Performativité et habitation urbaine: itinéraires sonores dans la fragilité globale

This article aims to weave the fields of performativity, sound and urban living through philosophical itineraries that follow two motifs: mourning and vulnerability. Through Bonnie Honig's rereading of Antigone, we will trace the characters of a performative Antigone, who hybridises the fields of phoné and logos in her lament. We will then consider the example of contemporary mourning as well as the problem of urban soundscape spread by an ubiquitous technophony. We will address the motif of vulnerability starting from the work and research of Brandon Labelle, who will accompany us on sound walks where listening will emerge as a performative practice. Listening to urban space confronts us with a global and generalised vulnerability. By combining mourning and vulnerability, we will finally express the need for a performativity of fragility in our global condition

Paysages globaux: pervasivité et fragilité commune dans la condition globale

International audienceThis paper proposes a path in the investigation of our global condition through the perspective provided by the concept of "landscape", as it was developed by the phenomenological tradition, in particular by Erwin Straus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. For the aim of this research, I consider how the landscape operates a disorientation of the modern conception of spatiality. In fact, if the modernity dominated the space by a principle of productivity, the landscape makes visible the lived space of corporeity, of sensation, of movement and perception. In this regard, I will examine how the global landscapes also operate such a decentration, showing us a condition of fragility, of a common mortality, by a pervasivity that involves our own bodies and their performativity in a common flesh

Un'ontologia parassitaria. Immaginario, corpo e politica nell'atmosfera coloniale

International audienceThe main aim of this paper is to discuss the presence, in colonization, of a parasiticontology taking place in the fields of imaginary and corporeity. On one side, somepostcolonial scholars highlight a crystallisation of the colonial imaginary affected by theEuropean gaze, as well as by several European cultural categories such as the notion ofindividual or of national state. On the other side, a research about corporeity - andespecially about the influence of colonization and of an atmosphere of violence inherentin colonialism as described by Frantz Fanon - shows a parasitized “body schema”,unable to open up to the world or to constitute his own ontology. In thisphenomenological and existential sense, it is possible to talk about a parasitic ontology,which always implies parasitized ontologies. The parasitic ontology is the one ofcolonization, while the parasitized ontologies are those of the subalterns, prevented fromproviding their own vision of the world and so unable to deploy themselves in theexistence. Moving from these phenomenological and ontological reflections, this papersuggests some further researching paths in order to re-think our global present in the lightof this parasitic ontology. To this purpose it is kept into account what Achille Mbembecalls “Le devenir-nègre du monde”, a generalisation of the “fantomal paradigm”, theviolent and deadly condition that colonization was for colonized people. These paths gotowards a re-thinking of economy in the light of colonial dynamics, but also towards apolitic based on emotions and a relational ontology which is able to take into account thesocial, political, ecological questions of our global time

L’événementialité de l’anthropocène comme dynamique instituante. Thème et variations

The aim of this essay is to connect the notion of the Anthropocene with Merleau-Pontyan thought by drawing on two aspects of the author’s ontological reflection. First, I consider “the event of the Anthropocene” as an event that is part of an instituting dynamic, in reference to the ontological dimension of “Institution” that Merleau-Ponty borrows from Husserl and develops in an original way in his 1954-1955 lectures at the Collège de France. I then underline the difficulties that arise when multiple names are employed to designate our “current geological era” in debates on the Anthropocene, a complex global event with political, ethical, and social dimensions. To conclude, I show that this multiplication of names is constitutive of the event of the Anthropocene. The Merleau-Pontyan idea of “a theme that constitutes itself through its variations,” introduced by Mauro Carbone in his work on sensible ideas and the “arche-screen” and closely linked to the element of “Institution,” can help us find philosophical advancements at the heart of this contemporary naming debate

“La trappola dell’evento”: Merleau-Ponty tra percezione, storia e politica

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Un «rapport de miroir». Relation amoureuse et réflexion politique chez Merleau-Ponty

International audienceThis article studies a link between perception and politics by seeking, in Merleau-Ponty’s work, something like a “mirror relation” in the domains of encounters of love and politics. While in Phenomenology of Perception the analysis of sexuality seemingly renders love impossible, in the courses on Institution, Merleau-Ponty affirms the possibility of love by characterizing it as an institution, a sensible idea, a “mirror relation”. When the lover demands signs of love from the loved one, he demands to see in the eyes, the voice, and the experience of the other his own reflection, the reflection of his experience, his words, his gestures, and the demand of love that he is formulating. The promise of love is thus an institution of sense which sheds a new light on all actions past and future, it is a way of overcoming contingency. Conceiving of politics as a “mirror relation” thus means adopting a careful philosophy that observes the event like a mirror and gives place to sensible ideas, at the intersection of gazes understood as a “type of reflection”