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To what extent does water constitute an archetypal element, producing moral values and prone to ambivalence? Myths abound with magical fountains, fertile rivers or deadly abysses. Water lends itself to rites of lustration or regenerative baptismal immersion. Circumnavigation has given rise to epic tales of conquest or exploration, populated by monsters and delights. The specificity of this volume is the knotting together of the iconic and the verbal, by renewing our trust in the exemplary regime of art, most capable of apprehending the unpredictable, the ephemeral, and the continuous. Against the backdrop of existential shipwrecks, water wars, the proliferation of microplastics, the scoriae of an unbridled productivity, a work like this one can raise awareness about the right to water, its beneficial virtues, and its inexhaustible imaginary.
Dans quelle mesure l'eau constitue-t-elle un element archetypal, producteur de valeurs et enclin aux ambivalences ? Les mythes regorgent de fontaines magiques, de fleuves matriciels ou d'abysses mortiferes. L'eau se prete a des rites de lustration ou d'immersion baptismale regenerante. La circumnavigation a engendre des recits epiques a visee conquerante ou humaniste, peuples de monstres et de delices. Il s'agit ici d'etablir un lien entre l'iconique et le verbal en renouvelant notre confiance dans le regime d'exemplarite de l'art, seul a meme d'apprehender ce qui est imprevisible, ephemere et continu. Contre les naufrages existentiels, les guerres de l'eau, le pullulement des microplastiques, scories d'un productivisme effrene, un ouvrage comme celui-ci peut sensibiliser au droit a l'eau partage, a ses vertus bienfaisantes et a son imaginaire inepuisable.
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To what extent does water constitute an archetypal element, producing moral values and prone to ambivalence? Myths abound with magical fountains, fertile rivers or deadly abysses. Water lends itself to rites of lustration or regenerative baptismal immersion. Circumnavigation has given rise to epic tales of conquest or exploration, populated by monsters and delights. The specificity of this volume is the knotting together of the iconic and the verbal, by renewing our trust in the exemplary regime of art, most capable of apprehending the unpredictable, the ephemeral, and the continuous. Against the backdrop of existential shipwrecks, water wars, the proliferation of microplastics, the scoriae of an unbridled productivity, a work like this one can raise awareness about the right to water, its beneficial virtues, and its inexhaustible imaginary.
Dans quelle mesure l'eau constitue-t-elle un element archetypal, producteur de valeurs et enclin aux ambivalences ? Les mythes regorgent de fontaines magiques, de fleuves matriciels ou d'abysses mortiferes. L'eau se prete a des rites de lustration ou d'immersion baptismale regenerante. La circumnavigation a engendre des recits epiques a visee conquerante ou humaniste, peuples de monstres et de delices. Il s'agit ici d'etablir un lien entre l'iconique et le verbal en renouvelant notre confiance dans le regime d'exemplarite de l'art, seul a meme d'apprehender ce qui est imprevisible, ephemere et continu. Contre les naufrages existentiels, les guerres de l'eau, le pullulement des microplastiques, scories d'un productivisme effrene, un ouvrage comme celui-ci peut sensibiliser au droit a l'eau partage, a ses vertus bienfaisantes et a son imaginaire inepuisable.