PORTRAIT: ANNIE SINGER

(Met in person/rencontrée personnellement)

My name / mon nom :

Official : Anne-Marie Singer

In the cinema and publishing fields : Anne Singer

Now, in my village, as when I was a child : Annie Singer

Date de naissance / birthday :

9 September 1942

Métier / occupation :

After 20 years working in publishing houses as a graphical artist, I worked 20 other years in the cinema field (casting, first assistant to director, producer).

Now pensioned, I am still very active : editor of two journals on addictions, and public relations of a European network...

Où êtes-vous / Where I am staying

I am staying in Garrebourg, a one-way village, at the end of the world, at the limits of three regions in France : Alsace / Lorraine / Vosges...

Internet links about you/Liens internet vous concernant?

I don't have personal website, but my name appears in some...

Comment tentez-vous de rendre le monde meilleur? / How are you trying to make a better world?

Our current world is seek... The great American Dream is fading... (Jeremy Rifkin: www.foet.org/).

The money globalisation is bringing humanity to its end... Capitalism is in its self-destruction phase...

Hyperconsumption is destroying our individuality, our libido and our real desires (Bernard Stiegler : Ars Industrialis : www.arsindustrialis.org/)

In this context, I am thinking, and learning how to become a "socio-therapist"... Starting by myself, and in my village...

Un projet spécifique ? / Any specific project?

Starting to write my own books...

Un combat particulier ? / Any specific fight ?

- Advocating for the creation of a new kind of money, where money doesn't bring more money (no interests), where there is no more credits... Where money is only an exchange tool... (as it is advocated within the Islamic religion...)

- Advocating for ecological attitudes and actions

- Advocating against hyperconsumption (starting by myself)

- Advocating for new "mind technologies", including "affective art"

- Advocating for the re-birth of a social life...

Que souhaitez-vous au monde pour les prochaines années ?/What do you wish for the world for the next years ?

A greater conciousness of our politicians and economists on what is going on, in order to take decisions for a positive evolution of our society, socio-therapeutic decisions... To promote the otium, a culture (philosophy, arts...) going toward what is Beautiful, Right, True, that's to say to develop the objects of desire, of a desire that is extremely socialised: a "culture of sublimities" (says Bernard Stiegler).

Une idée pour enrichir le mouvement ? Any idea for making growing the movement ?

Exchanges and love... Considere the "affective art" in a larger context, as one of the needed (socio-therapeutical) tool, as a pharmacon... In a context that includes philosophical, political, ecological matters...

All the best,

Annie

PS: I called the cat you gave me: "Circus" !