#alain corbin

[yorgunherakles]

mekanlar ve uğultular ruhlara etki eder. bu incelikli etki seçimlere ve tavırlara yansır.

alain corbin - sessizliğin tarihi

[anadelacalle]

Eco de un artículo de este blog por FRAGMENTA EDITORIAL. Gracias...

👉 @lacalle_ana cita 'Història del silenci', d'Alain Corbin, a "Silencio, ruido e identidad", al seu blog📒 Web del llibre: https://t.co/ddpGmWFT87https://t.co/e0cOnspaC0— Fragmenta Editorial (@FragmentaEd) December 27, 2023

[oacasodaspalavras]

Alain Corbin, História do Repouso, 2023 https://pt.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Alain_Corbin

[uselessmuseum]

Alain Corbin, History of rest, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Corbin

[herederosdelkaos]

Reseña del libro: «Historia del silencio, del renacimiento a nuestros días», de Alain Corbin

[celebclippinz]

Magazine clippings

[transmutationisms]

helloo, do you have any book recommendations that talk about the racial/political dimensions of cannibalism?

the delectable negro: human consumption and homoeroticism within us slave culture, by vincent woodward (2014)

insatiable appetites: imperial encounters with cannibals in the north atlantic world, by kelly l watson (2015)

renaissance ethnography and the invention of the human: new worlds, maps, and monsters, by surekha davies (2016)

the captain and 'the cannibal': an epic story of exploration, kidnapping, and the broadway stage, by james fairhead (2015)

taming cannibals: race and the victorians, by patrick brantlinger (2011)

the village of cannibals: rage and murder in france, 1870, by alain corbin, tr. arthur goldhammer (1992)

[thefisherqueen]

He is, I gather, a man of very virile and positive, one might almost say combative, character. 

I was curious about the history of the concept of male virility and found this New Yorker article, which is well worth a read.

"As the anthology’s editors see it, Europe reached peak virility in the nineteenth century. By then, the ideal of the virile man had become almost impossibly confusing. Men who could afford to spent as much time as possible in barracks-like spaces—“college, boarding school, seminary, the singing club cellar, the brothel, the guardroom, gun room, smoking room, various workshops, and cabarets and waiting rooms”��in an effort to maximize virility. At the same time, however, virility was felt as “a network of anxiety-producing injunctions, often contradictory, to which one must, in one way or another, give in.” In an essay on “the code of virility,” Alain Corbin provides a dispiritingly long list of the types of un-virile men:

"He who hesitates to get into the assault on the day of the battle; he who chooses to get a replacement because he has drawn a bad number in the draft lottery; he who was unable to save his comrade from life-threatening danger; he who does not have what it takes to be a hero; he who shows no ambition; he who remains indifferent to excelling or to the prestige of a medal of honor; he who ignores emulation because he does not seek superiority; he who has trouble keeping his emotions under control; he whose speech and writing style lack confidence; he who refuses women’s advances; he who performs coitus without ardor; he who refuses group debauchery—all these men lack virility even though their masculinity would not be challenged."

This Kafkaesque proliferation of crimes against virility is one reason why men stopped talking about it. And the authors in “A History of Virility” are not shy, either, about blaming the cult of virility for the disastrous conflicts of the twentieth century. Virility, the editors write, has long been “linked to death”; a prime way to prove one’s virility is through “heroic death on the battlefield.” After the First and Second World Wars, however, virility seemed not just undesirable but implausible. Death and shell shock among soldiers “undermine[d] the military-virile myth,” they write, and “place[d] masculine vulnerability at the heart of a caring culture.” At the same time, urban life styles and, above all, insurgent female power punctured the mythos of virilitas. In particular, advances in equality between the sexes intruded upon the male-only “scenes of collective virility” that had nurtured it. The sexist, élitist, and militaristic qualities of virility became increasingly unwelcome. By the mid-twentieth century, most people spoke about “masculinity” instead of “virility”—a sign, Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello write, that something had “changed in the empire of the male.”

[de-gueules-au-lion-d-or]

Je fais partie de cette génération qui a vu disparaître une civilisation qui avait duré dix siècles, une autre vient que je ne verrai pas. Au détour de lectures, à la radio, je les reconnais, ceux qui comme moi, on entrevu cet ancien monde.

Ils peuvent être très différents : des écrivains comme Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Jourde, Pierre Michon, Richard Millet Jean-loup Trassard, Jean Clair ou Marie Hélène Lafon, des historiens comme Alain Corbin, le chanteur Jean-louis Murat…Tous ont en commun cette conscience de l'irrémédiable disparition, qui fait parenté entre eux.

C'est la coupure historique entre l'homme et la terre, la disparition de la société agraire traditionnelle qui avait construit ce monde est pour nous comme le Cheshire cat, le chat d'Alice au pays des Merveilles, nous l'avons vu, mais il s'efface, nous en voyons encore le sourire là où beaucoup ne discernent plus rien. Comme Marie-Hélène Lafon, avec son Cantal, Bergounioux et sa Corrèze, Trassard en Mayenne, c’est à partir d’un  pays du Dauphiné, le mien depuis toujours, que je vais chercher: « Ce qu’il reste de nous », dans nos mille ans d’histoire.

C'est un petit bout de texte, que j'avais fait pour présenter "ce qu'il reste de nous" à mon éditeur...Jean-Louis Murat vient de tirer sa référence... je poste sa chanson un singe en hiver, sur l'Indochine, à la fin du clip il y a un soldat avec un singe sur l'épaule, cela pourrait être mon père qui était là-bas, il avait un singe aussi...

