Africa

Cycle 15

How does Kant distinguish the domain of nature from that of freedom, and in what sense do these two legislations contend for one and the same territory?

Jeunesse du Monde

What does Emmanuel Macron's discourse on French failure in Mali conceal, and where do the rebellion and the crisis in the Sahel come from?

Cycle 14

Why must the State, understood as general will, be distinguished from the State apparatus that oppresses?

Cycle 13

Is identity a substance, or must it be converted into relation and function?

Cycle 13

What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?

Cycle 13

How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?

Cycle 12

Is it already too late to prevent the war waged by Atlanticist imperialism from becoming a world conflict?

Café marxiste

What is today the dominant element exploiting the Sahelian Africa, and why must it be called imperialism rather than colonialism?

Cycle 12

In what sense can secularism be called the "truth" of religion, that is, what accomplishes it by abolishing it?

Cycle 11

What is the object of human desire in our modernity, and who is its subject?

Cycle 11

What does the coup in Niger reveal about the situation in the Sahel and about the way Western powers wage their wars while managing public opinion?

Cycle 11

How can reason, which has essence but not existence, produce a world, and why must it resort to cunning for this?

Cycle 11

How can we think the ambivalence of the world, between enjoyment and negativity, when two worlds collide, as in the colonial encounter between Africa and the school of the white men?

Communistes Français

How did Rousseau, first of all, unite praxis and psyche, and how does this synthesis continue in revolutionary thought, from Hegel and Marx to Clouscard?

Upsd 52

In what way is the Socratic initiative the origin of a revolution whose effects are not yet exhausted?

Pagani Parle Musique

Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?

Cycle 10

What does the notion of edge, border and march teach us about the war that breaks out in Ukraine?

Cycle 10

What does the geopolitical situation in eastern Europe and the Sahel reveal about the crisis of capitalism and the danger of war?

Cycle 10

Why is the danger of war, from the Sahel to the Russian-Ukrainian border, wrapped in silence, and what does this silence reveal, in the sense that "the death drives progress in silence"?

Cycle 10

What relation, and what hierarchy, does Hegel establish between aesthetics and politics, based on the opposition between the family and the city embodied by Antigone?

Cycle 9.2

What grounds the determinability that the symbolic order brings out in Nerval's texts, and how does Nerval get out of the repetition of his fantasy?

Questions and answers

Should we take up the notions of "red-brown" and "decolonial" produced by dominant ideology, and what is lost when the subject is eliminated in the human sciences?

Musicosophie

What does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?

Musicosophie

What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?

Musicosophie

What does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

How should the "world after" the Covid crisis be judged, and under what conditions can one still speak of progress?

Musicosophie

What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?

Musicosophie

How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?

Cycle 9.1

How does the site dominiquepagani.fr organize access to the workshops, publications, texts, and musical resources?

Other videos

What do the statue-menhirs of the Valinco gulf, raised between sea and mountain, signify?

Cycle 9.1

Why is human memory inseparable from forgetting, and how does the consciousness of death mean that 'the echo changes'?

Cycle 9.1

How does memory, which retains and names, confront the indeterminacy of origins, and how can one memory overdetermine others?

Cycle 8

What does the confinement of the era reveal, and what form of solidarity, camaraderie or community, allows us to face it?

Cycle 8

How does the Norwegian collective Alt går bra articulate aesthetics and politics, from Diogenes' cynical cosmopolitanism to the recognition of popular art?

Cycle 8

What relationship does the aesthetic field have with the political field, between the poet as bard of the collective and the poet of art for art's sake?

Cycle 7

What is lying, and how is lying to oneself related to ideology, repression, and negativity?

Cycle 6

How does the modern stage of the relation between substance and subject, where absolute knowledge becomes possible, shed light both on the logic of the subject and on the reconstitution of Nazism?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does Le voyage de la fanfare show, a novel about a brass band from Ajaccio invited in 1978 by Bokassa to the Central African Republic, about ordinary Corsican people and their encounter with Africa?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Why is money, the most vile thing there is, so close to the sacred, and how can we get out of this religion of money?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Is money only the power that perverts all values, or a medium whose problem lies in its distribution?

