This essay thinks on the habit and the dwelling of man in the moment of his end, of his completion, but which is also the moment of his monstrous appearance, of his beginning to a beginning without end and without telos, not present, as experience that takes thought to the limit of non-knowledge. Where are we when we are born? Where are we when we think? These are the two questions that resonate here around the question of inhabiting the end of man. In the constellation of contemporary thinkers such as Michel Foucault, George Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, the essay explores the relationship between the concept of habit in Gilles Deleuze and the dance image that Pascal Quignard links to the e-motion of birth. If the habit in Deleuze refers to a way of inhabiting the world while the birth in Quignard refers to a non-place, then the question before us is that of the relationship between life and habit.
Casanova Pinochet, C. (2021). Where are we when we are born? Reflections on dance and birth from P. Quignard and G. Deleuze. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (10), 128–139. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2021.60937
