Love and Truth

There is an essential difference between truth and love, and it is the opposite of what most of us used to believe:

Truth can never exist alone. It is a joint effort between at least one person who expresses it and one person who understands it. Sometimes the effort is greater on the side of the one who expresses it, sometimes on the side of the one who understands it, and sometimes appearances are deceptive!

Which leads us to love, which can exist, not of course in isolation but always exclusively on its own foundations. To love is a completely sovereign decision, perhaps the only sovereign decision accessible to us.

Thus, expressing (or “doing”) a truth is an act of love, and understanding it is also an act of love. These 2 free acts are necessary for the truth to exist. But love began before, and above all, it does not depend, on either side, on any condition. She is free and sovereign.

(Inspired from Alain Badiou)

How to deal with AI?

AI, computers and softwares in general, are demanding that we further loosen the relationship between language and thought. 

In fact computers and softwares are enabled by this loosening of this relationship, following the ground-breaking work of Alan Turing in 1936, when he designed an intellectual computer on paper, and then using this imaginary but working computer, he found the answer to his question: Are all numbers computable? He proved, from the computer he intellectually designed, that the answer is no: There are numbers that we can prove do exist, and at the same time we can also prove that they can not be calculated. One might suspect this question was in fact an excuse for designing this computer. 

Anyway, Turing was among the first to isolate in full details the thought process as a separate object, detached from any material or experiential reality, other than itself, and describing it with such accuracy that it can be materialised, represented with materials. What we have called later "the Turing machine" is the first time a material representation represented not an experiential concept like drawings or words, not an act of thought like a number, not a process like algebra, but the very act of representation itself.

Having isolated this act and represented it in a fully clear and complete way, almost like we isolate chemical elements or viruses (and after having built ad-hoc calculators for British military intelligence to successfully decipher the German submarines communications), Turing proceeded, in the last decade of his life, to build the first physical computer, capable of physically operating and not just on paper.

This isolation of the process of representation in a material object, demands that we enter in a new relationship with our thoughts. We must, if we want to stay free and maybe even alive, apprehend our thought in a way that is more detached from language than it was before computers and AI.

Printing and mechanical reproduction of images has made a similar demand, and before that, drawing and writing.

Each time, the language itself has become an object of language. 

Practically speaking, for architects today, AI and softwares demand that we loosen further the relationship between our thoughts and a given particular language. We must freely move from a software to another, from scale drawing to hand drawing, from calculation to drawing and back, and even from a material to another, and from a shape to another.

If we don't do that effort we run the risk indeed, of becoming trapped in the machine, as is the unavoidable goal of everyone working with AI and softwares: To make them ever more totalitarian -as Lucien Sfez brilliantly described with this word: Tautism, acronym of totalitarian, tautology, and autism, because this constant move towards totalitarism is the only way to make softwares more efficient, and that's not a political choice, it's an unavoidable necessity of the very concept of computers or "Turing machines".

As it turns out, AI which seeks to weaponise our identities, to lock us into our languages, is creating a situation where we must do a conscious and deliberate effort in the opposite direction, and when we meet someone, find ways to understand that person beyond her identity, find a path to that person beyond her and our language. This is a way to de-weaponise our languages and our identities, like a narrow, meandering and dangerous, but very effective, path towards practical love, in the middle of the forest of our misunderstanding and hate, on which AI feeds itself.

Because beyond our languages and our identities, we do not have much else, and by harnessing them, AI holds in its power our core. Destroying our languages and identities would be destroying ourselves. So we have to love them instead, following this narrow path to the other person, this path that AI, like these numbers that Turing has shown exist but cannot be calculated, is unable to understand.

Hats off, Alan Turing! Your first paper was the best.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

War footprint

 Exhibit 1:

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 ENERGY WARS IGNITE: A New World Order is Rewriting Global Oil & Gas Rules

This is a US-led power grab to rewire the world's energy grid for global dominance.

The American Agenda: Pressure & Profit

Washington aims to rebalance global energy demand toward US producers by:

🔸Pressure on Europe: Forcing a rapid transition away from Russian energy.

🔸Tariffs on China/India: Punishing continued purchases of Russian oil.

Brussels is trapped

🔸It agreed to the first demand, signing $250B in US energy purchases.

🔸But tariffs on China/India are suicidal, risking energy costs and retaliatory blows to EU industry.

Trump's pressure has clear goals:

🔸Minimum Goal: Monopoly for US firms in the EU + leverage to control Russian supply routes.

🔸Maximum Goal: Drag Europe into a full economic standoff with China.

Russia: Target and Inescapable Partner

🔸Existing infrastructure remains.

