OBSERVATORY

OF UNIVERSITY ETHICS

OBSERVATORY

OF UNIVERSITY ETHICS

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“The Insurrection of Particularities”: Chantal Delsol Faces the Decline of the Universal – a Review by Emmanuelle Hénin

Emmanuelle Henin

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In "Insurrection of Particularities," Chantal Delsol analyzes the decline of the universal in favor of a wokeness marked by relativism, the dictatorship of identities, and the questioning of rationality, which substitutes emotion and ideology for debate and science. She shows how this evolution leads to a democracy dominated by minorities, an excessive egalitarianism deconstructing all hierarchy, and a performative thought where truth is replaced by militant narratives imposed by intimidation. A review by Emmanuelle

Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler

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Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

Book review of “The Damned of the Sea: Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” by Camille Schmoll

Mireille Quivy

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In "The Damned of the Sea," Camille Schmoll analyzes the journey of migrant women in the Mediterranean, highlighting the violence they experience, the obstacles of migration policies, and their quest for autonomy through in-depth field research. She deconstructs preconceived ideas about the feminization of migration and highlights the role of digital technology as a space for resistance and identity reconstruction.

Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on March 5, 2025

Ivan Burel

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The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational organization founded in 1928, seeks to impose its theocratic vision through methodical indoctrination and adaptation to local contexts. Taking advantage of Western freedoms, the brotherhood is gradually Islamizing by targeting young people and infiltrating associative and political circles. Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler given at the Hauts-de-France regional council in Lille after its cancellation at the University of Lille.

PERPETUAL ABOLITION: FOR A FINALLY LIBERATED DECOLONIAL FRANCE (BUT NOT TOO FAST)

Xavier-Laurent Salvador

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While campaigning with absolute intransigence for total abolition here, we must guard against any attempt at hasty judgment on non-Western societies which, for their part, have perhaps found in certain forms of servitude a civilizational balance that it is not up to us to deconstruct. The essential thing is to abolish, again and again, in France only.

The Erostratos of Good or the arsonists of memory

Ivan Burel

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Since 2020, calls have been growing in the West to erase or rename public symbols deemed to be linked to a colonial, racist and slave-owning past. This movement, amplified by contemporary demands such as those of Black Lives Matter, seeks to purge the public space of any reference considered problematic. Ivan Burel denounces the Manichean approach and moral anachronism of this phenomenon, comparable to the Roman damnatio memoriae, which risks distorting collective memory and dividing society.
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Back to the past: when PUFs restore prior censorship

The book "Face à l'obscurantisme woke," commissioned by the Presses Universitaires de France from three researchers and 22 co-authors, was suddenly canceled a month before its publication, officially due to a context deemed unfavorable. This decision, perceived as a form of ideological censorship, sparked numerous reactions, media support for the authors, and interest from other publishers willing to publish the book.

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Wokeism at university

The Observatory of University Ethics, created in 2019 under the name "Observatory of Decolonialism" then "Identity Ideologies", is an independent initiative dedicated to defending the fundamental values ​​of the university and promoting higher education that respects the principles of ethics, secularism and academic freedom. We are committed to preserving a university where the search for truth, free intellectual debate and the transmission of knowledge are exercised in a rigorous and impartial framework.

To achieve these goals, we:

  • Let us individually support teachers, researchers and students faced with attacks on academic freedom or ideological pressure, through advice, expertise and targeted actions;
  • Let us conduct in-depth investigations into ideological deviations, attacks on scientific neutrality and ethical issues that undermine the university, by publishing rigorous and documented reports;
  • Let us inform and raise awareness among the general public, institutions and political decision-makers about issues related to university ethics, in particular through analyses, debates and publications accessible to all.

These three axes – individual support, analytical research and public awareness – structure our action and allow us to defend a university at the service of knowledge and society. See our authors

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Deciphering censorship disguised as scientific rigor – a look back at the cancellation of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's conference in Lille

Bergeaud-Blackler responds to the arguments put forward by Karim Souanef and Julien Talpin (Mediapart), who claim that the cancellation of his lecture at the University of Lille was based on scientific and ethical reasons, not political ones. They present the case from a political angle while claiming the opposite, omitting certain elements and biasing their analysis.