Cycle 5.2

How do revolutionary thought and the question "nature or landscape" fit together, and what distinguishes nature from landscape?

Play ▷II Pause

What is the value of Michel Foucault's project, in his 1966 interview, of an ethnology of our own knowledge that announces the end of philosophy and the death of man?

Other videos

Why is globalized, repetitive and binary music, broadcast everywhere since the 1950s, a music of enslavement and amnesia?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

What does Marx's sentence "in the social production of their existence, men enter into determined relations" mean, and how does it illuminate the world today?

Other videos

What should be understood by work, and by the right to work, from La Bruyère to Marx, by way of Rousseau and Hegel?

Other videos

How can Niger's traditional music be preserved and transmitted while opening its musicians to other repertoires?

Cycle 4

How can a literary text, that of a madman, achieve such rigor that it grounds a rationality in the human order, where Kant had separated nature and freedom by an unbridgeable abyss?

Cycle 4

Why read Nerval's Angélique, and how does this disjointed narrative, written in the middle of the century, lead from the mother's tomb to Rousseau's tomb?

Cycle 2

How can philosophy, after having answered with the sciences the question "what can I know?", move on to the knowledge of man and his historical present?

Cycle 3

Can man free himself from the fatality of the return of carnage, figured by Ulysses, through the labor that transforms reality, figured by Daedalus?

At the Tropiques bookshop

Why does Stanislas Spero Adotevi criticize négritude, and why must the Black question be thought in terms of class and universality rather than race?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What was the target of the critique of négritude in "Négritude et négrologues"? How did Césaire and Senghor receive the book?

At the Tropiques bookshop

What does Stanislas Adotevi show in Négritude et négrologues, and why does his critique of the essentialism of negritude disturb even more today?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Is history a subject matter, and whose history, of what, do we make?

Other videos

What do African Francophonie, the misreadings of Clouscard, and the fusion of genres reveal about the modernity born of the French Revolution?

Cycle 2

Is it philosophical critique that provokes the crisis of the city, or is it because the city is in crisis that philosophizing is needed more than ever?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

How does the negation of the negation make it possible to understand individuality, labor, the struggle for recognition between master and slave, and the meaning of history as freedom?

Hegel & Marx on the Beach

How should we read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit in light of the historical upheaval and the Romantic crisis from which it emerged?

Cycle 1

What becomes of philosophy when, in place of the good, modernity posits freedom as foundation, with the negativity and possibilities of evil that this opens up?

Cycle 1

Why did modern thought banish the notion of end, and how can it be rehabilitated without returning to naive finalism?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

Why does myth, which philosophy sought to set aside in favor of rational discourse, always come back, and what truth does it express?

Saint-Dizier Popular University

What does music teach us about the history of peoples, once we have defined what is properly musical in music?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What is a people, and how does one distinguish the popular from the populist, from pop music, and from « people » culture?

A Philosophical Alphabet

Should one be against, with, or "against with": how can opposition be thought without falling into one-sidedness?

A Philosophical Alphabet

What has the experience of Africa taught Dominique Pagani?

A Philosophical Alphabet

In what sense can a philosopher call himself a man of the left?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

What does the notion of "consumer society" cover, and how does Clouscard's concept of libertarian liberalism allow us to analyze contemporary capitalism, down to musical consumption?

Interviews for L’Affranchi

What does the "noble savage" mean in Rousseau, and what do his draft constitution for Corsica and the theme of the island reveal about his relation to nature and society?

On Michel Clouscard

How does Michel Clouscard analyze the passage, since May 68, to a capitalism that exploits in production and liberates in consumption?

On Michel Clouscard

Why does Clouscard criticize "libertarian liberalism," and what becomes of this critique when applied to the state, the societal, and music?