Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

POUPINOU AND PICMUCHE

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I knew them from 1976 to 1995 when I finally migrated to our Central Mountains and Auvergne. They were a tremendous experience. They were able to make music speak and laugh and they moved Carmen, the opera, of course, dumb ass! Picmuche and Poupinou were for me the perfect extraterrestrial neighborly pair if not a couple of clowns. Now that Gilles Defacques is gone, are they still going to wait for the coming of some God? Probably because clowns always stick to their antics. And they have, had, and will always have plenty of tricks in their pockets, and if not in their pockets probably in their shoes, socks, but beware the hats: they always hide some deadly weapons of general laughter there, laughing louse that is ready to jump onto you just like fleas on a famished dog.

Oui! cette fois, Poupinou n'a pas triché et il ne sera jamais plus avec nous, si ce n'est en mémoire et en phantasme. Mais il nous fera toujours rire.

POUPINOU AND PICMUCHE

by Jacques Coulardeau

2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

11 Pages

Burlesque,  *  Clown,  *  Bakhtin carnival and the grotesque body,  *  Picturesque,  *  Circus

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FROM FARCE TO DRAMA, CHASED BY THE POLICE

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3^RD ROUND

KNOCKED OUT

KAPUTT

This third round is centered on crime and the police.

1- Benoit Poelvoorde, Dany Boon, Rien à Déclarer. Customs officers are playing carnival.

2- Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Sherlock Holmes, a series and a handful of films.

3- Basil Rathbone, Tribute to Sherlock Holmes with four films, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapons, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Woman in Green, and Dressed to Kill.

4- Stephen King's Dark Tower, The Gunslinger, the full omnibus edition of the comic book.

The series with Jeremy Brett and David Burke is probably not a masterpiece but they tried to keep the proper environment for the stories that take place at the end of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century. The acting is good though it becomes slightly routine-minded towards the end.

The four films with Basil Rathbone are from just before WW2 to just after it. No color, no real special effects, and small budgets. One is mediocre war propaganda. The others are banal with no real plot or suspense. Maybe the fourth one might be slightly in Holmes’ line.

Plus a small magazine with some simple data about Sir Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, the various stories written for the character, and the various films. But today that’s a little bit meager with the Internet. Google Sherlock Holmes and you’ll see the myriad of pages you will get. So, it is a little bit disappointing.

I kept Stephen King for the end because the comic book is absolutely phenomenal and marvelous. Creative art, multi-layer narrator, piled up universes revealing what humanity is doing to the cosmos. Nothing good at all. The art is by far outstanding. We could discuss a lot the idea that in this phantasmagorical universe, the principle you can achieve nothing good if you do not sacrifice a human being before getting on the road is barbaric, and feudal, but deeply ingrained in all religions in this world, apart from Theravada Buddhism.

So, enjoy these series, films, and comic books in the weeks leading to Twelfth Night, Mardi Gras, and the Carnival.

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CHRISTMAS VACATION – SECOND BATCH

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This second batch contains five references.

1- Main Director Jeffrey G. Hunt – Main Author Julie Plec, Creator – Based On L.J. Smi/Th – Legacies – 2018-2022. Vampires & Witches – Males & Females – Trans-Werewolves – Among All In-Betweens

2- Stephen King – Aka Beryl Evans – Ned Dameron – Charlie The Choo-Choo – 2016. Choo-Choo Train – Kiddy Kids – All Aboard

3- Michael Hirst – Vikings – 2013-2020. Roaring Evil – Restless Species – Spoiling & Invading

4- Jean-Baptiste Doulcet – Un Mon De Fantastique – Gounod – Liszt – Schuman – Doulcet, Endymion (Keats) – 2022. Doulcet Fantastic – Gounod Transcended – Schuman Liszt – & Keats Transfigured

5- Jean-Baptiste Doulcet – Soleils Blancs – Grieg – Sibelius – Nielsen – 2024 Grieg – Nielsen – Sibelius – Doulcet – Nordic Nirvana

More music and more video too. Only one book for children by the grand-master of horror and fantastic surreal nightmares. But Stephen King for once caresses the sweet and mellow nostalgia of children, for and from the past that is just what they can maybe imagine or desire from the ranting and raving of their old grandparents who are living entirely in those distant days in their dementia.

The video Legacies is in a softened fantastic style that makes all these mutants or paranormal beings like vampires, werewolves, witches, and wizards nothing but ordinary passers-by in the street, except they will cast a curse of some and any sort on your flesh and body because that’s the only thing they want, to take possession of your body and do with it what they want, even if it is crazy for you and because it is deliciously mellow for them. And be happy that’s one essential inspiration that comes from northern Europe, I mean Scandinavia with two old populations, that arrived in  Europe around 50,000 BCE. That’s a long time ago, indeed. They were arriving directly from Black Africa on some kind of underground railroad of immigration and they brought their languages and cultures along.

