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Jacques Attali Biography

Jacques Attali (French: [ʒak atali]; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991 and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1991-1993. In 1997, upon the request of education minister Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the higher education degrees system. In 2008-2010, he led the government committee on how to ignite the growth of the French economy, under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

Dream, Life, Men, Noise, Power, Sound

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

Communication, Growth, Monologue, Music, Musicians, Self

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Euphemism, Global, Governance, Government

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

Inspiration, Judge, Judging, Society, Sound, Sounds

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

Alone, Hearing, Legible, Men, Monitor, Twenties

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Harmony, Noise, Old, Order

Today, music heralds. . . the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Anymore, Establishment, Happen, Music, Today

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

Firsts, Labyrinth, Leads, Maternal, Path, Woman

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Ends, Men, Tragedy

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

Faster, Inscribed, Noise, Society, Transforms

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Failed, Knowledge, Look, Looks, Twenties, World