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Michel Foucault and Maurice Blanchot

By Hollman Lozano

Michel Foucault As I Imagine Him

Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside

Michel Foucault

Zone Books

English and french

New York, 2000

112 p.

            

Most of the introductions to Michel Foucault are deficient to the extent that they focus on one period of his oeuvre and are unable, or uninterested to look into his previous work, or link that previous work to the different periods into which Foucault’s work has been divided. Others perhaps being too loyal to Foucault’s idea that his work should be used as tools; have deployed his concepts in fields and applications that even the most adventurous reader of Foucault would have not even dreamed of, but have failed to look for the concatenation of his work, as well as the changes that it went through. However, a small book of merely 64 pages extremely easy to read written as a sort of epigraph the day that Foucault died by Maurice Blanchot manages not only to explain in an easy way to access the different periods of Foucault’s work, but also how they somewhat sync to one another.

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The Golden Age of Comics


The most recent book of the Canadian cartoonist Seth, The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonist (The G.N.B.C.C), is a comeback to the fictional town of Dominion, Ontario, where some of his other stories, such as Clyde Fans, have already taken place.


By Cristian Soler


The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonist
Seth
Drawn & Quarterly
Montreal, 2011
133 pages

In The G.N.B.C.C, an anonymous narrator, who by his figure and looks seems to be an alter ego of Seth himself, journey through a huge construction, built in 1935 and that is located in Milverton Street. This building is the headquarter of The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonist, of which the narrator is a member; Thus, this story is an invitation to know each corner of this building and see all the treasures that are found in it while at the same time one discovers the history of Canadian cartoons.

The building in which this brotherhood functions has, therefore, several spaces, each one with their own stories and which are also told with the help of the narrator. In this way the reader gets to know the entrance and the figures of several cartoon characters engraved in it, the lobby, decorated with an art deco lamp and with large murals designed by some old members of the brotherhood; he also gets to know dance rooms and the bars, which held crowded meetings and several parties, he visits the galleries with the portraits of the Canadian cartoonists that were part of this club and enters to the rooms that the brotherhood had so that the cartoonists could live and work in their stories. But, above all, the reader gets to know the cartoon characters, the ones that give a sense and a reason of being to this brotherhood and to the authors.

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