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The Indisputable Favourite Moments

Map of the world



Town



The Atomium in Brussels



'Thinking in the classical Athens of the British Museum.'



Instict in Bathtub



Kiss



Instict in Stone



Beauty, passion in Image



The writer Paulo Coelho



The writer Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). He was blind from the passion for Aphorisms.



The thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)



The thinker and editor Panagiotis Kondylis (1943-1998)



The Statue with cigar and book and Dimitris Eleas



The psychoanalyst Sigmund Frued (1856-1939)



The philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)



The philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831)



The philosopher Aristotle (384-322BC)




The palace of Imagination and Reality




The Ladybug on Leaf

The ethical leader Nelson Mandela

The favourite Chrysantemum

The favourite [failed] spy Anna Chapman

The British political leader Simon Hughes

Karl Marx (1818-1883), the father of the 'Modern World'

The home of Imagination and Reality

From the studio of Leo Wolfert

Angels and Humanity

In life, rational decisions most of the time give irrational results. Many people because of their fears and weaknesses will turn the honey into steel. Few people, because of their courage and ambition will turn the tragedy into a triumph. What you need is a bit of help from the Angels in synthesizing luck, words, ideas and not the Humanity.

The Atomium in Brussels

Autonomy sunset

The Swan and the name of a Woman

Dimitris Eleas at the office chair of Cornelius Castoriadis

The philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis with Dimitris Eleas

Cornelius Castoriadis is a leading figure of the 20th century thought.

For Castoriadis imagination brings all the people together. Castoriadis loved ideas and he said to Dimitris in their meeting “when a new idea comes to my mind I feel a big surprise!” A Critical spirit in modern day France. He was thinking ‘the Man, not the Humanity’, because we must place our trust upon ‘the Man, not the Humanity.’

He spoke to Castoriadis about his first novel Eccentric Notes (2004). He inspired him the book Private Cornelius (2009).

Beauty, passion in Image

The philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis

Kiss

The writer and translator David Ames Curtis

The Sofra Restaurant in Covent Garden

The painter Leo Wolfert in his studio

Huseyin Ozer with his wife Zeynep

The Rosa Luxemburg monument

The American linguist Noam Chomsky with Dimitris Eleas

For The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is ‘arguably the most important intellectual alive.’ Chomsky is a voice of clear activism in the US. He gave him a literary portrait in which he wrote: ‘Today’s Russia is the result of utopia! The only thing utopia has done, it sent the farmer Yuri Gagarin into space’, and as a gift, the book World in Fragments by Castoriadis, translated by Curtis. He wrote about him in the Eccentric Portraits (2007).

The German philosopher Yurgen Habermas with Dimitris Eleas

He read the work of Yurgen Habermas, [concept/theory of ‘communicative action’] always against the work of Cornelius Castoriadis. He holds in his hands the literary portrait that he gave him. He wrote in it: ‘I want to see your eyes, eyes that saw Nazism die, eyes that saw Adorno.’

The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou with Dimitris Eleas

Dimitris Eleas met with Papandreou at the London School of Economics in a conference that both took part. He grew up in Athens while his father, Andreas Papandreou, was the Prime Minister. After meeting him, he saw his ‘knowledge based style and qualities’ which made him Prime Minister of Greece in October 2009.

The French philosopher Jacques Derrida with Dimitris Eleas

Jacques Derrida after his lecture on: ‘The eye witness and the martyr’. Derrida delivers an interesting way of philosophy and style of work with eccentric + paradoxical dimensions. Deridda influenced the novel Eccentric Notes (2004, a novel in pieces) and also the work in progress The Psychopathic God (also a novel in pieces).

The film director Theo with Dimitris Eleas

With Theo, the film director, they met in the London Riverside Studios, sometime after winning the Palme d’ Or in the Cannes Film Festival. His movies are visual worlds. His movies could give the advice of Wittgenstein ‘Take it easy, take your time.’ The word versus picture. He created Collages and he wrote a portrait about him in the Eccentric Portraits (2007).

Self-Portrait collage

Orange juice and cigar

It’s relaxing time after creating and editing manuscripts. On the right side you can see his old ‘Underwood’ typewriter. His brain is a small reference library. He likes cigars, which transform him into a small factory of words [that keep the typewriter busy]. It is also a small factory of memory for his two friends in Paris the philosopher Kostas Axelos and the writer Elias Petropoulos.