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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 20 December 2024
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Marc Fryd

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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Marc Fryd 16 December 2024
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Jean Rohmer

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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Jean Rohmer 27 September 2024
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Gerard Grunberg

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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Gerard Grunberg 17 September 2024
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Pascal Perrineau

"I suffer therefore I am"

Pascal Bruckner speaks of a process of heroization of the victim and of indefinite extension of the victim field where even "the privileged can play the damned".

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Pascal Perrineau 9 September 2024
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Pierre Vermeren

The Disoriented West by Jean-Loup Bonnamy: report

The religious radicalism of Americans, mutating into a "zombie Protestantism" (an expression "borrowed" from E. Todd), has seized upon these crazy ideas and forged the new doxa of American campuses and Western bourgeois student youth. Behind this ideology run old far-left ideologues, capitalists, communicators and enemies of the West. A brew from which Bonnamy invites us to get out as quickly as possible for the good of all, in mutual respect for cultures, their particularities and their riches.

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Pierre Vermeren 2 September 2024

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