A library as landscape
Judaism, psychology, eroticism, poetry, theatre and novels: my reading is not an ordered collection of certainties, but a space for confrontation and discovery.
Personal
Curiosity, freedom and new roots
I live surrounded by books, music and questions. My personal life extends the same search: understanding other worlds without surrendering critical thought.
Searching for the right note
From rock to jazz, blues to metal, classical to electronic and world music, I am drawn to tensions and crossings between genres. Frank Zappa embodies that continuing search for me.
A Dominican life choice
My relationship with the Dominican Republic grew over years through travel, family and encounters. Living in Santo Domingo today is not a retreat: it is a chosen place to put down roots and another way of inhabiting the world.
Remain a free spirit
Intellectual borders and fixed identities interest me less than curiosity. Travelling, reading and listening are ways to keep thought in motion.
A question that stays with me
“What does the conviction that one is right rest upon?”
It was the question set for my philosophy baccalaureate exam. Since then, it has reminded me to examine the foundations of my certainties before trying to persuade others.
For a long time, I associated this question with Spinoza. I have not, however, found this exact wording in his works. An authentic formulation, closely related through its inquiry into certainty, appears in the Ethics:
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, II, proposition 43 — English translation of the cited text.Read the original text ↗“Whoever has a true idea knows at the same time that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt the truth of his knowledge.”