadro de Caspar Netscher, discípulo de Ter Borch, que terá feito uma versão no mesmo ano ou seguinte. Mas nada disto é líquido, pelo que proponho a confrontação e juízo a vossas excelências aqui e aqui.]

VideoGag

[Auguste et Louis Lumière, "Le Jardinier et le petit espiègle" (1895), d'après "L'arroseur" de Hermann Vogel (1887)]

Locaute: the bureaucrats are coming!

Πάλινδρóμος

[Guy Debord, "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" (1978)]

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Et d'ailleurs Derrida...

D'origine juive, il subit la répression liée aux événements de la fin des années 1930. Il connaît, durant sa jeunesse, une scolarité mouvementée. Il voit les métropolitains comme oppresseurs et normatifs, normalisateurs et moralisateurs. Sportif, il participe à de nombreuses compétitions sportives et rêve de devenir footballeur professionnel. Mais c'est aussi à cette époque qu'il découvre et lit des philosophes et écrivains comme Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, André Gide et Albert Camus.



In a candid interview in 1991, when he was 60, Jacques Derrida let the cat out of the bag. For all his academic achievements and popular acclaim, his abiding dream for himself remained that of his youth "becoming a professional footballer." In this mere aside, Derrida revealed as much about himself as both philosopher and person (if they can be separated) as in almost all his voluminous writings, speeches, reviews, and interviews. How fitting, therefore, that this passing remark should take us from the expressive margin into the subversive heart of this man of thought and reveal him as a frustrated man of action; the philosophical life was only a consolation for a more fulfilled life as sporting hero. Yet, in so many ways, so much can be learned and understood about the Derridean oeuvre by treating its author as a footballer, as someone who plied his trade on the fields of sporting endeavour than in the classrooms and libraries of the world. Indeed, if Derrida had played football, both philosophy and life might have been the better for it. Not because he would have spared the world his philosophical interrogations, but because he might have made even more of an impression on the sensibilities and senses of his times. It is as a footballer of attacking flair, not as an intellectual of defensive legend, that I will remember Derrida best. While it is hard to imagine the suave Derrida in the garishly-coloured synthetic shirt of his favourite team with a number "7" and "Derrida" emblazoned on the back, there is a genuine excitement at the prospect of him tantalising and tormenting the opposition in his own version of "the beautiful game." He knew that those who knew nothing of football knew nothing of life.
[in: Allan C. Hutchinson, If Derrida HadPlayed Football see full article here]

La nascita della Filosofia II

ou: À la recherche du temps perdu

Campeão do campeonato de França de futebol em 1936 e vice-campeão em 1961 e 62, o Racing de Paris - Racing Club de France participa, actualmente, na segunda divisão do campeonato francês amador.

Memory

About Dr. Osamu Tezuka and this film

Beata Grace

Gracia Patricia Rainierus III Principis Uxor

La nascita della Filosofia

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1 LEIBNIZ,2 I.KANT,3 HEGEL,4 SCHOPENHAUER,5 SCHELLING,6 BECKENBAUER,7 JASPERS,8 SCHLEGEL,9 WITTGENSTEIN,10 NIETZSCHE,11 HEIDEGGER
Griechenland: 1
1 PLATÃO,2 EPICTETO,3 ARISTÓTELES,4 SÓFOCLES,5 EMPEDOCLES DE ACRAGA,6 PLOTINO,7 EPICURO,8 HERACLITO,9 DEMÓCRITO,10 SÓCRATES,11 ARQUIMEDES

Cartão vermelho: F. Nietzsche
Substituição: Wittgenstein (sai) - Karl Marx (entra)
Golo: Sócrates (de cabeça; Arquimedes e Heraclito na jogada)
Equipa de Arbitragem: Confúcio (árbitro), Santo Agostinho e São Tomás de Aquino (juízes de linha)

Saber mais

autour des vieilles gloires polonaises

Bach's Schnorrer

:::

mellow yellow

Ceci n'est pas Magritte

profligate

Querelle

Straub-

Windows

"Besme entre dans la chambre, trouve l'Amiral, sa robe de nuit sur lui, à qui il demande : « Es-tu l'Amiral ? ». La réponse fut « Jeune homme, respecte ma vieillesse » (...) Besme lui passa l'épée au travers du corps et, la retirant, lui met le visage en deux. Le duc de Guise demandant si la besogne était faite et Besme ayant répondu que oui, on lui commanda de jeter le corps par la fenêtre, ce qu'il fit."
(L'assassinat de Coligny d'après Agrippa d'Aubigné (Histoire Universelle) 1619-20)

O Almirante de Coligny, chefe incontestado dos protestantes de França, foi vítima de defenestração, no dia 24 de Agosto de 1572, despoletando nesse mesmo dia o Massacre de São Bartolomeu. O Almirante havia sido vítima de um atentado falhado contra a sua vida dois dias antes, por detrás do qual estaria Catarina de Medicis.

Neisthai

Depuis Le Jour
Curta-metragem de Derek Jarman para o filme Aria de 1987.
Interpretações de Amy Johnson, Tilda Swinton:) e Spencer Leigh sobre uma ária da ópera Luise de Gustave Charpentier.