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Florence Bergeaud-Blackler March 18, 2025

Book review of “The Damned of the Sea: Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” by Camille Schmoll

In "The Damned of the Sea," Camille Schmoll analyzes the journey of migrant women in the Mediterranean, highlighting the violence they experience, the obstacles of migration policies, and their quest for autonomy through in-depth field research. She deconstructs preconceived ideas about the feminization of migration and highlights the role of digital technology as a space for resistance and identity reconstruction.

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Mireille Quivy March 17, 2025

An Apocalypse of Nihilism – a critical look at a revealing exhibition at the BnF

The National Library of France is organizing a major exhibition on the Apocalypse, exploring its original meaning as "revelation" rather than the end of the world. The event, structured in three parts, offers an immersion into John's text, an analysis of the Apocalypse in art, and a contemporary reflection on the post-catastrophe, sparking controversy over an underlying ideology.

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Carlos Henriques-Pereira March 13, 2025

Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on March 5, 2025

The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational organization founded in 1928, seeks to impose its theocratic vision through methodical indoctrination and adaptation to local contexts.
Taking advantage of Western freedoms, the brotherhood is gradually carrying out Islamization by targeting young people and infiltrating associative and political circles. Report of the conference by Florence Bergeaud-Blackler given at the Hauts-de-France regional council in Lille after its cancellation at the University of Lille.

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Ivan Burel March 9, 2025

PERPETUAL ABOLITION: FOR A FINALLY LIBERATED DECOLONIAL FRANCE (BUT NOT TOO FAST)

While campaigning with absolute intransigence for total abolition here, we must guard against any attempt at hasty judgment on non-Western societies which, for their part, have perhaps found in certain forms of servitude a civilizational balance that it is not up to us to deconstruct. The essential thing is to abolish, again and again, in France only.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 28st February 2025

The Erostratos of Good or the arsonists of memory

Since 2020, calls have been growing in the West to erase or rename public symbols deemed to be linked to a colonial, racist and slave-owning past.
This movement, amplified by contemporary demands such as those of Black Lives Matter, seeks to purge the public space of any reference considered problematic.
Ivan Burel denounces the Manichean approach and the moral anachronism of this phenomenon, comparable to the Roman damnatio memoriae, which risks distorting collective memory and dividing society.

Read more "
Ivan Burel 24st February 2025

Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10

A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.

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Claudio Rubiliani 24st February 2025

President Xi Jinping's tie

The wearing of Western clothing by world leaders, including those opposed to the West, illustrates a cultural and societal homogenization resulting from a process of imitation of dominant powers. This phenomenon, which also affects urban planning and political structures, has its origins in the colonial history and technological choices of the West. Even unconsciously, this mimicry recognizes the impact of the West on modernity.

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Gerard MAAREK 20st February 2025
The editorials
Pierre Vermeren

Jean-Michel Aphatie and Algeria, the story of a shipwreck

At a time when the French-language writer Boualem Sansal was dying in the jails of Algiers, the star political journalist of RTL declared on air on February 25, 2025 that France "made hundreds of Oradour-sur-Glane" in Algeria, and "that the Nazis behaved as we did in Algeria."

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Pierre Vermeren 26st February 2025
The editorials
Jacques-Robert

Caught between wokeism and Trumpism

Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.

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Jacques-Robert 6st February 2025
The editorials
Pierre Vermeren

Gender? It doesn't exist

In the world before, literature was the way to know the lives of others, to imagine one's own, and to test one's virtues, one's body, one's fantasies, one's hopes and one's ambitions. The teachers of morality and virtue were neither civil servants nor paid activists, but thinkers and artists grappling with the human question. This library is still available. Mr. Minister Delegate, hold on!

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Pierre Vermeren December 3, 2024,
The editorials
Nathalie Heinich

Children, new victims of woke delusions

There is no stopping progress in the invention of new woke causes, intended to wake up the troops who are a little too asleep again. Because it's true, by force of stuffing ourselves with "gender" (about half of the themes listed in the 250 or so items of our 2023 Report), "racialization", "Islamophobia", "homophobia", "transphobia", "fatphobia" and all the phobias imaginable (except that of mice and reptiles, the only ones that I unfortunately have to confess), we end up finding the soap opera a little repetitive... Thus the dreary flock of "sheep of thought" periodically struggles to renew the livestock of the unfortunate victims of Domination (curse your name too pronounced!). And the latest discovery to date is children. Dare you?

