I wrote a thing about Derrida today, his book "La force de la loi". He refers to Benjamins text from 1921, "Zur Kritik der Gewalt". The discussion is about moral issues, how can a State inforce the law without becoming an authoritarian and repressive State? How can the law be cohercitive but we can still keep the freedom of choices?
But in any way, I was in Paris and in Ljubljana, a beutiful city and I felt as Benjamin, a "flaneur", someone strolling around and keeping the eyes and the ears open. I like Benjamins "Passagenwerk", about Paris, one of my favorites cities.
Lautreamont, who was born in Montevideo, as me, did chose to move to Paris when he was a teenager but he always missed the little city in the shore of the big river. (Not the Seine, a real minor river, we speak here about Rio de la Plata, the broadest river in the world. The big and noisy Buenos Aires in one shore, the sleepy and smaller Montevideo in the other shore.)
Laforgue and Supervielle were also born in Montevideo and the city has a nice statue in some place with a plaque "Lautreamont, Laforgue and Supervielle, the three poets who Montevideo gave to France".
But in any way, I was in Paris and in Ljubljana, a beutiful city and I felt as Benjamin, a "flaneur", someone strolling around and keeping the eyes and the ears open. I like Benjamins "Passagenwerk", about Paris, one of my favorites cities.
Lautreamont, who was born in Montevideo, as me, did chose to move to Paris when he was a teenager but he always missed the little city in the shore of the big river. (Not the Seine, a real minor river, we speak here about Rio de la Plata, the broadest river in the world. The big and noisy Buenos Aires in one shore, the sleepy and smaller Montevideo in the other shore.)
Laforgue and Supervielle were also born in Montevideo and the city has a nice statue in some place with a plaque "Lautreamont, Laforgue and Supervielle, the three poets who Montevideo gave to France".
