September 2011
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The Last News Story...?
I couldn’t resist coming to Israel/Palestine to cover this historic day , Friday, September 23, when Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, would deliver his speech before the United Nations General Assembly and probably, nobody knew for sure, request recognition for an independant Palestinian state. I didn’t really think anything extraordinary would happen, but a photographer can...
December 2010
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October 2010
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French anguish over agony of retirement myth.
Extract from insightful article by philosopher, Robert Redeker, in Le Monde (21/10/10), concerning the on-going demonstrations and strikes over the French government’s proposed law to prolong the age of retirement in France. An attempt to explain the mobilization of the masses…
“During a whole lifetime, (the idea of)retirement offers the hope of a better life. It is the sacred...
December 2009
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Temps des Crises, Michel Serres (cont.)
27/12/09
Admitedly, for me, the thread of Michel Serres’ reasoning is not always easy to follow…a lot of backing up and re-reading of text…trying to make sense. But I know from experience that if I persist, I will discover a brilliant pearl of thought at some point ; a new way of seeing the world.
He proposes that the World, what he calls the Biogée (life and earth), become an actor,...
le Temps des Crises...
Short pamphlet by Michel Serres, French thinker, on the present situation in the world, “No return to the past is possible, therefore we must invent a new world…”
Serres makes an interesting comment on the social collective: “The collective is replaced by the ‘connective’. The most ignorant amongst us presently has easy access to more knowledge than the most...
November 2009
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Here it is in a nut shell...Le Monde asks the big... →
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