Thinkers at the table, to step out of a picture of ourselves.
Every leadership letter talks about uncertainty. Almost none says what it is certain of. A video call from a daughter who needs money, a drawer opened twice, and Wittgenstein's On Certainty: what a hinge is, and why AI is starting to loosen one we all stand on.
Tessa asks her team a question and nothing comes back. Max fills the gap in a second; Tessa leaves it open. An illustrated reading of Wilfred Bion: thinking starts with what is missing, and negative capability is the art of staying with it.
Une jardinière a peur de la forêt. Pour se rassurer, elle nomme chaque plante et trace des allées. Puis une plante arrive d'ailleurs, et elle n'y voit plus que ses peurs. Une vidéo dessinée sur une idée d'Adorno et Horkheimer : la peur, la projection et la haine de l'autre.
Anna and Otto cannot see or hear each other. All they share is a rope. When Anna slips, it jerks; one day she jerks it on purpose, and the jerk becomes a sign. A silent drawn film, in three chapters, on how Humberto Maturana defines language: a coordination of coordinations, like water following a riverbed.
A project has failed. Someone asks whose decision it was, and Alex raises her hand. An illustrated reading of Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention: one action, several descriptions, and the question Why? that shows which ones are intended.
Didier vit seul à Évry. Sa voisine lui laisse une question : où dorment les martinets ? Son téléphone y répond en 0,4 seconde. Une fiction dessinée d'après André Green : comment une question devient la sienne, et cesse de l'être.
Mark runs six theme parks and no longer feels anything. A coach who never gives advice, an old carousel, a woman who repaints the horses at night. A drawn fiction inspired by André Green: how a thing comes to matter, and stops mattering.
Thomas a tout, et ne ressent plus rien. Il invite Lacan, André Green et Clément Rosset à dîner. Trois façons de comprendre le désir, et de le nourrir.