Edge

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani defines the edge as a "switching": it converts a thing into its opposite, turns the vertical into the horizontal, the solid into the liquid, what remains into what passes, the stability of the ground into the "everything flows" of water12. For him, every edge is perilous: it attracts and frightens, it is at once charm and peril3. At the edge, the subject leaves the safety of home and finds himself facing the outside and the other4. He also connects the edge to the figure of the border in Nerval, a space where one stands. In his view, the question "where are we going to want to stay?" sums up the dialectic of the edge. In 2022, he also sees it as a refuge, an intermezzo between two extremes, and then develops the notion of the "perpetuated edge": an edge held by a subject who wants to lose nothing of either extreme, like Swann with the little phrase in Proust5.

1. 110#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 1:29:17
2. 2#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 18:26
3. 3#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 4:07
4. 4#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 37:08
5. 5#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 1:52:35

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