The Malaise Of Modernity • Das Unbehagen an der Moderne
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Chi progetta sa di aver raggiunto la perfezione non quando non ha più nulla da aggiungere ma quando non gli resta più niente da togliere.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Blick auf das Paul-Löbe-Haus am Ufer der Spree und auf das Reichstagsgebäude in Berlin. Beide Gebäude liegen im Berliner Regierungsviertel. Das Reichstagsgebäude ist seit 1999 Sitz des Deutschen Bundestages. Das Paul-Löbe-Haus ist ein Funktionsgebäude des Deutschen Bundestages und nach dem Reichstagspräsidenten und Alterspräsidenten des ersten Deutschen Bundestages Paul Löbe benannt.
View of the Paul Löbe House on the banks of the Spree and the Reichstag building in Berlin. Both buildings are located in Berlin's government district. The Reichstag building has been the seat of the German Bundestag since 1999. The Paul Löbe House is a functional building of the German Bundestag and named after Paul Löbe, President of the Reichstag and former President of the first German Bundestag.
inside Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia
Valencia Opera House
Architecture by Santiago Calatrava
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ÊTRE PRÉSENT AU MONDE
J’ai fait le plein de naïveté,
Celle qui nous rapproche des évidences premières,
Les beautés naturelles.
Et je suis parti sur les sentiers des grandes prairies, sans projet précis.
Sauf celui d’assumer ma présence au monde.
Ici, le vent, libre de tout entrave,
Fait entendre un murmure fusionnel (le bruit blanc) qui nous aspire en lui.
La nuit venue, l’immensité inégalée du ciel étoilé, transporte l’observateur dans une autre dimension… inhumaine, insaisissable, merveilleuse, cosmique.
Confronté au non-humain, on se fait petit et interrogatif : « Et si nous étions seuls? Vu de là-bas, que sommes-nous? Y a t-il, en nous, une mémoire de nos origines?
J’aurais pu traverser les forêts anciennes, longer les rivages océaniques…
Partout les beautés naturelles engendrent une expérience physiologique et métaphysique qui pénètre la conscience, par tous les sens…
…La rendant plus « présente » au monde naturel, cette capacité atrophiée par l’univers artificiel que la modernité a érigé.
En soi, ces expériences ne changent rien à ce qui va mal sur cette planète.
Mais elles pourraient changer la façon avec laquelle chacun comprendra les enjeux et y répondra en toute conscience. *
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Patrice Photographiste, Chroniques du Monde de Poësia
Inspiré de : Heidi Barr, écrivaine américaine et de Alexandre Lacroix, philosophe, « Devant la beauté de la Nature »
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BE PRESENT TO THE WORLD
I filled up with naivety,
The one that brings us closer to the first evidences,
Natural beauties.
And I set off on the trails of the great prairies, without a specific project,
Except that of assuming my presence in the world.
Here, the wind, free from all hindrances
Makes hear a white noise that sucks us into it.
At nightfall, the unequaled immensity of the starry sky transports the observer to another dimension... inhuman, elusive, marvellous, and cosmic.
Confronted with the non-human, we become small and questioning: “And if we were alone? Seen from there, what are we? Is there, in us, a memory of our origins?
I could have crossed ancient forests, going along the ocean shores…
Everywhere, natural beauty generates a physiological and metaphysical experience that penetrates the consciousness, through all the senses...
…Making it more “present” to the natural world, this capacity atrophied by the artificial universe that modernity has erected.
By themselves, these experiences won’t change what’s wrong on this planet.
But they could change the way everyone understands the issues and responds to them in good conscience. *
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Patrice Photographiste, Chronicles of the Lands of Poësia
Inspired by: Heidi Barr, American writer and Alexandre Lacroix, philosopher, “Devant la beauté de la nature”
"BETWEET MODERNITY AND ANCIENT"
Vista de la Torre de la Catedral de Barcelona situada
en el Barrio gótico desde las famosas Ramblas.
Entre el PASADO y el FUTURO está el PRESENTE.
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Vue sur la centrale nucléaire de Nogent
Ces deux tours aéroréfrigérantes font 165 m de haut.
(J’y ai travaillé pendant 6 ans)
Tour de France : J12 – Aube – Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent a vu de nombreuses batailles, dont celle sous Napoléon qui opposa 1000 grognards à 20000 Autrichiens, et a été souvent détruite ou incendiée.
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According to the philosopher Zygmunt Bauman, liquid modernity refers to a fluidity that, far from leading us to a "lighter" living, it sends the weight of concreteness away, but doesn't give the counterpart. Where everything is fluid, transitory and without reference, everything "depends on context" and the solid bases to support us are no longer found. In order not to drown, one must learn to discern. Or we'll follow the fate of Sisyphus until the death of everything that exists.
The modernity of the Sky Costanera contrasts with the beautiful details of European architecture, quite preserved in the city
Dale Church in Luster, Norway, was originally built almost 800 years ago. The architecture is a mix of Romanesque and Gothic style. Among other things, it has frescoes dating from the 15th century. It was not mentioned as a must-see in the tourist guidebooks, but we are very glad we did see it, with some fine examples of craftsmanship like this window and side entrance door. Something modernity cannot imitate.
Dublin, sous un temps couvert et très gris mais qui ne manque pas de charme; En arrière plan le pont Samuel Beckett , très moderne et en avant plan le Jeanie Johnston, réplique d’un trois-mâts canadien (musée flottant) , rappel de l'immigration des dublinois aux Etats Unis.
Dublin, under a cloudy and gray weather, but not lacking in charm; In the background the Samuel Beckett bridge, very modern and in the foreground Jeanie Johnston, replica of a Canadian three-master (floating museum), reminder of the immigration of the dublin in the United States.
Kloosterkazerne (barracks), Breda, The Netherlands.
The current building has been restored in 2003, but the looks date from a modification in 1846. The complex started as a cloister in 1308.
The doors are painful details.
In modernity we are in a hurry to go and arrive and we no longer stop to observe the shadows that slowly stretch out on the road.
Presente e passato
Nella modernità si ha fretta di andare ed arrivare e non ci si ferma più ad osservare le ombre che si allungano lentamente sulla strada.