Sylvie Laurent compiles in her book almost all the most hollow concepts of contemporary sociology.
The American and international media have recently echoed a barely conceivable piece of news: the Davis County School District (95 schools for 72000 students, very close to Salt Lake City, Utah) had just announced its decision to ban lower school levels (5-13 years old) from accessing the venerable King James Bible (1611), the very one on which George Washington took the oath on April 30, 1789.
Think of the possible psychological effects of this Goya painting – which would certainly make anyone lose their appetite – in which Saturn greedily devours his own children? The Spanish artist may have anticipated the stylistic revolutions that were to come later, but what does that matter? Should we show such horrors to young people? Of course not! What we need are works that make us proud of who we are (whatever that means), and certainly not works that glorify cannibalism! I am exhausted… But I cannot stop: there is still much work to be done. We must be more sensitive to others, erase everything that offends us – or, better: what offends me! These ideas will not fail to galvanize workers and independent voters in the coming electoral battles! But that is for another time! I am still learning! And I look forward to seeing what new lessons tomorrow will bring us.
The phenomenon known as "woke" or "wokism" is international: initially developed on North American campuses towards the end of the 2010s and having quickly reached the worlds of culture, politics and even business, it has not taken long to cross the Atlantic to invest in many European countries. Its success is largely due to the fact that it defends causes associated, rightly, with progress and justice, but - and this is where it poses a problem - by making them systematic or even unique grids for perceiving the world.
[XLS] In the excellent documentary directed by Bernard de la Villardière and broadcast on M6 (Minorities, Gender and Racialism), a moment makes us shudder which perhaps shows that the danger is not where we generally think it is – and when
Today we are informed that physics continues to be interested in intersectionality. This is something that is not so common, but that tends to develop as we have already reported, and we refer to previous articles including: As
by Wiktor Stoczkowski, Director of Studies at EHESS The remarks made by Frédérique Vidal on the CNews channel on February 14, 2021, set the French academic world in turmoil. The Minister of Higher Education and Research is reported to have said
Here we take the link to the report by Sue Hubble and Joe Lewis submitted to the British Parliament and made public by the House of Commons, on the attacks on academic freedom in Great Britain under the Open Law regime.