🔸US LNG cannot overcome geography, seasonality, or logistics.

🔸This fuels secret negotiations and potential deals.

China and India: Exploiting the Pressure

🔸They are negotiating new discounts on Russian energy.

🔸They benefit from price arbitrage, turning Western pressure into an economic advantage.

EU Fractures: Centers vs. Peripheries

🔸Core (von der Leyen): Pushes accelerated phaseouts and new sanctions.

🔸Periphery (Hungary, Slovakia): Seek exceptions, fearing industrial collapse without Russian crude.

Europe's Impossible Choice

🔸Rapid Rupture: Industry crippled by high costs and an Asian tariff war.

🔸Slow Rupture: Living on "exceptions," losing agency to Washington, and enduring constant uncertainty.

Conclusion: Energy is the Foundation

Oil and gas are one of the primary factors in strategic choices. Reshuffling supply routes reflects a new world order where energy is the foundation of geopolitics. This realignment is a permanent shift, defining the landscape for the long term.

@NewRulesGeo, 23.09.2025

Conclusion for an architect :

The wars of the 21st century are wars over gas, while the wars of the 20th century were wars over oil.

Iran, Iraq-Kuwait, Syria-Qatar, "Islamic State," Israel, Venezuela, Ukraine... nothing but gas fields and pipeline routes. This explains the geography of the battlefields.

These stories about carbon footprints, about "wars of civilizations," are for the little people. Decision-makers run on gas. Solar 😂... no thanks!

The real reason for ecological architecture and organic farming is definitely not to "reduce our carbon footprint": All our food, all plants, all animals, are made primarily of carbon!

The real reason is to avoid fueling wars. It pisses them off, this independence, this uniform slipping off our shoulders while they try to hold it in place with pins, glue, nails... and the uniform keeps slipping, falling to the ground, and no one picks it up, the children step on it...

Architecture made of earth and bamboo isn't about reducing the "carbon footprint"... it's about reducing the "war footprint."

Reclaim your health!

The most accurate word for the architecture I'm trying to do is "hygienic" (in English), or "ayurvedic" (in Indian languages). It means a healthy architecture. 

But I can't use often these 2 words, because the English version will summon images of phenyle, stainless steel, PVC windows and glazed tiles, and the Indian version, superstitious notions of legalistic vastu, where the correctness of an arrangement depends on the delimitation of legal property lines!

Anyway, we are following the advice of our Ayurvedic family doctor, and recently for so-called "long covid" we are also following the low-cost and easily available methods described in these two papers:

"Long covid": These 2 protocols work surprisingly well!

Hulscher, McCullough et al. (2023):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10663976/

Roberto Zeballos et al. (2025):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12266371/

Kolotan

 A reinforced mud building for Kolotan

https://youtu.be/qLnhAimgGq4

François-Régis Legrier

François-Régis Legrier, 

Revue Défense Nationale, février 2019

"Au XIXe siècle, le sort d'une bataille mettant en jeu quelques milliers d'hommes était réglé en une journée - Austerlitz par exemple; au XXe siècle, il faut compter en semaines - que l'on pense à la poche de Dunkerque en 1940; au XXIe siècle, il faut près de cinq mois et une accumulation de destructions pour venir à bout de 2 000 combattants ne disposant ni d'appui aérien, ni de moyens de guerre électronique, ni de forces spéciales, ni de satellites*. Telle est la réalité de la guerre aujourd'hui qui doit nous conduire, décideurs politiques et chefs militaires à un examen critique salutaire sur notre façon de concevoir et faire la guerre.

Certes, la bataille d'Hajin a été gagnée mais de façon très poussive, à un coût exorbitant et au prix de nombreuses destructions*."

Article complet:

https://disk.yandex.com/i/7D4GCPWrM0ZgIw

Notes:

* note 1: Si l'état islamique ne possédait pas leurs propres satellites, il disposait bien de renseignements fournis par les satellites des puissances occidentales.

* note 2: 80% de la ville de Rakka a été détruite.

Another beautiful meditation by Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

...a different language, but deeply, the same thing! Whether you call it "resistance" or "gift to the gods", now is not the time to sleep, but to fight, and to give our best, and to trust our humanity!

https://www.ibecoming.co.il/eng/Blog/941/The-Laying-of-the-Renewed-Foundation-Stone-as-Reversed-Cultus

Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon writes in a warm and fully explicit manner what many authors have expressed in more round-about ways: We are not alone when we think. We bear entire responsibility for our thoughts, but to infer from that that we are alone, is to allow a wrong guest to sneak in, uninvited and unnoticed.

