Paris, Fluctuat nec mergitur
Quand Paris s’enrhume, l’Europe prend froid (“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold“, Prince Klemens von Metternich) Paris is hit for a second time in 2015, and this time the victims are way more...
Tagged: Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the Empire in Bruegel’s Census at Bethlehem, Continuity of the centre
Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life (Oscar Wilde, in the Decay of Lying) Continuity of the centre, in the policital sense of the word, can be expressed at numerous scales, one of...
Jerusalem at the very centre of the World, Bunting’s Map and social construction
Jerusalem is at the centre, if not the physical, at least the symbolic one of our World. We know that, in respect of the world’s shape, its “centre” stems from social construction and choices, and not “natural” or physical reasons. One famous map, Bunting’s Cloverleaf Map of the World, is a good example of this socially-constructed centrality.
