Chasing beauty

Always!!

What happiness sounds and looks like...

Reading, sun bathing, writing music. Chasing beauty. And love. Always.

In summer or in my head :)

Call Me By Your Name | Official Trailer (2017)

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Is it better to speak or die? / Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Alienation and Freedom - Frantz Fanon's rebirth

New book coming up in April in the U.K. By Bloomsbury Publishing:

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Published:	19-04-2018
Format:	EPUB/MOBI eBook (Watermarked)
Edition:	1st
Extent:	816
ISBN:	9781474250245
Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Online price:	£17.99

Alienation and Freedom is finally translated in English! 

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Frantz Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 1960s to the present day, all over the world.

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer. He was the author of classic works such as Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961). He was one of the most significant anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist thinkers of the 20th Century.
This new book, assembled by Jean Khalfa and Robert Young, collects together previously unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output - which were previously thought to be lost or inaccessible. 

This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particular, take centre stage. These writings provide new depth and complexity to our understanding of Fanon's entire oeuvre revealing more of his powerful thinking about identity, race and activism which remain remarkably prescient. 

Shedding new light on the work of a major 20th-century philosopher, this disruptive and moving work will shape how we look at the world. 


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Jean Khalfa is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Trinity College Cambridge, UK. He is the editor of the first complete edition of Michel Foucault's History of Madness (2006) and author of Poetics of the Antilles (2016) and an upcoming work on Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth.

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Reviews

“We must thank Jean Khalfa and Robert Young for this precious compendium. It overflows with possibility and will do more than merely transform scholarly understanding of Fanon's work and life. Here, at last, is the means to surpass the caricatures and undo all the bad faith that has passed for too long as both criticism and exposition of his revolutionary humanist ethics, his epistemology and his politics. A new era of Fanon studies begins now.” –  Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London, UK, author of 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack', 

“The demand has been there for years: More, Fanon, give us more! Well, here it is. This collection of formerly unpublished writings achieves that task with beauty and breadth. Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young's erudite, lucid analyses and commentaries contextualizing the selections, and other gems, including correspondence on publishing his works and a catalog of Fanon's library. There is much here not only for scholars but anyone interested in learning more about and from this great revolutionary thinker and fighter for the causes of dignity and freedom.” –  Lewis R. Gordon, author of 'What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought', 

“The publication of Alienation and Freedom is one of the most significant intellectual achievements in the last half century. The volume reaffirms Frantz Fanon's status as a leading twentieth-century philosopher, psychiatrist, decolonial theorist, and revolutionary. It also reveals a lesser-known Fanon, a Fanon whose previously unpublished works of poeticism and historicism concern themselves with the myriad ways in which we may discern and express the meaning of freedom. The book is brilliant and the editing of Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young superb.” –  Neil Roberts, author of 'Freedom as Marronage' and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, 

“The first intimate look at Frantz Fanon's brilliance and wide-ranging interests, this volume gives us the full range of his gifts as a playwright, an innovative psychiatrist fully aware of the importance of his theories, and a committed political philosopher. The last section (on his library) lets us share the full intensity of his whole intellectual trajectory-one that influenced the course of decolonial thinking on all continents. Editors Jean Khalfa's and Robert Young's painstaking work is a publishing event and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in understanding alienation and the search for social justice.” –  Françoise Lionnet, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA,

Table of contents

General Introduction, by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young  

Part One: Theatre
Fanon, Revolutionary Playwright, by Robert J.C. Young
Parallel Hands
The Drowning Eye

Part Two: Psychiatric writings 
Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, by Jean Khalfa 
Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredo-degeneration: on a case of Friedreich's ataxia with delusions of possession

Letter to Maurice Despinoy
Trait d'union 
On some cases treated with the Bini method 
Indications of Bini therapy in the framework of institutional therapies
On an attempt at readaptation of a patient with morpheic epilepsy and series character disorders
Note on techniques of sleeping therapy with conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring
Notre Journal, introduction by Amina Azza Bekkat 
Letter to Maurice Despinoy
Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: methodological difficulties
Daily life in the douars 
Introduction to sexuality disorders among North-African men
Current aspects of mental assistance in Algeria 
Ethnopsychiatric considerations 
Confessional behaviour in North Africa (1)
Confessional behaviour in North Africa (2)

Letter to Maurice Despinoy
Attitude of Maghrebin Muslims towards madness 
The TAT with Muslim women, sociology of perception and imagination 
Letter to the resident minister
The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric setting: general considerations, psychopathological meaning
Biological study of the action of lithium citrate in manic fits
On a case of torsion spasm 
First attempts with injectable meprobamate in hypochondriac states
Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits
Day hospitalization in psychiatry: value and limits. Second part: doctrinal considerations 