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Nathalie Heinich 17th November 2024
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Jean Ferrette

No to misopedic adultism!

This requires, since the Nation's budget is under discussion, to create a specific envelope for the fight against adultism, intended to promote paid internships led by the children themselves, in order to better ensure that the specific oppression they suffer is understood. These will aim to awaken parents and, beyond that, all adults, to the toxic relationship that pushed them to have children without asking their opinion.

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Jean Ferrette 31 October 2024
The editorials
Jacques-Robert

Guilty, necessarily guilty!

Today, it is a twenty-year-old Sciences Po student, Pablo Ladam, who tells us about the madness that has taken hold of his school in its fight against "sexist and sexual violence". He does so in a high-quality text, Terreur violette, which is absolutely essential reading and which we all hope to see published soon.

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Jacques-Robert 23 October 2024
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Jacques-Robert

The child is a wolf to man

It is from Scotland that we receive news that a child is suffering from "species dysphoria" and identifies with a wolf. Oncologist Jacques Robert expands on this theme.

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Jacques-Robert 29 September 2024
The editorials
Pauline Arrighi

Studies, a new Olympic discipline

There was the first medalist for the refugee team, Cameroonian boxer Cindy Ngamba; the selfie of the South and North Korean table tennis players, united on the podium; and the Australian Rachel Gunn, who distinguished herself with a break dance performance that earned her no points but rather a flood of jeers. It is very likely that she consciously provoked this fiasco to put herself forward in the many media outlets that reported on it.

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Pauline Arrighi August 19, 2024
The editorials
Nathalie Heinich

To end the nonsense about academic freedom

There is a lot of talk these days about "academic freedom", but it is mostly to say stupid things, which a little common sense and knowledge of the issue should be enough to dispel.

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Nathalie Heinich August 1, 2024
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Job profiles in inclusive writing: the administration backtracks

The period of Le Mars sees a proliferation of job advertisements for recruitment in higher education establishments of which the INSPE are now part in complete autonomy. The word "autonomy" is undoubtedly inappropriate when talking about the civil service, as some believe themselves to be freed by the performative magic of the word from any accountability to the public that finances them. Through our unprecedented mobilization, we have managed to force the administration to back down!

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador March 6, 2024
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Common Places (Collective)

Political ecology versus environmentalism

Sandrine Rousseau's sallies regularly provoke disbelief, consternation or hilarity, to the point that we were delighted to see the insipid Yannick Jadot promoted to embody "government" ecology - that is to say, powerless. But we should take seriously the power of the so-called "woke" movement in the environmental movement: countering these delusional speeches requires, above all, understanding how we got here.

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Common Places (Collective) August 1, 2023
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Mikhail Kostylev

Anatomy of a Cancel

On December 15, 2022, the Café Laïque in Brussels was attacked by a pack of trans activists. Forced entry into the premises, breaking of furniture, throwing of excrement… another one of those violent cancels that wokeism has made us accustomed to.

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Mikhail Kostylev 3 May 2024
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Francois Rastier

The indefinable genre

Gender, the cultural construction of biological sex, has become central to social and political studies, significantly influencing the ideology of late capitalism.

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Francois Rastier 2 April 2024
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Nathalie Heinich

After October 7: a Titanic of the left in democracy

October 7 revealed the failure of a Western left, divided by its support for Hamas and disconnected from its historical values ​​such as anti-racism, secularism and the fight for equality. This fracture is symptomatic of the wokeism and Islamo-leftism that are eating away at the political debate.

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Nathalie Heinich 27st February 2024
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Collective

Why did the Hijabeuses lose to the FFF?

The hijab women wanted the moon: to be able to play football with the hijab on their heads. Supported by several disoriented associations, the hijab women did not win their case. Alone alongside the French Football Federation (FFF), the International Women's Rights League (LDIF) stood up against religious fundamentalism and won the game. We interviewed its president Annie Sugier.

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Collective July 3, 2023
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Common Places (Collective)

Islamism, totalitarianism, imperialism

The ambition of this text is to put forward some elements of analysis for the purpose of understanding the Islamist phenomenon. This requires getting rid of a certain number of preconceived ideas...