Resistance is sheltering us

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/06/30/angel-history-symbol-resistance/

Merci Rima Hassan !

 

Se rend-on compte qu'une Palestinienne, Rima Hassan, députée française et européenne, née dans un camp de réfugiés palestiniens, est en train de sauver l'honneur de la France, humiliée par Netanyahu depuis des mois, à coup d'insultes contre la présidence de la république ou d'arrestation de gendarmes ?

Ce que Rima Hassan est en train d'accomplir est extraordinaire: une véritable révolution des consciences dans un Occident endormi. C'est une Arabe, une Palestinienne qui donne une leçon à la macronie soumise à Israel. Une eurodéputée et 3 citoyens français kidnappés en eaux internationales, détenus ILLÉGALEMENT depuis 3 jours par un État dirigé par un homme sous mandat d'arrêt de la CPI, sans un mot de condamnation de la France. C'est du jamais-vu.

Elle a subi des violences morales et physiques, et a été placée en isolement solitaire, cellule insalubre, sans fenêtres, pas d’accès à la cour. Elle refuse de signer quoi que ce soit, préfère la prison à la soumission. Rima ne se contente pas de résister : elle nous enseigne le véritable sens de la dignité, de la persévérance et du droit au retour. Elle a écrit « free Palestine » sur le mur de sa cellule, dans une prison israélienne. Voilà ce qu’est le courage !

Elle entame une grève de la faim en protestation contre la violence de sa détention en Israël. Silence des autorités françaises, qui continuent de livrer des armes aux génocidaires.

En France, aucun envoyé spécial, aucune tribune de l'intelligentsia de gauche si prompte à donner des leçons par ailleurs, aucune émission sur les grandes chaînes de télévision pour dénoncer cette situation inédite. Tout le monde se tait, tout le monde a peur. 

Voltaire : " Pour savoir qui vous dirige vraiment, il suffit de regarder ceux que vous ne pouvez pas critiquer."

Espérons que la mobilisation mondiale en cours empêche les israéliens de la tuer ou de l’empoisonner.

Pendant ce temps…

La semaine prochaine se tiendra à l’ONU une énorme réunion internationale pour reconnaître l’Etat Palestinien et plaider pour une solution à deux états, réaction des USA : « Les pays qui prendraient des « actions anti israéliennes » après la conférence seront considérés comme agissant en opposition aux intérêts de la politique étrangère américaine et pourraient faire face à des conséquences diplomatiques de la part de Washington. » L’administration du président américain Donald Trump MENACE les gouvernements du monde entier… incroyable vassalisation du pays le plus puissant du monde.

Francesca Albanese (ONU), hier:

Israel tué 120 Palestiniens en 24 heures.

Les égyptiens, à la demande d'israel et sous pression US, ont bloqué la marche de la caravane d'aide qui avait démarré en Tunisie et s'était enrichie de citoyens du monde entier.

On peut tous faire notre part: boycottez les entrprises qui ont du sang palestinien sur les mains, la liste est sur BDS. C'est efficace, c'est important.

Covid and morality

If I had been the devil, I would have created the covid. Because I don't know anyone who got vaccinated for an immoral reason. Everyone got vaccinated for preserving their ability, not to enjoy, but to perform their duties: To continue earning for your family, to be able to travel to look after your dependants, sometimes, to conform to the conspiracy theory that you would "stop transmission" and not be a danger to others, and in very few cases that I know, with the hope to protect your own health, which is of course not immoral at all, but not as altruistic as the majority of people's motivation to get vaccinated.

Now, if you set-up conditions that force people to harm themselves out of their higher, altruistic ideal, that is a definition of torture.

Covid has been a mass torture of humanity, a devilish enterprise.

We should not abandon morality. A person who acted out of goodwill should never regret her action, whatever the cost.

But we must understand that intelligence and morality are weapons at the service of each-other. Being moral is not an excuse for not being intelligent, and being intelligent is not an excuse for not being moral. How we make these two forces protect and save each-other is the most difficult work, the work of becoming human.

Trump TREBLINKA?

 

Michel Rocard, Scott Ritter

Premier ministre Michel Rocard :

"C’est une affaire à millions de morts, l’hypothèse étant que ça commence nucléaire."

https://www.liberation.fr/france/2012/03/02/michel-rocard-on-est-dans-l-imbecillite-politique-collective_799992/

Weapons inspector Scott Ritter:

“Striking Iran isn’t just ripping up treaties, it means that the U.S. would break the taboo that’s been in place since Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the use of the Nuclear Weapons and we will become, by definition, the worst nation in the world, the most evil nation in the world!”

