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1. Quinze aphorismes personnalisés

   In 1985 Paul Braffort and Marcel Bénabou’s program “Fifteen Personalized Aphorisms” was presented at the Centre Pompidou. In the 1990’s, Éric Joncquel created the online version on the ALAMO website. This program is a digital remediation of the Oulipian method of creating aphorisms. The politician Jean Jaurès formulated his famous aphorism “A small bit of internationalism distances us from patriotism, but a lot brings us very close to it” from Roger Bacon’s “A small bit of Science distances us from Faith, but a lot brings us very close to it.” Even though these two sentences discuss two very different subjects, the method of formulating an aphorism allows us to place these two subjects in the same lexical context. At its most essential, an aphorism unites what is separated and separates what is united (this sentence itself is indeed an aphorism!). The four most common tools of doing this in the Oulipian method are equivalence, antithesis, parallelism, and proportion. Jaurès’ quote is an aphorism of implicit proportion because the relationship between the words created by the aphorism is not immediately obvious.

   Scott Rettberg - 11.07.2013 - 11:51