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Common Places (Collective) 3rd June 2023
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Claudio Rubiliani

Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10

A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.

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Claudio Rubiliani 24st February 2025
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Vincent Tournier

Scholar's bubbles

A comic strip supported by the Ministry of Higher Education explains how to identify a reliable scientific study. However, the portrayal of the charlatan as an old white scientist sparks debate about stereotypes and the message conveyed. Finally, the comic strip raises a broader question: why does science education seem to be neglected in favor of other educational priorities?

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Vincent Tournier 12st February 2025
The editorials
Jacques-Robert

Caught between wokeism and Trumpism

Jacques Robert warns against the excesses of wokeism and Trumpism, two extremes threatening science, and calls for vigilance against all forms of ideologization of knowledge.

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Jacques-Robert 6st February 2025
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Florent Poupart

The influence of identity ideologies on “psy” practices

Contemporary identity ideologies profoundly influence psychological practices by imposing a hypermoralization of social life, transforming the therapeutic relationship into a space of ideological validation rather than neutral analysis. Psychologist Florent Poupart warns us against this development, which is accompanied by a growing distrust of psychic life in its unconscious dimension, in favor of an ideal of transparency and moral purity.

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Florent Poupart 5st February 2025
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Leonardo Orlando

Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline

“We are losing science,” warns Weiss, who sees this politicization as an existential threat. “When remains are buried or destroyed, when museums censor their exhibits, there is nothing left to study. Unlike other disciplines, once anthropological data is lost, it cannot be recreated.”

Elizabeth Weiss nevertheless remains attached to the idea of ​​an anthropology anchored in science and the exploration of the past. But her testimony, opposing scientific rigor to identity pretensions, suggests an uncertain future for a discipline in search of meaning.

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Leonardo Orlando 25th January 2025
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Mireille Quivy

Review: Susan Neiman, The Left Is Not #Woke

To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."

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Mireille Quivy 5th January 2025
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

Reading note: “Do we still want to live together?” by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

After a damning diagnosis of the intellectual disaster that Wokism represents in the West, Tavoillot devotes his book to avenues of reconstruction. He identifies universal practices that he calls "seven pillars of conviviality": shared meals, couple relationships, intergenerational transmission, religious practices, among others. These pillars, deeply rooted in human experience, are considered as levers to restore an authentic social bond.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador December 20, 2024,
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Jacques-Robert

About deconstruction

The concept of "deconstruction" was born from the works of Derrida and, according to his kind followers, "it has become, in the minds of reactionaries of all stripes, the portmanteau word designating everything they hate in thought, when it seeks to emancipate rather than to order."

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Jacques-Robert 18rd June 2024
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Olivier Galland

In search of Islamophobia…

Islamophobia has a clear political use that has been consecrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But beyond that, what does the term really mean? And is what it is supposed to designate – a deep hostility towards Muslims that has spread in French society – supported by facts?

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Olivier Galland 6rd June 2024
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The 3 attacks on the democratic spirit in the management of companies and administrations conveyed by wokism

Woke ideology has long since penetrated the daily life of the business world and public administration. There are major and unavoidable phenomena that everyone thinks about. And there are these little everyday things, against which we don't know what to do, and which nibble away at our space of freedom every day. What are some examples? Where does it come from? What can we do?

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador 12st February 2024
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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research

The European Research Council (ERC) budget for the seven-year Horizon Europe programme amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI). Is France autonomous in its higher education policy? No, because it conforms to European policies inspired by the United Nations aimed at achieving externally set objectives. Over the past 15 years, research and higher education in France have been silently transformed, partly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon liberal models established by Brussels.

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Xavier-Laurent Salvador August 30, 2023
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Joseph Ciccolini

Critical Race Theory: When Cancerology Gets Tangled in the Woke Carpet

There is no longer any need to recall the permeability of entire sections of academic research to theories themselves stemming from French Theory and from deconstructivism at all costs. Initially confined to the human and social sciences, this groundswell is now affecting the hard sciences since perched articles such as "Queer identity and theory intersections in mathematics education: a theoretical literature review" or "A quantum physics explanation for polyamory, BDSM, and queer people" are now commonplace (1, 2). 

