Author name: Site Kenneth White

in English see as well in French

Geopoetics in brief… Geopoetics is a transdisciplinary theory-practice applicable to all the domains of life and research. Its aim is to re-establish and enrich the Humanity-Earth relationship long since deteriorated when not totally destroyed, with consequences now well documented on the ecological, psychological and intellectual plane. Geopoetics presents new existential perspectives in an open world.

Origins 1936 – 1963 « Right from the start he was a complete organism, bearing in himself the seeds of his future development. »Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on Pushkin, in A Writer’s Journal 1936 Born in Glasgow, south side of the river, in the notorious Gorbals district. Father, railway signalman, socially-minded, avid reader of books. Grandfather, musician,

Exhibition Created by the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 1996, this exhibition was not only imported in France and translated, but also adapted and amplified at the initiative of Emmanuel Dall’Aglio, president of the association « The Friends and Readers of Kenneth White ». It was presented in France for the first time at

Association The association « The Friends and Readers of Kenneth White » was founded by Emmanuel Dall’Aglio in 1998. Its aim is to spread, via various types of venue, awareness of the work of Kenneth WHITE : its vision, its thought-content, its social significance. It proposes notably an exhibition : « Open World – the Itinerary of