The dog days are upon us! M. Hulot is on vacation and the Sorbonne, very quiet. But the restless mind of the philosopher, caged up in the Cartesian “stove” of a vacation house with nothing to read but two-year-old copies of People magazine, grinds on. French speakers, you're in luck. Two deadpan comedians shouldering bibliographies longer than your great-aunt's rap sheet jump, in 15-minute segments, on the great issues of our time: Botox, GPS, the Hummer, Paris Hilton, life coaches, etc. If you don't think it's pretentious, you'll like it. All on France-Culture, from now through August.
Outline of the series, here: Mythographies/Mythophonies
Archive of segments already broadcast here: Archives
This is fun! I loved the bit from the last segment on the relationship with the 'personal coach' as overcoming the master-slave dialectic.
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