WHY WOULD US FIGHT IN YEMEN?

Interview for Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/live/DSfF59Y6Bhc

IA et tautisme

https://imagesociale.fr/11705 

Pepe Escobar

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/19/hard-rains-gonna-fall-from-west-down-to-east/

Pepe Escobar summarizes our situation like rarely before.

The overall feeling is that Europe is (still) at the centre stage. But that is NEW. Before, Europe WAS the centre stage. Europe was looking at India, China, America, Africa with unlimited passion and lust. Now it is the turn of these countries to look at Europe. But there will be no symmetry. As Escobar writes, Russia is not Faustian. India and China, or Africa, even more evidently less! Escobar is silent about the US. I believe they are not Faustian. Their trajectory is different. Europe is not anymore the centre stage, it is AT the centre stage. Everyone looks with pity, interest and indeed, compassion: How far will Europe go in self-destructive hubris?

Stephan Korinth

Excellent article par un jeune journaliste Allemand indépendant, co-fondateur de ce journal en Allemand avec certains articles traduits en Anglais. 

Ca bouge !!! La vieille Europe n'est pas encore morte !!!

https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/the-long-lineage-of-russophobia

Question for today

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting Germany after 1945?

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting East Pakistan after 1971?

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting Cambodia after 1979?

Achille Mbembe vs Carl Schmitt

"This is not war in the Clausewitzian sense of two sovereign actors vying for victory. It is war in the Schmittian sense, where one side is an object rather than a subject, a battlefield rather than a player. The U.S. does not merely use Ukraine. It governs the conditions of its life."

"The logic of necropolitics, as theorized by the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe (b. 1957), is laid bare in the choreography of these negotiations. It is not just about war but about the management of death itself, the strategic control of who is allowed to live and who is left to perish. For Ukraine, existence is contingent upon its usefulness to larger powers, a pawn whose suffering is not a tragedy but a calculated necessity."

Constantin von Hoffmeister, March 2025

https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/necropolitics-ukraine-and-the-trump-brokered-negotiations

Achille Mbembe knows a thing or two about architecture:

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/coloniality-infrastructure/410015/the-earthly-community/

 

Associations des juristes Français pour le respect du droit international

 

Racisme du passé et du futur

Il y a beaucoup de malentendus sur la question du racisme parcequ'il y en a deux formes, fondamentalement différentes dans leurs motivations : Le racisme qui juge les gens en fonction de leur passé familial, leurs "gènes", tout ce qu'on attribuait autrefois à la "race", et le racisme qui juge les gens en fonction de leur avenir, ce que les politiciens appellent parfois "la communauté de destin", ou ce dont on parle lorsqu'on dit que certains groupes de personnes, ou institutions, "ont vocation" à faire certaines choses plutôt que d'autres.

Appeler "racisme" la deuxième forme est une analogie, car ça n'a pas grand-chose à faire avec la race, la génétique ou le passé, mais est directement lié à la géographie. C'est un jugement de la personne qui n'est pas motivé par son héritage, ni génétique ni culturel, mais par l'endroit où elle vit.

C'est cette forme moderne de racisme géographique qui explique les guerres aujourd'hui, et non pas le racisme à l'ancienne, basé sur la couleur de peau ou le patrimoine culturel.

Plusieurs philosophes ont caractérisé, à leur manière, ce racisme qui motive les guerres et la politique aujourd'hui. Jacques Rancière l'appelle "le racisme froid", et Alain Badiou l'appelle de manière interchangeable "le racisme d'état" ou "le racisme intellectuel".

Il est important de comprendre les buts et les moyens du racisme froid, ou racisme intellectuel, si l'on veut échapper à son emprise et ne pas se laisser embrigader dans la grande mobilisation générale, la militarisation des identités qui sème la misère et les catastrophes aujourd'hui. 

Sauver l'identité, forme visible, et par conséquent la seule que l'on peut aimer dans la pratique, de ce qui est le plus sacré en chacun de nous, est notre tâche aujourd'hui.

Who is defending terrorism?

Check who is defending terrorism, and with what intellectual arguments.

Note that the introductory paragraph, which was added later by the editor, is totally hypocritical, it's legalese to preempt legal problems following a powerful attack against prof. Viminitz's cynical paper, by one of his former students.

Yes, in a strange twist, reading what your ennemies write often helps in understanding yourself deeper, what you stand for, and why.

There is a deep relation between intellectual work and evil. Without evil, the good would maybe not understand itself. In a sense, evil and intellectual work are two forms of the same thing.

https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2011/12/03/my-open-letter-to-canadas-foremost-philosopher-of-war/