Between Dream and Imagination (Litterary Meditations review, n° 6)

Call for papers for No. 6 of Literary Meditations Between Dream and Imagination Both exciting and complex, the dream and the imagination are two closely related concepts, sharing several common denominators. Dreaming refers to an altered state of consciousness that occurs during sleep, while imagination refers to the mental ability to create images, sounds, ideas, … Read more

A sentimental Houellebecq, Garriga Vela’s feast of imagination and other books of the week

Whether it is accepted with greater or lesser reluctance, Michel Houellebecq’s dazzling narrative career has been sustained on the basis of a conjugation of virulent philippics against these liquid and hypermodern times of misrule, consumerism and banality. In Annihilation, his latest and long-awaited novel – which deals with a future presidential campaign in France, with … Read more

Think war. The Civil War: Political Imagination and Reality

The mobilization of the notion of civil war in the public debate is a very old French passion. The taste for politics and that of controversy, which go hand in hand, contribute to fueling it. But the history of France, from the Revolution to the agitation of May 1968, passing through the rapid changes of … Read more