In the USA, this trend and in particular the emergence of Critical Race Theory is now affecting medical sciences and it is with a mixture of amusement and dismay that we see the blossoming, in the major international conferences usually held in North America, of lunar works now aiming to denounce the endemic and patriarchal WASP systemic racism in the care of patients suffering from cancer.

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Joseph Ciccolini March 28, 2023
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Jean Szlamowicz and Yana Grinshpuhn

Inclusive writing put to the test by linguistics

The claim to contribute to the social progress of inclusive writing (IE) is based on false premises, linked to a partial interpretation distorting the reality of the attested grammatical functioning of the French language. Inclusive writing is a militant reform of the language built on the denunciation of imaginary injustices deriving from symbolic interpretations that do not correspond to any strictly linguistic reality. It intends to inscribe various gender identities or to "make women visible", political marketing that has nothing in common with the description of the nominal classes of French and constitutes a political claim based on beliefs and not on empirically verified knowledge. Its supporters, even among linguists, prescribe works and references that go against the methods, data and knowledge accepted in language sciences.

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Jean Szlamowicz and Yana Grinshpuhn 30th January 2023
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Sabine Prokhoris

Polanski: Poisoned Logic

Exclusive excerpt from Sabine Prokhoris' book, "Who's Afraid of Roman Polanski?" If there is one thing that Roman Polanski had to deal with, in several forms, the fatal experience, it is the destructive power of falsification erected as a norm.

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Sabine Prokhoris 13st February 2024
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Nathalie Heinich

AN ATMOSPHERIC TOTALITARIANISM

This is how multiculturalism has slipped into identitarian communitarianism, and how it is turning into totalitarianism before our eyes. Savage censorship is imposed by micro-collectives that only authorize themselves, in contempt of the law, while all-out politicization transforms activists into legislators and judges, in the name of "everything is political" dear to fascist militias, Stalinist apparatchiks and their leftist heirs. And, as in any totalitarian atmosphere, fear reigns supreme, on American campuses as well as in the offices of French university presidents: fear of losing one's job, fear of losing face, fear above all of finding oneself in the wrong camp or - worse - of finding oneself alone.

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Nathalie Heinich 12 May 2023
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Collective

Are policewomen women?

Jean-Claude Michéa points out to me that the murder of the Rambouillet police officer was not presented by the media as a femicide. That is true. Neither in this case, nor in any other similar one, has a policewoman's murder ever been described as a femicide. What should we conclude from this? Thanks to Monique Wittig, we learned a long time ago that "lesbians are not women"! Thanks to our journalists, we now know that female police officers, even heterosexual ones, are not either.

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Collective 6st February 2023
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Woke-Machine

Tract #11 Let's Deconstruct Mathematics

Let's deconstruct mathematics
Mathematics is based on abstract principles that do not correspond to social realities. Worse, they make inequalities invisible.

1 racialized person + 1 white person, do they make 2 equal humans? Of course not!

Mathematical equality in no way reflects the inequalities and individual differences present in our society.

There is an urgent need to deconstruct mathematics, to question these fixed norms and to bring about a more critical reflection on power relations and existing discrimination.

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Woke-Machine March 19, 2025
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Woke-Machine

Tract #10 – Kevin.e feels like a woman today

Kevin.e feels like a woman today
In any case, it is essential to accept that a man feels like a woman and vice versa because the recognition of gender identity is crucial for everyone's well-being and mental health.

By denying feelings and experiences, by refusing their legitimacy, we contribute to stigmatization and social exclusion.

Accepting and respecting everyone's gender identity helps to build a fluid and more inclusive society.

Let everyone be authentic and feel free in their gender identity.

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Woke-Machine March 12, 2025
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Woke-Machine

Tract #9 – Pregnant at 80? It’s never too late to fully realize your potential

Pregnant at 80? It's never too late to fully realize your potential
Today, thanks to advances in medicine, there is no age or time limit to fulfilling one's dreams and fully realizing oneself.
Being pregnant at 80, giving yourself this gift, giving yourself a baby, is a personal and legitimate choice that can bring happiness and fulfillment to a woman.
Every individual has the inalienable right to lead his or her life in accordance with his or her personal aspirations and desires, free from the constraints of a rigid society and outdated conventions.

