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Pour un catastrophisme éclairé by Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Essais)
Pour un catastrophisme éclairé
Le temps est venu de mener une réflexion sur le destin apocalyptique de l’humanité : nous …
Hello, I am experimenting with running a micro bookwyrm instance, to journal the books that I read.
I live in France near Paris, and work as an IT guy for IPCC. I read rather slowly, mostly in French, essays and novels, sometimes poetry or comics. I have this setup where I read french books and review them here in English.
I am moving from a taste in politics towards a growing interest in philosophy, science remains a constant. Also Maxzor on Mastodon.
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Pour un catastrophisme éclairé
Le temps est venu de mener une réflexion sur le destin apocalyptique de l’humanité : nous …
I liked this anthology a lot. I was particularly interested by the excerpts of Richard Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Ward, Hans Jonas and Peter Sloterdijk. #ecology

L’écologie intrigue, divise, inquiète… Et pour cause : le choc répété des mots et des images a façonné notre conscience …

L’écologie intrigue, divise, inquiète… Et pour cause : le choc répété des mots et des images a façonné notre conscience …

« Faites déchargez, maladroits ! Détendez les arbalètes, car devant la "rondelle", vous êtes démâtés. Du faux inverti et de …

"Le réel n'existe pas. Seuls existent les événements sur lesquels on communique."
Les femmes qui se mettent à fumer dans …
A play about public relations in the twentieth century, a story of communication in democracies, a tale on the power of representations.
Le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind; Lippmann's Public Opinion, and Bernays's Propaganda I still have to figure out this quote from Foucault, how "hermeneutics and semiology are two fierce enemies".
If I must be completely honest with myself, I read it superficially and I did not understand much. Should I put in the effort I made on Aeneid ? I don't know, maybe.

La lecture de La Divine Comédie est un voyage. Claudel le définit à merveille : "De celle qu'il aime, Dante …
My take away : scepticism, cause - habit - effect, nice prose.
I read only Justine.
The main question is if it is worth following virtue in one's life, given that providence can favour a sinful conduct better.
I found that the philosophical pages and the repetitive systems were like rather fun labyrinths were the reader had to learn how to refute the sophisms exposed.
But it was quite tedious. It seems to me on one hand that Choderlos de Laclos did better at painting libertinism, and on the other hand that Voltaire's Candide was more skillful at painting humans as (I oppose the thesis !) fundamentally evil.

Ses textes ont longtemps été considérés comme des documents à réserver aux médecins, aux juristes ou aux amateurs de curiosa. …

« Mon amour pourrait emplir dix siècles de feu, de chants et d’exploits – dix siècles entiers, immenses et aériens, …