Épiméthée

Summary

Dominique Pagani returns to Epimetheus from 2015 to 2023, always for the same episode: tasked with distributing qualities among the species, Epimetheus gives everything to the animals and has nothing left for man1. What he mainly draws from it is the consequence of this distribution: man remains naked, destitute and, as he says in 2015, not viable23. In 2023, he attributes this poor distribution to Epimetheus's imperfect mind4. The story comes up in sessions on varied subjects: zero, Greek mythology, an interview on exploitation, artificial intelligence, two sessions on worldliness in Clouscard and a session on contradictory identity ("I is another"). The passages do not say what link he draws with each of these themes. He also notes in passing that a PUF book series bears the name of Epimetheus5. From one session to the next, he presents the episode in much the same terms.

1. 1#9.21 Science and/or philosophy of “artificial intelligence”12 May 2021 · 1:43:08
2. 2Z for Zero9 Jan 2015 · 7:27
3. 3“What threatens societies are the men and women who benefit from the exploitation of others”12 Mar 2019 · 1:38:48
4. 4Worldliness in Clouscard: Aragon and the positivity of the negative29 Jun 2023 · 1:02:00
5. 5Worldliness in Clouscard: the world as “cunning of reason”22 Jul 2023 · 1:41:44

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.