Crisis

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Dominique Pagani approaches crisis from two angles. On the philosophical level, he takes up an idea from Hegel: philosophy is "the daughter of crisis." The great advances in thought occur when society is shaken as a whole, as with the fall of the Greek city-state or the decline of the Ancien Régime1. There is crisis when the same words no longer mean the same things to the same individuals. Crisis and critique share the same root, and it is crisis that gives rise to critique, not the other way round. On the economic level, he draws on Marx. The present crisis began in the 1970s with financialization and the decoupling of the dollar from gold2. It is the crisis Marx foretold, postponed by the Second World War, and capital only ever wins reprieves. He compares it to 1929 and stresses that with each crisis, capital performs a "reset" through carnage on a planetary scale3.

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Talks · 23 Mar 2024Sahelian Africa and imperialism: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger

58:54With every crisis, such as that of the 1930s or since 2008, capital carries out a "reset" through planetary carnage.

Cycle 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?

41:26Philosophy arises and progresses through crises: the crisis of the Greek city, of the Middle Ages, of the feudal monarchy.
1:12:13The romantic mal du siècle is the crisis of leaving a divinized world.

Cycle 11 · 13 Nov 2022Dialectics of hesitation and decision

17:13There must be crisis for philosophy to arise: crisis of the Greek city for Socrates, crisis of the feudal monarchy announced by Rousseau.

Cycle 10 · 27 Jan 2022#8 Philosophising under threat

36:52The economic crisis has worsened since 2008 despite the billions injected: it is spinning its wheels.
1:05:04The crisis of '29, not resolved by the New Deal, leads to the Second World War.

Cycle 10 · 22 Sept 2021#10.1 The eternal irony of the community

59:01Productive forces advance while relations of production stagnate; we are living the in-between, the gestation of new relations.

Talks · 16 Jan 2021The world before, the world after (part 1)

39:37The subprime crisis does not come from the public sector but from speculation; central banks have doused the fire with liquidity as if with gasoline.

Talks · 4 Oct 2020Calves and Things: the preface

36:01Capital goes on strike against investment and prefers the financial to the industrial: this is why environmentalists are degrowthers.

Cycle 7 · 5 May 2020#7 Harnessed to confinitude

1:56The health crisis conceals an exceptional economic crisis, planned since 2008: it is a bubble that must burst.
13:31In Marx, the general crisis is the culminating point of the cycle of modern industry and drives the dialectic into people's heads.

Cycle 7 · 11 Apr 2020#4 Harnessed to confinitude

16:32Philosophy is the daughter of crisis: one does not ask questions when everything is perfect; one seeks to know because one has been struck.

Cycle 7 · 27 Mar 2020#1 Harnessed to confinitude

54:04The economic and social crisis beginning is more threatening than the virus and allows social gains to be swept away.
1:00:53The crisis of capital announced by Marx has come; capital obtains only a reprieve, and the crisis returns as soon as normal functioning resumes.

Cycle 7 · 26 Mar 2020#0 Harnessed to confinitude

1:20The economic crisis is bound up with the health situation. Specialists judge it more serious than that of 2008 and close to that of 1929.

Cycle 5.2 · 29 Jul 2019#5.9 Kafka, “An Imperial Message”

23:52Great philosophical advances occur when society is affected in its totality; reform, revolt, and revolution must be distinguished.

Series · 2 May 2019Michel Foucault

1:03:48For Hegel, philosophy is always daughter of crisis: the fall of the Greek city, the decline of the Ancien Régime.

Cycle 4 · 16 May 2018#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)

55:37Philosophy is a brief interval between two things that can cut off speech, crisis and war.
1:29:13Philosophy always arises within a crisis.

Cycle 4 · 24 Sept 2017#4.0 Presentation of the 2017-2018 workshop: Nerval's “Angélique”

12:14The current crisis is the most serious since the 1930s, and this is what makes the reading of Nerval relevant today.

Cycle 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

40:47Problem: is it critique that produces crisis, or the state of crisis that drives critique?
1:14:27Philosophy is triggered by crisis, which recalls man to his freedom and shakes him out of his habits.
1:31:55Determinism, the culmination of knowledge, denies the freedom being sought: a crisis of the workshop that forces a change of course.

Cycle 2 · 18 Feb 2016#2.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

26:34Philosophy is the daughter of crisis: if the Socratic question arises, it is because there is a margin of freedom and things are going badly.
41:25Crisis and critique share the same root; it is not critique that brings crisis, it is crisis that gives rise to critique, this sieve.

Cycle 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

6:52Principled complicity, not merely chronological, between philosophy and crisis, since the putting to death of Socrates by the city.
34:47In times of crisis the center collapses and the Gaussian curve becomes a U-curve.

Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2

3:24The current crisis is not just another crisis but the one Marx foretold, deferred by the Second World War.

Cycle 1 · 28 Jan 2016#1.8 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

22:06It is in the crisis of words that a malaise is expressed which does not come from words alone.
28:32The great philosophical advances always occur against the background of historical crisis: the Greek city, the end of the Ancien Régime.

Cycle 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.2 Between crisis and war: philosophising?

0:00All the great advances of philosophy occur against a background of crisis; philosophy is always the daughter of crisis.
4:24The need to philosophize arises when oppositions have become fixed, each in its one-sidedness.
1:04:11There is crisis when the same words no longer designate the same things for the same individuals.

Series · 8 Jan 2015Y for Yonville

11:16The short-term crisis reveals a crisis open since the 1970s through financialization and the decoupling of the dollar from gold.

Series · 31 Dec 2014Q for Quality

11:43Overproduction appears quantitative but it is a qualitative judgment: too much is produced in relation to the margin one wants to draw.

Series · 25 Dec 2014K for Karl

10:10The crisis brings people back toward Marx, but without an organized Marxist response, discontent is recovered by the far right and confused with antisemitism.

Series · 21 Dec 2014G for Gauche (the Left)

4:45To be a philosopher is first to live through a crisis: to take, at a given moment, a distance from one's own determinations.

Series · 29 Jan 2012Everything is allowed but nothing is possible: Michel Clouscard (1)

40:31The fall in profit begins as early as the end of the 1960s, not in 1973; the reconstruction system of 1945 is itself out of balance.