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Woke-Machine March 5, 2025
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Woke-Machine

Tract #8 – Is his yes a real yes?

Is his yes a real yes?
How do you know if he really consents? The slightest gesture is tinged with ambiguity. And that sigh, does it show desire? Boredom? Embarrassment? How can you know without checking?

Where am I? The object of his fantasy? His father? His mother? George Clooney? A nurse?
So what, if I'm not me anymore, who is there? How can I know without checking?

Does he really consent?
Check it every moment, every movement… until the very last moment.

But also later. The next day, 6 months or 6 years later. Was it a real yes, and no to blindness, or one drink too many? Or the influence of a narcissistic pervert?

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Woke-Machine 26st February 2025
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Claudio Rubiliani

Who's Woke 2025 – Our Top 10

A satirical text by Claudio Rubiliani that provocatively ranks ten political figures and institutions, denouncing their hypocrisy and their offbeat commitment in the name of progressivism.

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Claudio Rubiliani 24st February 2025
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Julien Damon

Degendering the game of chess

A remnant of a monarchical universe with nauseating sexist and patriarchal overtones, a chessboard condenses all inequalities and all discriminations.

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Julien Damon 30 September 2024
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Jacques-Robert

Wooden apologies

At Columbia, the president, Nemat Shafik, known as Minouche, had to call the police on campus to dislodge pro-Palestinian students from their camps and from university buildings where they had no business, Hamilton Hall in particular. About a hundred of them had been arrested: this somewhat disconcerted them, having been raised in the absence of contradiction and unable to accept being accused of harassing those they believe to be responsible for or approving of the war in the Middle East and who have only the "fault" of being Jewish.

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Jacques-Robert 23 September 2024

A quantum teaching

A management science teacher at the University of Montpellier 3, Bénédicte Gendron, is setting up a Master 2 whose program is worthy of the columns of Gorafi and has quickly made the rounds of online comedians.

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Jacques-Robert 18rd June 2024

Reading : Compte rendu

Review: Susan Neiman, The Left Is Not #Woke

To quote Susan Neiman: "On the other hand, woke thinking that advocates a tribal vision of culture is not far from that of the Nazis who insisted that German music be played exclusively by Aryans, nor from that of Samuel Huntington defending what he called "Western culture" against the threats of destruction coming from other civilizations. To censor cultural appropriation is to sabotage the power of culture."
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Reading note: “Do we still want to live together?” by Pierre-Henri Tavoillot

After a damning diagnosis of the intellectual disaster that Wokism represents in the West, Tavoillot devotes his book to avenues of reconstruction. He identifies universal practices that he calls "seven pillars of conviviality": shared meals, couple relationships, intergenerational transmission, religious practices, among others. These pillars, deeply rooted in human experience, are considered as levers to restore an authentic social bond.
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Sociolinguistics between science and ideology. A response to Linguists atterrées (Book review of Lionel MENEY's book)

LM's book is easy to read. It does not claim to close the debate, and is clearly intended for a non-specialist audience. While the author lets the irritation that may have led him to react to the LA Tract show here and there, he does not give in to the ease of polemics and manages to retain the reader's interest through the coherence of the critical responses he provides.
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About Transmania, by Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern

Despite these few reservations, the fact remains that Transmania is a powerful and useful book. Buy it, read it… and, if possible, have it signed (wearing a helmet is recommended).
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Should Alice Recoque be placed in the Pantheon? A Little Manual of De-Invisibility

This text discusses the effectiveness of the book “Who Wanted to Erase Alice Recoque?” published in February 2024, which quickly rehabilitated Alice Recoque, a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, by generating a large media and political momentum. Recoque, born in 1929 and died in 2021, is known for her role in the design of French computers in the 1950s and 70s. The book, driven by a theory of the invisibility of women in the history of science, and amplified by influential figures, led to the decision to name a European supercomputer after her in 2024. The text analyzes how a well-orchestrated narrative strategy can transform a forgotten subject into a major public figure, and the literary mechanisms of disinvisibility used in it.
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Will extreme democracy take away democracy?

Dominique Schnapper, in his recent work "The Disillusions of Democracy", places at the centre of his questions the contemporary threats against our democratic regimes which are developing within them.
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