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Meetings in the flesh have become even more important today as links are digitised and emptied of their physical dimensions. (...) We need these events.
Stimulating, intelligent, prospective!
Les Furtifs, Alain Damasio's latest book, that encourages commitment and action by proposing an exciting range of modes of collective resistance. The living, attention to the living, is at the heart of his universe.
What is being alive Alain Damasio?
It's being capable of differences. Capable of escaping from the habitus, routines and repetitions we are woven into. Above all, it is capable of metabolising what is not us, what passes through us, nourishes, deforms, attacks. To meet others, encounters, the source of an intimate transformation and in turn to restore its strength. To be alive is to rediscover our animal ancestry, to inhabit the bonds and places that make us, to seek a form of intensity and amplitude in our perceptions and actions. It is the opposite of fear and the search for comfort.
You are close to the philosopher Baptiste Morizot, whose work revolves around the living; how do your works, your experiences, your exchanges...
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