#gilles chatelet

[sodomyaspraxis]

“‘Money? It’s the oh-so-simple miracle that allows you to take home veal in your shopping bag…’, the Trader-Knights repeat, forgetting that behind the head of veal or the pork cutlet there is a futures market in livestock and pork bellies, and that behind that market looms the futures market of exchange rates, interest rates and so many other levels all the way down to absolute volatility, all utterly inaccessible to those bit-part players in the great comedy of trading, the small individual shareholders…”

—Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: the Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies, trans. Robin Mackay (1998)

[nicklloydnow]

“Philosophy seems finally to have been relieved of a problem it had held very dear - that of the riches of darkness - and whose resolution had been sought in cosmologies without Creation, which always begin with a Chaos of primordial waters, an equivocal mixture of Sky and Earth in a state of ontological putrefaction...a state they could never have escaped had not another God decided to separate them.

These cosmogonies give us one of the keys to understanding the uneasy fascination that emanates from Chaos: the latter installs thought in a space that one hopes will be fruitful, but which is already gnawed at by the virulent opposition of two principles. Chaos is the unresolved equilibrium of two forces, an equilibrium incapable of assuming the coiled, heightened ambiguity of a couple. It presents itself as a precarious totality within which the possibilities it will supposedly deliver are already confronting each other.

This is the whole paradox of Chaos: from the start it is torn apart by the very rivals to which it must give birth; it must resign itself to being nothing but a neutralization, abandoning its fine ambition to deploy a spectrum of virtualities and ending up as a botched dialectic, going no further than the troubled presentiment of a multiplicity haunted by an originary Unity, itself always already contaminated by the Manifold. This is why the fascination exerted by modern scientific theories of chaos is by no means free of equivocation - it brings together two seductions: that of the comfort of operativity, and that of a marvelling in the face of all that is just on the verge of appearing.” (p. 26, 27)

[athousandgateaux]

Incapable of understanding work as patience, churning out boredom, envy and resentment like sausages, has consensual engineering vanquished politics forever? Was Pareto right? Do the phases of History swing back and forth like the oscillations of a pendulum: youth, maturity, decadence, elites succeeding one another like the cycle of thin cows and fat cows, their cadavers accumulating like fossils? Is History just a graveyard of aristocracies, an interminable chronicle of triumphs as ephemeral and derisory as the perpetual pugilism of the Great Natural Banquet in which the species gobble each other up? To the mediocrity of the 'average man', incapable of enthusiasm and wallowing in pluralism (that anaesthetised multiple), we should oppose the anyone [l'homme quelconque], capable of awakening the political gesture that surpasses all routine and every anticipated possibility. For there is a heroism of the anyone, of that anyone who, at once singular and innocent, might be the vehicle of an exception that, as Carl Schmitt says, 'thinks the general with intense passion'

(Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs, pg. 154-155)

[annamaria16k]

Τίς εἶ ; Qui vive ? Ποιός ζεί ;

Gilles Châtelet

[maximumslogandensity]

Is History just a graveyard of aristocracies?

Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs

20/5/21

[thisdayinwwi]

Jan 3 1919 Chatelet, Belgium. 5th Bn cooks posing by their field cooker. L to R, back: Pte Koopman; LC Bryant; Pte Cooper; Pte Bolton; LC Doxford; Pte Kenyon; Pte Spratt; LC Gill; Pte Kilby. Front : CQMS Devereux; Sgt J. W. Congues MM; LC F. J. Hansen https://t.co/zDi4GIjQo0 https://t.co/lwEvVThEjw http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1080878182155182080

[wruith]

“Unfold the space that does justice to your body.”

-Gilles Chatelet

[crazy4tank]

Pierre Cardin – a life in pictures

Pierre Cardin – a life in pictures

Pierre Cardin and Maryse Gaspar attend House of Cardin at Chatelet Theatre on 21 September 2020 Photograph: Foc Kan/WireImage Cardin at his office in Paris, 2012 Photograph: Gilles Bassignac/Jdd/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock Cardin stands with models wearing his creations at his villa in Théoule-sur-Mer, southern France, 2008 Photograph: Lionel Cironneau/AP Cardin stands after his fashion show in the…

[aronsonfilm]

THE CHASE IN THE GHOST TRAIN from Hugo Ramirez on Vimeo.

Hugo Ramirez a été profondément influencé par la culture VHS des vidéo clubs de la fin des années 80. C’est dans cette logique qu’il à écrit ce film hybride entre court métrage et clip musical pour l’artiste compositeur Yann Kornowicz et son morceau the Chase of the Ghost Train faisant partie de l’album Chaos in Châtelet, la bande annonce d’un faux film mettant en scène une catastrophe surnaturelle dans le métro parisien.

Ce film est une symbolique du phénomène de mort imminente, un voyage hallucinatoire d’une personne qui disparaît emporté par les psychopomps.

Pour ce clip, il encore poussé plus loin le concept en proposant une triple technique. C’est à dire un tournage dans le métro avec des comédiens, après avoir réalisé le montage complet, il a filmé un comédien pour doubler les monstres puis a fait appel a l’animation traditionnelle pour créer les monstres afin de les intégrer dans les plans tournés. Une fois que la séquence animatique était terminée, avec l’aide de son équipe, le film à été entièrement redessiné image par image sur papier à l’encre de Chine. Ceci donne un résultat unique et authentique d’un dessin spontané et vibrant sur papier. C’est un peu un hommage aux films de genre de son enfance produits artisanalement et portés par leur réalisateur.

