Day: November 19, 2020

The Quest for the Absolute

“Superheroes by definition are “extraordinary”, and extraordinary often rhymes with solitary. This is a relatively unknown character trait of their personality but it is nevertheless a common feature of all these imaginary vigilantes.

Loneliness: this is what comes out when you first discover this photographic work.

I therefore chose to display the well-known American Comics characters, famous worldwide for their fight against evil and for Freedom and Justice, alone and in natural sceneries.

But this feeling is misleading and we quickly realize that they are actually not alone in the quest I chose for them.

In fact they share this adventure with another more powerful and imposing character: Nature. It is almost personified here and it plays a leading role in each of these productions.

So immersed in these magnificent sceneries, amidst these vast spaces, facing the force of the elements, fanzine Heroes seem quite insignificant.

But Nature is with them. It is an ally that accompanies and carries them.

And together they try to achieve something even greater than what they have accomplished so far.

Will they reach the ultimate goal they have set? Will they go through this impossible quest? Whatever happens now they walk side by side, determined to make together this no return trip heading to the Absolute. “

Absolute (in philosophy) : that exists by itself, without dependence (as in grammar, “absolute” means “without further”). What is absolute does not need any condition and any relationship to be. Absolute does not depend on anything else and carries in itself its reason for being. “Absolute” is a synonym for “unconditional” part, “freed” the other “perfect”, “completed”, “total”.

The Absolute = the Good, for Platon = the Spirit, for Hegel = the Everything, for Bradley.

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Майк Помпео делает историю.

Mike Pompeo says groups who support for boycotting Israel will be banned from getting federal cash as he makes history by visiting West Bank Jewish settlement

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first top American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank as the State Department announced that products from the settlements can be labeled ‘Made in Israel’ in a major policy shift.

The two moves reflected the Trump administration’s acceptance of Israeli settlements, which the Palestinians and most of the international community view as a violation of international law and a major obstacle to peace.

Pompeo also announced that the U.S. would brand the international Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel as ‘anti-Semitic’ and bar any groups that participate in it from receiving government funding. It was not immediately clear which groups would be affected by the move.PUBLICITÉ

In a whirl-wind day, Pompeo was driven to Qasr el-Yahud, an Israeli-controlled area on the banks of the Jordan River that is known as the traditional scene of Jesus’s baptism. 

He also flew to the long-disputed Golan Heights, along Israel’s frontier with Syria. Israel captured the territory from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Most of the world sees those Jewish settlements as a violation of international law. But President Trump recognized Israel’s authority over the area in March 2017.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs a security briefing on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, near the Israeli-Syrian border

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