L'Ordre

Lorsqu’on se pose vraiment les questions, on donne de meilleures réponses que si l’on se contente de lire les réponses convenues. When you really ask yourself the questions, you give better answers than if we merely read the conventional answers. Albert Messiah Once again, I would like to draw the attention of readers to my…

Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver. A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. René Char Having reviewed both sides of the argument comprehensively, it has become very clear to me who is on the right side of…

La foi que j’aime le mieux, dit Dieu, c’est l’espérance. The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope. Charles Péguy First, I would like to alert readers to my full bibliography page at Beliefnet, with a complete list of all my published books. It can be found at http://lordre.net/books.html. In global politics, one of…

Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse. It is better to do good, than to know. Charlemagne While I have recently had my analysis of Obama’s Iraq and Syria wars published at Press TV, the main material that has been on my mind recently has been Google’s book, The New Digital Age (2013). I have thoroughly reviewed Google’s…

Au bout d’un ou deux siècles d’exploitation se produit une véritable émaciation du panaroma culturel With one or two centuries of exploitation comes a thorough emaciation of the cultural landscape. Frantz Fanon In considering a new opinion piece for my Press TV column at the start of August, the most obvious subject of concern is the campaign of the US…

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n’ont pas cédé. Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give…

Il ne s’agit pas alors de paresse, de laisser-aller. Bien au contraire, l’individu est tourmenté It is not then laziness, sloppiness. On the contrary, the individual is tormented Alfred Sauvy The internet has changed publishing in ways that disproportionately empower many individuals who were traditionally powerless. The good caused by this is so radiant, that everything bad about the…

C’est une sphère infinie, dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part. It is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere. Blaise Pascal In my publishing this week, most notable were an op-ed at Press TV , my last to have expressed hope that Scots vote for independence, and my review at h+…

Toute oppression crée un état de guerre. All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir Image from Voltairenet The US, like the UK’s Conservative government, clings to an outdated adversarial worldview based on the old-fashioned wartime alliances of the Twentieth Century and a policy of aggressive intervention into the affairs of foreign countries. A negative and paranoid perception of…

Qui définit le moment où j’écris? How to define the moment that I write? Michel Foucault Next month it’s October. It may seem early, but it reminds me to draft a science fiction horror story for entering into the sort of literary competitions often seen on the web at Halloween. I was thinking of a new installment in my Search Beyond…

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