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Exits floor in this picture, if it is viewed directly without going through the comments. So here, for those who have not followed, an image of Marsyas, which filled the vacuum of the week and especially that opens the door to contributions from readers of this blog.

Difficult previous week, perhaps too far in the object was not recognizable when the image is blend of contemporary painting and architecture of the thirteenth century (renovated and restored). I want to say that my goal is not that the picture puzzle remains unsolved, which would be pretty easy. I prefer to imagine the audience surprised, confused, but stopped by a representation of a reality he knows without ever having seen this way. So it was not the case that contemporary painting. So I hope to do better next time. I

defer to Marsyas for comments on the enigma of Istanbul.

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Ottoman Contemporary painting in a chapel

No, I have not forgotten you, even if next week there will be no enigma due to business travel. Surprise last week as those who would have had to find dried, and since those who have not been found. The new TGV line Paris-Strasbourg and its decor designed by Christian Lacroix. Tough when you live abroad, or even in the afternoon. And yet it Ju Saint Tropez found (would it have acquaintances with the East of France?), And Claude de Saint Denis de la Meeting confirmed that (he would escape from his island from time to time ?)... before I answer.

challenge this week (for once it will seriously widen the meninges). I will follow you from Delphi as of Sunday, but you may have had a stroke of genius by then. As I said in one comment: do not tire to amaze me!
Now that the solution is out, I give the image of the chapel as a whole.

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Tablet Strasbourg TGV Paris

To break a bit with the previous weeks, here is a picture without filter, and color in the right direction. Need we say more? It is not I who took this picture ... I will guide you if you find nothing, but if I think the past few weeks it will be useless.

last week, Marsyas has struck again quickly and accurate. Nobody had time to say ouf, except that Ju has yet not found an architectural enigma in his strings. Claude has learned all about the pigeon and Scarpino awoke a little later ... That's it for me, am looking forward to your rant of the week.

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Culture: a new belief?

At the risk of surprise and after stating a definition of the word "culture" perhaps it should examine the cultural phenomenon became creator of myths and signs of recognition of groups: the characteristics beliefs.

There are today in the French collective culture of the individual culture. The collective culture is derived from the German word Kultur, closer to the French word civilization, and for the people and their identities, that is to say, their languages, histories, traditions, etc.. The individual culture is concerned, her knowledge, personal construction. The first definition, under the influence of German social and philosophical thought, is supplanting the second. The two meanings overlap, however, insofar as the individual belongs to a cultural entity and produces arts and history. But it's individual culture, marks a deliberate, after learning of each, which will be discussed in this article.

considerable enlargement of culture

Until the nineteenth century, everything was clear. A few dozen writers who knew perceived copyright, were painted to decorate, illustrate, and we listened to some music. The arts also spawned with crafts and artists trying to live, somehow, their creations. Culture affirmed its own aristocracy, to a lesser extent the rising bourgeoisie and the people remained illiterate.

Globalization, communications development, migration of populations that are culture in a century has passed privilege of leisure available to the greatest number. The cards have been blurred by the proliferation of references and the variety of their provenance. Today

a book (with its translations), a film (thanks to subtitles or dubbing), place (through tourism generalized) key rapidly worldwide. Just consider the success of The Da Vinci Code of Titanic, attendance of Versailles or the Louvre to realize that culture is a phenomenon of everyday life, it affects all social classes, and they represent huge investments.

not forget that we live in a global community of 6 billion people who produced some 15 000 films annually, for the France only 68,000 titles were released in bookstores in 2006. Clearly, if we rely on these figures, the potential viewer or reader awash in choices. Unable to read everything or see everything it needs resources to guide their choices.

Establishment of creation myths

Given the multitude of references and using the fascination heroes have always exercised, the twentieth century some sacralizes of cultural basis for a kind of Olympus used as the basis of thought. These are the indisputable values of our societies in terms of taste, they need to know at any cost, they can not deny that, in short, the new icons of the contemporary world.

Yet, going back a bit in history, you realize that these creators have sometimes been slow to win, he even often not until their death ... and conversely of celebrities a period could sink into oblivion a few decades later. Think that because of Van Gogh did not sell a painting in his lifetime Meissonier while at the same time, knew all the glories and honors, with sales the most expensive of all the nineteenth century? What about Eugene Sue, adored by the people for his novels The Mysteries of Paris and The Wandering Jew that literally tore through the streets under the bemused eyes of Balzac jealous that failed to make ends meet? What about Marcel Proust, who published his first novel at the author? Mozart's Don Giovanni which gave , now considered the "opera of operas", the general indifference, Mozart's rival Salieri, who then Contemporary wants to assume the role of villain programma's miserable death?

engineering would be a fluctuating concept, relating to the option periods. Who remembers now Meissonier? Why do they sell today any impressionist sketch for gold? Van Gogh sacred, idealized Meissonier forgotten ... Mozart, Salieri booed. We are told that the geniuses ahead of their time. Would it not be fairer to admit that tastes can change and some works better than others espouse our feelings today? Would it no more relevant to recognize that there is no enduring value for the artistic emotion and is therefore not conceivable to introduce universal values?

