Superfluous

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani places the beginning of humankind in the appearance of the superfluous: paintings, ornaments and burials do not serve survival1. He takes up this thesis again with regard to cave paintings and jewellery. He concludes from it that human production serves desire, and not only need2. He finds it scandalous to keep to the vital minimum, since Cro-Magnon already went beyond it3. He specifies that uncoupling desire from need is in no way idealist: the relation to the other presupposes the materiality of the thing4. He also gives the example of the worker who, caught between the necessary and the superfluous, goes drinking with his mates. He concludes that man cannot be reduced to his needs5. From one session to the next, between 2020 and 2023, these passages express the same position.

1. 1#5 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...19 Nov 2020 · 1:22:20
2. 2Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 33:49
3. 3#5 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...19 Nov 2020 · 1:22:40
4. 4Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 37:58
5. 5La PHILO avec PAGANI : E comme ENFANCE4 Jun 2023 · 2:04

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.