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Notebook. On mental proprioception

The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, 1871-72 Here are some notes about something I’m trying to get my head around. I would appreciate feedback and reflections! At the end are some recommendations of films and books I’ve found interesting lately. In Récoltes et Semailles there is a famous passage where the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck writes about the years he spent as a young man isolated from the mathematical world, and how the experience of solitude was the key to his creativity. Because of the Second World War, which Grothendieck partly had to spend in the internment camp at…

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