https://aphelis.net/https://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mpbgjscppk2l1/2 «Un jour viendra ou il ne naîtra plus de poètes. La ville, la redoutable urbanisation de l’avenir, l’empêchera. Alors, les gouvernements garderont, dans de vastes jardins installés sur les terrasses des gratte-ciel, les malades “de la beauté et du passé” [...]»27 Jun 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpbgjscppk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mnf74xaf3k2l“... university managers, who promise blue skies on the other side of every new spree of culling and cutting, mergers and ‘re-structures’ (the Vice-Chancellor of my university tells us that we are sailing towards ‘financial sustainability with soul’).” https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/irreversible03 Jun 2026 13:19 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf74xaf3k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mkdth2li422x“... by the 1970s, movements stopped demanding things of politicians and bosses and instead turned to each other and said, “Let's take it all!” For a while, it looked like they might.” Forthcoming August 2026 from @illwill.bsky.social https://store.illwilleditions.com/products/lets-take-it-all-autonomia-and-the-italian-1970s-by-marcello-tari25 Apr 2026 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdth2li422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mfmeu3skfs2y1/2 “Le Coup de Tête” 1960 – First version of one of Dionys Mascolo’s rare work of fiction, featuring the protagonist “Baptiste”. This version was extensively reworked by Mascolo, but only published posthumously as a novel in 2016. https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MASCOLO_1960_Coup-de-tete_web.pdf24 Feb 2026 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfmeu3skfs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mdt6fismbk2p1/2 “I came to better understand the closeness of friendship and the sensation of existence through reading Fallot’s extraordinary book on Epicurus.” — Friendship and Philosophy: An Interview With Giorgio Agamben, Cabinet, Spring 2012 https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/durantaye_agamben.php01 Feb 2026 20:31 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt6fismbk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mdbi6gdu622b“But myths and symbols, in attempting to establish spiritual bonds between man and the outside world, create space for devotion and scope for reason which are destroyed by the instantaneous electrical contact” — Aby Warburg, A Lecture on Serpent Ritual, [1923] 1939 https://doi.org/10.11588/artdok.0000838725 Jan 2026 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbi6gdu622bhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3md6sydgji22c“Imagine the tools a cow would make. This idea, humorously illustrated in Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoon, captures a widespread assumption: cows are neither problem-solvers nor tool users.” https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-024 Jan 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3md6sydgji22chttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mbr3np5mo227— Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wPCkjN3n6s06 Jan 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbr3np5mo227https://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mbjwp2f7r22y“Wars are destroying the world, & the ruins are visibly haunted / By an enormous spectre, not simply born of war.” — Bertolt Brecht, The manifesto [1945], tr. Darko R. Suvin, Socialism and Democracy, 2002, 16:1, 1-10 https://darkosuvin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ds-manifesto-transl.-1-19.pdf03 Jan 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjwp2f7r22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mbjloylbdc2s“All that I have written seems to me straw compared with what has now been revealed to me” “Omnia que scripsi videntur michi palee respectu eorum que vidi et revelata sunt michi” — MS Latin 3112 “Processus canonizationis s. Thomae Aquinatis, Neapoli” https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52519203v/f111.item03 Jan 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbjloylbdc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mbcvxudg4c2n«Je m’aperçois de ceci — ce 31 décembre [19]40 — [...] que je me sens un certain 𝘮𝘰𝘪 étranger par essence à tout ce que je suis et qui ne voit aucune nécessité dans toute cette vie nécessaire qu’on lui fait vivre et qui le fait vivre.» — Paul Valéry https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10549485f/f99.item31 Dec 2025 22:27 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbcvxudg4c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mb5rrzwdgk2s”Let us imagine an individual who is what one might call scatterbrained, who has started on seventeen things but has carried none of them through to completion; who knows a bit about everything possible, but does not know anything fully...” — Kierkegaard, Papirer VIII 2 B86 lines 13-22, p. 16929 Dec 2025 21:29 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb5rrzwdgk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3mays7zjg5c2m«Sur le plan de la vérité de l’être de l’homme, il n’est jamais fait don que de ce que l’on ne possède pas.» — René Schérer, Philosophies de la communication, Paris: SEDES, 1971, p. 349 https://archive.org/details/scherer-1971-philosophies-de-la-communication/27 Dec 2025 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mays7zjg5c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3matikaj53k2h«quand vient la fin des fêtes et le moment de reprendre le travail, je suis encore enrhumée, et, surtout, brisée de fatigue. Jeune chômeur rencontré le jour de Noël ...» — Simone Weil, La condition ouvrière, 1951, p. 41 https://archive.org/details/weil-1951-la-condition-ouvriere25 Dec 2025 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3matikaj53k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m7xq4dqmes2k«Mi En-leh énumérait de nombreuses conditions nécessaires pour la révolution. Mais il ne connaissait pas de moment où l’on ne dût pas y travailler.» — Bertolt Brecht, Me Ti. Livre des retournements, tr. Bernard Lortholary, Paris: L’Arche, 1978, p. 59 https://archive.org/details/brecht-1978-me-ti-livre-des-retournements/page/58/mode/2up14 Dec 2025 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xq4dqmes2khttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m7vafdukf223“But before the fourth day’s rocky travelling was done, A customs man interposed his authority. ‘Please declare your valuables!’ - ‘None.’ And the boy who led the ox said: ‘A teacher, you see.’ This met the contingency.” — Bertolt Brecht, 1938, tr. Michael Hamburger, 196113 Dec 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7vafdukf223https://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m7i5ocnnms2p“the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time” — H. Arendt, The Human Condition, 1958, p. 52 Photo: Martin Parr, Bored couples, England, New Brighton, 1985, Pigment print, 100 x 125 cm https://www.paris-b.com/artist/martin-parr/08 Dec 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7i5ocnnms2phttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m5p5jw2wmk2a«... un ensemble de cinq textes qui méditent l'histoire et le destin de l'Université européenne. Réflexion issue d'abord d'une rébellion et remettant en cause l'horizon même de la réalité politique, syndicale et culturelle contemporaine... » — Gérard Granel, 1982 https://archive.org/details/granel-1982-de-l-universite/15 Nov 2025 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5p5jw2wmk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m5p5fhewcs2a«Voyant qu’on n’a rien, on essaye de se donner, Essayant de se donner, on voit qu’on n’est rien, Voyant qu’on n’est rien, on désire devenir, Désirant devenir, on vit.» — René Daumal, mai 1943, in Jean Biès, [1967] 1973, p. 174 https://archive.org/details/bies-1973-rene-daumal/page/174/mode/2up15 Nov 2025 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5p5fhewcs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3m3ztn4nr5k2e«L’identité, le moi, aussi bête que la 'patrie'» — Dionys Mascolo, c. 1940 «je prends conscience de moi en me niant» — René Daumal, Tu t'es toujours trompé, 1970 «La fin du Moi sera la genèse de la présence» — Giorgio Cesarano, Manuel de survie, 1974 [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Oct 2025 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ztn4nr5k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lwm75aqgts2b— Derrida, Jacques. (1987). “Chôra,” in Poikilia: Études offertes à Jean-Pierre Vernant, Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS, pp. 265-296 Première version de cet essai, reproduit dans le volume 'Khôra' publié chez Galilée en 1993. https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/DERRIDA_1987_Chora_web.pdf17 Aug 2025 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwm75aqgts2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3luxl3aw4xc2f“My gaze is never vacant my eye pitchdark and full I know what I must announce and many other things as well I am an unsymbolic thing I mean what I mean you turn the magic ring in vain there is no sense to me” — Gershom Scholem to Walter Benjamin, July 15, 1921 https://archive.org/details/greetingsfromang0000scho/page/38/mode/2up27 Jul 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3luxl3aw4xc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lupmlth3rc2jDionys Mascolo sur le sens du sous-titre («Entêtements») donné au livre 'À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée' (Paris: Fourbis, 1993). — «Haine de la philosophie», entrevue par Jean-Marc Turine, La Revue nouvelle, 1994, Vol. 99, No. 4, pp. 88-92 https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MASCOLO_1994_La-haine-de-la-philosophie-entrevue-Turine.pdf24 Jul 2025 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupmlth3rc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lttyl4kkrc2c“Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà” — R. Rolland, «Le Sacrifice d’Abraham: un livre de Raymond Lefebvre», L’Humanité 19 mars 1920: 1-2 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k299613c/f1.item# — A. Gramsci, “Discorso agli anarchici,” L’Ordine Nuovo, 3-10 avril 1920: 339-340 https://archive.org/details/OrdineNuovoP4/page/n25/mode/2up13 Jul 2025 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lttyl4kkrc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lsrlnju4ck2j«[Spinoza] mit dans son travail de philosophe les explosifs les plus puissants de sa sagesse aussi, à chaque théorème de l’Éthique les cadres de la philosophie purement spéculative éclatent un peu plus. Entre les lignes dorment les germes de cent révolutions» — R Daumal https://archive.org/details/la-nouvelle-revue-francaise-no-248-mai-1934-web29 Jun 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsrlnju4ck2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lpcwnr5jt22v“[Our time] may be called the Machine Age, not only because the men of today perhaps act & live more mechanically than anyone in the past, but also [because] not men, but machines, deal with human affairs & carry out the operations of life” — Giacomo Leopardi, Operette morali, 182416 May 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcwnr5jt22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3locaghuexk2a1/2 «Je maintiens que les grands hommes de tous les temps [...] doivent nous servir de collaborateurs vivants, et cela surtout tant que les contemporains prétendument vivants ne sont pas à la hauteur [...] Pour moi, les morts vivent, de même qu’à mes yeux un très grand nombre de vivants sont morts.»03 May 2025 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3locaghuexk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lmp4sygzcs2x“[The university] admits no future beyond deadlines and student debt, and it harbors no expectations beyond the acquisition of the codes, keys, and cosmetics for entering and exiting the hegemonic market.” — Willy Thayer, The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University, 2025, p. 3513 Apr 2025 13:13 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmp4sygzcs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/aphelis.net/post/3lmk2htenb22u«Extraits des carnets qu'il a tenus durant soixante ans, de 1938 à sa mort en 1997, ces fragments dessinent une possibilité de vie à la hauteur de notre temps, tant la configuration existentielle de l'époque a peu changé depuis les années 1930» — Oct. 2025 https://www.arbrealettres.com/livre/9782358723077-je-suis-ce-qui-me-manque-fragments-d-ames-1938-1993-dionys-mascolo-julien-coupat-o-van-nghia/11 Apr 2025 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:ftgnj2ps2d2mdtx2iwrxn5sp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmk2htenb22u