Vulcain

Vulcain (Héphaïstos) · God of both beneficial and hindering fire

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Summary

Dominique Pagani speaks of Vulcan as the blacksmith god, the only god who works while the others feast1. He stresses his ugliness: a lame god, "ugly and black", the ugliest on Olympus, and yet the husband of Venus, who deceives him with Mars2 3. He makes him the figure of the collective worker and of production, whose act is to produce, as opposed to consuming4. He links him above all to Michel Clouscard, in whose work Vulcan stands against Narcissus according to the formula "yours to make, mine to please"5. In this pairing, seduction liquidates the figure of labour. Commenting on Clouscard, he adds that toil is the obscene moment, the one that makes Vulcan uglier than Narcissus6 7. He takes up this opposition from 2017 to 2021: in his postface to Clouscard, in debates on work, including a meeting with Bernard Friot, and in a session on the sciences of history.

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Vulcan is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. The Vulcanalia was the annual festival held August 23 in his honor. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. In Etruscan religion, he is identified with Sethlans. […]

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Cycle 9.2 · 14 Jan 2021#9.12 How can sciences of history be real?

1:26:44The blacksmith god, the ugliest and lame, whose wife is Venus; a figure of production in Clouscard.
1:36:02His act is to produce, the opposite of which is to consume.