Two more remarks on Flaubert's style: 4) Flaubert's paragraphs often begin with a pronoun (il, elle), but many times the reader is uncertain of which character is indicated by it until he specifies it with proper nouns in the middle of the…
three remarks on Flaubert's style: 1) Flaubert uses the personal pronoun counter-intuitively. This is always grammatically plausible, but very unexpected. When one expects that "il" refers to the subject of the previous sentence, it is, fo…
"Il n’y a pas de principes, il n’y a que des événements ; il n’y a pas de lois, il n’y a que des circonstances : l’homme supérieur épouse les événements et les circonstances pour les conduire." (Balzac. Le Père Goriot.) 「原則なんてものは…
"Je ne sais s'il faut dire aujourd'hui que le travail critique implique encore la foi dans les Lumières; il nécessite, je pense, toujours le travail sur nos limites, c'est-à-dire un labeur patient qui donne forme à l'impatience de la liber…
"Ironically enough, it may be that to the extent that Marxist interpretations of history are felt (rather than intellected) as representations of ineluctable necessity, they also acquire an aura of purity and disinterestedness." (Anderson.…
"Following rules is a good thing, but politics cannot be reduced to this, because there is no rule that says that rules must be respected." (Berardi. After the Future. 105) 「ルールに従うことはいいことだが、政治をそこに帰着させることはでき…
"I am talking about the self-consciousness of the general intellect, millions and millions of people worldwide producing the infoflow that makes the planet go around. Creating a form of self-consciousness of the general intellect is the po…
"L'histoire des peuples qui ont une histoire est, dit-on, l'histoire de la lutte des classes. L'histoire des peuples sans histoire, c'est, dira-t-on avant autant de vérité au moins, l'histoire de leur lutte contre l'État." (Clastres. La So…
"One obvious role for a radical intellectual is to do precisely that: to look at those who are creating viable alternatives, try to figure out what might be the largest implications of what they are (already) doing, and then offer those id…