The title refers to resistance. What a saint?

Dispersant, erosive, leading to perdition. Factors related to the human condition are, on the one hand, helplessness, the red atmosphere. It is, therefore, an understandable natural gesture, to protect ourselves, to create spaces that face this dispersion. And then there are social factors. It is appropriate to maintain an attitude of resistance. To these social factors, I give my name: the present.

Today's primacy.

What it has to do with technification, but it's not just technification, it's not a problem in itself. The present situation is very changing, we have to be constantly vigilant. It sucks everything, but it also erodes everything, because it's very fugitive: it doesn't stabilize anything, it leaves no room for the experience. Today is one of the erosive factors, by absorption or by things, and it affects us rather than us.

It sees it as the most effective form of alienation of all time.

The most effective authorities are those that are produced without anyone realizing it. A command can be signposted when it's visible, of course it can be dominator, but it can look for a strategy so it doesn't get you completely caught. On the contrary, the most subtle authorities sometimes take full care of you, and you barely realize it. In this sense, there is a kind of command of the present day, with enormous tyrannical effectiveness.

What is the attitude of resistance?

It requires being alert, awake, not letting the dispersion invade you. This attitude is not contrary to the projection, to the elaboration of a project. These are two movements that feed each other: to make decisions, to be adventures you have to know how to concentrate, to protect yourself, to return to the heat. Going outside is to exist, but you can go outside because there's a possibility to protect it. Resistance is therefore the condition of existence.

The word “intimo” also appears in the title. But not the interior, but the close.

Interior and exterior, this dichotomy is a restriction. On the contrary, “intimo” goes further and means close, close, familiar. It represents an attitude of proximity: the intimate spaces, the spheres of familiarity, are the ones you have assimilated; not from the point of view of property, but of identification. The landscape you see from the window of your room, the closest people, with or without blood link, etc.

The house, for example. Bachelard said: “We need a small house inside the big house.”

What makes the house home? It's a welcoming, welcoming place, where you gather, you remake, you animate. It allows the recovery of trust. We need to come together to regain strength. Not the walls, but the human warmth in them, is what gives you the house. The house is the others and you, that articulation that is made among all.

Everyday life, I don't know if contemporary philosophy underscores it enough.

Contemporary philosophy has not placed much emphasis on everyday life, on simpler life. There's a line of thought that has been romanticism, existentialism, that says that the important thing is to make decisions, to project yourself. And everyday life has become something secondary, more gray, more homogeneous, more impersonal. I disagree: many aspects of everyday life, habitual gestures, can be very profound.

Everything that is simple, from where you look at it, that can be the highest.

There are things in everyday life that have to do with the repetition of gestures, greetings, cooking, putting on the table, if you look at them well, they're very important. Although they often appear to be automatisms, they scratch you and show you the depths of our being. Looking carefully at everyday life, you discover these things that happen every day without realizing it.

And what concrete response to the erosive factors?

Memory and imagination. Memory is a response to the weariness of the passage of time: everything happens, but I will try to remember something. It is, therefore, a memory house. And we create figures that protect us with imagination; for example, the poetic image consumes us, protects us from the difficulties of life.

Maybe they're not in their best shape.

Today everything is exchange of information, cold, functional, technical language. And the realm of the image, which we relate to advertising, that invasion of images. They are in the opposite of poetic creation, of course, they have no function of permanence. But if you're looking for something that protects you, you want it to last for you, that supports you to prevent the spread of a coat, a house, a few words.