And yet, it is clear that among those who have been elevated to engineering all production is not equal, far from it. In some cases, it only takes two or three works as the rest unable to withstand our decision, in other cases it obscures any part inglorious production. Celine, after Journey to the End of the night and Death on wandered into repetitions to finally turn the anti-Semitic obsession. Balzac he wrote all the volumes of the human comedy and he painted his 6000 figures with the same genius? Picasso is it so masterful at all times? Questions that no longer poses once made sacred.

From myth to belief

Maybe we attribute to the philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche and his "God is dead" followed by "Myth the superman "( the superman is the one who took charge of the destiny of the earth ), the superiority of some individuals acting on the mass of others. Or perhaps abandoning religious faiths she left the door open for the emergence of a new type of belief. Or is it an accumulation of works that push to make a hierarchy of creation and to overrate a game at the expense of larger. Or all three hypotheses at once. Still, the cultural world that makes a drastic selection in arbitrarily determining the immutable symbols of our culture.

If one refers to the definition: Belief is a way of thinking that can affirm, without criticism, the truth or existence of things or beings without having to provide evidence, and therefore it is not possible to prove them wrong , culture in its contemporary meaning, do not she answer?

Like all beliefs, culture is also defined by the community that supports it. And like any community, it will tend to reject those who ignore their values. Thus in a society too big, where closeness lost count, we will seek acquaintances with those who share the same cultural references than you. We will be friends if we like the same things, which is not new, but today every social category has its own signs of recognition. Agnes Jaoui in his film The Taste of Others has so clearly shown without the necessary cultural references, it becomes ridiculous evolving in a world that has them.

win Do we not question the value of symbols, opening to a broader culture than the few examples imposed by the media voice? Show a little humility, would not it considered that its own cultural values are not necessarily the only valid and respectable? Is he clairvoyant after reporting through the beliefs, falling into the same patterns as reducing the culture?

Illustration: Louis XIII Gentleman - JLE Meissonier - 1874 - (top) Portrait of Antonio Salieri (bottom)
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From this black and white week again, with a filter to make it more mysterious. And we must comment on the comments last week because the hour is verbal madness. So in a nutshell: This week Mini Vega is not in the picture (you never know that some imagine it hidden in a corner), so she can play. Marsyas, always as precise and laconic found the right answer, what the others do not understand because it went Scarpino its flagship Zuip his shepherd's hut with cosmonauts who copulate in the cold (note his penchant claimed to reproduce the species) and Claude, lost in interstellar travel, has discovered a time capsule Soviet (a new brand of beer no doubt). So this week, if you continue on this path, it promises. And so to conclude, an old slogan of the time of ideals: power to the imagination.

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This week a picture of Mini, aka Ms. Vega, who will not participate in weekly research. It's in black and white but you've noticed, I am sure as you're insightful. And then I said nothing else for now ...

Week last victory Scarpino, Claude not far away, turn and pass Zuip Mini sets the mood. Vargas a timid appears. Performance, which came to add Mini, is visible at the Museum of Modern Art in Seville, where are the chimneys of the previous week, you follow? But where have Ju and Marsyas?

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Seduction at all costs

A double page Dingodossiers (Gotlib and Uderzo - 1967) resurfaces regularly in my thoughts. It refers to the stories, films, short stories, all we can tell and is entitled: "After the end". The first picture shows the prince and the little shepherdess seen from behind, heading for a castle, entwined on their white horse and crowned with their passion for the famous legend epilogue: "They married and had many children." The following image, a few years later, shows a couple in fury: the father was attacked by a swarm of children twirling, trying in vain to read his newspaper (sic ) vociferates "Since you're shepherdess, take care of this herd "to his wife, his hands in the basin which, turning, simply retort with an air of evil:" Charming. " The romance of young lovers, far from resisting the test of time, migrated to the bitter reality of daily life.

Until recent decades, in the stories, and most often in life, seduction was so over that during the brief period between adolescence marriage. Lovers once united by the sacred bonds, no longer feels the need to deploy all a ploy to give itself the fireworks for favors from anyone because their love life all mapped out, was supposed to do more about deviance. Of course, there was Madame Bovary, all plots court reserved for aristocrats, these women often booed, who cared for their appearance and were suspected of adultery, the men, which is distrusted, who paraded in worldliness and was suspected of debauchery ... But for the father and mother classic woo outside the home no longer of interest, once founded the sacred family.

