#Girard

[catilinas]

enough doing it scared. do it violent. do it sacred

[prettygirlgerard]

BYEBYE:) 👋🙂 blood is pouring out of my body

[sylvianartist]

@omtai chugged a bunch of vodka and drew girard images that I found on your blog last night (colour done while sober)

[unteriors]

Honeybrook Circuit, Girard, Pennsylvania.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

There is great irony in the fact that the modern process of stamping out religion produces countless caricatures of it.

René Girard

[wobbledywobbledywahwobble-wobble]

Jib Jab Hot Dog Shoppe in Girard, Ohio. Circa 2014.

[vintagepromotions]

‘Already dry!’

Poster advertising Duco quick dry enamel lacquer (c. 1930). Artwork by Girard.

[roughridingrednecks]

Girard in Michigan

[detournementsmineurs]

Isabelle Huppert dans "Sidonie au Japon" d'Elise Girard, avril 2024.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Laboratory of M. Girard on the Sorbonne University in Paris

French vintage postcard

[catilinas]

[i-am-a-hog]

👍🏻

[hektora]

sooo.. there’s this brat theory of mimetic desire

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.

- René Girard (1923-2015)

Frnechman René Girard’s work has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years. He has long been recognised for his theory of human behaviour and human culture. In 2005 he was inducted into the Académie française, and in 2008 he received the Modern Language Association's award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. He was Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

Back more than 50 years ago, René Girard started teaching French literature because he needed a job. He hadn't even read many of the books he was assigned to teach. Then, as he studied the classic novels of Stendhal and Proust with a fresh mind, staying one step ahead of his students, he was struck by a series of similarities from novel to novel. Unbound by any narrow research agenda, Girard discovered a simple but powerful pattern that had eluded sophisticated critics before him: imitation is the fundamental mechanism of human behaviour.

Stories thrive on conflict between characters. By reading the great writers against the grain of conventional wisdom, Girard realised that people don't fight over their differences. They fight because they are the same, and they want the same things. Not because they need the same things (food, sex, scarce material goods), but because they want what will earn others' envy. Humans, with a planning intelligence that sets them apart from all other animals, are free to choose. With freedom comes risk and uncertainty: humans don't know in advance what to choose, so they look to others for cues.

People can desire anything, as long as other people seem to desire it, too: that is the meaning of Girard's concept of "mimetic desire." Since people tend toward the same objects of desire, jealousy and rivalry are inevitable sources of social tension.

[pissditching]

doing this to them rn

[manforsale]

hello does anyone remember her fuckass bob