Movement

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches movement from several angles. On the physical side, he links it to Galileo: a movement can only be defined in relation to a fixed point, so it is relative1. Within this framework, rest and uniform motion amount to the same thing, and only acceleration marks a difference2. With Hegel, he presents movement in space as the negation, at every instant, of the place where one was. He takes the example of the swan, which thus tries to negate space3. He extends the idea to forms: every finished form is only a transitory configuration, a moment, like a door handle being turned4. Regarding Rousseau, he argues that the subject is neither the state of nature nor the civil state, but the passage itself, a cursor that never stops5. Movement, usually a mere middle term, then becomes the essential thing, as in the wisdom that the truth of the path is the path6.

1. 1#3.3 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:12:51
2. 2L'Histoire est elle une matière ?9 Mar 2017 · 51:47
3. 3#6 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 45:39
4. 4#7 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude5 May 2020 · 25:34
5. 5LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:15:27
6. 6LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:18:51

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