Cycle 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?- 1:13:23Depicted alive, pointing to Christ: "He must increase, but I must decrease."
Jean-Baptiste
Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 2 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani mentions John the Baptist only occasionally, mostly to make clear whom he means or to link him to an image. Twice he warns against confusing him with John the Evangelist, the author of the Apocalypse1. He connects him to the history of music: Paul the Deacon prays to him and recovers his voice, and the name of the note si (B) in the scale comes from « Sancte Johannes », in his account of the shift from modal to tonal music2. He also recalls the figure of the prophet dressed in an animal skin in the desert, far from Herod's court3. He presents him as the man who curses that debauched court and whose head Salome demands4. Discussing a painting, he describes him shown alive, pointing to Christ, and quotes the words: « He must increase, but I must decrease »5.
- 1Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self2 Dec 2024 · 5:49
- 2From the lost voice to the path of modernity: from modal music to tonal music23 May 2021 · 17:48
- 3#10.7 “Postmodern” eco-petty-Nazism: Plato's Gorgias23 Dec 2021 · 23:28
- 4The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present4 Jun 2024 · 46:59
- 5#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?10 Feb 2022 · 1:13:23
Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Cycle 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?
Series · 23 May 2021From the lost voice to the path of modernity: from modal music to tonal music- 17:48Paul the Deacon implores him and recovers his voice; "Sancte Johannes" gives the note si of the scale.
Cycle 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self- 5:49Not to be confused with the author of the Apocalypse.
Cycle 12 · 4 Jun 2024The matrix of all illusion: the past lived as present- 46:59The prophet whose head Salome demands, who curses the debauched court.
Cycle 10 · 23 Dec 2021#10.7 “Postmodern” eco-petty-Nazism: Plato's Gorgias- 23:28Clothed in animal skin in the desert, far from Herod's court.
Cycle 2 · 18 Feb 2016#2.3 Between crisis and war: philosophising?- 22:30Not to be confused with the evangelist.