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Hugo Ramirez was deeply influenced by the VHS culture of video clubs of the late 80s. It is in this logic that he wrote this hybrid piece between short film and music video for the artist-composer Yann Kornowicz and his piece Chase of the Ghost Train, part of the album Chaos in Châtelet, the soundtrack for a fake feature film featuring a supernatural catastrophe in the Paris subway.

This film is a symbol of the phenomenon of imminent death, a hallucinatory journey of a person who disappears brought away by the psychopomps.

For this clip, he further pushed the concept by proposing a triple technique. That is to say a shooting in the subway with actors, after having done the complete editing, he filmed a comedian to double the monsters then appealed to the traditional animation to create the monsters to integrate them into the shots. Once the animated sequence was over, with the help of his team, the film was entirely redrawn image by image on India ink paper. This gives a unique and authentic result of a spontaneous and vibrant drawing on paper. It's a bit of a homage to the genre films of his childhood produced by craftsmen and worn by their director.

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Music video for “THE CHASE IN THE GHOST TRAIN” from album “CHAOS IN CHÂTELET” by Yann Kornowicz

P & C SÉCHEZ VOS LARMES / 22 D MUSIC

record available here : bigwax.fr/fr/beatsqueeze-records/chaos-in-chatelet

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Written & Directed by Hugo R. Ramirez

PRODUCTION

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Romain Bezzina

PRODUCTION COMPANY EDDY

CO-PRODUCTION Séchez Vos Larmes 22D Music

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Céline Da Cunha-Vanlint

PRODUCTION 2D ASSISTANT Manon Grenier

COMMUNICATION Moses Yohannes Pierre-Alban Kientz

POST-PRODUCTION Romain Bezzina

STUDIO Brunch Studio

DESIGN Johanna Huck Luc Journot Hugo R. Ramirez

STORYBOARD Hugo R. Ramirez

2D ANIMATION Laurent Box

INK ROTOSCOPY Johanna Huck Luc Journot Maël Berreur

LEAD COMPOSITING Gustavo Almenara

ANIMATION ASSITANT Clara Clément

CAST Mickaël Durard Romain Bezzina Moses Yohannes

SUBWAY EXTRAS Gilles Gourmelen  Danielle Lhuillier  Pascal Droal Vicente Booth Pauline Ferrari Michel Contal 

SHOOTING CREW

CAMERA Romain Bezzina Hugo R. Ramirez

SCRIPT Manon Grenier

BEST BOY Moses Yohannes

TUNNEL SCOUTING Théodore Teknicien

SOUND EDITING Yann Kornowicz & Ugly Mac Beer

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SPECIAL THANKS TO BEATSQUEEZE RECORDS Jean-François Bourrel, Nicolas De Rosanbo Julie Bellemare, Camille Beatrix, Brunchstudio Ange Ghinozzi, Mickaël Durard.

© HUGO R. RAMIREZ 2016 EDDY.TV

[sodomyaspraxis]

“A maximal fluidity propagating mimetism like gangrene, a confusion of mobility with the dubious ‘nomadism’ of ‘temporary gigs’ and part-time, expedient solidarities, of the camaraderie of bare survival—such are the characteristics of the ‘new civil society’ that serves equilibrium alone, orchestrated by a thermodynamic vision of politico-economics. Thus it would be no exaggeration here to speak of a thermo-civil society, or, better, a thermocracy, dictating the everyday lives of millions of average men, consumer-panelist Robinsons, distant descendants of Hobbes’s Robinsons pompously saluted as the prototypes of postmodernity, finally freed from all ‘great expectations’ and all ‘grand narratives’.”

— Gilles Châtelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs: the Incitement of Envy and Boredom in Market Democracies, trans. Robin Mackay (1998)

[athousandgateaux]

The sociopolitical mystification of Chaos combines two advantages: it is an affordable rather than a dangerous thought; and it legitimates a type of auto-domination swathed in all the 'liberatory' and baroque glamour of scientific theories, certain of which even claim to have vanquished 'old-fashioned determinism'. We can appreciate the full force of the cretinizing seduction of the 'chaotizing' and of the ' self-organizing': a massive force like that of miracles, perfectly suited to excite the lusts of economists, of postmodern aesthetes, in short of all sociopolitological 'researchers', and of everything that feeds on the decline of the thinking of the political as such. Like all noncreative metaphors -- which we should call second-marriage metaphors -- Chaos, the Fractal, and Catastrophe are content to 'illustrate' and to 'bring to life' a model imported, as a turnkey solution, from mathematical theories. So they can happily dispense with any real thought experiment that might justify the choice of variables and parameters used to articulate pure mathematics with real causalities.

Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs, pg. 33-34

[annamaria16k]

Να αγαπάς, έστω και αν χαθείς εκεί μέσα,μόνο αυτό που θέτει σε άτακτη φυγή την τάξη σου

Gilles Châtelet

[maximumslogandensity]

Lol’d when Gilles Chatelet describes real philosophers as “magnificent thugs of thought.”

20/5/21

[wruith]

“Reactivate your sleeping childhood, be the prince of your own beauty, which no one can suspect. Activate your virtuality.”

-Gilles Chatelet