The Guardian have posted a brief interview with Hélène Cixous. In it she describes beautifully a symptom: The main theatre of the Sorbonne, with the portraits of men all along the walls – the institutions past. Then at the far end of the room, a ‘silhouette of light’, an allegory of justice apparently – ‘woman’. She then goes on to talk about current French politics.
Rhythmanalysis of the Palio di Siena: laws, territory, rituals, metamorphosis
Mid-August: some lazy thoughts from my sofa. “What if, in Siena, it didn’t stop raining until Christmas Eve? Would the Palio be run on Christmas Day?” my partner asked me on the second day of watching the green flag hanging from Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico. “I don’t…
0 Comments