« the European Union barely discerns the link between its political impotence and its symbolic inconsistency. How can we become more than "a real estate occupied by a number of countries" (the US Secretary of Defense) - a collective individual? How can we give ourselves an identity without memory a great quarrel, for example with the World Empire? Don't unite who wants but who can. `...` Perhaps a Europe without a point of flight gains in wisdom what it loses in tone. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire
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« By highlighting the mansuétudes to erase the ferocities of Yahweh/Allah/God, modest propriety ends up producing an ostrich theology, responding to a policy of the same name. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire
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« Veronese appears under good escort before the court of the Inquisition, before whom he must explain the sacrilegious presence next to Christ, in The Wedding of Cana, saltimbanques and goujats. »
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Régis Debray
Life and death of the image |
Régis Debray
Life and death of the image
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