The Vikings are their indirect heirs since they had to wait for the Germanic tribes to arrive after 8,000 BCE not directly from Black Africa because they stopped on the Iranian Plateau for something like 40,000 years. And they collected there some fire-spitting flying animals, generally called dragons, and the taste for human sacrifice and dying on the battlefield to honor and magnify their many gods born inside a fighting armor, and sucking their milk from the spear, arrows, and axes of their mother/father Ymir, that hermaphrodite being, the ancestors of all humans and all gods who grew from the various parts of its body, like the Hindi castes out of Brahma’s body.

We are thus, all of us, the descendants of Ymir’s hermaphrodite self-fornication. And that’s a consolation. Ymir had a moment of bliss in his creational orgasm from its own onanism. Lutherism came later on top of this old mythology after the Vikings had sacrificed hundreds of human volunteers (maybe if you want to believe that: at least the Mayas and Aztecs did not pretend that absurdity) in Uppsala.

And we finish this batch with two disks of music from these Scandinavian countries, both Indo-Eruropean and agglutinative Turkic. Enjoy the trip.

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 29 Pages

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ROMANIA, BUCHAREST, IFIASA, UNE SUITE D’ÉPISODES

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I went to Romania for the Conference of the Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme on May 23-24, 2019, and presented the challenge of multilingualism for pay-managing human-resources technicians. I was able to meet Serban V.C. Enache and see the ailing city of Bucharest that had not yet been reconstructed since the 1977 Vrancea earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania)

First of all, their spirituality, in their case their Orthodox Christianity. […]

Third, this last fact or competency opens the door to communication. We are at least 300,000 BCE. The road will be long but this communicational competency will make Homo Sapiens literate in the languages they speak, literate in technology, science, and other knowledge, and literate in spirituality.  […]

Any “invention” is nothing but the extension of something that existed before and evolves into what emerges from it.

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Olliergues, December 12, 2024

FULL 389-page BOOK AT

https://www.academia.edu/126507683/ROMANIA_BUCHAREST_IFIASA_UNE_SUITE_D_%C3%89PISODES  FULL BOOK

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387318112_ROMANIA_BUCHAREST_IFIASA_UNE_SUITE_D'EPISODES  FULL BOOK

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

This is a 389-page book collecting only articles published in peer-reviewed journals in Romania. Plus one in Paris for a paper presented at a Bucharest conference in May 2019. My last long distance trip was in July 2019, thank you COVID-19, Satan as Léo Ferré would say.

ROMANIA, BUCHAREST, IFIASA, UNE SUITE D’ÉPISODES

by Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

389 Pages

Archaeology,  *  Anthropology,  *  Education,  *  Languages and Linguistics,  *  Spirituality

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Charlemagne’s Benedictine Revolution in Livradois-Forez

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ENGLISH

The Carolingian Reform of Charlemagne, a reform that we still live on: the 52 Sundays and some holidays such as Christmas, Easter, the Assumption, and All Saints' Day. It is about understanding the transition from the slave society before the Carolingians to the feudal society which for our Livradois-Forez introduced an unprecedented green revolution, water management in drainage and irrigation without any equivalent except in Babylon, Sri Lanka, India, China, and some other Asian countries. The Benedictines largely contributed to this evolution. […]

[…] Les Bénédictins casadéens introduisirent les moulins à eau qui purent alimenter en énergie mécanique les moulins à grain, à tan, à huile, et les moulins à foulon pour le chanvre et plus tard le papier. Ils purent aussi aider à la mise en place et au fonctionnement des métiers à tresser qui firent du Livradois la patrie du cordage et donc du câble, technologie que l’entreprise Omerin développe et exploite encore aujourd’hui au niveau mondial, l’usine d’Olliergues (aujourd’hui fermée mais entretenue) fonctionnant à l’énergie hydraulique de la Repote, gentille rivière Forézienne, affluent de la Dore.

Ils ont aussi construit nombre d’églises romanes, riches de chapiteaux historiés, de fresques, de vitraux, et de souterraines circulations aquatiques, de statues de la Vierge, représentée debout ou en majesté, portant toujours l’enfant Jésus, que nous pouvons admirer aujourd’hui…

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

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Pascal Bornet, A Techno-Biased Prophetic Mountebank

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ENGLISH

In our modern digital and GenAI world, we need to become literate,  autonomous, and endowed with self-learning sustainability in three domains, autonomous yet articulated together.

