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Zuyderzee: Zuyderzeedijk Alliantie

fonselders — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:53:44 +0000

This release is only available in Dutch.

Uw aanschaf draagt bij aan PR en juridische bijstand aan de Zuyderzeedijk Alliantie

Indien u voor de digitale versie kiest ontvangt u na betaling direct toegang tot een PDF en iBooks versie van de publicatie. De geprinte versie van de publicatie wordt u zo spoedig mogelijk toegestuurd.

Deze publicatie betreft:

De meervoudige aanklacht tegen hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier en gedeputeerde staten provincie Noord-Holland en vloeit voort uit een diepgevoeld collectief besef dat een onvervangbaar cultuurhistorisch gebied, een icoon van de lage landen onherstelbaar verandert.

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Colette van Landuyt – de transformatieve kracht van haar ontwerpen – 1975-2015

admin — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:37:27 +0000

Ik hoef je maten niet te weten, want ik ken je lichaam *

‘Ik ken je lichaam’ is de sleutel tot het oeuvre van Colette van Landuyt en refereert aan het geheim van deze publicatie met 49 unieke bijdragen.

Steden en reizen, mensen en vrienden zijn een permanente bron van inspiratie voor Colette; stilte en natuur haar alomvattende ruimte.

‘Ik ken je lichaam’ verwijst naar de levende, bezielde ‘ruimte’ van de vrouw.

In haar kleding zijn lichaam en natuur één. Dát is de essentie van haar oeuvre.

De teksten in dit prachtige boekje zijn unica en elkaars complement,

analoog aan Colette’s ontwerpen en ‘de’ vrouw.

Het woord ‘transformatief’ impliceert een intieme relatie met haar cliënten.

In FashionUnited, maandag 16 februari 2015, schrijft Li Edelkoort:

‘De mode is dood. Leve het kledingstuk.’ “Ons ‘fashion system’ is geheel obsoleet.” Trendwatcher Li Edelkoort ontdekt in 2015 ‘het kledingstuk’ dat Colette van Landuyt ruim veertig jaar voor een selecte klantenkring ontwerpt en produceert: talentvol, creatief, geconcentreerd, geduldig… wei wu wei.

Fons Elders

zomer 2015

* Wong Kar-Wei, de hand, in: Eros

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Het laatste vliegend tapijt

fonselders — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:29:59 +0000

Het laatste vliegend tapijt: de avonturen van Jean-Pierre
‘s-Gravenhage, BZZTOH, 1989. 124 pp. ISBN: 90 6291 406 3 Drawings by Kees de Kiefte.
See also English version: The last flying carpet in 1994.
Author(s): Fons Elders

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Mythological Europe Revisited

fonselders — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:18:14 +0000

Mythological Europe Revisited: Humanism and the Third Millennium III

VUB Brussels University Press, 2000. 200 pp. ISBN: 90 5487282 9
Author(s): Fons Elders (ed.), Preface and Introduction by Fons Elders. Contributions by Rebecca Armstrong, Tjeu van den Berk, Hans van de Braak, Fons Elders, Antoine Faivre, Caitlin Matthews, Grazia Marchian`o, Andrei Oisteanu, Connie van Pelt, Pasquale J. Simonelli, Rodrigo de Zayas

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Humanism toward the third millennium II

fonselders — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:58:02 +0000

Brussels, VUBPress, 1996. 167 pp. ISBN: 90 5487 100 8 (pbk)
Author(s): Preface by Fons Elders and contributions by Gerhard Binkhorst, Paul Briot, Hubert Dethier, DuoDuo, Fons Elders, Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Nenad Fiser, Paul Kurtz, Grazia Marchian`o, Arne Naess, Andrei Oisteanu, Giacomella Orofino, Gabor Papp, Mogobe Ramose, Támás Umgvári and Miklós Vásárhelyi

