Left, right and extremes
The Left Can Still Avoid Its Own Decay
*This column first appeared in L'Obs on March 22, 2021 under the title given by the weekly newspaper: “Are “white privilege” and “dominant male” in
March 28, 2021
Articles by: Francois Rastier
A racialist and anti-secular left?
[by François Rastier] On the international level, France has been the preferred target of Islamists in Europe for thirty years, both because of its particular attachment to
March 26, 2021
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Decolonial Tyrannies
[by François RASTIER]originally published on the Point website More than half a century after the end of colonizations, at least Western colonizations, decolonialism, ideology
March 12, 2021
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Islamism and Postmodern Thinkers
By François Rastier The "revolutionary" turn of Islamism was variously announced. In his book, Revolutionary Islam (2003), Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as Carlos[1], already invited, with
March 1, 2021
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Postcolonial communities
by François Rastier The theme of Community is central in postcolonial studies. Tillotama Rajan, in an article in Postcolonial Text, recounts his
February 14, 2021
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The West is to blame
by François RASTIER 1/ The strange Westernism The West remains a confused essentialization which took on a media consistency with The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler (1918-1922),
February 12, 2021
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How Anti-Semitism Deconstructs Anti-Zionism
By François Rastier Gianni Vattimo and Michael Marder, two internationally renowned postmodern philosophers, recently published a programmatic collection: Deconstructing Zionism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Their introduction
February 10, 2021
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From inclusive writing to translanguage
By François Rastier A fundamental principle of the contemporary economy, deregulation extends from the economic world to the social world, notably through the Internet. Large firms
February 2, 2021
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Decolonial tyrants, ordinary fascists
More than half a century after the end of Western colonization, decolonialism is experiencing a remarkable boom. At the risk of twisting certain historical truths…More than half a century after the end
February 1, 2021
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Anti-Semitism and White and Black Supremacism
by François Rastier Is slave colonization Jewish? — The Black Code forbade Jews from staying in the colonies. Today, it will suffice to exaggerate
January 28, 2021