Costantini, Michel
As long as eyes will be
- 2021.
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Utopia aims at making each one of us happy under the rule of the Omnis: one applies oneself to differentiate the All, to articulate the whole of the Manifold in its particular manifestations. However, the Omnis easily slides down the dysphoric slope of the Totus which seeks to bring back the multiplicity of beings to the One in a generalization of the Same. Eugen Zamiatin’s novel We, written in Moscow in 1920, thus introduces us into a world – a fictional anticipation, however evoking so many realities of our time as well as Zamiatin’s- ruled by a Unitarian State which, in order to reach sameness and uniformity, shuts the door to the imagination, a dangerous source of exception and escape, fills in, planes, controls and watches relentlessly over, curbs the phusis in the name of a fallacious logos.