Psychiatry in its meeting with society 

Part Three: Political writings 
Introduction, by Jean Khalfa
The Demoralized Foreign Legion 
Algeria's Independence: an everyday reality 
National Independence: the only possible outcome
Algeria and the French Crisis 
The Algerian conflict and African anticolonialism 
A democratic revolution 
One more time: the reason for the prerequisite 
Algerian revolutionary consciousness 
Strategies of an Army with its Back to the Wall 
The survivors of no man's land 
The testament of a 'man of the left' 
The rationale of ultracolonialism
The Western World and the Fascist Experience in France 
Gaullist Illusions 
The Cross of a People 
The Anti-Imperialist Movement's Rise and the Retards of Pacification 
The United Combat of African Countries 
Richard Wright's White man, listen! 
At Conakry, He Declares: 'World Peace passes via National Independence' 
Africa Accuses the West 
The Stooges of Imperialism
Letter to Ali Shariati, presentation by Sara Shariati

Part Four: Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971) 
Introduction, by Jean Khalfa 
Correspondence between François Maspero and Frantz Fanon
The Italian Fanon: unearthing a hidden editorial history, by Neelam Srivastava 

Part Five: Frantz Fanon's library 
List established, presented and commented upon by Jean Khalfa
Key dates 
Index

En France, vendredi, le César du meilleur film documentaire a été attribué à "I Am Not Your Negro", le film de Raoul Peck sur James Baldwin. Dix ans de travail récompensés! 

Félicitations à Raoul Peck et à toute son équipe!! Immense documentaire du réalisateur haïtien, qui évoque les figures de la lutte pour les droits civiques à travers le parcours et les réflexions de l’écrivain afro-américain...

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO - CÉSAR 2018 DU MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE

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I Am Not Your Negro Featurette - Baldwin (2017) - Documentary

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Pour voir le film en français:

À travers les propos et les écrits de l’écrivain noir américain James Baldwin, Raoul Peck propose un film qui revisite les luttes sociales et politiques des Afro-Américains au cours de ces dernières décennies.

Provider

Universcine

Release date

2017

Running time

1:29:49

Language

French

ActorJoeyStarr

Director

Raoul Peck

Producers

Raoul Peck Rémi Grellety Hébert Peck

Writers

Raoul Peck James Baldwin

'Man-Size'

Spirit of this first week of March... Going on to March 8:


"Man-Size"

Music video by PJ Harvey performing Man-Size. (C) 
Universal Island Records Ltd. A Universal

Artist: PJ Harvey

Album: Rid of Me

Released: 1993

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Lyrics:

I'm coming up man-sized
Skinned alive
I want to fit
I've got to get
Man-sized
I'm heading on
Handsome
Got my leather boots on

Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-sized no need to shout
Can you hear, can you hear me now?

I'm man-sized
Man-sized

I'll measure time
I'll measure height
I'll calculate
My birthrite
Good Lord I'm big
I'm heading on
Man-size 
Got my leather boots on

Got my girl and she's a wow
I cast my iron knickers down
Man-sized no need to shout
Can you hear, can you hear me now?

My babe looking cool and neat
I'm pretty sure good enough to eat
Man-size no need to shout
Let it all, let it all hang out

I'm man-size
Man-size [X7]

Silence my lady head
Get girl out of my head
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free

Silence my lady head
Get girl out of my head
Douse hair with gasoline
Set it light and set it free

"The Young Karl Marx" at the British Library on May 5

Pleased to announce this screening in London !!!

It might be a more important battle for me than the rest.
I will be there, England. We might renew our dialogue...

FILM

Karl Marx Imagined, and The Young Karl Marx screening

Sat 5 May 2018, 14:30 - 18:00

Re-imagining Marx in theatre, literature and film

Karl Marx has had huge influence on world history, but who was the man behind the famous bearded image? Where did his inspiration and his relentless intellectual energy come from? Playwrights Clive Coleman and Richard Bean, writers of West End hit Young Marx, film maker and writer Jason Barker (Marx Reloaded film, Marx Returns novel) and the team behind Raoul Peck’s film The Young Karl Marx get to grips with this enigmatic figure.

Followed by a rare UK screening of The Young Karl Marx (2016, 1 hr 58 mins)

Details

Name:	Karl Marx Imagined, and The Young Karl Marx screening
Where:	Knowledge Centre The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Show Map      How to get to the Library
When:	Sat 5 May 2018, 14:30 - 18:00
Price:	Full Price: £15.00 Member: £15.00 Senior 60+: £12.00 Student: £10.00 Registered Unemployed: £10.00 Under 18: £10.00 Friend of the British Library: £15.00
Enquiries:	+44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk

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Link to the British Library's website: https://www.bl.uk/events/karl-marx-imagined-and-the-young-karl-marx-screening

"Marianne Faithfull" par Sandrine Bonnaire

Some more Anglo-French love...

Very honest, up to blunt sometimes, dialogue between an artist and an actor.
Odd, confused at some point, but mainly very direct.