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Humanism toward the third millennium I

fonselders — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:11:52 +0000

Brussels, VUBPress, 1993. 103 pp. ISBN: 90 5487 037 0
Author(s): Elders, Fons (ed.). Preface and introduction by Fons elders with contributions by Mohammed Arkoun, DuoDuo, Fons Elders, Franco Ferrucci, Grazia Marchianò, Andrei Plesu, Mogobe Ramose, Rob Tielman. Translation by Judith Gray

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Visions of Nature

fonselders — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:12:05 +0000

Visions of Nature comprises ancient and modern, sacred and profane visions on nature and their intimate relationship with the culture in which they flourished or still flourish. An array of perspectives lets the reader travel through new and ancient territories, which distinguish themselves deeply from the utilitarian and aesthetic landscapes we call ‘nature’ in today’s Westernised, cosmopolitan and urbanised world view.

The subtitle Studies of the Theory of Gaia and Culture in Ancient and Modern Times refers to a presentation of views with Gaia as the symbol for a renewed interest in the interdependence of the biological and geological dynamics. The Gaia theory studies the laws of nature as global, interconnected processes. The complexity and the interdependence of natural processes are an invitation to view human life as part of nature, and not as a quasi independent reality. Whatever vision the reader may hold, it might be clear that nature as an unadulterated idea does not exist.

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The Sublime and The Beautiful

fonselders — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:09:32 +0000

Since the 18th century, after two millenniums of relative harmony, the Sublime and the Beautiful have gone their own way. The Sublime manifests itself by preference as intensity, silence, emptiness, absurdity, even violence; the Beautiful as harmony and order.
The Sublime and the Beautiful derive their inspiration from two innate, unconscious desires: death and Eros. Creative imagination and ontology are their two sources. Today, the Sublime dominates the Eros-principle. The violence of the Sublime, no longer united with the Beautiful and Eros, has led to the destruction of the two greatest Buddha statues in Afghanistan and the Twin Towers in New York.
The plea of the author is to search for a renewed relationship between the two sources of the creative imagination.

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M.F. Freedom and Knowledge

fonselders — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:03:26 +0000

1970, Paris. My first encounter with Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a confrontation rather than a meeting. We discussed his participation in a TV debate with Noam Chomsky. In 1971 I travel to Paris again to meet Foucault for a video interview in preparation for moderating the debate between him and Noam Chomsky. This time the conversation is openminded. The ice has melted. Foucault is keen to demonstrate the inherent opposition, if not contradiction, between the notions of freedom and knowledge. And yet, when I ask him about the possibility of a kind of knowledge that would be universal and non-repressive, he answers that this is the fundamental problem, and that I am quite right to ask the question. His archaeology of knowledge deals in essence with this question.
Power as the guiding idea in Foucault’s philosophy is the logical outcome of the tension between freedom and knowledge. The idea erupts in the debate with Chomsky as destroyer of the notion of universal justice. It brings to light the existing clash in the heart of Western culture and politics itself.

Michel Foucault manifests himself as a parrhesiast, i.e. a bold and free storyteller who loves problematization as an act of creation. Power is the supreme political question: who has power over someone else, but also: there is no power without potential refusal or revolt.

The Introduction by Lynne Huffer and the Index of names and subjects are a guide to Foucault’s way of thinking which ‘was fundamentally alien, even to militant young lycée students versed in French philosophy, (and) even more unfathomable to a great many political activists and intellectuals, both inside and outside France.’ James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993).

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Islam Unknown

fonselders — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:01:55 +0000

Fons Elders, philosopher, historian and emeritus professor in Theory of World Views meets eight Muslim scholars and intellectuals from Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Turkey. They teach and live in the USA, Europe and Egypt. He asked them to explain their Islam, their Qur’an, the relation between tradition, modernity and the West, their vision on shari’a and fatwas, the war on terror and the Middle East, their criticisms on Islam and Europe’s islamophobia, the connection between justice, equality and freedom, and how to bridge the gap between Europe and Islam.
He meets Noam Chomsky again after 35 years. His vision on the world is the Postscript to Islam Unknown.
Fons Elders discovers an Unknown Islam.

A review on Islam Unknown by Barbara J. Walter, Longmont Public Library, Longmont, CO can be found here.

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