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Cartes Incertaines: Regard Critique Sur l'Espace
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Series: Encre Marine
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ISBN10: 2350880621
ISBN13: 9782350880624
Publisher: Encre Marine
Published: Jan 16 2013
Pages: 224
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782350880624
Publisher: Encre Marine
Published: Jan 16 2013
Pages: 224
Language: French
English summary: Often considered as an orientation and navigation tool, maps are intended to reassure us as we navigate on the earth. But what would happen if we were travelling with maps which disorient us?There certainly is no shortage of maps, but they are not all equally reliable! Some merely reproduce reality, while others, to the contrary, invent it. In addition to external maps used by geographers-geodesists-land surveyors, there are internal maps used by cosmographers-painters-writers and, indeed, all those whose lines fire the imagination, as did Michaux, who said, I want my lines to be the very phrasing of life.
The maps which will concern us here are precisely those which resist the tyranny of analogy to plunge us into the mad depths of these uncertain outlines. Such memory-bereft maps leave tracks and yet refuse to follow any sort of path. In doing so, they drag us off into improbable and unknown geographies.This journey is taken by means of a dialogue woven between Michaux's poetic works and Merleau-Ponty's philosophical writings. It also provides an opportunity to clarify Maurice Blanchot's theory expressing the main theme of the following words: Thus were they walking, immobile within the movement. These unfamiliar maps afford us an occasion to advance immobile within the movement, as if to tell us that the fixation points drawn by spatial geometry consist first and foremost of the fictional points invented by geometry. French description: SOUVENT ENVISAGEE comme un instrument d'orientation et de navigation, la carte sert a nous rassurer dans notre lecture du territoire. Mais qu'adviendrait-il si l'on voyageait avec des cartes qui nous desorientaient?Les cartes sont nombreuses certes, mais elles n'ont pas toutes les memes vertus! Certaines se contentent de reproduire simplement la realite, d'autres au contraire l'inventent. Parallelement aux cartes d'exterieur des geographes-geometres-arpenteurs, il existe des cartes d'interieur des cosmographes-peintres-ecrivains, tous ceux en fait qui font rever les lignes a la maniere de Michaux qui affirmait: Je veux que mes traces soient le phrase meme de la vie. Les cartes qui retiendront notre attention ici sont justement celles qui luttent contre la tyrannie de l'analogie pour nous plonger dans les profondeurs folles de ces contours incertains. Ces cartes sans memoire effectuent des traces et se refusent a suivre toute espece de parcours. Elles nous entrainent ainsi vers des geographies improbables et inconnues.Ce voyage se fera a partir d'un dialogue tisse entre les oeuvres poetiques de Michaux et les ecrits philosophiques de Merleau-Ponty. Il sera aussi l'occasion d'eclairer la formule de Maurice Blanchot, fil conducteur des propos qui vont suivre: Ils marchaient ainsi, immobiles a l'interieur du mouvement . Les cartes inconnues nous offrent l'occasion de marcher immobile a l'interieur du mouvement comme pour nous dire que les points de fixation que la geometrie spatiale dessine sont d'abord des points de fiction que la geometrie invente.Alain Milon est professeur de philosophie a l'universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense.
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