{"id":1806,"date":"2009-08-10T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2009-08-10T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:10:34","slug":"light-summer-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/light-summer-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Summer Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1807\" href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1807\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1807 lazyload\" title=\"vaneigem\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/vaneigem.jpg\" alt=\"vaneigem\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/299;\" \/><\/a>Have finally settled down enough to get some reading done, but before moving to my two biggies (the new Sollers & the new Debray \u2014 of which more when I\u2019ll have read & digested them), I am finishing Raoul Vaneigem\u2019s <em>Journal Imaginaire<\/em> (Le Cherche Midi, 2006)\u00a0 on which I already reported last summer. Meditative stuff, well worth reading in the morning sun, watching the buzzards catch an updraft along the mountainside. Here\u2019s a small sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>There\u2019s no time so bristling with irritations that it cannot be caressed or cajoled.<\/p>\n<p>I draw great comfort from the thought that any situation or state is only a becoming, for it is up to me to give it direction, to orient it for better or worse; it is up to me to guide myself be consulting the compass of the moment where, even when distraught, the needle always ends up pointing to the magnetic pole of aliveness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have finally settled down enough to get some reading done, but before moving to my two biggies (the new Sollers &#038; the new Debray \u2014 of which more when I\u2019ll have read &#038; digested&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[444,629],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-journal-imaginaire","tag-raoul-vaneigem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}