Being and Neon

<p class=ql-align-justify>This little book is a jewel of intelligence finesse and culture which takes a technical object and turns it upside down like Heidegger taught us to do with Van Gogh's shoes.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>What is striking is the ambition of this meditation on the maps of contemporary modernity on the famous Grand Paris on the subject on the plural without the postmodern red herrings of absurd quotation. Luis de Miranda takes a stroll telling you that he's taking a stroll but he leads you with great mastery and knows where he wants to go. There's nothing gratuitous about this encounter with the kebab shop sign on the Neon City dissection table. It's more like a new Cartesian meditation after Descartes and Husserl: where the stove and its heat have given way to the twisting sound of gas in a tube. I am I create therefore I hear.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Born of an unexpected encounter with a neon sign on the quay of the Louvre this book was composed from a seminar given by the author in the winter of 2012. An inspired journey through the night deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to give voice to a certain magic of the future.</p>