It seems that the shift from rural to urban life, which radically changed the situation. The city multiplies the visual human contact. The image tends to become as fundamental, the more often in the street, the anonymous boils down under. The view becomes the most important of our senses, so it was not in a restricted society, mostly illiterate, where transmission of knowledge and information was done orally. The individual appears to aesthetics. He became concerned about his appearance and his charm, becomes aware with the show, both that of the burgeoning scene than the street, that the interests are not neutral, they are made to attract and success. One enters the era of seduction.

Much has been written on the element of seduction love: Cars ( map tender), Kierkegaard ( Diary of a Seducer ), Cohen ( Belle du Seigneur ), Baudrillard ( From seduction The fatal strategies) . The literature is full of prominent seductive Don Juan, Casanova, Valmont, James Bond, while the seductive become rarer. We must seek Carmen, who died, to find a prototype to equal males mentioned above. Or Salome in Antiquity, Lolita for contemporary times. However, women's novels seduced and therefore is mostly passive. It gives the male the illusion of victory. Note also that the seductive novels are most often tragic ends, as if the corporation took his revenge to punish troublemakers. The seduction is, until the twentieth century, the characteristic of young love. Once this period passed, it becomes negative and we should keep it even at the risk of falling into depravity and immorality.

Is it necessary to focus on the road for a century? About love, assures us that Baudrillard distribution has changed. The seductive, reduced to the level of vulgar grotesque flirty, becomes the prey of the desired object, and "female object", plays the leading role of a stale game where the rules have changed in the past: Who ever approached the own power, the sovereign power of the object? In our mind's desire, the subject has an absolute privilege, since he wants. But everything is reversed if we move to a thought of seduction. There is no longer the subject that desire is the object that seduces. The immemorial privilege of the subject reversed [...] The seducer is not it rather attractive, and the initiative does not she secretly returned to the subject matter? (Fatal Strategies).

But the big news remains that the attraction goes beyond the boundaries of love to creep around. She even became the obligatory passage for any success, applies wherever there is competition. The former negative image of perversion became positively criterion. The success of any action, the impact of all creation is summed up the dilemma Next: please or not please. Education should be fun, the audience, full of culture and learning boring demand entertainment. Regardless of any other nature, everything that is proposed to placate potential user. This is the logical continuation of the "consumer society" and the "society of spectacle" denounced in the 70s with no other end in itself a partner in pleasure.

The successful candidate must submit to it must win hearts and minds is the first of the qualities necessary to its promotion, the condition without which nothing fruitful can be envisaged. Speeches that lose their meaning by dint of similarity in the media channels are no longer recipe. Still images, at literally and figuratively, the scent of realism, giving more confidence on which all efforts will therefore concentrate. Public men of every stripe, exist today only through their performances and thus widely disseminated because of their perception by the majority. Competence become secondary or even trivial, a favorable image becomes the alpha and omega of any attempt to seize power, whether political or media. It was found that a candidate for the U.S. elections had every reason to laugh (and indeed the contenders actively engaged for several decades), the same way that succeed in making a woman laugh is almost guaranteed success of his court. The visual image, strictly speaking, is transformed into symbolic representation. One speaks, for example, positive image of success.

It seeks to attract an electorate versatile, a capricious public. Seduction now affects all areas: art (he the artist must watch and make a name), the spaces of public performances: theater, cinema, television (the examples are needed), politics (see above), literature (almost all public figures write books that sell well), sports (big effort in aesthetic equipment, fixtures of rugby players, press conferences mandatory), science (Tazieff, Cousteau, De Gennes), the world of work (job interviews , CV flattering). Only the financial bubble for which "live happily live in hiding" is the motto, the one area that still eludes unpacking and media in which the protagonists cloîtrent more they expose themselves. It must be said that the enrichment of few at the expense of many is a difficult idea for promotion.

Seduction is make someone's product or action a positive image which the public will remember while trying to think outside the box: the essence of advertising. Seduce, hire is an effort to please and therefore generate contentment, whether visual, gustatory, sexual or otherwise. All shots are allowed to match the favors of those who are now a faceless mass but without which no major success is conceivable: the public. Liberal societies in which we live are based on competition. The corollary of this spirit of competition seems to be seduction at all costs, if necessary and often sufficient for the dominant value: individual pleasure. Remains whether this will be enough to replace the old beliefs and ideologies missing?

Illustration: Don Juan and the Commander by Fragonard.
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