SYMBOLERACY is the symbolic value of images, hence imageracy, then, the symbolic value of words, semantic references, and syntactic constructions, in one single word, utterancy, and finally, the symbolic value of sounds, hence sounderacy for music, intonation, and tempo, and LITERACY for the symbolism of language. NUMERACY is numbers and numerical operations, thus counting, percentages, fractions, and mathematical operational numeracy. TECHNERACY was using a stone to chip marks on a durable medium at the beginning, and tools to write down data, long before writing systems made it simpler from stylus/brush inscriptions to the printing press. Then came machines transmitting oral messages like telephone, telegram, morse code, radio, and television, before the machine had its self-managed processing way. Now, we are developing deep human learning and enhanced human intelligence.

WHAT COMES NEXT? Pascal Bornet slams on our desk his three humics, genuine creativity, critical thinking, and social authenticity. We are not dispossessed of our intelligence or creativity, mind or empathy. We are yet challenged to make this GenAI a tool that we must use symbiotically to develop both communication and collaboration to learn and teach, which implies, in tomorrow’s no-work world, moving from traditional routine or submissive work to self-development, self-learning, and self-implementing our enhanced, augmented, and upgraded human intelligence to work with the GenAI tools so many people fear. The target is a new type of not yet specified symbolic literacy that would enable us to differentiate true human contact and exchange from deep-fake (the faker, the funnier) or even not-so-deep-fake controlling manipulation. And the ethical challenge of good and evil has never been so profound and awesomely frightening. What will we do, split as we are between adoption and rejection?

FRENCH

Dans notre monde numérique et GenAI moderne, nous devons devenir alphabétisés, autonomes et dotés d'une durabilité d'auto-apprentissage dans trois domaines, Indépendants mais articulés les uns sur les autres.

La SYMBOLORATIE est la valeur symbolique des images, d'où l'imageoratie, puis la valeur symbolique des mots, des références sémantiques et des constructions syntaxiques, en un seul mot, l'énoncioratie, et enfin la valeur symbolique des sons, d'où la sonoratie pour la musique, l'intonation et le tempo, et le LETTRISME ou ALPHABÉTISME pour le symbolisme du langage. La NUMÉRATIE concerne les nombres et les opérations mathématiques, donc l’arithmétique, les pourcentages, les fractions et le calcul opérationnel mathématique. La TECHNORATIE utilisait au début une pierre pour graver des marques sur un support durable, et des outils pour écrire des données, bien avant que les systèmes d'écriture ne simplifient les inscriptions au stylet/pinceau jusqu'à la presse à imprimer. Puis sont arrivées les machines transmettant des messages oraux comme le téléphone, le télégramme, le code morse, la radio et la télévision, avant que la machine n'ait son mode de traitement autogéré. Aujourd’hui, nous développons un apprentissage humain profond et une intelligence humaine améliorée. Pour l’homme ou pour la machine ?

QU’EST-CE QUI VIENT ENSUITE ? Pascal Bornet balance sur notre bureau ses trois humiques, la créativité authentique, la pensée critique et l’authenticité sociale. Nous ne sommes pas dépossédés de notre intelligence ou de notre créativité, de notre esprit ou de notre empathie. Nous sommes encore mis au défi de faire de cette GenAI un outil que nous devons utiliser en symbiose pour développer à la fois la communication et la collaboration pour apprendre et enseigner, ce qui implique, dans le monde sans travail de demain, de passer de la routine traditionnelle ou du travail soumis d’une part, au développement personnel, à l’auto-apprentissage et à l’auto-mise en œuvre de notre intelligence humaine améliorée, augmentée et mise à niveau pour travailler avec les outils GenAI que tant de gens craignent d’autre part. L’objectif est un nouveau type d’alphabétisation symbolique non encore spécifié qui nous permettrait de différencier le véritable contact et l’échange humains, d’un côté, de la manipulation de contrôle deep-fake (Plus c’est faux, plus c’est fou) ou même pas si deep-fake que ça, de l’autre. Et le défi éthique du bien et du mal n’a jamais été aussi profond et terriblement effrayant. Que ferons-nous, partagés comme nous le sommes entre l’adoption et le rejet ?

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Publication Date:  2024

Artificial Intelligence,  *  Literacy,  *  Languages and Linguistics,  *  Symbolism,  *  Numeracy

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Enlightening Books 4 Both Mind & Senses

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Christmas is already looming up on the winter horizon. E-books will never run out of print and you can transport your whole library in your shirt's front pocket. You can read them anywhere, in any place where you can plug your own mental roots onto any WIFI cloud. Then you can savor your quenching all your thirsts and hungers for anything that can be represented in an e-book, practically everything you can imagine; Then buy e-books and put them under your Christmas tree and surprise your neighbors, friends, and family with stories about another mental world than their own.

Enlightening Books 4 Both Mind & Senses

by Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine

Literature,  *  Educational Research,  *  Poetry,  *  Research,  *  Erotica

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