The private

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani starts from the etymology: private means "I deprive you of it," as shown by the "private property" sign that shuts out the walker1. He links the concept mainly to the figure of Antigone. For her, the private is not the individual but the family, united by blood, set against the political bond of the city2. Death, the corpse and funeral rites belong to it, because the sacred is private3. He describes the family as the world of the private, the place of acquisition and of singular enjoyment, contrary to the general will4, and notes that there is no need to make public what one eats5. He considers this separation of public and private relevant today, in the face of a puritan ideology that recognizes no private life6. On the political level, he wants to give back to collective ownership what was plundered from it while keeping a private sphere for each person. In his view, privatization must not touch the major means of production and exchange78.

1. 1A comme Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 3:29
2. 2#10 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...24 Dec 2020 · 10:17
3. 3A comme Antigone15 Dec 2014 · 9:49
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5. 510#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 39:47
6. 610#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 1:50:50
7. 7#10 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...24 Dec 2020 · 37:42
8. 8#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 1:50:45

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