Jacques Terpant

[stuartelden]

Alain Corbin, A History of Rest, trans. Helen Morrison - Polity, June 2024

Alain Corbin, A History of Rest, trans. Helen Morrison – Polity, June 2024 Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed, ranging from heavenly repose to what is prescribed for…

[yorgunherakles]

güçlü bir bilinç dışı savunması, zayıf, gelişmemiş bir iradeye işaret eder.

gabor mate - dağınık zihinler

[mergist]

"This fear of soiling the pages of history with the stuff of reality distinguishes nineteenth-century historians from their colleagues, and it is important to understand its significance and function. Fastidious and fearful historians appear to have conspired with the men of the time to cover up horrific events. We know virtually nothing about murderous nineteenth-century mobs and very little about lethal tactics of law enforcement. Historical narrative has been watered down and cruelty banished from its pages. Historians have behaved as though the only reason for studying mob violence were to ascertain the poverty of the crowd, its possible role in the revolutionary process, and its level of political consciousness."

Alain Corbin, The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 page 99.

[semena--mertvykh]

Gros Big Up

A tous les gens qui m'ont envoyé des messages de soutien et d'amitié ces dernières semaines, je voulais vous dire à quel point j'ai été touchée ; votre sollicitude m'a énormément aidée à tenir le coup, et comme disait Goldman : "Çà restera comme une lumière / Qui me tiendra chaud dans mes hivers / Un petit feu de toi qui s'éteint pas".

Special thanx to :

@ Caleb qui me dit "C'est ta saison en enfer" => Tu sais ce qu'on dit, Cal : quand on traverse l'enfer, il faut avancer et ne jamais se retourner.

@ tout le Forum des Joyeux Astrologues 🥳 => C'est Pluton qui débarque en Verseau !!

@ AstroLab du même forum, qui a trouvé pourquoi çà coince : "Le brouillard que tu décris, c'est le transit de Neptune en Poissons, donc pile en opposition de ton ascendant Vierge" => (wave, wave) AstroLab, je confirme que mon asc Vierge, pétochard & pointilleux, vit assez mal le transit de Neptune

en revanche le Verseau en moi (en mode YOLO / toujours partant pour la déconne / j'ai un sérieux problème d'adrénaline) se marre plutôt depuis le début de l'histoire.

(mais ce même Verseau trouvait vachement fun de traverser les Tarterêts en vélo à 2h du matin)

En tout cas, çà pourrait expliquer cette alternance - inhabituelle pour moi et usante à la longue - d'optimisme effronté et de doute abyssal.

@ Daisy qui me conseille de consommer du sexe "prophylactique" avec mon collègue, pour me remettre d'aplomb => Très chère, je suis Parisienne comme le PSG, et tu connais la devise de la Parisienne : Un peu de shopping et tout ira mieux...

@ Laura qui me demande ce que je vais faire maintenant => Merci pour tes mails et toutes tes bonnes ondes Laura ; je vais essayer de reprendre ma vie où je l'ai laissée l'été dernier, dans la confiance, la gaieté et l'optimisme. Cette vie-là est peut-être toute miteuse, indigne de Sexy, mais au moins, je n'y suis le pion de personne : ni de mes propres émotions, ni de l'attention / du mépris des autres. I got rythm, I got music, I got my car, who could ask for anything more ?

@ Denis qui m'adjure de "sublimer mon agressivité naturelle" => Denis, tu sais à quel point j'aime les donneurs de leçons, mais pour une fois je suis d'accord avec toi : sur ma gratification de stage, je vais peut-être réussir à débloquer une ligne pour m'offrir des cours de tir sportif, à la rentrée. Histoire d'apprendre à mieux viser, la prochaine fois - figurativement parlant, bien sûr...

@ Yéti qui appuie sur le buzzer une fois de plus : "Sexy, c'est Alain Corbin, en vrai ?" =>

Tu m'as bien fait rire cette fois, mais à un moment, il va falloir arrêter de me proposer des noms tous les 15 jours.

@ Médoc qui me dit "Assez de clichés, tous les hommes mûrs et puissants ne cherchent pas à "se taper" comme tu dis des jeunesses de 25 ans" => Médoc, je ne sais pas dans quel univers parallèle tu vis, mais je veux bien que tu me donnes l'adresse.

[mesutbahtiyarolacak]

“Susmalısınız ya da sözleriniz sessizliğinizden daha değerli olmalı.” demiş Alain Corbin, Sessizliğin tarihi kitabında.

Susmanın verdiği derin anlam, susmanın verdiği hazzın doruğu… Tadılan ve o hisse kavuşan her insan için yalnızlığınızla birlikte yapılan derin konuşmaların kattığı o anlamla birlikte, siz çok farklı olmanız dışında, kelimeleriniz de artık eskisi kadar sığ ve basit olmuyor.

Böyle zamanlarda işte hayatları boyunca hiç susmamış, hiç kendilerine dönmemiş ve hiç yalnızlıkları ile tanışmamış kişiler, dillerinden dökülen sözcüklerle hemen kendilerini belli ediyorlar. Ancak böyle kişilerin küstahlıkları karşısında da çekilen azap ve acı bir süre sonra dayanılmaz oluyor.

Susmayı tercih edenler çoğu zaman bu kadar sert cümleler kurmaz. Ancak çok sevdiği veya değer verdiği kişi karşısında son damla olarak kurulması gereken bir cümle bu.

Söylediğiniz kelimelerin, sessizliğinizden değerli olması dileklerimle.

İyi akşamlar.

[elizabethanism]

“Silence is not just the absence of noise. We almost forgot this. The auditory cues have become distorted, weakened, desecrated. The fear and even the dread of silence have intensified. "

~ Alain Corbin,

from, “A History of Silence”