Marianne Faithfull - Fleur d'âme

On ARTE:

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/067097-000-A/marianne-faithfull-fleur-d-ame/

Par Sandrine Bonnaire, ce portrait sensible de Marianne Faithfull, ex-égérie du Swinging London devenue musicienne accomplie, capte le formidable élan de vie qui a permis à cette femme libre de survivre à tous les excès.

Marianne Faithfull. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives

Repérée à 17 ans par le manager des Stones, alors qu'elle s'extirpe à peine d'un pensionnat catholique, Marianne Faithfull enregistre "As Tears Go By" et devient une star. Figure du Swinging London, cette jeune fille qui allie délicatesse et sex-appeal devient la compagne de Mick Jagger et partage la vie tumultueuse du groupe, ses excès, le scandale, la pression médiatique et la drogue. Après avoir rompu avec Jagger en 1970, elle veut mettre en application le programme délirant du Festin nu de William S. Burroughs, et mène plusieurs années une vie de SDF et de toxicomane. Mue par une réelle passion pour la musique, elle finira par trouver son style en composant des albums de plus en plus personnels, se débarrassant peu à peu de ses lisses atours de jeune fille pour devenir une fascinante chanteuse à la voix rauque, assumant ses choix et ses fêlures.

Humour inoxydable
Toujours directe, Marianne Faithfull avoue sans détour à Sandrine Bonnaire qu'un film sur elle-même ne l'emballe pas : "Mais je ferai de mon mieux. Je serai honnête", promet-elle. Déjà rompue à l'exercice du portrait avec Jacques Higelin par Sandrine Bonnaire – Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme, l'actrice et réalisatrice cerne avec sensibilité son rétif sujet, montrant les moments de lassitude et d'humeur ou la crainte de faire remonter des souvenirs douloureux, ce qui ne donne que plus de prix aux instants où Marianne Faithfull se livre avec la plus grande générosité. Grâce à ces émouvants entretiens et à un poétique montage d'archives, Sandrine Bonnaire parvient à capter l'élan de vie et la force créatrice qui a permis à la chanteuse de s'accomplir artistiquement, malgré la misogynie qui sévissait dans les sixties, et de survivre aux excès et aux coups du sort. Le portrait d'une femme libre, à la sensibilité à fleur de peau et au sens de l’humour inoxydable.

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Disponible du 26/02/2018 au 08/03/2018

Disponible en direct : Oui

Prochaine diffusion : samedi 31 mars à 06h15

'Pull marine'

Very French weekend with my favourite English person...

Soundtrack:

Isabelle Adjani - 'Pull marine'

Music video by Isabelle Adjani performing Pull marine. (C) 1984 Mercury Music Group

"Groundhog Day"

Filmic philosophy...

Groundhog Day -Trailer

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A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day. Genre:Comedy/Fantasy Director:Harold Ramis Cast:Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

Hey, England...

 Hey, England... My best friend from London is coming to Paris tomorrow. In the nine years I've known her, it's the second time. All of the other times, we saw each other in England. I met her in London, I lived with her in Golders Green, we walked through dozens of gardens and shared all the most important conversations possible... In England.

Why do I love you so much, you piece of land? Fracture of the formerly largest empire in modern history...

When I left London for Kenya in 2010, I thought I would never stop missing you, England. When I left London for good in 2012, I thought, though: "this place, I love it so much, yet, it doesn't love me back"...

It's a bit how I feel today.

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I might have to cancel all my plans and prospects for next spring.
Unexpected disagreements.

When I came to Bristol three years ago, I thought that was it. London wasn't the right place. But this call for England was coming from somewhere. I had to dig into Bristol! It was love at first sight...

Yet, since then, there were pathetic elections and the Brexit referendum, and a snowballing effect of misunderstanding and disputes.

There is a moment when you need to throw the towel.

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I came to England for the first time in 1993. And I could already speak English fluently. I don't know how this was even possible. I had studied English at school for only a year by then. But the love of music, I guess, taught me everything.

Now, as I already boycott the United States, as I read dozens of books on colonisation and slavery and the role of Britain in all of that, it might be time to face than maybe England won't ever save me from what France had cruelly hurt me with... The ripping of the past...

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It was an interesting journey of exciting discoveries, blissful moments and hard-learnt lessons. All the months in the corridors of the BBC, in the rooms of the V & A, in the Londonian night buses, in the National Express, my profound passion for the Western Lands, wonderfully deep discussions, a lot of friendships and great encounters.

Special love to Northern Ireland and Scotland too, that I discovered more recently.

I tried to love you, England, you cannot imagine how much. But maybe we'll get there only in another lifetime...

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PJ Harvey - 'England'

'Aquarius' - looking for inspiration

When you need motivation in times of utter unfairness... 

You look for inspiration: 


'Aquarius' - Official Trailer (2016) - with Sonia Braga