Season 14 · 28 Aug 2026From Copernicus to Lenin: Revolution!- 42:27His whisky floating in Tintin's Explorers on the Moon shows that not all bodies have weight.
capitaine Haddock
Appears in 12 videos · 12 passages, 1 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani returns regularly to Captain Haddock, mostly to two motifs that he uses as philosophical examples. The first is the scene in Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon where the captain's whisky floats as a ball in weightlessness. From 2015 to 2026, he uses it to contradict the proposition "all bodies have weight": weight is not a constant of bodies123. The second is the insult "bois-sans-soif" ("drinks-without-thirst"), which he discusses from 2018 onward: there is no pleasure without prior desire, and pleasure dies out once desire is satisfied45. He also notes other features of the character: the insult "bachi-bouzouk", the question of the beard that keeps Haddock awake in The Red Sea Sharks, and the parrots in Red Rackham's Treasure that repeat his ancestor's insults. He compares these parrots to the mocking voices Schreber hears, in connection with contradictory identity6.
- 1Hegel Plage 3/52 Feb 2016 · 44:41
- 2#12 • Retour aux logiques du sujet2 Jul 2020 · 28:37
- 3De Copernic à Lénine: Révolution !28 Aug 2026 · 42:27
- 4Education : le Beau s'apprend-il ?20 Jul 2018 · 59:21
- 5Langage et pensée : Le cas Lavoisier13 Apr 2026 · 18:33
- 6"Je est un autre" ou l'identité contradictoire12 Dec 2023 · 1:42:36
Summary produced automatically from 12 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Captain Archibald Haddock (French: Capitaine Archibald Haddock) is a character in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. He is Tintin's best friend, a sea captain in the merchant navy, and was introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws. Haddock was initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character, but in later albums he became more respectable and genuinely heroic (notably in the seminal Tintin in Tibet, where he soberly volunteers his life to save his friend). Although when introduced Haddock has command of a freighter, in later volumes he is clearly retired. […]
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Season 14 · 28 Aug 2026From Copernicus to Lenin: Revolution!
Season 14 · 13 Apr 2026Language and thought: The case of Lavoisier- 18:33His insult "drink without thirst" illustrates the pleasure that fades once desire is satisfied.
Season 12 · 12 Dec 2023"I is another", or contradictory identity- 1:42:36The parrots of the Treasure by Rackham the Red repeat the insults of their ancestor, like the mocking voices of Schreber.
Talks · 14 Jul 2022From Plato to world revolution, by Dominique Pagani- 57:00His insult "drink without thirst" illustrates that there is no pleasure without desire.
Series · 7 Feb 2021Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more- 35:06Uses "bashi-bazouk" as an insult.
Season 8 · 2 Jul 2020#12 • Return to the logics of the subject- 28:37In On a marché sur la Lune, his whisky floats in a ball: an example against "all bodies have weight."
Talks · 20 Jul 2018Education: can the Beautiful be learned?- 59:21His insult "drink without thirst": there is no pleasure without prior desire.
Season 3 · 1 Aug 2017#3.5 From Ulysses to Daedalus- 1:06:49His whisky floats in space.
Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:07:43In Tintin in the Land of Black Gold [Coke en stock], the question of the beard keeps him from sleeping.
Series · 2 Feb 2016Hegel on the Beach 3/5- 44:41We Walked on the MoonHis whisky floats: weight is not a constant.
Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:18:28"To drink without thirst," one of his insults.
Season 1 · 14 Sept 2015#1.3 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 55:56His whisky floating in weightlessness shows that not every body has weight.